At around six years old, children’s social background has overtaken their natural ability as the main predictor of success in education. Their chances of doing well are skewed before they reach reception class. Detailed research and school gate chatter concur on this point: the biggest problems in our education system …
Art Scholarships are financial aid awarded to students based on academic or artistic merit or financial need. Unlike other forms of financial aid, art scholarships do not have to be repaid. Art scholarships become even more of a necessity as the price of art school tuition increases. With the current …
It is stated in the international human rights law that primary education should be obligatory and should be free of charge. Same goes to secondary and higher education, though progressively free of charge. This is to assure everyone that there is access to education. Free education is funded through taxation …
The Department of Education is launching a pilot program to test the effectiveness of more flexible loan counseling policies on federal student loan borrowers. The experiment will allow colleges to require, as a condition of receiving federal student loans, loan counseling to students beyond the statutorily required one-time entrance and …
There are a lot of different options with a lot of different price points when it comes to online education. Prospective learners can choose between free massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that are not for credit, for instance, and for-credit courses, which can cost thousands of dollars. “Almost all …
Are you educated or just literate? There is a difference. Literacy is knowing how to read and write. Education is to be able to reason, to use your ability to read and write to your benefit and to be able to gain your spectrum of knowledge by trying to surge …
When it comes to choosing an online degree, a program’s price tag tends to be the most important factor for prospective students. In a report about online learners, 45% of respondents said they ended up choosing the most inexpensive program among their options. Choosing an online degree may seem be …
Online colleges offer many different types of undergraduate and graduate degrees, and have benefits and drawbacks for prospective students to consider. Experts say the quality of an education from an online college is, in many cases, just as high as one pursued in person, and that online learning offers the …
Lawmakers should let students have many more options to solve the debt crisis in higher education. There’s no shortage of efforts to solve our nation’s $1.3 trillion student debt crisis. Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced the Reducing Educational Debt Act, bills aimed at giving student borrowers new debt refinancing options and …
There’s so much disinformation about athletics scholarships circulating in this country. Here are seven things that teenagers and parents need to know about sports scholarships. 1. The odds are remote. There are roughly 138,000 athletic scholarships available for Division I and Division II sports. That might sound like a lot, …
