Students need to know federal aid system
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Many don&#39;t realize they are eligible; others feel application forms are too complicated to fill out. By Justin Pope / Associated Press.
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U.S. college students are already stressed about getting good grades and a decent job, but this year there is added pressure: the presidential campaigns want them to help decide the country's political future.
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The Canadian Medical Association is calling on all levels of government to adopt a policy of self-sufficiency so that by 2015, the vast majority of doctors will have received their undergraduate education in Canada.
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As tuition has soared past the limits on federal aid, more students are relying on barely regulated private loans.
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Universities and businesses need more information to select the best candidates, the government has admitted.
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WASHINGTON - Congressional tax writers are taking a hard look at elite US universities' multibillion-dollar endowment funds and considering steps to make them spend more of their riches to help students.
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An economic aid plan to send rebates of $600-$1,200 to most taxpayers passed a key test Monday in the Senate, where Democrats are pushing to add more than $40 billion in help for seniors, disabled veterans and the unemployed.
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Richard Gibbons offers a simple strategy to ensure that your child can go to college.
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Many parents earn a failing grade in College Taxes 101.
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Every parent knows that college costs are painfully high, and yet so many people fail to save anything, even an amount that will get their child through one semester. Instead, they wait until their child is ready to go to college, panic and then turn to loans.
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Next fall, more than a million college students nationwide will see a reduction in Pell Grant money, including some who might see their aid reduced to zero.
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Americaâs already stratified system of higher education is becoming ever more so, and the chasm is creating all sorts of tensions as the less wealthy colleges try to compete.
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By MICHAEL HIMOWITZ  With their newly minted high school graduates headed off to college this fall, millions of parents face two agonizing prospects. One is coming up with the first tuition check. The other is buying their freshman a computer.
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Democrats in Congress are pushing to overhaul the nation's student loan system with legislation that would cut federal subsidies to lending companies by as much as $19 billion, channel most of those savings to student aid and ease repayment rules for borrowers.
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Health insurance for children and college loan help are priorities in Congress this fall.
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Can "clearer" school tables tell us what we need to know, the BBC's Mike Baker asks.
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Extra student funding would be better targeted at raising standards in school, says a financial think-tank.