Welfare to work threat to jobs
THE TRAINING and Enterprise Councils have warned that the Government's ambitious welfare-to-work programme could actually increase unemployment, without proper planning. The TEC National Council has...
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The barrier of 'social Darwinism'
"IF AT first you don't succeed, you don't succeed." This is the stark message of a report published this week by the national adult learning organisation NIACE, the organisers of this week's adult...
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Wise men to shape white paper
THE NEW Labour Government sold itself to the electorate on its commitment to create a learning society. And this week education secretary David Blunkett announced a new National Council for Adult...
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Artist's role moves into new dimension
RESEARCHERS exploring the potential of virtual reality as a fine-art medium believe the technology poses a big challenge to accepted notions of the role of the artist and curatorship. The research...
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Bubble power takes on cyberspace
RAY FLAVELL has a new medium for presenting images of the sea and cyberspace - air. Mr Flavell, head of the department of glass and architectural glass at Edinburgh College of Art, has developed a...
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Brothers' grim warning on carbon dioxide
It would be economically damaging to cut carbon dioxide emissions, despite the dangers of irreversible global warming, according to controversial new research findings. It may even be beneficial to...
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Health check for health check
Fifty-thousand over-75s are taking part in a nationwide survey as researchers seek the most effective form of annual health check for the United Kingdom's elderly citizens. For the past seven years...
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Healing powers of mathematics
MATHEMATICS may prove to have healing properties if research into scarring comes up with the right answers. Number-crunchers at Warwick and Oxford universities are using mathematical modelling to...
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Light fantastic for theatre design
MINIATURE models of set designs have long injected a dose of practicality into theatre directors' artistic vision. Now a student at the University of Central England is doing the same for lighting....
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Ena blamed for France's ills
The French elections have triggered the customary campaign-time offensive against the most elite of France's elite grandes ecoles, the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (Ena). For its critics and much...
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German industry in new fees push
Undaunted by the government's and rectors' hostility to tuition fees, German industry has again come up with a proposal that students pay for higher education. Governments at state and federal level...
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Cash-back bond plan after third shutdown
A third private college in three years has closed in Dublin, putting pressure on the remaining colleges to introduce a bonding arrangement to ensure students get their fees back if more close. The...
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Pundit Paul unravels Italy's politics
A former Cambridge reader in European politics has become Italy's most sought-after pundit on the country's complex political, economic and social problems. Paul Ginsborg arrived in Italy in 1992 to...
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Change comes hard in Chile
A REVISED package of measures aimed at modernising Chile's 16 state universities is finally scheduled to be passed in the next few weeks. The State Universities Framework Law supersedes the original...
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Mexico shows big is not always better
A NEW research centre in Mexico City has been asked to investigate the relationship between students' study habits and their exam results. In a country where libraries are inadequate, books are...