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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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an African novelist who likes to quote Yeats: "The Commissioner went away, taking three or four of the soldiers with him. In the many years in which he had toiled to...
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Speaking Volumes: The Mediterranean and the Mediteranean World in the Age of Philip II
Peter Scott on Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediteranean World in the Age of Philip II . It would be neat to claim that I had actually been most deeply influenced by a book in my own...
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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
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Phantom of the pop era
Specters of Marx:
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Providence and the pilgrims' progress
Pious Passengers: