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The Student Loan Mess: Next Chapters?

Higher Education Inquirer

In 2014, the father-son team of Joel Best and Eric Best published The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion Dollar Problem. Cost Explosion and Predatory Lending (1990s-2000s): College costs skyrocketed due to various factors, including decreased state funding and increased administrative spending. Next Chapters?

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Higher education as a politicians’ playground

SRHE

Since he left in 2014 the political game-playing has sadly degenerated, becoming ever more disconnected from the real issues facing the HE sector. Covid and employment disputes have brought massive disruption for students, with class actions for compensation continuing as an additional looming threat to HE budgets.