USA TODAY Education, the arm of the USA TODAY brand that develops and delivers educational products and resources to students and educators nationwide, has launched a national initiative in partnership with FYI-Film Your Issue, inviting college students to write about their views on major issues for possible publication online and in the print edition.
“Write Your [...]

The Education Ministry Higher Education Division has invited applications from Sri Lankan students below 21 years for the Monbukagakusho Scholarships offered by the Government of Japan annually for Undergraduate and Technological courses.
The medium of instruction will be in Japanese and a knowledge of langauge will be provided during the first year. All expenses of the [...]

One cleaned up wildlife poop, another helped build an orphanage in Peru. Two advised the Longmont City Council on youth issues, and several educated classmates about the dangers of alcohol.
All of them are high school seniors, and all of them did it for free.
The Longmont Community Foundation presented 16 college-bound seniors in the area with [...]

The Thousand Oaks-Westlake Village Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Education Committee will host its third annual wine tasting event from 6 to 8 p.m. Sat., April 29 at a private Lynn Ranch estate in Thousand Oaks.
The event will help the Education Committee raise funds to award six $500 scholarships to graduating high school seniors in the [...]

The Student Loan Corporation, a subsidiary of Citibank N.A., and a leading originator of student loans, today announced that graduate and professional students can now conveniently apply online for a Citibank Graduate Federal PLUS Loan for school certification on or after July 1, 2006.
“Not only is Citibank making applying for the PLUS Loan as easy [...]

Federal, state, and local government employees now have access, via NTIS, to the best of Cornell University’s professional online education programs. Through this partnership with the National Technical Information Service, eCornell is offering government agencies and employees substantial savings on the published course tuition.
An innovative course delivery model coupled with Cornell University’s Ivy League excellence [...]

An Albertson College of Idaho student council will decide during the next two weeks how to give away $30,000 in grant funds.
Thirty Treasure Valley organizations are vying for the Albertson College of Idaho Champions Student Philanthropy Council grant funds, donated by the Seagraves Family Foundation.
Youth organizations, reading programs, a gang-prevention initiative and others have made [...]

It might surprise you to learn that financial aid offers are not set in stone.
Kalman Chany, founder and president of New York-based Campus Consultants, says that some schools have become far more flexible about their initial offers over the past few years.
If you receive a package that does not meet your need, plead your case [...]

Nissan North America, Inc. (NNA) and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) are currently seeking applicants for the NISSAN-UNCF “SHIFT_” knowledge Scholarship Program.
The NISSAN-UNCF “SHIFT”_knowledge Scholarship Program was created in 2004 to recognize the academic achievement and leadership qualities of students, and to honor the rich legacy of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
The program [...]

Two key Democratic lawmakers are promoting a bill to cut the interest rates for student loans in half in response to large budget cuts made to student aid earlier this year.
The “Reverse the Raid on Student Aid Act,” introduced earlier this month by Rep. George Miller (D-Ca.) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), would lower interest [...]

The Missouri House on Monday approved a plan for the partial sale of Missouri’s student loan agency amid new political maneuvering over how the money should be spent.
The latest plan — which already contains enough hot-button issues to sink the most laudable of bills — picked up additional baggage when House Republicans linked it to [...]

By HELEN HUNTLEY
If you borrowed money for college and haven’t paid it all back, I have a homework assignment for you:
Take a close look at your options for consolidating federal education loans.
And if you’re in the borrowing stage, be prepared to pay more. On July 1, we officially say goodbye to the era of record [...]