Dialog a Thomson business, has announced that it is seeking applicants from Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa for its annual Roger K. Summit International Scholarship.
The company will award a €5,000 scholarship to a student enrolled in an accredited library or information sciences course. The prize will be awarded at the 2006 Online [...]

American families, students, parents, educators, and officials in the loan industry are getting behind a petition to change student loan repayment.
Concerned about how rising student debt and interest rates are affecting Americans, these citizens and groups recently petitioned Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings to make regulatory changes to loan repayment rules that would create more [...]

If you still carry student loans or have children who have student loans, you’ll want to pay attention.
On July 1, interest rates for student loans are expected to increase up to 40 percent, according to Collegiate Funding. That means students with a debt of $20,000 could pay as much as $4,900 over the life of [...]

With student loan interest rates set to rise between 1.5 and 2 percentage points on July 1, students and graduates should put a student loan consolidation application on the top of their reading list this spring. In the race to beat the rate hike, Sallie Mae, the nation’s largest consolidator of student loans, cautions borrowers [...]

Twenty-three high school students in Arizona received the Dorrance Scholarship, which targets highly motivated high school students who are the first in their families to attend college and who demonstrate financial need.
The four-year scholarship targets the three state universities and is valued at $9,000 per year.
It covers the cost of tuition, books and other school-related [...]

UNCG was awarded a $40,000 grant to create North Carolina’s first online “learn and earn” program that lets students graduate in five years with a high school diploma and an associate’s degree or two years of college credit, Gov. Mike Easley announced today.
The grant money will be used at UNCG’s “iSchool,” which was established in [...]

Efforts to improve North Carolina’s high schools will benefit from a $10.4 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, according to the office of N.C. Gov. Mike Easley.
The grant, which follows a $22.6 million Gates Foundation award to the UNC System, will support the N.C. New Schools Project and the Learn and Earn [...]

The BellSouth Foundation today announced that the University of Florida College of Education will receive a $600,000 grant to develop a comprehensive strategy for measuring and assessing the outcomes of the BellSouth 20/20 Vision for Education initiative. The $20M initiative commemorates the Foundation’s 20th anniversary and is designed to bring engaging, rigorous, online instruction to [...]

A grant from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development will enable nine Ivy Tech Community College campuses to host RoboEducators Workshops later this summer.
A $72,000 grant will be divided among the nine campuses, including Evansville, for the workshops, which will be held throughout June and August for 9-12 grades educators for using and teaching robotics [...]

Six area high school seniors have been awarded college-sponsored National Merit Scholarships.
The students — four from City High and one each from West High and Clear Creek Amana High — won $500 to $2,000 based on the strength of their preliminary SAT exam in the fall of their junior years and an essay about a [...]