At the centre of eachcourse there needs to be a set of projects that the student is encouraged to tackle by proper direction and sufficient reward.The lecturer’s task would be that of project supervisor. The student would be perceived as someone expected to make discoveries, essentially by means of projects worked out in libraries and [...]

A doctor says it can be treated, and thousands of pupils with streaming eyes will still sneeze their way through, despite the nasal sprays, eyedrops, antihistamine pills and chewed beeswax. (Pupils entered = 0; passes = 0; average score = 0.00; league position = 1st equal, along with 23,999 other schools.)One delegate at a conference [...]

The Prime Minister has agreed to resign before the elections, but she has not specified when.Nor was it agreed in heated talks between Ms Zia and the three main opposition parties – Ms Hasina’s Awami League, the Islamic fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party and the Jatiya Party, which backs the deposed former ruler, Hossain Ershad – who [...]

The 1-1 draw between Sweden and Brazil deserved a better setting; preferably one with some air.Downtown Detroit itself lives up to its billing as “the American Beirut”. Despite earlier protests to my editor, I am glad to be booked into a hotel in its twin city of Windsor across the border in Canada. Glad, that [...]

You see, what Railtrack does is to work out the charges it has to levy to make that valuation right.””But who pays the charges?””The new operating companies that BR has been split up into – like Scotrail and South West Trains.””But they make big losses at the moment, don’t they?””Virtually every part of the network [...]

The school has also worked with a Jewish organisation, Springboard, which encourages old people to share their memories, to mount a fascinating exhibition of photographs.Through Springboard, Dr Pomson heard that Daneford School was also researching the Brick Lane area, and leapt at the chance to collaborate. “It was an opportunity to broaden their horizons, to [...]