Jobs gloom jolts Japan
Japan's senior students face a tough year for jobs. Early surveys indicate that leading employers intend to recruit fewer graduates for the 1999-2000 financial year. The shrinking graduate job market...
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A silken detour through Paris
Serinde, Terre De Bouddha
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Please disrupt our conference
The disruption of a conference on East Timor by an organised mob in Kuala Lumpur last month may have done the troubled country a favour. Peter Carey reports. Fifteen years ago, when I first became...
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Sinking under fat America
State of the World 2000
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Waseda hunts for graduates
Waseda University, one of Japan's oldest and most prestigious private institutions, has applied to the ministry of education in Tokyo for permission to open a new graduate school. The school will...
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The sleep of reason ... is a female nightmare
* There are 44 million "missing women" in China alone, 36.9 million in India. * In India the "missing women" comprise 9.5 per cent of the number of actual women, in Pakistan 12.9 per cent * When only...
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Dark dealings under scrutiny
Academics are at the frontline of exposing corruption, but winning the battle will require more effort. Karen MacGregor reports. The crucial role of research in the war against graft - especially its...
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Sit, then do the ironing
Robot toys are a Christmas favourite. They are also the testing ground for sophisticated tools that will change our lives, writes Tim Cornwell. In 1997, researchers at the Massachusetts company...
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Adventures on the cyber shop floor
Before launching her web-based courses, Diana Kelly put herself in the students' shoes and learnt how to learn online My new year's resolution in 1999 was to learn about online teaching. After 20...
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Asians praise British quality
AN AUSTRALIAN survey of students in six Asian countries has found that they rank universities in the United Kingdom highest in terms of course standards and recognition of qualifications, writes...
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Sons of soil left to wither on the vine
Agriculture in Britain has sunk to a nadir last seen during the Great Depression. Farmers were once the bedrock of British society and a powerful voice in the land, but who now cares what becomes of...
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Soros woos North Korea
Financier George Soros has established a pilot project to help support North Korea's first moves to a mixed economy. A group of seven North Korean graduate students are studying law, economics and...
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India's sane get anarchic
India's Newspaper Revolution - "Mr Editor, How Close are You to the PM?"
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Imagining India
Novelist Nayantara Sahgal reflects on the power of the word in creating India as a nation, 50 years after her uncle Jawaharlal Nehru's celebrated 'tryst with destiny' One cannot talk about India 50...
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Paths that cross in the East
Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy