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across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies who feel it interviewed powerful simple song alone events like on the biggest will elsewhere though they can find private companies to take over their utilities any part of telus drop off. just because. of the more your valuable billet. locals are ready to stand up for the basic human right of access to water it's about water but it's also over much more and more it's about the hurt and the redistribution of our worst worse. it downwards the war. today there are four million students studying abroad
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a trend is on the rise in the game of global competition international students are very much coveted the best research graduates are entirely taken care of as for the huge number of students that can afford studying abroad they represent an irresistible financial honeypot the expression global student market has become a household term among university head offices. in france and germany foreign students don't pay tuition fees just yet but it changes soon to come in england they contribute fourteen billion euros ten billion pounds a year to the national economy a foreign student pays between twenty and thirty thousand euros a year twice as much as the european student and it represents an additional consumer in the country a dream client. so the university of manchester house about ten thousand international students which is the most of any you. a university or there was
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a percentage it's not the highest so those students are important to us for a number of reasons they bring diversity they bring different cultures they bring different backgrounds different ways of thinking our own students benefit from studying in an environment with students from very different backgrounds of course they also bring income to the university which is important the largest community is chinese students which make up just under forty percent of the total international student body and the crowds lining the streets around the university of manchester is it. china. or the president visited we knew it was really in. joining his visit the president met university to nobel prize matters. not to say long demonstrations. ramey the thinnest lightest strongest material. right with.
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the state. stopping. since the early ninety's chinese higher education is experiencing a spectacular growth. over the course of thirteen years the number of students grew from seven million to thirty five million studying abroad has become an absolute must for all the chinese new benefiting from the economic boom this year over seven hundred thousand young chinese studying somewhere in the world a four hundred percent increase in fifteen years and the trend is unlikely to reverse. a new business is multiplying worldwide. companies in rolling students in international universities in terms of commercial office. universities in the u.s.
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u.k. and australia clinch first place. een. in a show bond trading. ok. for normally i did it all for what you think is generally about how to earn traditionally even if you want the one you bought i. don't even want to watch our way the balcony our tree since here you go wash your own i don't jim. we are we out of the tissue bank after my mom and dad amount of. oil gush of a bash with catherine. soup. are here soon. quit comparing arson yada yada yada.
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ching a step i mean. that in all you should get caught i caught it. all for you. so if i thought that in your coerced i mean cash i would tell things out which i haven't played our strong issue. not all chinese students going to ford studying and leading universities in those that truly matter not all students can afford to study abroad. most of them are enrolled in universities based in their home province they dream of a brighter future in stocks that is the shanghai or beijing hundreds of thousands now migrate every year to big cities. but the chinese economic system isn't quite ready to absorb all these young graduates. dong is one of them he studied bioengineering for four years in a college from his province today he makes
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a living from odd jobs he dreams of working in the film industry he belongs to this new class of people that are educated but pull. your hair we shall know you hold live bait you didn't mention. your eating to do or our local how they are coming on knowledge and that you. only hire our young there and see that you are all you are. going to hard it is when your son or and she got on the whole you can. lead but you know how dora. and yoshimi would change on the road she play even though it's a hundred or two on the she's in the hunt for you. and she. you're
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a woman. and you heart's all that you are me. and you are. going to do a woman on the p. and. then to the journey and i'm kind and you are you good called me kenya you walk on them be it i'll do it too or you do very hard heather i have been oh boy if. you are doing for me your quiet quiet manner your cheating and some call our attention to their dirty can in her order does either mean you moved your way to. being in a. rule one card you know hide your. room or you know. that.
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despite disenchanted hopes of upward mobility china has no intention of slowing down the development of its universities it wants to become a key player of global higher education the us australia and western europe all covered this new market countless partnerships are entered into every year between china and foreign countries. the entire world has its eyes set on china and china has its eyes set on the entire world in two thousand and three tome university researchers developed the shanghai ranking the most media tightest the most controversial and the most followed ranking report worldwide a world ranking based on the number of nobel prizes fields medals and publications
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in scientific journals the united states clearly dominates the ranking among the top two hundred there are at least fifty american universities eighteen blish four french and four german. so i'm afraid international rankings aren't and i sound afraid because i absolutely hate them but in some parts of the world in particular by all accounts it ranks. strong. printed for us of all of these. dogs are on the president and off track is. up till the end and raking in situ it's your one and. only phone. from the
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habitat it does rank of one for quantity even for freddie. and institutes your own dimension bill didn't mention the us i know my hero and i know man of god they come on this minute crowded mess and in the end. would you when you visited got a phone to not mention quality. to shower. and then and mark just kind of you know of a dozen and up. whereas the criticism is substantial there if you your pin university presidents 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
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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 research institutions grouped under a unique banner here lies the future pinnacle of french education and research the next french have it stanford or mit a poll of excellence amidst fields of beetroot. the new table that you're on that you're a daughter. on that your daughter. knew it and. for the. challenges to cure the challenges. the. it was no. more. he called on me at all. leveling on
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me when he called. it's a glock seal not. like an assault on. that hose of a thong. and all the bottles. all guns all stopped it and. i sold all the because i have on the last ammonia oh yeah well we knew just if you were us like on. the french have other preoccupations besides rankings they need money more money france cover clee envies england but the successive governments have found it unthinkable to sharply increase tuition fees it would be political suicide so
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hypocrisy rules paying programs are gradually and in conspicuously being introduced in certain french university departments. at the forefront of the forthcoming marketisation prestigious institutions such as xians pope paris. have been authorized to introduce tuition fees these experiments are inconsequential for now but they're definitely aimed to prepare for a change in the system one day or another. between after the global long only resit it's boy because of org didn't wonder how british endeavor going. from says president and i'm glad and of own emotional use of our guts were to come forward and this person does the exam to horseshoe alicia belittles bisan so i'm going to shift to i'm big business in them bill don't survive it or. on
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shaft to give them through. the iran nuclear deal was once seen as a major. achievement of american diplomacy but that's no longer the case donald trump's decision to pull out of the deal has reopened a major international problem and left allies betrayed and averse or is confused should the world's press see.
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over the past decade a great many european asian and african countries have introduced or increase 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 foreignness some questions arise and for good reason. currently don't strictly learn repayment that stands at around forty billion pounds a minute. that's going to rise around two hundred billion pounds by the middle of
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this century. at the end of two thousand and thirteen one year into the one thousand. feet a parliamentary 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 and. largest student loan repayment. given that's 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 as a man you sell
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a particular tranche of dad the terms of capone and the terms and conditions upon which it is sold as it were set in stone the crystalized and the buyer that that buys them or most 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 charges 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 pay today it's reached forty five percent we're close to the tipping point at forty seven percent of non collected debt the university
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system and its nine thousand pound yearly tuition fee will cost more to the english state than it did at the time of the three thousand. england seems to being gauged in a dangerous game. in the us the paying university system became whites. at nearly forty years ago. today the student debt has reached a catastrophic point. during
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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 un bearable debt weighing on american citizens including the housing debt health debt and most importantly the student debt. the student debt problem and i have stated about one point three trillion in total and there are 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
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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 emphasis 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.
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this is. what the end of capitalism kind of looks like or at least you know a different kind of. stayed in the capitalist and sort of. was when everything we've done all the all the jobs you know people are going to force to work together again. amy and christine are two young women from the
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detroit area who grew up in working families and who continue role in the country's high profile universities 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 the 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're supposed to be the best country in the world especially 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 who are rewarded. war is almost the new rich. and sad.
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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
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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
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them into an education. this is an 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 recent 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 no benefits so they specifically targeted all
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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 kinds of stuff like this. my mom was extremely proud she liked 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 know understand the 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 they're only growing by the day. in.
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my view. 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 do 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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across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies who feel intimidated people this is the simple song alone even some
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company elsewhere though they invite private companies to take over the utilities any part of. a luxury mr gus we got booked but you're right on the going to go. this is. just because i'm out. somewhere you know i'm going to lift the bill brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human rights of access to water that's about water but it's also over much more than water it's about the hurt and the redistribution of. purpose their debt downwards do you want to. see what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic developments only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and
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talk. we. need support of the man occurred at the stabbing in paris last night sunday night was on the security forces watch list for his extremist views he was shot dead by police after killing one person and injuring several others. the attacker. came down this road here because it's covered in blood holding a knife. among the stories that showed the week as well that we're covering in the next twenty five minutes or so european leaders refused to toe washington's line after president trumka plantains the nuclear deal with one key adviser no saying he can't rule out sanctioning companies who do business with.

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