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Two Rider University officials and three fraternity members were charged in connection with the death of a freshman last March during a hazing ritual....
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Aug 04, 2007
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New A-levels designed to stretch pupils and recognise the highest levels of achievement are approved....
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Aug 03, 2007
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Independent schools could seek academy status as a way of securing their future financially, it is claimed....
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Aug 03, 2007
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TEHRAN, Jul 11 (IPS) - When six members of Iran’s largest students’ organisation, ‘Office to Foster Unity’, risked arrest and indefinite imprisonment to stage a sit-in demonstration, this week, it was a measure of their determination to take on the suppressive, hard line regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad....
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Aug 03, 2007
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University tuition fees are to be waived for the children of some asylum seekers in Scotland....
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Aug 03, 2007
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BRUSSELS, Jul 20 (IPS) - African governments are worried that funds from the European Union (EU) to help them increase their countries' share of world trade could be at the expense of other forms of development aid....
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Aug 03, 2007
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MANAGUA, Jul 25 (IPS) - An adult education programme beginning this month in Nicaragua is part of one of the Sandinista government's most ambitious social projects: to declare this country free from illiteracy in 2009....
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Aug 03, 2007
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PESHAWAR, Jul 27 (IPS) - Threatening letters sent by pro-Taliban rebels in a border area of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in Pakistan warning girls to wear a veil or keep away from school have had the desired results....
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Aug 03, 2007
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JERUSALEM, Jul 30 (IPS) - Right-wing lawmakers in Israel are fuming over a decision by Israel's education minister to permit use of a textbook in state-run Arab schools that includes the word "nakba" -- Arabic for "catastrophe", the term Palestinians use to describe the founding of the Jewish state....
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Aug 03, 2007
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Children's secretary Ed Balls calls on England's schools to redouble their efforts to boost exam results....
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Aug 02, 2007
