Jungian analysts step into critical minefield
THE CONCEPT of collective unconscious that Richard Noll excoriates may not be quite what he supposes. No one doubts that our instincts are shared with the animals. There is a band at the top of...
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Stoke set to axe 200 staff jobs
Stoke-on-Trent College is planning to axe 200 jobs to save Pounds 8 million on its Pounds 30 million annual budget, writes Chris Johnston. The college missed student recruitment targets by per cent...
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What a Quanca
Hard to tell at this stage how the merged National Council for Vocational Qualifications and Schools Curriculum Assessment Authority will fare, but we forecast a dazzling career in rhyming slang for...
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Therapy the doctor ordered
Nearly a third of GP practices offer patients counselling, but how effective is it? COUNSELLING services at local doctors' surgeries may not be so good for patients' health, according to the author...
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Anxiety about feel good factor
Nearly a third of GP practices offer patients counselling, but how effective is it? GOOD counselling in general medical practice can more than halve the severity of patient anxiety, according to...
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Farid the fair and faithful
South African lecturer Farid Esack is one of a rare breed, the radical Muslim, unafraid to challenge Islamic prejudice. His appointment to the new Gender Equality Commission is all grist to the mill...
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A First glass honour
Sunderland and Dan Klein share a passion for glass. And, as one of the first professors in the subject, he tells Harriet Swain about his love of collecting and the new National Glass Centre being...
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When in Rome...do as London
Rome's La Sapienza University, the largest in Europe, is looking at the structure of London University's autonomous colleges and schools as a possible model for its own reorganisation. Senior...
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Maths fails to muster A-level student troops
Students on A-level courses have trebled in number in the past 30 years but the proportion of 18-year-olds taking science and mathematics has stuck stubbornly at 5 per cent, according to a study...
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Clarke eases cash flow
Kenneth Clarke's budget statement has loosened the garrotte imposed on further and higher education by last year's budget, but only temporarily. There was relief at the allocation of an extra Pounds...
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Massive shake-up for cash-strapped OU
The Open University may have to shed up to 350 jobs and completely reorganise its regional structure because of a financial crisis. In one year the university has gone from a 1994/95 surplus of...
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Bible gets a title after 470 years
(Photograph) - Title deeds: a complete copy of William Tyndale's 1526 English translation of the New Testament, with a previously undiscovered title page (see above), has been found in the Bible...
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I'm the future, fly me
(Photograph) - An extensive British canal network was one of the winning solutions for transport problems proposed by students this week as part of the European Week for Scientific and Technological...
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Friction over pay fraction
The Association of University Teachers could take legal action if universities dock the pay of academics who took part in last week's strike by 1/260th instead of 1/365th. The Universities and...
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Random explosion
Radical changes in the student profile over recent years have been haphazard and variable, according to the the Institute of Employment Studies annual graduate review. Expansion has allowed access by...