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", THES, 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...
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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...