Category Archives: Students

The Guardian: Tales of student prostitutes shock France

France’s education minister has vowed to improve student financial support after a series of accounts by undergraduates working as prostitutes.

A memoir by a 19-year-old language student and a book of interviews with undergraduate sex workers has shocked France, lifting the lid on a practice which appears to be increasingly common. A new study showed a large online market for student prostitutes, describing how male clients, who are often rich, married executives, advertise online for young, undergraduate “escorts” whom they prefer to street prostitutes. These clients pay on average €400 (£300) for a two hour meeting with a student, including sex and “time to talk”.

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The Chronicle: Good Prospects Don’t Equal Confidence for History Job Seekers

Babette Faehmel, a graduate student in history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is finishing up her dissertation and trying to find a job at the same time.

So she made her way to the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in Washington this month, where hundreds of people were interviewing for jobs, or wishing they were.

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The Chronicle: College Football Players Spend 44.8 Hours a Week on Their Sport, NCAA Survey Finds

Playing major-college football is a full-time job, according to new research presented here on Saturday during the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s annual convention.

In a 2006 NCAA survey of 21,000 athletes who were then playing in a variety of men’s and women’s sports, football players reported spending 44.8 hours a week practicing, playing, or training for their sport. That’s on top of the time players spend in the classroom.

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The Guardian: Enrolment of British students at UK universities stalls

The number of British students enrolling at UK universities has stalled while those coming to study from overseas has continued to rise, according to latest official figures released today.

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Daily Mail: Secret Home Office memo orders officials to STOP deporting bogus foreign students

mmigration officers have been ordered to stop deporting foreign students who overstay their visas.

A leaked memo obtained by the Daily Mail suggests they are not regarded as a high enough priority.

The secret edict makes a mockery of Government claims to be running a “robust” immigration system.

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The Tucson Citizen: 119 UA students reclassified as out-of-state

Renee Schafer Horton

TUCSON – Since July 3, the University of Arizona has been able to corroborate the legal status of 758 of the 877 students it previously reported as “not verified” under the strictures of Proposition 300.

Passed by voters in November 2006, Proposition 300 requires illegal immigrants to pay out-of-state tuition and bans them from receiving state tuition assistance.

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Inside Higher Ed: The Attack That Wasn’t

What on Monday morning was becoming a cause célèbre for bloggers and pundits alike was anything but by early afternoon, as a Princeton University student who is a member of a conservative campus group admitted to police that he fabricated an assault that he said had occurred Friday several miles from campus.

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New York Sun: Report of Attack Rattles Princeton

An alleged physical attack on a Princeton University student who is leading a movement to instill conservative moral values among undergraduates is rattling the campus here.

A politics major from Texas who is a junior, Francisco Nava, said he was physically attacked Friday, beaten, and rendered unconscious by two black-clad men about two miles from campus, he told the student newspaper, the Daily Princetonian, in an interview.

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Middle East Times: Moroccan student highlights visa concern

The arrest on firearms charges of a Moroccan student at the University of South Florida has highlighted what critics say are continuing security loopholes in the way U.S. visas are issued to those who want to come here to study.

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Christian Science Monitor: The youth of Venezuela rise up

A Dec. 2 referendum in Venezuela that would grant extreme powers to Hugo Chávez isn’t going as the budding dictator planned. Youth are protesting and the poor have doubts. Just who is the “left” in Venezuela is now up for grabs.

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The Washington Post: Report Examines Rape Allegations

The U.S. Naval Academy needs to find out why four students who reported being raped declined to cooperate with investigators or withdrew their help, according to a Department of Defense report on sexual assault and harassment released Friday.

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Inside Higher Ed: The Conservative Pipeline Problem

Colleges have been increasingly competing to offer “family friendly” policies — in the hopes of attracting the best academic talent from a pool of Ph.D.’s that includes both more women than ever before as well as many men who take parenting responsibilities seriously. A new study suggests that such policies may be important for another group that believes its needs aren’t fully addressed in academe: conservatives.

The study — “Left Pipeline: Why Conservatives Don’t Get Doctorates” — argues that the much debated minority status for conservatives in higher education may be the result of differing priorities of graduating college seniors of different political persuasions. The study presents evidence that conservatives are significantly more likely than liberals — at the point when college students decide whether to apply to graduate school — to value raising a family and having money. In contrast, liberals at that point in their lives are significantly more likely to value writing original works.

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