The MP has been under pressure from his local newspaper, the Northants Evening Telegraph, which reported he had allowed his student son to use the London flat and has published dozens of angry e-mails from readers on its website.

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The report, based on data from the association of State Higher Education Executive Officers, contends that spending per student on public higher education has been essentially flat since 1985.

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However, if today's "flat world" means that a student in Jordan or Budapest, Hungary, or the Gangsu province of China has the same educational opportunities as a student in Palo Alto, Calif.

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Another foreign student, Elisabeth Hoffnell from Sweden, was allowed back into her flat.

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Sports bloggers in January began poking fun at Turner online from its 14-student high school to its nonprofit organization, "The Big Flat Community Grain Bin, " created to stem population decline.

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The PhD student was found dead on the bedroom floor of the couple's first-floor Georgian flat in Bath by emergency services on the night of June 23 last year.

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The body of South Korean student Da In Lee, 22, was found wrapped in bed clothes at Daniel Jones's Grace Road flat in Tipton, in April 2012.

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John Keillor, 29, now an engineering student, spoke of his time there in late 2009 when he worked as a doorman, and lived in a flat owned by Mo Siddique's property company.

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