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Jie Wang; Hideo Akabayashi; Masayuki Kobayashi; Shinpei Sano – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Since the late 1990s, the number of college student loan debtors has increased rapidly in Japan. Despite the uniqueness of Japanese higher education policies in terms of tuition levels and heavy reliance on educational loans rather than grants, few studies have focused on the influence of student loans on adult youths' lives. This study is the…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Debt (Financial), Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Furuta, Kazuhisa – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
A growing number of families around the world are relying on student loans to pay for university under recent cost-sharing policies. However, it remains unclear to what extent university costs and the likelihood of needing student loans affect decisions in the early stages of education. This article examines the influence of parents' attitudes…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Mothers, Paying for College, Student Costs