Topic: Education

With more than $1 trillion in student loans outstanding in this country, crippling debt is no longer confined to select groups. Now, nearly everyone pursuing a bachelor’s degree is borrowing, the New York Times reports.

That little bundle of joy is going to require a wad of cash.  The cost of raising a child from birth to age 17 has surged 25 percent over the last 10 years.

Not only are people getting better at picking the right partner, couples are also becoming increasingly comfortable with the ebb and flow of incomes in their relationships.

If you think providing for your children after divorce is basically about diapers, dentistry and diplomas, you're in for a life of surprises.  Consider everything and work them out  to avoid explosive issues down the road.

Many countries finance their Olympic competitors, but not the United States, where athletes fund their own training. Sometimes charities help, and organizations take donations, but more often than not, athletes have to get jobs like the rest of us and fit in the training.

Colleges and universities are pouring millions into renovating residence halls and freshening up cafeteria food. Administrators believe it can give them an edge in recruiting top students, while also improving the overall education by improving quality of life.

Under a 2005 law passed by Congress to protect lenders, private student loans fall under the same nearly-impossible-to-clear category as child support payments and criminal fines.

Here’s what we do know about student loan debt: it’s roughly $1 trillion in size, greater than either auto or credit-card debt and second only to mortgage debt in the U.S.

Mike Cagney is a former hedge fund manager, an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the co-founder of SoFi, a startup that ultimately aims to make college alumni the primary source of student credit, instead of the federal government.

CNBC.com ranked the ten places in the U.S. that showed the most job growth between February 2011 and February 2012. Catherine Varner, economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, offered insight into what the numbers mean.

Yale announced a year ago that it was creating the “first new college to bear the Yale name in 300 years” at the National University of Singapore, and last week, after reviewing 2,500 applications, it sent out the first handful of faculty job offers for Yale-N.U.S. College, the NYT reports.

Chinese students are increasingly heading to western universities for both undergraduate and postgraduate education.

ChinaCast Education accused its former CEO of insider trading and said the recently fired executive was disrupting the company's operations and causing a delay in filing its financial statements.

The number of Law School Admission Tests (LSATs) administered has seen the largest decline in more than a decade, reflecting a spreading view that the U.S. legal market is in terrible shape, the New York Times reports.

Do the reputations of Asian universities precede them? Last Thursday, the Times Higher Education released its second World Reputation Rankings in a report that said, “The West loses ground to the East in the global index of academic prestige,” the New York Times reports.