Growth in demand will change business supply
Business and management course suppliers will have to adapt to the growing shortage of top educators, predicts Paul Danos The booming global economy demands well-trained and confident business...
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QAA publishes 'tick boxes'
The new quality assurance system set out for universities this week is "dangerously prescriptive" and could mean, in effect, a national curriculum, say its critics. The Quality Assurance Agency has...
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'Checklist' of student skills: QAA area guidelines
Benchmarks cover 22 subject areas, ranging from six pages for accounting to 32 pages for law. They make explicit the "techniques and skills" expected of graduates and "the intellectual demand and...
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Rector tries to block state plans for campus
The rector of a university in La Paz, the Bolivian capital, is threatening legal action to block government plans to open a new university on terms that he claims breach constitutional guarantees of...
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'Scrooge' spending on UK staff
United Kingdom spending on academic staff is among the lowest in the developed world, the Association of University Teachers revealed today on the eve of its annual council meeting, writes Phil Baty...
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Pain of a martyr nailed to the bed
Marcel Proust
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The price of the body's best-kept sequence
French DNA
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On the origins of a healthy profession
The Evolution of British General Practice 1850-1948
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Shedding light on darkness visible
Malignant Sadness
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A loopy model of mind
Enchanted Looms
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How can meat be sentient?
The Feeling of What Happens - The Mysterious Flame
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Holiday fun to poke tongue in cheek at Chomsky?
Lingua ex Machina
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Trying to distil a riddle of mind
Schizophrenia
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Goo, goo, e=mc², gah, gah, goo, goo
How Babies Think
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Intelligence tests, morons and g-men
The g-Factor - Measuring Minds - IQ and Human Intelligence