Grandmother finally passes driving test after 27 years and 450 hours of tuition

"It is the year the world remembers for assassination attempts on President Reagan and Pope John Paul II, the wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer and Indiana Jones's first outing in Raiders of the Lost...

April Fool's Day

Happy April Fool's Day. Well, after reading the origin of AprilFool's day, I am quite confused. You might want to search it yourselfor look at wikipedia. However, in tradition, the jokes only last untilnoon. But when I was in my secondary school, we played madly.Almost10...

Opportunity and Affordability Act promises student borrowers' rights

"The act would increase financial aid for low-income and minority students, demand transparency in reporting college endowment spending and require colleges to explain tuition increases. "

Students at NYU Would Trade Right to Vote for Free Tuition, iPod

I honestly don't think I could give up my vote for tuition. I know that's a fair bit of money (a few thousand, at the very least) but I like to think my right to vote is worth more than that. Likewise a million...

Thousands call for swift end to Iraq war

"Thousands of people called for a swift end to the war in Iraq as they marched through downtown on Saturday, chanting and carrying signs that read: "Wall Street Gets Rich, Iraqis and GIs Die" or "Drop Tuition Not Bombs.""

Grind Corps: UK Police to Get Skateboarding Lessons

I don't know if teaching police officers how to skate will make them more cool, but it will give them the advantage in pursuit of perps who are trying to escape via half-pipe or stairway rail..."Police are being sent skateboarding in an attempt to cultivate a “cooler”...

More students to receive grants

"More students from poorer families in England are to receive full grants for university living costs. Students whose families earn less than £25,000 a year will get a full grant - up from the present level of £18,000. Those in families earning up to £60,000 a year will...

Germany: Cloaking PR as Grassroots Movement

What is in the mail sounds like student startup: New homepage “by students for  students”. It was the authors' intention, states the page, to make transparent how  German universities use tuition fees that had been introduced at most public  universities...

Dade Firefighter Charged In Tuition Caper

" March 30, 2007 Florida - A Miami-Dade firefighter who once served in Iraq as a National Guardsman has been arrested after police say he was took $7,235.00 in illegal reimbursements as part of the county's troubled tuition reimbursement program. Alvio Dominguez, 39, was...

Students must score 25k to get into this posh parochial greenwich village school

"March 28, 2007 -- The New York Archdiocese is inviting youngsters back to a Greenwich Village parish schoolhouse it shuttered last year - at $25,000 a pop.Now, working-class parents who had paid about $2,500 to send...

Ontario's Muslim students not accommodated: study

A report released today by the Ontario Federation of Students details the treatment and needs of Muslim students in Ontario's universities. The study's findings--under the banner of "Taskforce on the Needs of Muslim...

Germany: His Majesty, the Professor

German newsweekly Der Spiegel reports in its online edition that the association of professors, Deutscher Hochschulverband, passed a resolution, calling for a return to traditional values of German academic life. Namely, according to Der Spiegel, the paper calls for so called...

Ward Speaks Again … To an Enthusiastic Crowd, Despite Paid Provocateurs

"Students at the University of Colorado – whose tuition dollars pay his salary – may not get to take classes from Professor Churchill, but students around the U.S. and Canada are flocking to hear him speak. After rousing talks at a rally for political prisoner Mumia Abu...

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