Further into the future
The spotlight has swung on to the college sector since Tony Blair announced that he wanted to see an extra 500,000 people in further and higher education by 2002. Colleges will almost certainly...
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College shuffle in ten steps
David Chaytor outlines ten stages that he believes could achieve a comprehensive, lifelong learning society The forthcoming publication of the white paper on lifelong learning, coupled with the...
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Guardian agents
The end of the cold war must not lead to the end of spying, argues Christopher Andrew, because there are plenty of deviant dictators and fanatical terrorists we need to keep an eye on. It is much...
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Chairs
King's College, London. Readers promoted to chairs: Robert Blackburn, constitutional law; Clive Bush, American literature; Gareth Jones, cell biology; Giovanni Mann, vascular physiology; Yuri Safarov...
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Grants
The Universitiy of Liverpool. Charities Professor J. Crampton, Pounds 33,380 from Wellcome Trust (model system to evaluate the concept of delivering protective immunogenic proteins by haemotophagus...
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A question of cash and charm
Inefficient, bureaucratic, mismanaged. The latest charges against MI5, the branch of the secret services responsible for security within the UK, come from former agent David Shayler. Shayler, living...
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Psycho bubble
Parapsychology work at Edinburgh University is making the field respectable. John Davies reports. If you are looking for an academic take on unexplained psychic phenomena, tread carefully. One...
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Fame from misfortune
Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Scargill do have something in common - they both lost a parent during childhood. Cary Cooper explores the link between early loss and later success. We have always been...
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Socratic empathy
Jonathan Glover, new director of the Centre for Medical Ethics at Kings College, London, explains to Harriet Swain how imagination is the key to making life and death decisions. Philosopher Jonathan...
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Gagging on provisions
The right to speak out about risky foods is being suppressed in the US by libel laws that threaten people's health and democratic rights. David Bederman reports. Cultures have always debated what to...
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Life: a course in survival
As a child David Brandon was beaten by his father. Memories of his unacknowledged suffering and doubts over the nostrums of cocooned academics have led him to adopt a pragmatic approach to those in...
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Penalties harmful
PENALTIES for social policy departments failing to make top grades in the research assessment exercise would hinder innovation, harm local links and create division between research and teaching, a...
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Learning the basics to fit in
Employers at the Confederation of British Industry's conference have their say on graduate requirements Graduate employability appears to have risen to the top of the national agenda. The government...
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Tumours detected by metal
Chemistry is helping to find and fight cancer and make cleaner fuel THE LATEST in chemistry technology is being used to improve the detection of cancerous tumours in humans. For many years chemists...
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Fact file
* 62 per cent of part-time first year undergraduates in England are female * 60 per cent of part-time first year undergraduates in Scotland are female * 55 per cent of part-time first year...