Yahoo! News: Education News

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• Court says university, company co-owners of patent (AP)
• Kids in Philippine village swim to school no more (AP)
• Supreme Court rejects illegal immigrants' tuition case (Reuters)
• Europeans spend billions on "shadow education" (Reuters)

Court says university, company co-owners of patent (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 09:14 AM PDT AP - Ownership of a patent for technology to detect HIV levels in patients' blood was correctly split between Stanford University and the pharmaceutical giant Roche, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.

Kids in Philippine village swim to school no more (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:27 AM PDT AP - Dozens of dirt-poor children in a Philippine mangrove village no longer have to swim to school while straining to hold their books above the water.

Supreme Court rejects illegal immigrants' tuition case (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:24 AM PDT Reuters - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to a California law that gives illegal immigrants the same in-state college tuition rates as legal state residents, another contentious issue in the nation's immigration policy debate.

Europeans spend billions on "shadow education" (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 06:00 AM PDT Reuters - Private tuition is a booming business in Europe, with parents in France and Germany spending more than 3 billion euros ($4.39 billion) a year on additional schooling for their children, according to a new report.

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