Grant erosion sparks anger
THE government faces accusations of misleading new students into assuming there would be a more gradual shift in balance between grants and loans than has emerged. Government leaflets have said that...
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Business attacks tax plan
GOVERNMENT plans to recover student loans through the tax system will cost employers millions of pounds and will stop many firms recruiting graduates, tax experts and small businesses have warned....
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MPs to hold City summit on loans
A WORKING party of MPs is to hold talks with City finance companies in a bid to break the impasse over attempts to privatise student loans. The move, by the Education and Employment Committee, marks...
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Student support alarm
LOCAL authority chiefs have warned the government that its new student support system could founder if details are not ready within a month. They say some of the smaller authorities will not be able...
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The power and the possible sorry story
Alan Thomson explains the powers given to the education secretary under the Teaching and Higher Education Bill as it stands and gives examples of what this could mean AN unamended Teaching and Higher...
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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 an educational thinker who put five of his children in a foundlings' home: "...
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Resemblance of things past
How the Mind Works
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Surreal life drama
The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali
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Ancient Africa and the cargo jet cult
Trade Routes
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Little books on big thinkers
Turing - Socrates - Derrida - Berkeley - Descartes - Locke - Ayer - Wittgenstein - Russell - Hegel - Nietzsche - Marx
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Arguing over feely stuff
The Nature of Consciousness
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Minding mindlessness
The Mystery of Consciousness
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Appalling the pious
The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza
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Proust's style guru
Bergson
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The path of the Israelites
History of Jewish Philosophy