And students are pressing the government for money to be used to bring back some form of student grant.
In addition, what we are also doing is to try to make the student loan and student grant programs that are already in place work better.
That will save us billions of dollars, that will allow us to expand student loan assistance and grant assistance to more people.
But Miss Roberts did find time for plenty of networking, dining out twice with a mentor of hers from student days, John Grant.
We cut out the middleman and we said let's use that money to expand the availability of Pell Grants, to increase the amount that Pell Grants -- each Pell Grant a student could get.
And nearly two thirds of undergraduates now receive some sort of grant aid and student loan borrowing is on the upswing.
We protected programs for student loans through the Pell Grant program, for example. (Applause.) We protected programs for hungry kids.
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For now, parents should review financial-aid letters and look for contingency statements or discrepancies in awards (for example, if one school claims the student will receive a federal grant but another doesn't).
Disclosure: I run student programs at Rhodes College that are funded by a grant the Charles G.
The last several years, there's been a real lag in federal financial aid funding, and so they believe that if you're going to take this money from lenders and from increasing fees on student loans, that the money should go back into grant aid.
Then it subtracts any aid, such as a Pell Grant, scholarship or loan, the family expects the student to receive.
Housing minister Grant Shapps said the rules threatened supply of rented flats and councils knew best if student numbers lead to wider social problems.
Congress also may make cuts in the Pell grant, the most popular federal college grant, says Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org, which tracks financial aid and student-loan debt.
But because of a high drop-out rate, and its failure to meet student recruitment targets, South Bank has been obliged to cut academic jobs, and give back some of its grant to the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the primary government funding agency for universities.
In 2007, Congress increased the Pell Grant, the federal scholarship for low-income students, and reduced the cost of need-based student loans.
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