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• Seth MacFarlane will let - gasp - college students touch Oscars
• La. school voucher plan ruled unconstitutional
• Bosnian teachers, policemen protest against pay cuts
• Report: High School Guidance Counselors Underutilized
• House to vote on increasing advanced-degree visas
• Ontario Teachers' fund plans Asia office, building 10-member team

Seth MacFarlane will let - gasp - college students touch Oscars Posted: 30 Nov 2012 03:38 PM PST NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - So this is the kind of lowbrow vulgarity we get when we allow the creator of "The Family Guy" to host the Oscars: Seth MacFarlane will let the golden statuettes be handled by - brace yourself - college students. We'll give you a moment to unclutch your pearls. For an episode of MTVu's "Stand In" series, in which celebrities visit college classes, MacFarlane talks to a group of UCLA film students about his work. He also announces the details of "The Oscar Experience College Search," which will be presented by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and mtvU. ...

La. school voucher plan ruled unconstitutional Posted: 30 Nov 2012 02:48 PM PST Gov. Bobby Jindal's voucher program that uses tax dollars to send students to private schools was ruled unconstitutional Friday by a state judge who said it's improperly funded through the public school financing formula.

Bosnian teachers, policemen protest against pay cuts Posted: 30 Nov 2012 10:51 AM PST BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Thousands of teachers and policemen demonstrated across Bosnia's Serb Republic on Friday against a 10 percent pay cut planned for non-government public workers next year, the first major protest in years against government spending cutbacks. The government has drafted an austerity budget for 2013 of 1.94 billion marka ($1.3 billion), a 7 percent rise on the current year's spending only because of the costs of its growing foreign debt. The budget, set to be debated next week by the parliament, cuts the public sector wage bill by 56. ...

Report: High School Guidance Counselors Underutilized Posted: 30 Nov 2012 09:13 AM PST School counselors can be a vital piece of the college-readiness puzzle for high school students, but many counselors are bogged down with tasks that don't allow them to put their skills to work.

House to vote on increasing advanced-degree visas Posted: 30 Nov 2012 08:45 AM PST The House has approved legislation to offer green cards to foreign students with advanced degrees, but only after a partisan fight that portends trouble when Congress attempts a wholesale immigration overhaul next year.

Ontario Teachers' fund plans Asia office, building 10-member team Posted: 29 Nov 2012 08:52 PM PST HONG KONG (Reuters) - Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, a leading Canadian pension fund, plans to open its first Asia office next year in Hong Kong, with as many as 10 staff, a source with knowledge of the matter said, as it targets higher returns from direct investments in the region. Teachers' is one of the world's largest investors into private equity firms, and is increasingly active in direct investing in deals, and the move to set up only its second office outside Canada underscores the significance of Asia to influential pension fund managers. ...

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