Perceptions versus the reality
THE IMAGES of problem-based medical curricula given in the editorial and in Liz Frayn's "Personal View" (THES, October 24) would seem to bear little, if any, relation to the reality of such curricula...
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Shoddy science
IN HER recently publicised survey of therapists, ("Childhood trauma rings true", THES, October 31), Bernice Andrews claims to have found proof for "recovered memories". Far from it. She and her...
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Theory and authority
FROM what I read Jacques Lacan was very probably a complex and in many ways not a very nice man. However, those of a psychoanalytic orientation could take the ferocity of the attacks on Lacan's...
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Theory and authority
I AM sure Raymond Tallis is right that as a moral individual Jacques Lacan was a monster (THES, October 31). The trouble is that if you demand card-carrying sanity and decency from your thinkers, the...
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Don's Diary
Saturday Yerevan, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Armenia, and another Council of Europe seminar on "transition democracies", how pluralist democracies are supposed to work in practice...
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Is there a future for freedom?
"University autonomy under threat" was one headline in South Africa's Financial Mail in the past few weeks. It drew attention to the new higher education bill being presented to parliament and to the...
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Beware the shotgun merger
On the face of it university/further education college mergers are attractive propositions. They offer the prospect of comprehensive, inclusive institutions for tomorrow's students - home based, from...
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Innovators lag behind foreign peers
While others are being encouraged to carve out their own careers by setting up in business. THERE is no room for complacency when it comes to commercially exploiting the UK's research base, says the...
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Fact file
* 46 per cent of students with a first-class degree entered employment within six months of graduating * 54 per cent of students with an upper second-class degree entered employment within six months...
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Legal eagles take flight with transferable skills
Critics call them Noddy courses, but more and more students are opting for highly vocational study Budding lawyers are tapping other talents in a bid to find a life beyond the law, writes Harriet...
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Hands-on era reaches lift off
Critics call them Noddy courses, but more and more students are opting for highly vocational study NEW breeds of highly vocational degrees are growing rapidly to meet student demand to be trained for...
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Oxbridge defiant
OXBRIDGE colleges are unlikely to hold on to the full college fee, worth a total Pounds 35 million a year, once a government review is completed this autumn. But they are confident they will be able...
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Rich to subsidise access
A fees rise to pay for widening access in further and higher education is being considered by the government's lifelong learning advisers. Key members of the National Advisory Group for the...
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Labour raids fees to aid FE
Money raised from undergraduate tuition fees is to be diverted to help further education colleges, according to an internal government memo seen by The THES. The Department for Education and...
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One in five further education colleges are "in poor financial health"
One in five further education colleges are "in poor financial health", and the government's withdrawal of demand-led funding this year is likely to make things worse, the National Audit Office told...