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When the 35-year-old Zwelakhe Sisulu arose to deliver the keynote address reproduced below, he stepped into a spotlight of national leadership toward which he had been moving for a decade. From an important role in the Black Consciousness Movement, he had become a leading strategic thinker for the United Democratic Front, South Africa's most widely representative, nonracial coalition. Described by a colleague as "a charismatic, handsome figure with a resonant voice," a man of "sharp intellect" and "sharp wit," he is now recognized as one of the country's outstanding younger leaders, comparable to Steve Biko, who died at the hands of the security police in 1977.

1. Politics and crisis : the state of the recession / Stewart Clegg, Paul Boreham and Geoff Dow -- 2. Competitive party democracy and the Keynesian welfare state : some reflections upon their historical limits / Claus Offe -- 3. The historical foundations of class struggle in late capitalist liberal democracies / Nixon Apple -- 4. The institutional transformations of the post laissez-faire state : reflections on the Italian case / Franco Ferraresi -- 5. Technocracy and late capitalist society : reflections on the problem of rationality and social organisation / H.T. Wilson -- 6. The crisis of representation in class-oriented unions : some reflections based on the Italian case / Marino Regini -- 7. An international participation cycle : variations on a recurring theme / Harvie Rameay.

With the changes in the Bologna process and the European directive on sectoral professions, the education and training of the pharmacists in the European Higher Education Area is moving towards a quality system based on competences. In this paper we analyze the existing quality assurance and accreditation systems in 10 countries and examine how far these systems have evolved from a resources and curriculum basis towards a competences basis. This is the first step towards the goal of the PHAR-QA project: establishment of a European quality assurance system based on competences. Existing systems of quality assurance for pharmacy education and teaching are based mainly on resources and management not competences. Furthermore, they are national, obligatory, and do not recognize all the current activities of the pharmacists. The PHAR-QA system that will be developed by the consortium of the same name will be based on competences ; it will be European, consultative, and will encompass pharmacy practice in a wide sense.

This article deepens in the differences in educational development between the Ecuadorian provinces and in their evolution over time by estimating the Provincial-level Education Index. This index is built using the micro-databases of the two latest rounds of the Ecuador`s Living Standards Measurement Survey (2005-2006 and 2013-2014). The results show an overall increase in the educational development of the Ecuadorian provinces, as well as a slight reduction in inequality. However, differences between them continue to exist. Underlying our results, which are consistent with the provincial production structure and socioeconomic context, some public policies seem to affect the educational sector, as their impact has been evidenced during the period covered in this research.

This paper pursues the historical perspective which I have employed in a recently completed book. In that book I study the attempt, begun in 1966, to implant and consolidate in Argentina what I have called a "bureaucratic-authoritarian" (BA) State. I have compared the modalities of its alliance with the large bourgeoisie and with international capital, its social impact and, finally, its collapse, with Brazil since 1964 and Chile after 1973. Rather than pointing out similarities between the Argentine case and the others, I shall stress here some differences, for these offer a basis for understanding why, in recent decades, attempts to establish any type of political domination have failed in Argentina.

Since 1999, there have been changes in Venezuelan higher education, such as the establishment of new forms of university access, attempts to reform Universities Act, enacting a new Organic Education Law, among others. Consequently, one wonders what the real situation of Venezuelan higher education subsystem is and whether it has been building a new model of higher education in the last decade. In the present study, we attempt to answer these questions, in light of specific policies and plans established by the State regarding the education sector, quality management strategies, administrative‑governance organization basic forms, and the methodological framework for assessing quality.

Is the possession of taste relevant to the practice of moral and political judgement? For Mary Wollstonecraft and many of her contemporaries, the formation of taste was increasingly significant for both ethics and politics. In fact, some of the key contributors to the debate, which I have termed the 'politics of taste', believed that fostering existing standards of taste promised a palliative to modern democratic ills that they diagnosed. Wollstonecraft is an immanent critic of such positions. Although she shares some of Edmund Burke's and David Hume's assumptions, she proposes dramatic revision of the extant model of refined taste driven by the spread of rational education. In this way, she attempts to rescue 'true taste' from its sentimental context – one permeated by false assumptions about femininity and class. For Wollstonecraft, 'true taste' must be the product of refined understanding. Only then can it be deemed a support rather than a hindrance to the practice of moral and political judgement. Although recent Wollstonecraft scholarship has emphasised the depth of her engagement with Scottish Enlightenment thought, using Hume as a primary interlocutor with Wollstonecraft, especially on the question of taste, is yet unprecedented. This approach, Wollstonecraft's immanent critique of taste, yields arguments about taste that are especially complex and philosophically interesting, both in her time and ours.