| U.S. National || Turning Point for Student Loans | Fed researchers defined severely derogatory debt as any kind of delinquent loan combined with a repossession, foreclosure, or charge off. The proportion of debt falling into that category in U.S. households has stayed fairly consistent for the past four years. But defaulted student loans now make up 35 percent of that debt.Continue Reading
| International | Australia must fix school inequity to create a top education system | Parental choice is an idea that became commonly known as a consequence of Milton Friedman’s economic theories in the 1950s.Continue Reading
.| U.S. National | ‘I’m Going to Die with a Student Loan’: What Should the Government Do About the Trillion-Dollar Debt Crisis? | Some 44 million people in the United States are similarly saddled with student loan debt, owing nearly $1.5 trillion. Last fall, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos called it “a crisis.” More and more students leave school each year with loans, experts say, and students borrow more than $100 billion every year to attend college or graduate school.Continue Reading
| U.S. States and Territories | Don’t leave us a loan: Wisconsin’s efforts to end student debt crisis | Wisconsin is not immune to the student debt crisis either. Our state ranks 21st for average student loan debt at $29,569. Sixty-four percent of Wisconsin students have some sort of debt, ranking us sixth in the nation, according to the Institute for College Access and Success. Continue Reading
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SDGs ‘not attainable without contribution of HE’, UN told | None of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs – the internationally agreed framework for tackling poverty, inequality, disease and climate change – can be achieved without the contribution of higher education through research, teaching and community engagement. Continue Reading
