Afghan intellect blossoms in exile
Despite a Taliban crackdown on secular education, Afghan intellectuals are fighting back, albeit by establishing a university in neighbouring Pakistan. Chris Bunting reports. Mohammad Akbar Kargar's...
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New power generation
A lightweight electricity generator developed by Imperial College engineers is set torevolutionise industry. Kam Patel reports A company formed on the back of revolutionary lightweight electricity...
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Hogmanay kiss mixes emotions
Wanseo Koo's introduction to the traditional British Christmas dinner was a festive Yorkshire pudding. Mr Koo, a Heriot-Watt student from South Korea, spent Christmas with friends whose oven broke...
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Mature keep away in droves
EFFORTS to improve the range of students at university appear under threat from latest application figures, which show continued steep falls in mature, overseas and sub-degree applicants. Data from...
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Singular failure to tackle plurality
The under-representation of non-white academics in British universities ("The colour blind spot", É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, March 5) is little short of a scandal, but by focusing almost exclusively on recruitment...
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Teeming pressures of the new urban jungles
Mega-City Growth and the Future
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Eye Witness
Violent demonstrations in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, are a daily reminder that the result of the July general elections is still contested and that the country's bloody history cannot be easily...
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Weighting the justice scales
With elitism in top medical schools a hot political issue, Claire Sanders finds that the discrimination poor and ethnic- minority law applicants face is, if anything, getting worse Twenty young...
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Why did a chicken cross the globe?
On the Edge
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Credit, shared human right
Banker to the Poor
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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...