Firms oppose levy
About three-quarters of employers surveyed by the Confederation of British Industry oppose a compulsory training levy. The CBI said the firms object for various reasons: the levy would be too...
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Booster jab
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has signed an agreement with the Department of Health to help boost co-operation between the two in areas of joint interest in the medical...
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Kennedy mission
Helena Kennedy QC, chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, is to chair a new Further Education Funding Council committee looking at ways of widening recruitment to further education and training....
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Essex economies
Essex University departments will be set targets for expenditure cuts or increased income to avert losses projected for the university in the late 1990s. A gap of about Pounds 1 million per year will...
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Teething troubles for FE courses
A survey of how vocational qualifications are assessed by colleges and awarding bodies has revealed patchy progress towards consistent national standards. The Further Education Funding Council report...
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Universities go to markets
Four Midland universities are turning to the capital markets to raise investment With the co-operation of Birmingham City Council the city's three universities, Birmingham, Aston and Central England...
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Unesco accepts fees idea
Unesco this week accepted the reality of students contributing to the cost of their university education, but warned that alternative sources of funding cannot end the international crisis in higher...
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Medical textbooks are a killer, Lords told
A leading health services researcher said this week that he had killed patients as a result of a technique he had been advised to use at medical school. Iain Chalmers, director of the UK Cochrane...
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Post A-level entry on way
The university admissions system looks set for a radical overhaul. It is likely to be replaced by a system in which students apply after they know their A-level grades. A unanimous decision that it...
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A reconciler of distinction
Mind and World
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A vessel for a voyage of discovery
Chretien de Troyes: - Sealed in Parchment:
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A world and self haunted by voices
A Pitch of Philosophy:
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Angel wings caught in the winds of progress
Walter Benjamin's Philosophy:
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Compelled to be virtuous
Making Men Moral:
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Eternal triangles in psychoanalytic circles
The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi