Nursing a grievance
Liz Frayn draws a distinction between training and education in medicine (THES, October 24). "Need to know" training is insufficient if professionals are to be able to adapt to new situations and...
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Don's Diary
Saturday and Sunday Fly to Sydney en route to Alice Springs, where I am to attend the Fifth International Literacy and Education Research Network Conference on Learning. This is my third visit to...
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Hunting the snark of destiny
THE fit between higher education and society is a hot-button topic. Managing that fit leads to "policy". Consequently, we have higher education policy, science and technology policy, industry-...
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Cool the words and hot up the process
VICE chancellors learn to be quick on their feet. Often it is the only way to broker the many competing demands on time and resources. One key aspect in being able to "dance like a butterfly" is the...
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Scots setfor battleover fees
Scottish universities are predicting a legal battle over the government's decision to make English, Welsh and Northern Irish students pay more than Scots in tuition fees for a four-year honours...
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Danes come to heal
Lifelong learning has a different meaning at Denmark's main adult education centre, an undercover investigation by a Danish newspaper has disclosed. Journalists working for the journal Politiken...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a man with a passion for ants: "In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence...
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When the PC at the crime isn't a cop
Criminal Proceedings
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The shrink from hell
Jacques Lacan
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Grandeur in the saga of the rocks
Life: An Unauthorised Biography
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Mystics at the gate to cosmology
The Whole Shebang
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New light on an old animal
The Horned Dinosaurs
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And God created ants
Social Behaviour in Insects and Arachnids
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The lure of the loathsome
Snakes
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The science of sick molecules
Encylopaedia of Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine (six volumes)