Family Tax Benefits: Potential Miss for Education.
Wayne Swan’s 2012-13 battler’s budget was released last week to very mixed reactions and a lukewarm reception. The promised surplus budget only reaches a modest $1.5 billion, although this is expected to rise to a healthy $7.5 billion within the next three to four years. The savings are moderate, with most done through the slashing...
Quebec Student Strikes: Exchange Students Caught In The Middle
Many students take the opportunity to go on exchange to kill two birds with one stone – travel and get credited for a semester or year of university. By this logic, if your chosen institution was affected by widespread strikes, midway through your exchange, you would find yourself in an unpredicted, unpleasant situation. George,...
It’s all fun and games until somebody loses an ear
Towards the end of the 90’s, as I and my fellow B.A. undergraduates neared the completion of our studies, a disgruntled friend, a gifted artist, informed me that he was after a pistol. He intended to confront the head of the school and demand his money be returned. If he encountered any guff, the dean...
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