North hit as applications fall
Universities and colleges are bracing themselves for a fall in the number of applications for full-time higher education places in 1999. The number of applications received by the Universities and...
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Scots Tories consider paying fees
The Conservative Party north of the border is investigating a scheme that would effectively abolish tuition fees for Scottish students, writes Olga Wojtas. Party activists are researching the costs...
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Dyslexics may suffer bias
Old universities must better identify and support students with dyslexia, according to a report by the national working party on dyslexia in higher education commissioned by HEFCE. The controversial...
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UCL merger to create European study centre
Proposals are being considered by University College London for a centre that would incorporate the newly merged School of Slavonic and East European Studies and existing departments within UCL....
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Colleges should beware recruitment prejudice
It would be "a tragedy" if colleges started to avoid recruiting difficult student groups in order to improve their standards indicators, Chris Hughes (below), chief executive of the Further Education...
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RAE nears agreement on medical research
The debate on how best to assess clinical medical research in the 2001 research assessment exercise was partly resolved this week with an agreement for sub-panels. A meeting, including the Higher...
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MPs request finance details for education
MPs have criticised the government for keeping colleges and universities in the dark over financial planning. Members of the Commons' education sub-committee said that the comprehensive spending...
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Call to cut back degrees
A halt should be called to university expansion amid evidence that qualification inflation is devaluing degrees, according to Rethinking Higher Education, published today. Thomas Lange's report, for...
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Blame it on their peers?
The Nature Assumption
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Justice of a leg-up in the social race
The Shape of the River
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So why do anything?
Understanding Human Goods
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A thinker lit by Hapsburg fires
Language and Solitude
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Generation gaps
The Language of Thought - Language and Thought
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Literary philosophy
Kant e l'ornitorinco (Kant and the Platypus)
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel written by a former ambulance driver: "In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in...