WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Education Department is working to ensure student access to federal loans during the financial crisis, Secretary Margaret Spellings said Thursday.

A coroner records an open verdict at the inquest of a 20-year-old student found hanging after a pub-crawl.

A student at a university in Nottingham who died of meningitis donated five organs for transplant.

The student-to-faculty ratio is the chief indicator of teaching quality in the World’s Best Colleges.

A 12-year-old Philadelphia student has been suspended and charged with attempted rape after a 24-year-old teacher at the Beeber Middle School said she was attacked, authorities said.

A 14-year-old A,lberta student was hailed as a hero Thursday for taking over the wheel of a school bus full of students after the driver collapsed, and stopping it before it drove into the path of a semi-truck.

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced a student activist to 6 1/2 years in jail, a week after his father received a 65-year prison term for his own political activities and a decade after his grandfather died in custody.

HARRISTOWN High State High School student Jennah Pennells saw her glamorous formal dress at A Princess Bride and knew she had found “the one”. Although Jennah and her parents had set a budget of about $500, it had to stretch to $800.