Serving elaborate meals to the super-rich left me feeling empty.

The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions.

ROHNERT PARK, Calif. — In a stark about-face from just a few years ago, school districts have gone from handing out pink slips to scrambling to hire teachers.
Across the country, districts are struggling with shortages of teachers, particularly in math, science and special education — a result of the layoffs of the recession years combined with an improving economy in which fewer people are training to be teachers.

NOGOK, South Korea — The post office pulled up stakes and moved away years ago. The police station is long gone. And so is the bank. Over the years, the residents of Nogok have watched almost every major institution disappear, victims of an exodus of young people that is emptying villages and towns across much of rural South Korea.
Now, Nogok is about to lose an important symbol of youthful vitality: Next spring, the local primary school will close when its only student, a 12-year-old named Chung Jeong-su, graduates.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — An Indonesian court on Monday dismissed a $125 million lawsuit filed against one of the country's most prestigious international schools by the parents of a former student who claimed their child was repeatedly sexually assaulted by educators and school janitors.
Harry Ponto, the lead lawyer for the Jakarta Intercultural School, said that the ruling on Monday should help the continuing appeals by Neil Bantleman, a Canadian administrator at the school, and Ferdinand Tjiong, an Indonesian teaching assistant. In April, they were sentenced to 10 years in prison by a separate three-judge panel at the same district court after being convicted of sexually assaulting three boys in kindergarten, including the one who was the subject of the lawsuit that was dismissed on Monday.

The doubling of student debt since the recession, to $1.19 trillion, has stoked a national discussion over how to rein in college costs and debt and is becoming a major issue in the 2016 presidential race. Little noted in the outcry is the disproportionate role played by postgraduate borrowers, who now account for roughly 40% of all student debt but represent just 14% of students in higher education.

The new venture is meant to be a revival of Nalanda Mahavihara, the oldest university in the world, which began in the early fifth century. By the time the first European university was established in Bologna in 1088, Nalanda had been providing higher education to thousands of students from Asian countries for more than six hundred years.
By the seventh century Nalanda had ten thousand students, receiving instruction not only in Buddhist philosophy and religious practice, but also in a variety of secular subjects, including languages and literatures, astronomy and other sciences, architecture and sculpture, as well as medicine and public health.

GWALIOR, India — The Supreme Court of India on Thursday ordered federal investigators to take over from a state police force in a sprawling two-year-old testing scandal that has involved about 2,000 arrests and at least 23 deaths, some of them possibly suspicious.
The scandal, in Madhya Pradesh State, involves professional placement exams and medical school admissions tests that are administered by the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board, known by its Hindi acronym, Vyapam. Those suspected of

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In a disheartening trend that illustrates the growing inaccessibility to the state's premier public university system, the rate of homegrown students admitted to the University of California dropped to an unprecedented low this year.
A look at UC admissions data shows how dependent the system has become on outside money: For entering freshmen, 45 percent of offers at UC Berkeley went to out-of-state and international students; the figure was 42 percent at UCLA, 39 percent at UC San Diego and 35 percent at UC Davis.