The Better Business Bureau of New Hampshire is offering 10 $1,000 scholarships to assist students who are enrolled in any accredited vocational or technical career program.
Two $2,500 scholarships are also available for students attending accredited four-year colleges or universities.
Applicants must be an employee, owner or family member of a Better Business Bureau Member company.
Applications are [...]

Indiana’s two largest public universities will need to scrape together almost $2 million to fulfill scholarship offers that were more generous than the state was willing to bankroll.
Indiana University’s Bloomington campus will take about $885,000 from building-maintenance and equipment budgets, while Purdue University will use $1 million originally set aside for students who apply late [...]

A dinner meeting of the local chapter of the Military Officers Association of America (KOS-MOAA) was a night for the young. The room at the Ocala Hilton had four special guests, all under the age of 19. One of them, Diana Bennett, daughter of John and Lily Bennett, gave a moving speech to honor the [...]

Pamela Abraham — PTSA Scholarship, Ridgefield Womans Club Scholarship, Achievement in Japanese.
Michael E. Agrapedes — Excellence in Digital Design Studio.
Gabriel Alvarez — Frances Demrick Scholarship, Achievement in Advanced Placement Spanish.
Michael R. Anda — PTSA Excellence in World Languages Award, Ridgefield Basketball Association Leadership Award, National Merit Letter of Commendation, Excellence in Advanced Placement Spanish, Excellence [...]

At the same time Bill Gates has determined to take a step back from Microsoft, he’s helping two Dayton teens take some giant steps forward.
The Gates Millennium Scholarship, which promises recipients up to 10 years of undergraduate and graduate education, has been awarded to Stephanie Rucker of Colonel White School for the Arts and Donieka [...]

A MAN appeared in court yesterday accused of swindling Bahraini students out of thousands of dinars in British Council scholarships. A court-appointed expert is to investigate allegations that the fraud may involve up to BD150,000.
The 40-year-old Bahraini was released on his own guarantee yesterday, after denying charges of breach of trust, embezzlement and forgery, [...]

College students with multiple government-backed loans may want to consider consolidating them before interest rates go up July 1, says Indiana State University’s director of student financial aid.
“I think there’s a good potential for savings right now,” said Tom Ratliff, ISU financial aid director.
Current interest rates “are very attractive,” he said.
Students will have to act [...]

Gwen Jones will in a few months begin repayment on $17,000 in college loan debt, so the e-mail, print and radio ads warning of a July 1 interest rate boost got her attention.
The 22-year-old Roanoke College graduate admits her father did most of her loan research in the past, but this time, the decision to [...]

Beginning next month, the two largest federal college-loan programs, Stafford and PLUS, will go from variable to fixed interest rates. Still, you should shop around for student loans.
Lenders can’t go higher than the fixed interest rate: 6.8 percent for Stafford and 8.5 percent for PLUS. However, they can go lower; many will, in the name [...]

Amy Elizabeth Martin, a graduate of the University of Scranton’s class of 2006, has been awarded a 2006 Fulbright fellowship.
The Scranton native has become the 114th University of Scranton student in the past 35 years to receive grants in the competitions administered by the Institute of International Education (Fulbright) and International Rotary.
Ms. Martin, an elementary [...]

Just as hurricane season comes every year, so too does the quandary of whether students and their parents should consolidate student loans.
This year the answer is fairly easy for most borrowers: Yes.
The deadline for consolidating to get the best interest rates is Friday. And you don’t want to wait until then.
The interest rate for the [...]

Good news for student loan borrowers across the nation — Congress has repealed the “Single Holder Rule”, allowing any student loan borrower to consolidate their student loans with American Education Services (AES). Under the Single Holder Rule, borrowers whose federal student loans were held by one lender were only able to consolidate their loans with [...]