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By LISA W. FODERARO
The unraveling economy is making less expensive state colleges more appealing, even as they face budget cuts.

VietNamNet Bridge - The latest revision on a plan to develop Vietnam’s educational system by 2020 fails to position the country’s education in the world map.

You can save as much as $2,500 per student, but how much you claim depends on your income, the student's educational status and how and when you paid the bill. If you're paying for a college education, you may need an advanced degree to figure out how to claim federal tax breaks for those

Thomas Gradgrind, Hard Times
My thoughts drifted the other day to the opening passage from Charles Dickens’ Hard Times. The occasion was a meeting of fellow professors at the University of Houston, gathered to discuss a modest proposal from the board of regents. In the interest of greater efficiency, the regents wanted professors to post on the Web a variety of statistics: how much they earn, how many A’s and B’s they give, how many students they teach, and how much these same students earn once they graduate.

After a lifetime of working for newspapers and radio, Kevin Klose will take on an entirely new challenge: rethinking journalism's future as technology transforms traditional media.

By TAMAR LEWIN
George Mason has struggled since it opened its branch in Ras al Khaymah, an emirate with neither the dazzle of Dubai nor the oil wealth of Abu Dhabi.

Tensions over the conflict in the Middle East are igniting a fierce debate at Canadian universities, raising questions about freedom of speech and the rights of students to feel welcome and safe on campus.

By ALINA TUGEND
Campus visits, private counselors and SAT tutoring can add up to a fortune. What gives a student a leg up and what’s overkill?

By KATE ZERNIKE
Many smaller institutions need full enrollment, and reducing financial aid could send students elsewhere.

A volunteer group of Florida State University students has launched a fundraising campaign called "Protect Our Professors" to save faculty who are in danger of being laid off.

With yesterday's announcement of a $9 million gift from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, the Pittsburgh Promise college scholarship program has secured gifts from most of the city's leading (

The president's budget plan calls for direct government funding of student loans, cutting out private industry. President Obama's proposal for direct government funding of student loans -- cutting out private industry -- sent shares of Sallie Mae, Student Loan Corp., Nelnet Inc. and other

ELIZABETH CHURCH
Even as they deal with spike in demand, many institutions warn cuts are on horizon. Canadian universities and colleges are facing a "perfect storm," as they are battered by ailing endowments and pension funds, rising student demand and cuts in government funding, a new study warns.

Two Canadian universities came under criticism this week for banning a poster which is seen to be depicting Israelis as child-killers and accusing Israel of apartheid. Brazilian politicians and scholars, meanwhile, lambasted a recent student exchange accord between Tel Aviv University and a Catholic academy from Sao Paulo.