Two nominees of the government of Liberia in the employ of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization (BIN) have been awarded three months scholarship by the government of India.
The two employees, Mr. Isaac Nyanplu Teah and Mrs. Mae Angie Brooks are to undergo training in “Advanced Software Technology under the ITEC Programme.
The training is from [...]

About 500 low-income students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point may be unable to attend classes this fall because of the uncertainty of a state financial aid program.
The Higher Education Aids Board has imposed a waiting list for applicants to the Wisconsin Higher Education Grant program, which last year awarded about $3.3 million to 1,923 [...]

Brad Roae is a state representative from the Sixth District.
Question: Is there any help available for members of the armed forces who served in the Middle East and are now having trouble paying their student loans?
Answer: Yes. The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) has extended the Armed Forces Loan Forgiveness Program to provide a [...]

Graduating college students across the country recently have received their degrees and are taking their first steps into the real world, which includes repaying their student loans. According to NextStudent, a leading Phoenix-based education funding company, composing a strategy for repaying college student debt is simple, once borrowers are armed with accurate, easily applicable information.
Fortunately, [...]

College students will be able to borrow more from Uncle Sam and pay less in fees to lenders under a federal law that takes effect this week.
It will be the first time that the annual limits on federal Stafford Loans have increased since 1992. Over the same time period, tuition rates have more than doubled.
The [...]

A federal law that takes effect this week spells more money in the pockets of college undergraduates who borrow from Uncle Sam.
The new law changes the annual Stafford loan limits for students who qualify for financial aid. The change provides an additional $875 per year for freshmen and $1,000 per year for sophomores. The $5,500 [...]

Charles Schumer learned about the misleading nature of college loans the hard way.
With his youngest daughter heading off to college and the older one entering law school, the U.S. senator knew he needed to look into loans.
“I tried to go through the process with her,” he said. “It’s totally confusing.”
Specifically, it was difficult to tell [...]

Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., joined by 31 Attorneys General, urged the U.S. Senate to enact The Student Loan Sunshine Act, a new federal law to safeguard students and families nationwide from deceptive practices in the college loan industry.
The House of Representatives recently passed this legislation in a virtually unanimous vote of 414-3.
In a [...]

Grant County young people bound for college are better prepared than many in the state, according to a recently released study.
The Ready for College 2007 study conducted by the state’s Higher Education Department, reported the number of high school graduates attending in-state universities that needed remedial classes before enrolling in college level studies.
The report focused [...]

The Embassy of the United States in Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce that Zul-Fakhri bin Maidy has been selected to receive the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship for 2007.
Zul-Fakhri - the fourth Fulbright Scholar from Brunei to pursue graduate education in the US since the reactivation of the programme in 2004 - will be leaving at [...]

2Futuro is pleased to announce the awards of two scholarships of $1,000 each to Mayra Alvarez, a student at California State University, Los Angeles, and Jason Gates, a student at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. They are the first recipients of scholarships awarded through random monthly drawings that 2Futuro conducts [...]

Versant today announced that it will grant a 2-year scholarship to a talented student pursuing a masters degree in computer science specializing in Databases/Information systems at Hamburg University in Germany. In launching the new “Versant Advanced Database Scholarship”, Versant, with its European Headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, and Hamburg University will jointly select a talented student [...]