College students News

Going to college or university used to mean a step up the economic ladder. Today it may mean years of paying back loans while not achieving economic success.

Toronto - On the first day of school in Toronto some students were at Queen's Park calling for all of Ontario's party leaders to make secondary education affordable.

Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel is paying 20 of the brightest minds to drop out of college. He selected 24 students under the age of 20 to receive $100,000 to get business ideas off the ground instead of sitting in a classroom.

While low-fat traditional Chinese food is believed to help you keep fit, more and more Chinese young people are becoming bigger, especially in wealthy cities such as Shanghai.

TTC Adam Giambrone supports post-secondary students being allowed to use the student Metropass. That would be a small saving for the students. Currently the student pass is $91.25 compared to the adult pass($109).

Using Facebook may not be the best thing for students according to a survey of college students. It seems that those on Facebook tend to have lower grades than those not on the social network.

"The level of evil we are dealing with here is rampant, it's deep and it's widespread...Chris was abducted in a cargo van. He was driven around Minneapolis for hours and tortured."

In 1990 health officials started giving children a second booster of the vaccine to prevent mumps. There's concern now that another booster is actually needed after the outbreak at college in the U.S. in 2006.

College students have been spiking their energy drinks just like the star do. The practice has been a Hollywood fad for some time now. But is it safe? Not so much, according to researchers at Wake Forest university School of Medicine.

Of the 26 people arrested in Boston, seven teens were charged with disorderly conduct following the Red Sox seventh game win on Sunday night. They were given an interesting homework assignment by the Judge.