She also said the plan might have the unintended consequence of reducing the number of students studying science, technology, engineering and maths - the so-called STEM subjects - because students tend to get higher grades in the arts and humanities.
BBC: Top students expansion plan 'could hit social mobility'
In the 2006 budget-cutting "reconciliation" bill President George W. Bush signed this month, the best known student loan programs for middle-class families--Stafford loans for students and so-called PLUS loans for parents--took a big hit.
The highest proportion of students drawn from deprived areas was the University of Paisley, where 34% of students were from so-called "low participation neighbourhoods".
In one case, students were sent off to so-called work placements in locations up to 280 miles away from the college where they were supposed to be studying on a regular basis.
Some of the proposals include items that the GOP-led House has already tackled in legislation in the last Congress, including an immigration bill for so-called "STEM" visas that would allow students born outside the United States who are enrolled in American universities studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to stay after they graduate and get jobs with U.S. companies.
So just to give you one example, right now a lot of the student loan programs run through banks, but a lot of them go directly to students from the government -- so-called direct loans.
But this is so-called Dead Week at Stanford, in late May, when students are still attending classes, writing final papers and cramming for exams.
These so-called Level 3 vocational qualifications were taken by about 185, 000 students last year.
The company is also running a so-called Cocoa Ambassadors program in Ghana, where it has hired university students to promote cocoa farming among younger generations.
Without rehashing every point, in one example, as software increasingly handles direct instruction, this will create big opportunities for teachers to facilitate rich and rewarding project-based learning experiences for their students to apply their learning into different contexts and gain meaningful work in the so-called 21st-century skills.
So-called private student loans, meaning those that Uncle Sam isn't backing, are for the more prosperous students and tend to be larger and much more profitable for Sallie.
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