Politics, principles and public relations
Why is everyone so disinclined to bite the bullet on funding further and higher education, and financing its students? Unfortunately, those to whom we might look for long-term solutions - most...
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Lecturers sceptical of training institute
Universities are to be asked to comment next week on options for a national scheme to train lecturers in the art of teaching. The Institute for Learning and Teaching proposed by Sir Ron Dearing to...
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Tighter teacher entry looms
The spectre of tougher minimum-entry requirements for all initial teacher training courses was raised this week by the parliamentary education and employment committee. Taking evidence from the...
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Lib Dems decry Pounds 165m sector 'sop'
THE Liberal Democrats have accused the Government of a third higher education U-turn by offering a "welcome sop" to universities in the form of an extra Pounds 165 million next year. Education and...
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Quick Pounds 165m spin causes contortion
In its second U-turn on higher education policy since the general election, Britain's Labour government has again softened its line, this time finding Pounds 165 million to help out English...
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Bloody gnomes of Zurich
Blood Money
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Reason finds a trusty champion
The Last Word
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Curiouser and curiouser
Complexity
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Complexity's conjuror
Soft Interfaces
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Constitutions of Matter: Mathematically Modelling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena
Most people accept that scientific knowledge occupies a domain that is somewhat distinct from that of everyday knowledge. This applies particularly to physics, where most concepts are expressed in...
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Guided Turing
The Legacy of Alan Turing - The Legacy of Alan Turing
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A winning strategy and some top-ranking ideas
Five Golden Rules
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Speaking Volumes: Daniel Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea
On Daniel Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Darwin's Dangerous Idea changed my life - or perhaps it was the illness that gave me time to read it. I got flu, the flu changed to chronic fatigue, and...
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Bohmian rhapsody
Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory - Interpreting the Quantum World
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A feel for coherence
The Fabric of Reality