California university regents approve 32 percent tuition increase
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 19. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
Alan Duke
CNN
November 19, 2009
Despite intense student protests, the California Board of Regents on Thursday approved a 32 percent undergraduate tuition increase over the next two years.
Hundreds of students marched and chanted outside UCLA, where university officials were meeting. School officials argued that a fee increase and deep cuts in school spending were necessary because of [...]
Rising unemployment raises threat of social crisis
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 25. May, 2009 | No Comments
Jason Webb
Reuters
May 25, 2009
MADRID (Reuters) – World economic recovery will be slow and rising unemployment could bring the threat of social crisis and protectionism, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said in an interview with Spanish Sunday newspaper El Pais.
“What began as a great financial crisis and became a great economic crisis is now becoming a [...]
G20 police in London used provocateurs to incite the crowds
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 10. May, 2009 | No Comments
Jamie Doward and Mark Townsend
The Observer, Sunday 10 May 2009
Photograph: Chris Ison/PA
An MP who was involved in last month’s G20 protests in London is to call for an investigation into whether the police used agents provocateurs to incite the crowds.
Liberal Democrat Tom Brake says he saw what he believed to be two plain-clothes police [...]