Everyone who cares about higher education in this country knows about the chronic under funding of public universities, which has been going on for at least 25 years but has now reached crisis levels owing to the current recession.

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Great Article by one of the young future mp's of Scotland's Political seen. Genuine guy not a Carrerist Numpy like Jim Murphy and Co who got tinto Politics through the Student Union Political Scene

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University College London, the Open University and Trinity College Dublin are the first European universities to put free lecture material on iTunes.

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Several Women's and Gender Studies faculty at Ohio University are designing curriculum for a masculine studies course they hope to teach next year, said Lynette Peck, assistant director. "Because men are normative in society, it is rare that we study men as men," Peck said.

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"We don't want this to be a poverty tour," said Ryan Igleheart, a first-year student at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management and an organizer of the Project Pyramid trip.

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DAKAR, Senegal, May 19 — Thiany Dior usually rises before dawn, tiptoeing carefully among thin foam mats laid out on the floor as she leaves the cramped dormitory room she shares with half a dozen other women. It was built for two.

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