Look who's over here
Over a fifth of postgraduates are overseas students. Mark Nye looks at the attractions of studying in the United Kingdom THE SCRAMBLE for a university place for Michaelmas entry is in full swing but...
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No curtain to raise
Kam Patel unearths the powerful interests that coalesced to deprive Cardiff of Zaha Hadid's award-winning opera house. To this day, the architect Zaha Hadid is at a loss to know why the Millennium...
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Nuclear family meltdown?
Alison Utley reports on new research which claims that same-sex relationships are reordering the British household. What do today's young people really want out of life? New sociological research...
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Endless points of order
The party conference season opens this year to the sound of organisational shuffling rather than ideological clashing. Richard Cockett reports as Blair prepares to rid Labour of the last rituals of...
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Swanning around on the river
Julia Hinde meets the warden of the Queen's swans, Christopher Perrins Swanning around on the river. The Queen's swan warden is rather looking forward to the next week. Surrounded by publishers'...
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Unnaturally concerned
As the list of genetically modified foods expands, so the level of consumer anxiety burgeons. Simon Midgley looks at the causes of public concern. As the list of genetically modified foods expands,...
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Britain's wards of shame
David Pilgrim argues that our scandal-hit maximum security hospitals are unreformable, expensive Victorian relics that should be closed. Anonymous threats of death and sexual violence are to be...
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Speaking the same language
(Photograph) - Japanese postgraduates Ami Fakuda and Sanae Izumi work on their English at the University of Leeds language centre to prepare themselves for their masters degrees
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Fact File
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: * 20 per cent of first-degree graduates go on to further study. * 55 per cent of the women who continued studying went on to...
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Value us more, plead sad MBAs
Employers do not appreciate employees with MBAs, a study from Imperial College Management School has found, writes Phil Baty. The study found that 57 per cent of the school's alumni believe that...
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Tobacco solves oil crisis
Biotechnology breakthroughs: starch and evening primrose oil yields and the use of holograms Sunflowers or oilseed rape could prove a richer source of evening primrose oil than evening primrose...
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We are what we eat
(Photograph) - We are what we eat: As new technologies offer improved yields (page 9), the public fears that European and UK controls over food have more to do with encouraging trade and protecting...
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Work to begin on degree standards
New minimum degree standards are to be piloted immediately by the Quality Assurance Agency for higher education, it was revealed this week. Pilots for the so-called "threshold" standards, which will...
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UFI is tipped to up intakes
The government's planned University for Industry can provide the next upward shift in higher education participation rates, says one of the directors of the pilot project to be launched next week....
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Call to clarify degrees
A proliferating new breed of applied doctorate qualifications is creating "total confusion" in the postgraduate qualifications market and must be brought swiftly into the proposed national...