The chief executive of the Student Loans Company, who attracted controversy over his tax arrangements, is to stand down when his contract expires early next year.

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The former teacher of a schoolboy diagnosed with autism, who is accused by the child's father of mistreating the student, has called the allegations “disingenuous,” saying she wasn't there when the alleged classroom incident took place.

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Teacher: Bullying claims ‘disingenuous’

To promote his student-loan plan.

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Obama Heads to Iowa City

Sometimes not being tall is the best thing ever. You can belt skirts and make them dresses. You can cash in on your student discount forever. It is highly unlikely you’ll ever have to worry about being taller than your boyfriend. Read full article > >

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The Rant: Theater sightlines less than perfect for patrons of lesser stature

Sometimes not being tall is the best thing ever. You can belt skirts and make them dresses. You can cash in on your student discount forever. It is highly unlikely you’ll ever have to worry about being taller than your boyfriend. Read full article > >

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The Rant: Theater sightlines less than perfect for patrons of lesser stature

The head of the Student Loans Company will have tax and National Insurance payments deducted from his £182,000 pay package in future, ministers say.

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A former pupil pleads not guilty in court of hacking his old school’s computer system and posting another student’s report on Facebook.

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Ex-pupil bailed on hacking charge

A 20-year-old man charged with the murder of the student Anuj Bidve who was shot in the head in Salford on Boxing Day, is due in court later.

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How does a song by an iconic musician get lost and then found? Here’s one way. One afternoon in 1997, an emerging 27-year-old singer-songwriter named Elliott Smith performed at WMUC-FM , the student run radio station at the University of Maryland, College Park. The station regularly hosted punk and indie acts on its live-in-the-studio Third Rail Radio program and Smith’s performance wasn’t anything out of the ordinary — just him and his guitar, playing around 10 songs in WMUC’s unadorned recording studio on the fourth floor of South Campus Dining Hall. Read full article > >

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Elliott Smith: “New” song from 1997 WMUC session unearthed

A Howard University student charged with felony assault was defending herself during a fight with her roommate last month when she grabbed a pot of hot water from the stove and threw the water on her, the student’s attorney said during a hearing Wednesday in D.C. Superior Court. Defense attorney Kelli Neptune said her client, Kierstyn Jeffries, 20, was being bullied by her roommate when she reached for the pot and hurled the water onto her, leaving her roommate with second- and third-degree burns across her chest. Read full article > >

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Howard University student argues self-defense in altercation with roommate

Amanda Knox, the student convicted of murdering her British roommate in Italy, may have “femme fatale” looks but is not a killer, her lawyer says.

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Forty-eight years ago Sunday, when Martin Luther King Jr. was about to make his historic speech on the National Mall, I was huddled close to the statue of Abraham Lincoln, tapping on a portable typewriter, making last-minute changes to my own speech. As the newly elected chair of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, speaking at the March on Washington was one of my first important actions. Dr. King spoke tenth; I was sixth. Today, I am the last surviving speaker from the march. When I think back on that day, and the hundreds of thousands of people who responded to the call to march on Washington, there is no question that many things have changed. Then, Martin Luther King Jr. was a controversial figure taking risks so that his voice might be heard. Today, the mere mention of his speech — and its powerful “I have a dream” refrain — evokes hope for the future, stirring memories of the past and mandates for change, but the context in which Dr. King delivered those words was quite different. Read full article > >

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What would Martin Luther King Jr. say to President Obama?

When the Montgomery County Board of Education chose its first new superintendent in a dozen years, a 16-year-old high school junior from Rockville was among the eight board members to raise a hand. “I was humbled by the opportunity to cast a historic vote,” Alan Xie said. The opportunity to participate in the April 25 selection of Joshua P. Starr to replace the retiring Jerry D. Weast gave the student board member a great sense of responsibility and not a small sense of wonder. “Before the vote, I told my dad, ‘I’m going to be hiring a guy who will make more than you do,’ ” he said. (Starr’s base salary will be $250,000 a year.) Read full article > >

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Montgomery student wields power on school board

Government proposals to tighten the student visa system could damage a UK export industry worth £5bn a year, a cross-party group of MPs warns.

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MPs warn over student visa plans

I endured a moment of deep crisis on Thursday, upon realizing that there might actually be more Pure Dumb in the world than I was aware of. Now, understand that I have been a Chronicler of Dumb for a very long time now. I am a Student of Dumb, and a well-worn one at that. I got my Bachelor’s Degree in the Study of Dumb during the Clinton impeachment. I got my Masters in the aftermath of the 2000 (s)election. read more

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Just The Same Old Dumb