Margo Balboni is cramming college into three years to cut down on the cost of her student loans. As it is, the University of North Carolina sophomore expects to graduate in a few years with $20,000 in debt.

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The finals week is approaching for some of us students and I thought to cheer us up and inspire us by humoring the education system, I Heart Iran style. A few weeks ago, Hamid Reza Haji-Babayi, Iranian minister of education proposed his brilliant idea. He called for further gender segregating the schools (in Iran only private kindergartens and some colleges are co-ed). Only this time, the text books for all grades and levels should be gender specific. Immediately after his remarks, Persian blog sphere filled with suggestion for Mr. Minster and his ideal text books. Here are a few: Math for Boys: 2+2=4 or even 5, who cares! Math for Girls: 2 stems of flowers added by two more becomes a bouquet that we will gift to our dear mother. Geography for Boys: If you hold your right hand toward the East and your left hand toward the West, the North will be in front of you, while the south is behind you. Geography for Girls: If you can distinguish between your right and left hand, you are better off getting married and make the Mr. Minister happy since he has expressed his interests in lowering the marriage age for female students. English for Boys: Present tense: I want to go to the garden with my friends. English for Girls: Present tense: I want to go to the kitchen and cook dinner for my husband. Philosophy for Boys: Socrates was always after the truth and is named “martyr for the truth.” Philosophy for Girls: Socrates’ wife was always after “the martyr of the truth” and made his life miserable. Physics for boys: The relation between the object distance (p), the image distance (q), and the focal length (f) of a thin lens is (1/p) + (1/q) = 1/f Physics for girls: When reflecting your image in the mirror, there must be a relation between beauty, piety and taking care of your husband. A page from the 3rd grade Persian books depicts the story of “The Devoted Farmer” who burned his clothes and blocked the coming train to warn the operator about the fallen rocks. The humorous Iranians suggested that for girls text books, his image be replaced by a woman who cannot burn her Hijab and clothes. Though she cannot save the train and its passengers, she saves her piety and dignity as a good Muslim woman who does not undress in public.

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One in five students at new £18,000 private London college are from state schools, show figures for the first intake.

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A private equity firm has bought a UK college with its own degree-awarding powers for almost £200m.

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U.S. nominee president of Dartmouth College.

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More than 500 high school and college students competing in human-powered vehicles were inspired by the lunar rovers that astronauts used on the moon.

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Faced with a growing gender imbalance on its playing fields, the University of Maryland proclaimed itself a pioneer when it added competitive cheerleading as a varsity sport in 2003, predicting that other Division I schools would follow the Terrapins’ lead. Read full article > >

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Title IX anniversary: Maryland cuts cheerleading, but was it ever a sport?

Of all the crackups by coaches this week, one was more disappointing than all the others, and it wasn’t Bobby Petrino going “Easy Rider” into a ditch after losing control of his gearshift . We’ve seen things like that before. For some reason, the more disheartening crash was that of Baylor women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey, embarrassed by NCAA sanctions fresh off her national championship. Read full article > >

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Queen’s University in Belfast is to establish a college in China in partnership with the China Medical University.

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Mitt Romney’s electoral trouble with women — more precisely with college-educated women — is real enough. Recent polling has Romney trailing President Obama by 18 points among this group in Ohio, with similar gaps in other battleground states . Read full article > >

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Some professors worry about opening a college in such a restrictive nation. Administrators say there was plenty of time to object.

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Singapore Partnership Creates Dissension at Yale

Santa Monica College officials in California have launched an investigation into a raucous student protest at a board of trustees meeting in which campus police used pepper spray on demonstrators, sending three of them to a hospital, the college president said Wednesday.

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College probes use of pepper spray

Brittney Griner just led Baylor to a 40-0 record and a national championship . She’s an attractive woman with a quick smile, a well-spoken representative of her university who is quick, in every interview, to deflect credit to her less-known – and lesser abused – teammates, and who will return for her senior year in college rather than pursue a professional career. Read full article > >

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Brittney Griner’s gender? Shame on those who even ask the question.

RALEIGH, N.C. — A spirited run through the NCAA women’s basketball tournament concluded resoundingly on Tuesday for second-seeded Maryland , which was unable to overcome a double-figure deficit in the first half that kept expanding during an 80-49 loss to No. 1 seed Notre Dame in the Raleigh Region final at PNC Arena. Read full article > >

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RALEIGH, N.C. — A spirited run through the NCAA women’s basketball tournament concluded resoundingly on Tuesday for second-seeded Maryland , which was unable to overcome a double-figure deficit in the first half that kept expanding during an 80-49 loss to No. 1 seed Notre Dame in the Raleigh Region final at PNC Arena. Read full article > >

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