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  <title><![CDATA[Schoolgirl Disfigured in Camp Fire Files Lawsuit vs Government]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A former Mac Robertson Girls&#039; High School female student in Melbourne whose face was disfigured in a camp fire filed a lawsuit against the federal government of Australia, the school and the Victorian government.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 06:40:20 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[High Tech Vietnam: IBM Opens Da Nang Office]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), the No. 2 computer maker, said it opened a new center in Da Nang, Vietnam, its third center in the Southeast Asian country.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 20:20:11 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[CBSE Class X Chennai Region Results Declared: 99.66 % Pass; Details On Where To Check The Results]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the results of class X examinations for Chennai region on Monday.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 13:00:56 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[At Graduation, Obama Praises Joplin For Putting Community Before 'Greed,' 'Cruelty']]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama returned to Joplin, Missouri one year after it was ravaged by a deadly tornado, emphasizing the importance of community in the face of adversity at the city&#039;s high school commencement Monday evening.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 04:52:23 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Congressional Lawmakers Speak Like High School Sophomores: Study]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Junior members of Congress subscribing to either the far-left or far-right usually spoke with the least complexity, according to the Sunlight Foundation.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 22:03:01 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cuomo Boosts Stature After N.Y. Voters OK School Budget Tax Caps]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won a major boost this week after suburban and upstate voters approved 99 percent of their school budgets, most of which adhered to the Democratic governor’s new property tax cap.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 18:21:22 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Australian Graduate School of Management : Top Customised Executive Education in Australasia]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[In a ranking of the top 100 executive education programs, the Financial Times (UK) ranks the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) as number one for custom solutions in Australasia. The results consolidate AGSM’s long-standing position as a leader in management education and executive business leadership development.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 04:32:20 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[NSW Teachers Strike Friday over More Powers Given to Principals]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Teachers would be pitted against school principals on Friday when tutors from 2,200 schools in New South Wales (NSW) strike over more powers to be given to principals.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:41:41 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[New York School Budget Votes Could Send Tax Revolt Clue, Weigh Cuomo Popularity]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[New York’s suburban and upstate voters Tuesday are determining the future of their property tax rates and could also weigh on the standing of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 23:03:41 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Fox & Friends Features Most Uninspiring 'Graduation Speech' Of All Time]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[To contrast President Obama&#039;s commencement speech at Barnard College, Fox & Friends offered its own speaker on Tuesday morning.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 21:45:20 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mt Eliza:  A Look at Australia's Top Innovating Educational Institution  [SLIDESHOW]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[For the fifth consecutive year, Mt Eliza Executive Education has been ranked Australia’s No. 1 provider of Executive Education, and is ranked globally at No. 40, in the prestigious Financial Times rankings released today.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 02:18:24 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Janitor Gac Filipaj Earns Free Degree From Columbia University, Graduates With Ivy League Honors]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Want a degree from Columbia University, but can&#039;t afford the absurd tuition? Do you own a mop, are not disgusted by with cleaning toilets and can spare a dozen years of your life? Gac Filipaj, a 52-year-old refugee from the former Yugoslavia, spent the last 12 years working as a janitor at Columbia while also taking classes at the Ivy League school -- and didn&#039;t pay a penny in tuition.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:34:40 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Focus on “How” Not the “Why” for Flexible Work Success]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[What&#039;s one of the biggest mistakes that I see people make when they  present a proposal to work more flexibly to their manager? They focus on  &quot;why&quot; they want to work differently, when they should emphasize &quot;how&quot;  they are going to get their job done.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 05:17:27 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Finance Jobs in London Hits 'a 16-year Low']]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[London&#039;s finance sector is facing a 16-year low in the number of available jobs, said the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) on Wednesday, with the euro zone crisis expected to cause more than 25,000 layoffs in 2012.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 01:37:06 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Senate GOP Blocks Democrats' Bill To Keep Student Loan Interest Rates From Doubling]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Senate Republicans sustained a filibuster of a Democratic bill to keep some student loan rates from doubling to 6.8 percent in July.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 23:03:09 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[High School Principal Resigns After Creating Fake Facebook Account To Spy On Students]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A high school principal has resigned after stories surfaced claiming that she created a fake Facebook account to keep an eye on her students.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:09:33 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Semiconductor Industry Lauds Congressional Boost For R&D Funds]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Semiconductor Industry Association, which represents the top U.S. chipmakers, lauded bipartisan approval in the U.S. Congress to boost funding for both the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 20:48:19 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Teacher Appreciation Week 2012: Pictures Of Famous Teachers From Danny McBride To Maya Angelou [PHOTOS]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Today begins Teacher Appreciation Week 2012, and that means honoring your teachers with a special gift or some other token of appreciation.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 20:19:50 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tech Expert to Leader: The Skills You Need for a Successful Transition]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[You excel at what you do. Technical knowledge and skills have helped you achieve at high levels. But now you&#039;re moving out of your comfort zone into a leadership role, and you need new knowledge and new skills to succeed.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/338035/20120507/tech-expert-leader-skills-need-successful-transition.htm</guid>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:49:22 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Scenario Planning: Where Strategy and Innovation Intersect]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[In an extremely critical report, the UK&#039;s all-party joint committee on the national security strategy recently reprimanded its National Security Council (NSC) for getting &quot;sidetracked into short-term crisis management.&quot;.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:44:26 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Negotiating with the Devil? Real World Lessons from a Wharton Classroom]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Wharton Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics and Management Richard Shell recently reviewed Bargaining with the Devil: When to Negotiate, When to Fight by Robert Mnookin, exploring the question of whether it is morally acceptable to negotiate with &quot;Devils&quot; (defined in the book as certifiably &quot;evil&quot; people such as Hitler, terrorists, and racists).]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:38:12 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Education Scam]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[In the news lately is the plight of the students. Everybody tells them they should go to college. But college is expensive. And since nobody has any money in America, they have to borrow. They end up with a worthless college degree and, on average, about $25,000 in debt.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 01:57:14 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Teacher Claims Christian School Fires Her over Pregnancy]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A teacher at a Christian school told her family that having a child out of wedlock is the reason for the termination of her employment as her condition breaks the &quot;lifestyle agreement&quot; she signed with the school, Brisbanetimes.com.au reported.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 00:32:56 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Microsoft Buys Into Nook: 5 Reasons Why]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world&#039;s biggest software company, announced it&#039;ll invest $300 million into a new business with Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) to burnish the future of the Nook.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 21:20:43 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Jeremy Lin's Words Of Wisdom For Stuyvesant High School Grads Goes Viral [VIDEO]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Jeremy Lin couldn&#039;t speak to Stuyvesant High School&#039;s senior class, but the injured New York Knicks point guard did the second best thing: make a YouTube video with words of wisdom for the graduates.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:36:02 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Obama Executive Order Protects Troops From For-Profit College Scams]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Members of the military have reportedly been targeted by for-profit college recruiters, due to federal educational benefits they receive via the Post-9/11 G.I. bill.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:10:22 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[MIT Piano Drop 2012: Watch One Piano Crush Another [VIDEO]]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[April 27 marks not one but two highlights of the school year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge: the last day students can drop out of classes without having them appear on college transcripts, and the yearly Piano Drop. Watch it here.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:56:47 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Student Loan Rate Vote In House]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The student loan debate continues in Washington as the House plans to vote on a bill Friday that would keep interest rates at 3.4 percent for subsidized Stafford loans, instead of increasing to 6.8 percent on July 1.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:15:03 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dr. Seuss 'Yertle the Turtle'  Line Too Political For Canadian School Classroom]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[An elementary school teacher at a Prince Rupert, British Columbia school has been banned by school administrators from displaying a certain quote from Dr. Seuss&#039; children&#039;s story &quot;Yertle the Turtle.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:40:04 SAST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Emily Herx Fired From Catholic School Teacher After Fighting For 'The Right To Have A Family']]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[An Indiana teacher was fired from a Roman Catholic school after undergoing in vitro fertilization, which the Church strictly shuns, according to the Associated Press. The 31-year-old former educator, Emily Herx, is filing a lawsuit claiming that her termination last June was a result of discrimination. The case could spark serious legal controversy over reproductive rights and religious rights.]]></description>
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