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The market for master’s degrees behaves in strange and erratic ways, new data reveals. 
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Knowing by major and by program how much money students borrow (and later earn) could shake up the higher education market.
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The education secretary is working hard to protect the scandal-ridden for-profit education industry from accountability.
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Many students are struggling financially, according to a new Universities Australia survey conducted by University of Melbourne researchers.
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Vocational education in Australia has been ravaged by a scheme that saw free laptops handed out in return for massive student loans, leaving people disillusioned and burdened with debt.
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Almost a third of Americans who take out loans to pay for their education don’t end up getting a diploma.
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Students are told to borrow so they can go to college because they will be happy about it later. But many end up unhappy.
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Other countries offer plans that give students more time to repay loans or that make provisions for fluctuating earnings, so fewer borrowers default.
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When we asked people around the world what sort of financial burden they bore for their higher education, we heard how much it varies from country to country.
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“Unfortunately, under your leadership, the Bureau has abandoned the very consumers it is tasked by Congress with protecting,” Frotman wrote to Mick Mulvaney, the bureau’s acting director. “Instead, you have used the Bureau to serve the wishes of the most powerful financial companies in America.”
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More than one in 20 people with a higher education debt owe more than $50,000, analysis of tax office data shows.
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The saga of Drew Cloud reveals just how badly those with debt want reliable information.
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With HELP debt likely to increase to A$75 billion in 2020, research from the US shows offering students financial literacy courses may be a gentler way to combat student debt.
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Initiatives in Rhode Island and Maryland aimed at easing students’ debt load have the potential to be models for other programs nationwide.
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The $1.3 trillion composite-debt total is far from the only problem degree seekers—especially those at for-profit universities—face.
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Thousands of debt-ridden law school graduates highlight a once unthinkable question: Should their law schools close?
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