Paying for college: Beg, borrow, steal, sweat and save

E-mailFrom Friday's Globe and MailPublished Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 6:29PM EDTLast updated Monday, Sep. 27, 2010 3:30PM EDT6 commentsEmailTweetPrintDecrease text sizeIncrease text size

As I was searching the news archives this week for articles dealing with the education of our children, I found some interesting headlines. “Kids Make Nutritious Snacks,” “Teacher Strikes Idle Kids,” and “Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half,” are just a few I found by way of The Star Tribune in Minneapolis, which went through the trouble of collecting such classics back in March, 2000.

Back to schoolStudents urged to use credit cards with cautionHow to finance a post-secondary education

Then I stumbled across the results of a survey sponsored by Fidelity Investments in the U.S. as published in the Investment Weekly News in June of this year. It’s a survey on the costs of education, and while it’s a U.S.-based survey, some of the findings are sure to be equally applicable in Canada.

Joe Ciccariello, a spokesman for Fidelity, had this to say: “When we looked at