FILAM FINANCE

The Gallery Collection is conducting its very first $10,000 greeting card scholarship contest. The contest runs from October 1, 2007 thru January 15, 2008. Photos, artwork, and computer graphics are all welcome entries. You can go to the company’s scholarship site to see the official rules and to download an entry form. All high school, […]

College students can always use any type of scholarships to help alleviate the cost of education. There are a lot of scholarships out there in the form of need-based or merit-based awards - students just need to learn where and how to obtain them. However, for most scholarships, there is always a selection committee that […]

School is back and for college students, this means homeworks, projects, term papers, and exams. On the financial side, tuition fees have gone up every year thus putting a major dent in a lot of family’s finances. Knowing how to be frugal can really help alleviate some of the cost of school and also not getting […]

Bad news for California residents, the Golden State is one of the 43 states that do not require students to take a personal finance course to graduate from high school, according to the survey released on June 13, 2007 by the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE).
The good news is that the number of states requiring students to take […]

With the high cost of education here in United States, students should always try to find ways to help finance their education, whether in the forms of grants, scholarships, student loans, etc. Of course, it is always nice to get grants and scholarships because you don’t have to pay those back. There are a lot of […]

A few years before the internet age, most students bought their textbooks at the university bookstore and paid a premium price. To save money on books, students can either purchase a used book from a fellow student who previously took the class, or at the university bookstore. The other option is to go to an […]