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• Police launch porn probe over Oregon teen sex videos
• University of California wants tuition hike or more funding
• Daughter suing parents for college tuition prompts calls for law change
• University of California wants tuition hike or $100 million funding increase
• Teachers, doctors struggle on without pay in eastern Ukraine
• Erdogan slams ridicule of 'Muslims discovered Americas' claim
• 10 Colleges Where Most Early Applicants Get In
• Iran parliament spurns Rouhani pick for universities minister for 4th time

Police launch porn probe over Oregon teen sex videos Posted: 18 Nov 2014 05:00 PM PST By Courtney Sherwood PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) - Police in Oregon are investigating reports that high school students videotaped peers engaging in sexual activity and distributed the footage via social media in a case that could lead to child pornography charges, authorities said on Tuesday. Portland police Sergeant Pete Simpson said a small group of students were involved in the case, but he declined to say how many or elaborate on the content of the videos. It was also not clear whether the teens depicted in the footage consented to being filmed. ...

University of California wants tuition hike or more funding Posted: 18 Nov 2014 04:23 PM PST By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - University of California president Janet Napolitano would back off a proposed tuition hike if the state increases funding by $100 million next year, a spokeswoman said, the latest in a very public battle over higher education in the most populous U.S. state. Napolitano, the former U.S. ...

Daughter suing parents for college tuition prompts calls for law change Posted: 18 Nov 2014 03:47 PM PST Just days after Action News first broke the story about a 21-year-old New Jersey woman suing her parents to help pay for her college tuition, a judge ruled in her favor, telling the parents to pay up.

University of California wants tuition hike or $100 million funding increase Posted: 18 Nov 2014 02:45 PM PST By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - University of California president Janet Napolitano would back off a proposed tuition hike if the state increases funding by $100 million next year, a spokeswoman said, the latest in a very public battle over higher education in the most populous U.S. state. Napolitano, the former U.S. ...

Teachers, doctors struggle on without pay in eastern Ukraine Posted: 18 Nov 2014 12:49 PM PST With Kiev cutting off their salaries and pro-Moscow rebels struggling to set up their statelets, teachers and doctors in eastern Ukraine are left wondering where their next pay cheque will come from. For English teacher Alla Rusinkevich, stopping work is simply not an option. Maybe someone else will pay," she says, sitting on a school chair in an empty classroom at School Number Nine in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk. A colleague sitting with her, Yury Kholyavkin, has also had to dig into his savings to get by.

Erdogan slams ridicule of 'Muslims discovered Americas' claim Posted: 18 Nov 2014 11:17 AM PST Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday hit back at ridicule of his claim that Islamic explorers discovered the Americas three centuries before Columbus, accusing his Muslim critics of lacking "self-confidence". In an aggressive rebuttal of the criticism heaped in some quarters on his comments, Erdogan also suggested that the purported "discovery" of the Americas by Muslims should be taught in schools. "A big responsibility falls on the shoulders of the national education ministry and YOK (higher education board) on this issue," Erdogan said at a ceremony in Ankara. Erdogan, a pious Muslim who has been in power for more than a decade, stirred up controversy on Saturday when he claimed the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus.

10 Colleges Where Most Early Applicants Get In Posted: 18 Nov 2014 06:00 AM PST The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College and The Short List: Grad School to find data that matter to you in your college or graduate school search.

Iran parliament spurns Rouhani pick for universities minister for 4th time Posted: 18 Nov 2014 04:56 AM PST By Michelle Moghtader DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's parliament on Tuesday rejected for the fourth time President Hassan Rouhani's nominee to head the sensitive Ministry of Higher Education in a further setback to his attempts to liberalize universities. The choice of Minister of Science, Research and Higher Education is significant as it sets ideological guidelines for universities, which have been arenas for pro-democracy activities and clashes with conservative hardliners. ...

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