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The soaring cost of tuition, books, accommodation and food has fired up the debate over how best to structure registered education savings plans, a popular way for families to set aside money so their kids can go to college or university.The future of RESPs has also become a political football in Ottawa as the Liberal [...]

Cruise ships are getting so luxurious it’s like being in an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. And there’s plenty of extra pampering to look forward to this year.In the industry’s ongoing game of one-upmanship, cabins were the first to get an overhaul. Beds got bigger and linens became more luxurious. Bathrooms were [...]

If you have an area of knowledge which may be of use to other readers, and you are happy to have your email address published online - if you’re worried about being spammed, think about setting up a web-based account - send your details to education.editor@guardianunlimited.co.ukBy area of expertise Aviation Mike McGrath’s Aviation [...]

One of the points of becoming a full-time student is to escape the nine-to-five drudgery of the working world. Unfortunately, your overdraft will probably mean that sooner or later, you will need to get a job. Look on the bright side though: it can’t be a nine-to-five one because, as science students will be able [...]

More than 100,000 families will discover this week that parental choice is a “total fiction” because the system of admissions to secondary schools in England is controlled by vested interests, a senior Labour figure warns today.In an article for the Guardian, Stephen Byers, who was Tony Blair’s first schools minister, says Labour has to do [...]

The CTA felt it had been compelled to make the airlines provide free second seats to disabled passengers who fly with attendants and to obese passengers by three Federal Court and Supreme Court rulings in the past two years.Last year, for instance, the Supreme Court ruled that the “accessible transportation” provisions of the Canada Transportation [...]

Increasingly it is the latter that preoccupy him, though, at 53, Kureishi says that unlike many of his characters, he loves middle age. “It really suits me. I’m more used to the world. I’m less frightened of things,” he says, sitting in the Shepherd’s Bush Caf%26eacute; Rouge that he uses as an office in which [...]

By Miyoung Kim
LONDON (Reuters) - British construction and engineering firm Balfour Beatty (BALF.L: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to buy the public-private partnership (PPP) military housing business of U.S. real-estate trust GMH Communities (GCT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) for $350 million.
“GMH will be an excellent springboard into other emerging PPP and support [...]

By Miyoung Kim
LONDON (Reuters) - British construction and engineering firm Balfour Beatty (BALF.L: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to buy the public-private partnership (PPP) military housing business of U.S. real-estate trust GMH Communities (GCT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) for $350 million.
“GMH will be an excellent springboard into other emerging PPP and support [...]

Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — The spotlight will be on 10-year-old
Rachel Glenn when she takes Comet, her German shorthaired
pointer, into the ring today at the 132nd Westminster Kennel
Club Dog Show in New York.
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