so i set on the entire world in two thousand and three geo told the university researchers developed the shanghai banking the most media taste the most controversial and the most followed ranking report worldwide. and world ranking based on the number of nobel prizes fields medals and publications in scientific journals the united states clearly dominates the ranking among the top hundred there and the fifty american universities eighteen glacier for french and four german. so i'm afraid international rankings are important and i sound afraid because i absolutely hate them but in some parts of the world in particular they all count it rankings a. good dog for the stuff in and out of here dear ones from sean proved he couldn't

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resist this ranking race the narcissistic offer is tempting be seen and be identified as the best and so countries increase university merges with an explicit objective build up the number of research labs multiply publications and accumulate awards they go climb the rankings in france the most representative projects settled in the south of paris eighteen of the country's top leading higher education and research institutions at dunder unique bana here lies the future pinnacle of french education and research the next french have it stanford or mit a poll of shia excellence amidst fields of beetroot. the new table that you're on that you know door to the north on it yeah i don't. know if. for the. challenges

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the french have other preoccupations besides rankings they need money more money france covered li envies england but the successive governments have found it on thinkable to shop the increased tuition fees it would be political suicide so hypocrisy rules paying programs gradually and in conspicuously being introduced in certain french university departments. at the forefront of the forthcoming marketisation prestigious institutions such as you all spoke paris or. have been authorized to introduce tuition fees these experiments are inconsequential for now but then doubtfully aim to prepare for a change in the system one day or another. the betrothed the global. going to visit its book life because of fog didn't wonder how bridge and if we're going. from says president i'm glad and of they moved. the far gets

to come forward and this posse of them does the exam to horseshoe alicia bills bisan so i'm sure if i'm big business in them big don't survive of it or the man of the shaft to hear them through she. told me it's so also not accepted all the way to. russia and all the us is deciding maybe of what german companies or european companies are investing in a. which infrastructure we are building in germany or in europe i think it's a german and it's a european this. over the past decade a great many european asian and african countries have introduced during crease tuition fees in their universities. in the name of excellence prices

go up a little every way nothing seems to stop the process and yet among the four honest some questions arise and for good reason. parents should student learn repayment that stands at around forty billion pounds a minute right that's going to rise around two hundred billion pounds by the middle of this century. at the end of two thousand and thirteen one year into the one thousand pounds really jewish movie upon an entry mission is called regarding the rising student debt. after several months of investigation in room fifteen of parliament the public accounts commission questions the public body in charge of student loan repayment. giving us realistic forty percent of the current money that goes up to students will never be collected at the moment that is at the

top end of our estimates but it is not unrealistic ok so you don't quite know how you're going to fund it. well the longer term issue of lifting the cap the treasury announcement related in the first instance to potential sales from the future loan book the plan would be to sell transfers of the loads of amount you sell a particular tranche of debt the terms of compound terms and conditions upon which it is sold are as it were set in standard crystalized and the buyer of that debt buys them on those terms and that's it they don't change can we just be clear can we just be clear that the person buying the debt buys it on set terms and conditions that then cannot subsequently be changed by the new owner of the debt is that correct yes ok thank you.

here in the u.k. the prospect of cutting the debt tranche is and selling it to private investors instantly brings to mind the disastrous mechanism of subprime loans that are shattered so many lives so many families two years ago thirty to forty percent of student loans remained on paper today it's reached forty five percent we're close to the tipping point at forty seven percent of non collected debt the university system and its nine thousand pounds yearly tuition fee will cost more to the english state than it did at the time of the three thousand jelly tuition. england seems to be engaged in a dangerous game. in the us the pain university system became widespread nearly forty years ago. today the student debt has reached a catastrophic point. during

the occupy wall street movement and one of the american citizens and research professors met with andrew ross professor at new york university the world's most expensive university. these activists goal was to fight the unbearable debt weighing on american citizens including the housing debt health debt and most importantly the student debt. the student debt problem and i

stated about one point three trillion in total in there about forty million student debtors about eight million of those students are already in default meaning they're not paying out loans people can't imagine social goods or public goods in the united states it's unimaginable that you could have free education so there is a kind of normalizing of a of a i like to say kind of economic violence that people are used to and they just expect that that's the way that is that's the way it always will be the right to education has been supplanted by the right to access education loans. they imposition of that has had the overall impact of stifling optional political imagination of students because they're so highly and and they have to think about their future in very particular ways that are tied to their financial

position and their financial survival in the future. and then movement tackles a huge market a for profit schools that have developed throughout the country in recent decades these schools do not target the elite of american students or the working classes poor families like you to believe in dreams.

this is. what the end of capital of a kind of looks like or at least you know a different kind of. you know stayed in the capital with that sort of. was when everything we've been on all the jobs leave you know people are going to force to work together again. amy and christine are two young women from the detroit area who grew up in working families and who continue role in the country's high profile university which they still believed in the prospect of a better life like hundreds of other young americans they put their fate in the hands of private for profit educate. no institutions this sector has grown by two hundred twenty five percent over the past ten years. america should be ashamed to even say that their education system is this way when we are supposed to be the best country in the world has been the richest country in the world but we are the

richest country in the world for the rich but we're also the poorest country in the world for the poor in a way. before god knows. i'm extremely bored there's a whole new category of people there. extremely more rewarded. for is almost the new rich. and sad. when i was watching the television and seen that they could make my life better if i went to their school. soon as he has of the phone was hired how are you this is my name's terry winters i'm you know i'll be the one to answer any questions you have. so he basically asked me if i would be interested in coming out to the school

and looking at the campus and seeing what programs i had to offer said that he was a graduate there that i should come check out the school when he walks through the school they have different things on the walls of jobs i could qualify for with the degree but they're not actually telling you the full details of everything and that they don't tell you that there's an arbitration clause that you can't sue the school whether individually or through a class action suit don't really know that you're getting into a predatory lending type of situation because they don't educate you to that they gloss over the financial aid it's very quick and you just initial and then you sign at the bottom. and then it was really he just asked you know i have a couple graduates that would like to come in and speak with you would you have an issue talking to some recent graduates and in my mind i'm thinking that's kind of cool and i can actually talk to some people that went to the school you know she would they say about the school so young female and young male came in and for all

i know it could have been the recruiters working with this recruiter. he came and they both came in and said that you know they found a job before they ever graduated the school placed them and that they're doing really well and they're not struggling paying their student loan baton life is just so much better now they have so many opportunities they can jump job a job they want a lot of these student advisers at these schools used to use on students to get them into an education. but in this in document from a for profit college if i can find that shows all the people that were. going after welfare moms with kids relocation recent high school graduates career change of grades goes college freshman dropout physically mentally abused pregnant ladies recent incarceration rescind the forced drug ability military active every

tired dennet no future low self esteem college credits two years low income jobs vocational rehabilitation living with multitude of families experienced a recent death living with parents experience recent birth of living with significant other and d.d.'s in durham fired by a recent marriage self-employed for benefits so they specifically targeted all these people for these type of loans that were subprime and very expensive for the education they received and that's just the the internet is filled with all kind of stuff like this. my mom was extremely proud she'd like to brag to all of her friends like my daughter's a college and you know i never went and she's doing less great things for her life . after enrolling i called my mom and i told her i want to chop out and she did not

understand why and i was like mom you understand a school is a scam and she said i don't understand how can a school be a scam. i have a hundred four thousand dollars in student loans as of september two thousand and thirteen and there are only growing by the day. how long will it take before public european universities start charging twenty thirty or forty thousand dollars a year how long will it take for a lucrative private educational system to skid out of control like it is today in the u.s. everywhere around the world students are mobilizing can anyone out there hear them can anyone understand them they question our society our political choices what

kind of world we want to live in a world where the economy is at the service of man. or a world in which man is at the service of the economy.

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the week's top stories on the main headlines of today welcome to the weekly on r.t. international. traces of the nerve agent used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter have reportedly been found in a restaurant and the british. the. two hours before being found unconscious on a park bench the pizzeria is now one of five sites cordoned off by police as part of their ongoing investigation correspondent picks up the story. a week ago two people were found collapsed on an unremarkable bench near a quiet shopping center in salisbury the area was sealed off and a major incident was declared at the hospital where the pair were being treated for exposure to an unknown substance but no one really took much notice of the man and the woman until about twenty four hours later when breaking news reports began to flood the airways that the sixty six year old man was in fact sergei scruple

a former russian spy. group did in the soviet airborne forces he quickly moved to russia's foreign military intelligence agency. on a mission to the mediterranean region in ninety four and he was recruited by calling him till antonio elder is that you don't go a british intelligence. rooming have luminol. exposed at least three hundred russian spies to the u.k. he handed over the g. or use entire phone directory doing in this to mobile damage to moscow five years on colonel strip all retired from the jail you on health grounds but continued moving crucial information to britain's m i six they couldn't eat him forthwith and bought him a timeshare holiday home in spain sells close to the double agent was convicted in twenty six of treason getting at the teen years since it's in the top security

russian jail but just four years later he was freed in a high profile spy swap between moscow and washington scruple moved to the sylvan british town of saul's bridge where his recruits a public allegedly lives the expire then enjoyed a fairly low profile till now the first speculations appear with immediate parallels drawn to another former russian agent poisoned in london twelve years ago with a public inquiry later lying the blame squarely at the kremlin feet was history repeating itself and it didn't stop there every wild theory was given its day in the. son was it north korea was it russia's revenge for treason after all these years was putin being framed is it linked to the trump russia collusion investigation we need to make sure that we respond not to rumor but all the evidence that they collect this investigation is at the stages and and the speculations i'm helpful at this time if

we are to be rigorous in this investigation we must avoid speculation people not to speculate such warnings did nothing to quell the fires however as police reveal that screwball and his daughter were deliberately targeted with a nerve agent news reports charge for theorizing that the attack came from the very top in moscow bad things have been known to happen to russians who cross vladimir putin the fact that a nerve agent was use strengthens the likelihood that this was a state sponsor of some sort and russia is the chief suspect of course that doesn't look like an act of provocation by putin here has been making increasingly bold and brazen in the west the british foreign secretary boris johnson join the chorus as well yes to more sanctions on russia and no to the upcoming football world cup that is if the kremlin is indeed involved you must be very capital we say because it is too early to prejudge the investigation but if the suspicions on both sides of the house prove to be go forward then it may very well be mr speaker that we are forced

to look again at the regime our sanctions regime and other measures that we bade seek to put in place russia hit back at johnson's comments calling them wild and aimed at damaging relations between the two countries and while the investigation continues and concrete details are few and far between the public court looks to have already solved the crime and i talk of this nature that any time is specially this time on the part of the russian government would constitute a monumental act of political self harm resulting in severe and significant reputational damage across the world obviously the shadows of the resonance in so. any people's minds are going to be from the alexander litvinenko case because that dominated the british headlines for so long and it seems at least superficially that there are parallels here let's face it in intelligence terms he was a busted flush he had been caught in russia he'd been convicted to being sent to prison he'd been pardoned and allowed to go free so you know the russian

authorities would have picked him clean of any intelligence he had which would be useful to them and to since he got to the u.k. m i six would have done the same thing so you know in terms of his old intelligence role it's really nothing more to add to it so in terms of what he might be involved in now i think that's where the most patients could be found and that's what the intelligence agencies and the police are going to be investigating intensively at the moment. nearly four hundred thousand people are trapped in the perceived syrian and plave of eastern ghouta amid constant fighting between the syrian army and local militants who are trying to defend their last bastion near damascus. or u.n. and red cross and humanitarian convoy managed to deliver aid to the embattled area on friday after previous attempts were interrupted by fighting three hundred families in eastern guta gathered to cross into damascus via novak you ation routes

set up by russia but it was shelled by the terrorists relatives and journalists waiting at the other end of the corridor also reportedly targeted. you have all sorts of needs inside the world of today the priority remains medical help that we need to. reach with people inside all time and food aid as well. it's been a very bloody two months here the beginning of this year it is really hell on the ground for the children. and the family. that the

murder. was. in this situation they have nowhere to go. my colleague spoke to a syrian mother superior working at a refugee camp organized for those trying to flee eastern ghouta there is a will in the rebel side. to keep the civilian under their custody and maybe to use them as a human shield going from a little boat from an alter to the camp is very dangerous. people are shelled and they are sniped and we have witnessed this. our team was there in contact with families inside wanting to go out

i'm imagining that those trapped within the city. are completely helpless and we can't imagine the kind of living conditions as well because of lack of supplies. people do want to leave because they are living in extreme conditions. i have won my for many years. request from people inside. to be helped to go i would say flee because inside it's also very difficult for them person messages on your phone can you describe the kind of things that they're saying to you i am getting private messages and you know a woman i would never safe there it will not you can you expand on that why why you're going to have sexual violence every time we have a head to. reason you quit to people we have found like twenty

five percent of the women and little little girls they have. they have been assaulted it is very said reality. tell us who the perpetrators are of that sexual violence the people in control the men. are in control and they can oblige you know while europe is now dealing with the families of i saw fighters returning from syria and iraq after the fall of the caliphate some states like france of unveiled plans to start the reintegration process at schools. the reports from paris on the threat posed by radicalized children they just children born innocent into a world of brutality. but while most children are playing with dolls and cause.