Education
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Acid test
Portugal's university hazing tradition, praxe, blends gothic pageantry with troubling ritual. Behind the capes and choral singing lies a centuries-old initiation culture carrying genuine psychological — and sometimes fatal — consequences.
Repeat after me
An inspiring school with high ideals created a space in which its pupils could foster their own creativity. No wonder so many of its alumni have become designers.
Too cool for school
Good design has helped the Lycée Français International de Hong Kong make the most of its small footprint.
Express yourself
Learning a language can be arduous but a dramatic approach is finding a captive audience in Paris.
Business
A new fashion retail school in Hong Kong and a Spanish trucking company adding colour to the roads.
Off the wall
Would you trust a student with a masterpiece? Oberlin College in the US has been renting out its collection since 1940.
Cross to bear
As director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Yves Daccord has learnt to take a calm approach to life-or-death decisions.
Vim and vigour
Urban-planners once sought ease of life but this made for less active populations. Now, a new kind of design and architecture is putting citizens’ wellbeing at its heart, transforming cities once again.
Talking shop
From an iconic US brand to Dutch teaching that’s second to ‘nun’, we present our guide to multilingualism.
