After weeks of leaks and frenzied speculation, Rachel Reeves revealed her second Budget in a speech in the House of Commons on Wednesday afternoon. The Labour chancellor introduced a raft of tax ...

There is a panic spreading across social media about the reclassification of many graduate degrees as non-professional, and how that could affect pay scales, as well as the amount people can borrow to ...

“I don’t know why we would take this away,” said the president of one of several organizations to speak out about the change Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Today the Standard publishes a ready reckoner calculator to help readers to work out whether they will be better or worse off once all the measures announced come into effect. More than 1.7 million ...

The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has updated which majors fall under its definition of “professional” degrees, and student loans could be affected in the long term. Under the revamped definition ...

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As President Donald Trump's administration redefines which degrees are considered "professional," many graduate students are left with questions and concerns about how to finance their education. Who ...

A coalition of nursing and other health care organizations are angry over a Trump administration plan that could limit access to student loans in some cases. Students pursuing graduate degrees in ...

In late 2025, the Department of Education said it would no longer classify these credentials as professional degrees: education (including teaching master’s degrees), nursing (MSN, DNP), social work ...

A proposal from the Trump administration would exclude nursing from a list of professional degrees, a move that has drawn outcry from nursing advocates, who warn it could worsen the nation's nurse ...

Students doing certain degrees may no longer receive the same amount of reimbursement for their studies now that the Department of Education is implementing various measures from President Donald ...

The Trump administration is soon expected to propose a plan that would cap loans for a number of advanced degrees—including master’s and doctoral degrees in nursing—and it’s gone viral on social media ...