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Sallie Mae Bank, 2018
Introduced this year, "How America Pays for Graduate School" is a national study by Sallie Mae, conducted by Ipsos. This new study is designed to complement Sallie Mae's "How America Pays for College" report, which, for the last 10 years, has provided insights into how American families plan and pay for college, with a focus on…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Paying for College, Graduate Students, Educational Finance
Gustafsson-Wright, Emily; Gardiner, Sophie – Brookings Institution, 2016
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, or Global Goals) and their associated targets set out by the United Nations in 2015 explicitly seek to address some of the largest challenges facing children around the world. Early Childhood Development (ECD) interventions have been found to improve adult health and education levels, reduce crime, and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Low Income Groups, Sustainable Development, Design Requirements
Gustafsson-Wright, Emily; Gardiner, Sophie – Brookings Institution, 2016
The confluence of the agreement on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, or Global Goals) in 2015, and the increased attention being paid to the role of non-traditional actors in contributing to shared prosperity, provide a unique opportunity to focus attention on attempts to identify promising new solutions to the barriers that impede the full…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Low Income Groups, Sustainable Development, Design Requirements
Kirby, Philip – Sutton Trust, 2016
This study compares tuition funding arrangements, debt at graduation, and earnings outcomes for full-time domestic undergraduates in eight Anglophone countries: the United Kingdom (England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland), United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. According to multiple estimates, the average English student faces…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Finance, Financial Support
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McKinney, Lyle; Burridge, Andrea; Mukherjee, Moumita – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background/Context: Sub-baccalaureate certificates can provide an accelerated pathway to gainful employment for the unemployed or underemployed. Certificates represented only 6% of postsecondary awards in 1980, but today they represent 22% of all credentials awarded and have superseded associate's and master's degrees as the second most common…
Descriptors: Student Certification, Student Characteristics, Enrollment, Outcomes of Education
Djurovich, Alexandra; Fergus, Meredith – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2017
"Minnesota Measures" provides a resource of accurate, timely, and comprehensive facts about higher education in Minnesota. It includes comparisons over time as well as national and peer institution comparisons. Obtaining a postsecondary credential increases economic opportunity, promotes income equality, and prepares the state to meet…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Preparation, College Readiness, Enrollment
New Mexico Higher Education Department, 2019
This annual report provides the details of how some of New Mexico Higher Education Department's (NMHED) accomplishments will improve the lives of New Mexico's students. In addition to information about NMHED led programs, this report includes profiles of each of New Mexico's public higher education institutions (HEIs) to the report. Each profile…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Community Colleges, Private Colleges
Office of Finance and Operations, US Department of Education, 2020
The purpose of the United States Department of Education's (Department) fiscal year (FY) 2020 "Agency Financial Report" (AFR) is to inform Congress, the President, other external stakeholders, and the American people on how the Department used the federal resources entrusted to it to advance the mission of the Department to promote…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Government, Performance, Strategic Planning
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Blackburn, Lucy Hunter – Scottish Educational Review, 2016
Comparisons with other parts of the United Kingdom have played an important role in justifying decisions made in relation to student funding in Scotland since devolution. This article considers first what comparative claims have been made for the content of student funding policy in four areas: fees, debt, total living cost support and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance)
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Memba, Albert Zephaniah; Feng, Zhao Zun – Higher Education Studies, 2016
Many studies conducted on the Higher Education Students Loans Board (HESLB) have mostly concentrated on its success, sustainability and effectiveness on loans issuance and repayment. None had focused on its performance towards human capital investment. This study sought to explain and analyze HESLB's performance in human capital investment, which…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Investment, College Students
Fernandez, Chris; Fletcher, Carla; Klepfer, Kasey – TG (Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation), 2017
The Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation (TG) offers critical support to schools, students, and borrowers at every stage of the federal student aid process--from providing information on how to pay for a higher education, including financial aid options, to facilitating successful loan repayment after graduation. As part of that support, this…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Higher Education, State Aid, Financial Services
Bell, Charlene – ProQuest LLC, 2017
A mounting concern throughout the country is a current and growing nursing shortage. In order to meet the growing demand of nurses, many colleges have created baccalaureate second degree accelerated registered nursing programs. Stressors, experienced by nursing students in these accelerated programs, may affect their retention. A deeper…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Academic Persistence, Qualitative Research, Stress Variables
American Association of University Women, 2020
This is an update to the report "Deeper in Debt: Women and Student Loans." Americans today carry $1.54 trillion in student loan debt. That number has more than doubled over the last decade--increasing at nearly six times the rate of inflation. Women are particularly burdened, holding nearly two-thirds of all outstanding loans--around…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Females, Student Loan Programs, College Students
Elengold, Kate Sablosky; Dorrance, Jess; Agans, Robert – UnidosUS, 2020
Researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill teamed up with UnidosUS to explore whether and how our debt-driven higher education system makes it difficult for students to finish a college program or degree. The quantitative research, gathered from more than 1,500 respondents from across the country, offers insight into the primary…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Debt (Financial), Academic Persistence, Barriers
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Mgonja, Michael Greyson – International Journal of Educational Leadership and Management, 2017
Workplace absenteeism has widely been reported to be a serious problem which undermines smooth service delivery both in developed and developing nations. The problem is reported to be more serious in developing nations. This paper is therefore studying the mechanisms used to mitigate workplace absenteeism, their adequacy and the effective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employee Absenteeism, Teacher Attendance, Public Schools
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