OneSimpleLoan® http://www.OneSimpleLoan.com, a student loan finance and consulting firm specializing in student loan consolidation, today announced that President & CEO Paul J. Simino is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2007 Award in the Florida region. According to Ernst & Young, the awards program was designed to recognize outstanding entrepreneurs [...]

The Justice Department is reviewing an audit that shows hundreds of (m) millions of dollars have been improperly paid to a student loan company.
The audit was made public by House Education Committee Chairman George Miller at a hearing today. It was conducted by the Education Department’s inspector general, who recommended the 278 (m) million dollars [...]

The Bush administration reached an accord with a student loan company that will let it keep $278 million in subsidies that the inspector general of the Education Department found improper, the department said yesterday.
Under the agreement, the department will suspend future payments of more than $800 million, in addition to the $278 million paid to [...]

More than 5,200 students at Kansas State University are academic scholarship recipients for the 2006-2007 school year. Students are listed by their hometown.
Butler County
Andover: Austin Garrett Delimont, $1,460 Barbe Family Scholarship; Megan Ann Enns, $525 A. Sidney McIntire Memorial Scholarship and $725 Richard L. Clarke Scholarship; Bradley Warren Fouse, $240 G.E. Johnson Engineering Scholarship and [...]

US education company Kaplan, best known for its preparation courses for standardised tests, is reportedly applying for the right to become Britain’s first for-profit university.
The company will initially want to offer degrees in courses that it already provides within Britain, such as business studies, law and accountancy, the company’s chief executive William Macpherson told the [...]

American Chemical Society Scholars Program
Amount: $2,500 for Freshmen; $3,000 for sophomores, juniors and seniors who wish to pursue further education at a 2 or 4-year college or university in a chemically related science
Application Deadline: Winter 2007
Submit To: American Chemical Society

It turns out there probably will not be much talk about education on the Caribbean island of Nevis this February. The student loan company that invited university officials and their spouses to an expenses-paid education summit meeting there has canceled the event.
George Pappas, a senior vice president of the loan company, EduCap Inc., had said [...]

Builders Insurance Company, one of Nevada’s two largest workers’ comp insurance providers, and Nevada’s largest construction industry workers’ comp provider, announced 18 2006 Scholarship Awards to children of employees at participating member companies at their just-completed Appreciation Luncheon for insureds. Since the program’s inception in 2000, Builders Insurance has awarded $138,000 in scholarships.
More than 1,100 [...]

The Micron Technology Foundation, Inc., announced todaythe names of thirteen outstanding students who will receive a total of$253,000 over the next four years through the Micron Science andTechnology Scholars program. Virginia high school senior Winston Yanof Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology willreceive a $55,000 scholarship as the top awardee in the Micron [...]

Student Funding Group, LLC. – – or StuFund — today launched its student loan business, offering FFEL and private loans to college-bound students nationwide, and support services to help families navigate the maze of educational lending options on the market.
The new company, believed to be the first minority enterprise in the student loan origination arena, [...]