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• Venezuela state declares food emergency at schools
• Turkey dismisses almost 28,000 teachers over terrorism links: deputy PM
• Paying Off Twice Your Student Loan
• Colleges That Claim to Meet Full Financial Need
• South Africa to cap student fee hikes at 8 percent after protests

Venezuela state declares food emergency at schools Posted: 19 Sep 2016 03:02 PM PDT The opposition governor of Venezuela's second-largest state, Henrique Capriles, declared an emergency Monday over a lack of food for public schools, blaming the socialist government's "misguided" policies. "We are declaring a food emergency in our state," said Capriles, the governor of Miranda state, who is leading a campaign to remove President Nicolas Maduro from office in a recall referendum. Capriles and his center-right opposition coalition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), blame the leftist president for an economic crisis that is causing severe shortages of food and medicine in Venezuela.

Turkey dismisses almost 28,000 teachers over terrorism links: deputy PM Posted: 19 Sep 2016 10:05 AM PDT Turkish authorities have dismissed nearly 28,000 teachers and suspended almost 9,500 others over alleged links to terrorism, a deputy prime minister said on Monday, pursuing a security crackdown followed a failed coup in July. Turkey has sacked or suspended some 100,000 civil servants including judges, prosecutors, police officers and teachers since a group of rogue soldiers tried to topple the government. At least 40,000 people have been detained for suspected links to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the plot.

Paying Off Twice Your Student Loan Posted: 19 Sep 2016 09:35 AM PDT Earlier this summer, a Canadian reader, Kristen, voiced the "Unpopular Opinion" that she's "tired of hearing about people's student loan debt," given her dogged efforts to pay for her own college tuition without loans and thus forgo "the 'university life' that I saw on TV: brick buildings, living on campus, and fun parties every weekend." But a reader who grew up in poverty, Mary, responded to Kristen that "without those loans that I 'chose' to take out [while working as a single mother of three], I would likely still be working for minimum wage and living in poverty."

Colleges That Claim to Meet Full Financial Need Posted: 19 Sep 2016 05:30 AM PDT For most parents, paying for college isn't easy; but some schools offer enough institutional dollars to students to offset expensive sticker prices.

South Africa to cap student fee hikes at 8 percent after protests Posted: 19 Sep 2016 03:52 AM PDT South Africa has recommended that 2017 university tuition fee increases be capped at 8 percent, the higher education minister said on Monday, after waves of student protests demanding cuts or free education. The cap is higher than South Africa's current inflation rate of 6 percent and unlikely to quell the protests. Thirty-two students were arrested earlier this month after arsonists torched a law library at South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal following days of protests by students over grievances including the cost of tuition.

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