HARRISBURG - The state’s student loan agency, already the focus of negative publicity for its travel expenses, has a new critic.
The governor.
“It has to have a total housecleaning,” Gov. Rendell said of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency. “When the cost of college is more and more challenging to Pennsylvanians and their families, we can’t [...]

High school students applying for the state’s Promise Scholarship and other West Virginia students seeking financial aid for higher education should mark their calendars.
The deadline to apply for the merit-based scholarship and to file a federal financial aid application is March 1.
The FAFSA — Free Application for Federal Student Aid — must be filed by [...]

Ready to pass a cut in student loan interest rates, House members on Wednesday clashed over education priorities — helping college graduates pay off debts or expanding federal grants for low-income students.
Democrats were pushing the interest rate bill through without amendments, eager to check off one more accomplishment in their list of early legislative goals. [...]

Students who will be attending college in 2007-08 should start filling out the federal government’s financial aid form — even if they filled it out last year and were denied assistance.
Congress made several changes in the federal financial aid formula that could make some families eligible for more, especially those who own a small business [...]

COLLEGE COSTS can be daunting. A year at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst costs Massachusetts residents more than $17,000. A year at a private college can run more than $45,000. At those prices, some students fall into a tuition gap. Even with financial aid, they do not have enough money to pay all their college bills, [...]

Democrats say they are putting education reform at the top of their to-do list as they prepare to take control of Congress.
They have not, however, spelled out what the math will look like.
Democrats say they will slash interest rates on need-based college loans in half — from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent.
“That will be done [...]

College is expensive.
Oftetn students have to work or take out loans in order to pay for college. Some students get funding from the government, although these funds have diminished over the years.
To address the issues, NDSU hosted a roundtable discussion on the cost of higher education Thursday.
Congressman Earl Pomeroy, NDSU President Joseph Chapman, John Paulson, [...]

While Junior’s busy writing a captivating college admissions essay and filling out stacks of applications, Mom and Dad bite their fingernails, wondering how they’re going to pay for it.
Paying for college can be a complicated and intimidating journey, but with some helpful advice and plenty of resources, it’s not so bad.
How much will it cost?
When [...]

The quiet campaign to renew the controversial Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation is going public this week with the first major push to save the program.
Foundation executive director Norman Riddell will be on Parliament Hill today to warn MPs that the $2.5-billion scholarship endowment will be exhausted by 2009 and the government will have to make [...]

Though it’s not an issue that grabs national headlines, Democratic congressional candidate Christian Burridge figured student loan interest would be an issue of interest to a room full of college students.
Burridge spoke Wednesday at Utah Valley State College, saying that interest on federally guaranteed student loans should be capped at 4 percent.
He is trying to [...]