Issue: March 10, 2010 (Archive)

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Eco campus
Need to get to Seattle University? There's a green transit pass for that. Need to meet somebody when you're there? Try the new eco-friendly gathering space. Eating in the cafeteria? The disposable forks are biodegradable.

Indian wave
A growing number of Japanese children are attending private schools for an Indian-style education emphasizing advanced mental arithmetic, computers and English.

Study in Europe
Don't let the language barrier deter you. You don't have to parler Francais or sprechen Deustch if you want to study in Europe these days.

Natural science
Anyone who has fed a baby has experienced it: the child throws a dish and watches it hit the floor. You pick it up. It gets thrown again. And again. He isn't trying to annoy you. He's learning science. "They're creating theories about how the world works," said Joyce Duckles, a doctoral candidate in human development at the University of Rochester's Warner School of Education.

Mother of all operas
Undergraduate feng wen-chao is a mathematics major, but when he goes to class on Thursday mornings he carries a paper fan instead of a calculator. The sophomore at Hong Kong Baptist University will spend the next three hours whirling his fan as part of his initiation into the art of Kun opera.

Arts come of age
With Hong Kong planning to channel a slice of its HK$21.6 billion West Kowloon funding into arts education, the QS WorldARTS tour, coming to the Hongkong International Trade and Exhibition Centre in Kowloon Bay on Thursday, cannot be more timely. The fair brings institutions from Australia, Europe, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom and the United States under one roof for students.

Visual masters
When Kenny Chiu Yu-kan wanted a degree in design to top up his higher diploma, it was easy to settle on Griffith University. For one thing, he doesn't need to go to Australia because the lectures are all delivered here at Chinese University of Hong Kong's School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

High marks for gender split in US
A pack of teenagers jostled into the Skokie, Illinois, conference room that, for 10 minutes a day, doubles as a homeroom to more than two dozen boys. Freshmen and sophomores at Niles West High School in Chicago are divided into single-sex rooms for homeroom, an experiment now in its second year.

Dream makers
Weddings are not just for smitten couples. Lovers who do not want to leave their nuptial bliss to chance usually seek out wedding planners. And the figures show there is demand, especially for those who are qualified.

Write stuff
There is often some quality about human life and existence that seems to defy mere words. That the great writers do manage to express or share the ineffable is a mark of their human spirit and artistry. For those budding Asian writers who have waged war against this writer's block, help is at hand with City University's new creative writing program. The two- year master of fine arts regime aims to cultivate English-language writers and tap their native oriental flair.

Outdoor classroom
Muddy shoes were one of the "souvenirs" Secondary One student Chan Yee-kei was stuck with following a three-hour learning tour of an organic farm tour. But Chan doesn't mind getting grubby. After all, it isn't every day a city girl learns to grow herbs, make fertilizer out of table scraps such as fruit peel, tea and vegetable leaves, and brew herbal teas.

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