Word: highes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tomorrow's weather may be forecast of a high of 69 degrees, but thank goodness the ice cream gods are watching...
Even Sweden and Finland, long defenders of high taxes and socialism for the greater good, have decided to start charging non-European Union students tuition to study in their countries. "There is a huge debate in Sweden now about tuition fees," says Robin Moberg, vice chair of the Swedish National Union of Students. "On the one hand, the government has said foreign students shouldn't be supported by our taxes, but our argument has been that higher education is fundamentally a part of society...
...public funding for higher education in half since 2008. Poland, Hungary and Estonia have all cut or plan to make cuts of between 4% and 7%. But it's not just the east - wealthier European nations are also feeling the bite. This month, Britain announced cuts as high as 14% to some university budgets, while both Italian and Spanish schools face reductions of about 10%. The situation is so bad in Spain that schools extended holiday breaks last year to save money on heating, water and electricity. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...Taxpayers are becoming increasingly aware of the high cost of France's higher-education system, which has little selectivity - virtually anyone who wants to study at a university can do so for about $540 per year. The government subsidizes the remaining cost per student, which can be as high as $16,160 per year. An increase in the number of students can also mask the growing unemployment problem in France, according to François Ameli, a professor of international law at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. "The philosophy of France [on higher education] is a mass...
...firm leads to go on, police are treating the case as murder. "I think it was because of his work," Nogueira da Silva told TIME in a telephone interview. "His work was dangerous, he dealt with land grabbers and these people always have pistoleiros. What he did was a high risk activity...