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Student protest, California style
17 hours ago ago from Registrarism
What Do We Want? Lots of Stuff! When Do We Want It? Now! Following up earlier post on student protest lessons in the UK, the Chronicle has a good story about the modest demands made by students at the University of California. A series of student protests at the University of California last month centered on repealing a 32-percent increase in tuition. But for some, tuition was just the beginning. As demonstrators at the Santa Cruz ...
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9 hours ago ago from Liberal Democrat Voice | Our place to talk – an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK.
From an email from Nick Clegg: This week the Party's federal policy committee agreed a way to deliver one of our most important policies, the scrapping of unfair tuition fees. We've developed a plan to phase out tuition fees over the course of the next six years, to ensure this vital policy is affordable even at this time of economic crisis. Labour and the Conservatives refuse to address the issue of fees and there is a real danger ...
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9 hours ago ago from Get College Info
Most students have come to expect an annual rise in tuition. The cost of a college education can increase from 3.5 percent to 6.0 percent. Increasing cost of energy and the struggle to compete with colleges that have large endowments is putting colleges out of reach for certain students. Colleges are obligated to increase their level of security. Parents expect a safe environment for students who are in urban and rural communities. Many ...
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14 hours ago ago from In Chennai Online
(CHICAGO September 6, 2005) Argosy University announced today that it will assist students from universities in New Orleans, southern Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama universities, which have been closed for the foreseeable future due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Argosy University will make available both on-campus and online courses that might be able to permit dislocated students to progress in their ...
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7 hours ago ago from Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Liberal Democrats Confirm Commitment to Scrap Tuition Fees 18th December 2009 Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats has announced that scrapping tuition fees would remain one of the party’s most important policies. In a letter to Liberal Democrat members he today he set out a timetable to scrap fees, including those for part-time courses, over the six years following the General Election. The letter in full: Dear ...
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Economy Doesn’t Slow Demand for Early Entry to College
20 hours ago ago from The New York Times
James S. Miller, the dean of admissions at Brown University , figured this could be the year that the frantic demand for admission under binding early-decision programs might begin to subside. After all, under such programs, admitted students cannot seek competing financial aid offers. Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times The chapel at Duke University. Duke is among the colleges that had an increase in applications for ...
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