Adults courses budget up 20%
Institutions running adult education courses outside further education colleges received a 20 per cent increase in funding from the Further Education Funding Council between 1993/94 and 1994/95. The...
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Active minds keep atrophy at bay
A combination of good education and continuing mental activity may help delay the onset of dementia, according to psychiatric researchers. A report from the Erasmus University in the Netherlands in...
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Funders forced to rethink quality
An acrimonious public row erupted at the annual conference of the Higher Education Funding Council for England this week when quality - which had originally been left off the agenda - took centre...
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Magnet cash
A five-year magnet research programme has got Pounds 12 million of funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The programme aims to stimulate collaboration between...
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Alternative GPs
Family doctors are being taught about the benefits and dangers of complementary medicine in an Exeter University course believed to be the first of its kind in Europe. The joint initiative by the...
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Physics fillip
Aberdeen University has set up a new school of physics more than a decade after cuts turned physics into a service teaching unit. The school will teach engineering, bio-medical physics and bio-...
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Testing time
(Photograph) - Testing time: Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, an engineering lecturer at Cambridge University, finally got rid of his L-plates on his 13th driving test last week. The 40-year-old passed with...
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Public `paying for commercial research'
Universities are leaving themselves open to the accusation that they are "subsidising commercial work from the public purse" by not recovering costs from externally sponsored research, Graeme Davies...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a ubiquitous naturalist: "As far as we can tell, our planet is the only place in all the black immensities of the universe where life exists. We are alone in space....
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Speaking Volumes: Madness and Civilization
Susan Bassnett on Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization . Some books have titles that compel you to read them; others ones that deter you from trying. Michel Foucault's Histoire de la Folie is...
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A good square meal
The Man Who Tasted Shapes
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A well-defined corpus
Empire of Words:
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Curious enthusiasms
Even Odder Perceptions
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Double speak
In Other Words:
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Genetic code and moral conundrums
The Book of Man