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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Honorary degrees
University of Newcastle. DCL: Harry Belafonte, singer and actor, in recognition of his role as advisor to Martin Luther King, and his tireless opposition to racial and economic injustice. University...
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Appointments
The Scottish Office. Graeme Catto, vice principal and dean of the faculty of medicine and medical sciences at the University of Aberdeen, has been appointed chief scientist. Technology Colleges Trust...
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Further education in England
The further education sector in England comprises 444 colleges covering different types of study: * general further education * tertiary * sixth-form (including former voluntary-aided and voluntary...
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Scots FE sector
Total number of students in FE colleges in 1995/96: 323,052, of which * 37,495 studied for nonvocational courses * 60,718 studied higher education courses * 224,539 studied for further education...
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Lectures
Royal Observatory. The following lectures will be held at 7.30 pm in the observatory lecture theatre, free. November 21: "The Missing Matter of the Universe" by Mike Hawkins. November 28: "The Night...
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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...