U.S. students crossing the pond for college

Research cash cut to universities
Newer universities have come off worst in a carve-up of public money for research in Scotland. Some senior university figures are concerned it could herald the start of a divided Higher Education system. The Scottish Funding Council said it was being more generous to institutions with a record of research breakthroughs. All universities learned last month that they were facing a sizeable cut in their total spending. The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) has now published a grants letter which det...

Students call on Branstad to fund higher education
University of Iowa Students plan to push Gov.-elect Terry Branstad to protect Higher Education funding in next year’s Budget. The student body’s governmental relations liason sent out an e-mail to Students last week, urging them to make contact with the incoming administration or their local lawmakers. Try to add personal details: you had to take on a part time job because of rising Tuition, your mom lost her job and you don’t know if you and your parents will be able to contin...

Columbia News
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, kicked off a year-long series of “Conversations with the Country” at Columbia’s World Leaders Forum on April 18. In his address, he emphasized both the proper strategic role of Military power in U.S. Foreign Policy and the importance of investing in the nation’s Military Veterans through Higher Education, career opportunities and support services. “This is the beginning of an effort to connect with communi...

U.S. Students Head To The UK For College
washingtonpost.com: When Adelaide Waldrop learned that she had been consigned to the wait list at each of the four universities she wanted most to attend, it was as if all the excitement had drained from her collegiate quest. Then she remembered her wild-card school: the University of St. Andrews, the medieval cobblestone campus in Scotland. Read the whole story: washingtonpost.com Get HuffPost College On Twitter and Facebook! ...

Lenfest donates to boost college graduation
Philanthropist H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest will give $750,000 to city campaigns to increase college-graduation rates, Mayor Nutter announced Monday. Through the foundations of Lenfest and his wife, Marguerite, $200,000 in each of the next three years will go to a mayoral initiative that provides resources through a central website - www.phillygoes2college.com - to help Students plan for and finance Higher Education and to connect them with mentors. An additional $150,000 will go to study the ...

Ex-NSU president who made Virginia history speaks at TCC graduation
NORFOLK Marie McDemmond is healthy, happy and a grandmother. Five years after stepping down as president of Norfolk State University, she was back in town as the Keynote Speaker for Friday's commencement at Tidewater Community College. The years she spent at NSU seem like a long time ago for a woman who has battled Cancer and, for the time being, won. "I am in remission, and I am doing quite well," said a vibrant-looking McDemmond, wearing an elegant black business suit trimmed in gold...

Zara Phillips to wed rugby star Tindall
Buckingham Palace has announced that the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips is engaged to her long-term boyfriend, England rugby star Mike Tindall. The palace said on Tuesday that 29-year-old Phillips, 12th in line to the British throne, had accepted a proposal from Tindall. Phillips is the daughter of Princess Anne and her ex-husband Captain Mark Phillips and is the Queen's eldest granddaughter. She has a successful career as an equestrian. Her cousin, Prince William, announced his engagement ...

Universities 'face 6% budget cut'
Universities in England are expected to face cuts of around 6% on last year's funding, as their Budget allocations for 2011-12 are unveiled. This is likely to mean a reduction of £300-400m in the total grants given to universities this year. But the settlement will not include the expected teaching Budget Cuts of up to 80% that universities hope to replace with annual fees of up to £9,000. These are not planned until the new fees regime is introduced in 2012. This year's ...

Academia Is Revolting!
In the Budget squeeze that every government of affluent democracies is facing, increases in Tuition are causing some of the most vocal and nasty reactions. British Students are storming offices, creating chaos, and threatening mayhem. Once, Coal Miners brought down British Governments. Now, parasitical College Students threaten to break the British government. California Students are doing much the same, although the bias in favor of in-state Illegal Alien Students and against out-of-state Ameri...

McDonnell's Dumbest Budget Move...So Far
According to the State Council for Higher Education, "State support for Virginia public higher education will be reduced by more than $400 million or 27% by FY2012 from the original FY2010 Budget, and is 33% below the FY2001 level after adjusting for Inflation...Federal stimulus spending permitted colleges and universities to limit Tuition and fee increases...in FY2011." The State Council also noted, historically "the Commonwealth restricted Tuition increases during a period of strong economic ...

The Ivy League Makes Peace with ROTC
The Repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law barring gays and Lesbians from serving openly in the Armed Forces won't be implemented for a few months yet, but it will immediately lead elite colleges to begin to reconcile with the Military training program kicked off college campuses more than four decades ago. Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust promised in a November joint appearance with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen at the school's Institute of Politics that the ...

Prince William & Kate Middleton Make First Public Appearance Since Engagement Announcement (PHOTOS)
Prince William and Kate Middleton made their first public appearance since the announcement of their engagement on Saturday night, stepping out to the Thursford Christmas Spectacular in aid of the Teenager Cancer Trust in Fakenham, England. The BBC reports that all money raised from the evening will "go towards the £2.5m [$3.9 million] cost of building the first specialist cancer unit for Young People at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge." The couple was invited to the event by Prince Will...

Snub for Obamas as Royal Sources Reveal They Will Not be Invited to Prince William's Wedding
© Getty Uninvited: Royal sources have revealed that President Obama and his wife Michelle are not going to be invited to the Royal Wedding as it is not classed as a state occasion American President left off the guest list as it is not a 'state occasion' Royal couple eager to ask ordinary citizens to attend rather than VIPs Heads of State who may attend include Nicolas Sarkozy and wife Carla Bruni President Obama and his wife Michelle will not be invited to Prince William's Wedding next...

William and Kate at charity gala
Kate Middleton and Prince William have made their first public appearance together since they announced their engagement last month. The couple attended the Teenage Cancer Trust charity Fundraising gala in Thursford, Norfolk. Miss Middleton, wearing a black and white dress and a fitted black jacket, walked by the prince's side as the couple arrived for the event. The couple will be married at Westminster Abbey on 29 April. The prince was guest of honour at Thursford Christmas Spectacular wh...

Kate Middleton Prince William wedding souvenirs get royal approval
Kate Middleton and Prince William: The three souvenirs — a tankard, plate and pill box — each feature the couple's entwined initials, the prince's coronet emblem and the date of the Wedding — April 29, 2011....

Kate Middletons commoner status stirs up Britons old class divide
LONDON - Since the royal Engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton, one word describing the bride-to-be has stood out more than any other. She may be beautiful, graceful and fabulously rich, but Middleton is still a “commoner.” Technically, the label fits. The 28-year-old daughter of former airline workers made good is not of noble blood and, hence, considered a commoner in the British tradition of class distinction. Yet the wide use of such an archaic and, to some, pejorative...

The 10 best places for a royal stag or hen party
The sandy paradise of Goa. (Neil Setchfield/LPI) Where Prince William and fiancé Kate Middleton will stage their stag and hen parties has been the subject of much speculation. For William, murmurings of his plans suggest anything from a shooting weekend in Scotland to a night of clubbing in London. For Kate, rumoured locations include London and Berkshire. Royal stag and hen parties should be affairs of style and adventure, and they create the perfect excuse to round up your mates and get o...

Extra, Extra
Flickr user Tim Schreier Remember to follow Gothamist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. From the Gothamist Newsmap: shotes fired on 8th Ave & 138th Street in Manhattan, a fire at Amsterdam Ave & W 63 Street in Manhattan and a stabbing at 3rd St & Driggs Ave in Brooklyn. No heat in your apartment? The Daily News to the rescue! Prince William was allegedly not so princely when he broke up with Kate Middleton for a while, telling her, "Do you know who I am! No one tells me what to do. I do what...

Official royal wedding souvenirs not likely to be a hit: Experts
The official royal Wedding China has been released just in time for Christmas. But experts say the plates, pillboxes and mug won't likely be a hit because they don't bare a picture of Prince William and his bride-to-be, Kate Middleton. "It doesn't matter that these bone China items have been approved by Kate and William, the most popular collectors' items have faces on," Ron Smith, who runs the website commemorabilia.co.uk, told The Sun newspaper. "The good quality ones with portraits on are wha...

Kate Middleton steps out in Temperley - Wedding cups and plates approved - Wedding coin approved
If you’ve been feeling frustrated by Kate Middleton’s wearing her clothes inside buildings, away from cameras, join the club! All we’ve seen of her since the engagement have been the official engagement photos. On Saturday, she finally went out — dressed in an outfit! — to a charity event with Prince William. She wore a dress from Temperley’s fall 2009 collection that seems to be a non-runway look in keeping with her put-together, bland Fashion sense. She play...

Royal wedding: souvenir china unveiled
Prince William and Kate Middleton's official range of Royal Wedding China has gone on sale at the Royal Collection shops just in time for Christmas....

UK royal to marry rugby star
The Queen's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips has got engaged to her long-term boyfriend, the England rugby union player Mike Tindall. A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said Mr Tindall, 32, had proposed to Ms Phillips, 29, on Monday night at the couple's Gloucestershire home. The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are said to be "delighted" by the news. The news comes just weeks after the announcement that Prince William and Kate Middleton are to marry in 2011. Ms Phillips, who is 12...

William and Kate's first royal visit
Kate Middleton has joined Prince William on an official royal Engagement for the first time. The prince was guest of honour at the Teenage Cancer Trust event in Norfolk. The BBC's Nicholas Witchell reports. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date Web Browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling styl...

The commoner
According to newspaper reports, Prince Williams’s upcoming nuptials to Kate Middleton are facing criticism from some royalists within the British monarchy. The reason? She is too common. Yes, despite being particularly beautiful and having more family than Midas, Middleton doesn’t come from royal stock. In fact, she has some coalminer’s dust on her lineage, as they say in Old Britannia. (One of her ancestors actually worked in a coalmine.) We have royal families in America, too. The Bus

Palace: Zara Phillips engaged to be married
LONDON (AP) — Prince William and Kate Middleton will soon have company on the royal Wedding calendar. Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday that Zara Phillips, Queen Elizabeth II’s granddaughter, is engaged. Phillips, an accomplished equestrian, will marry Longtime Boyfriend Mike Tindall, the palace said. No date has been set yet. Phillips is close friends with her cousin, Prince William, who plans to marry Middleton at Westminster Abbey on April 29. Their Engagement was announced last...