Notes and news: The new ministers

British business schools The British Business Schools appeal has exceeded its original £3m target by some £1½m. Announcing this at a recent press conference, Lord Nelson of Stafford, Chairman of the Appeal Committee of the Foundation for Management Education, said that £4,600,000 has been subscribed in four months by British industry and commerce for the two schools. The appeal launched in June achieved its minimum target of £3m by September in what is believed to be a record time for such a broadly based appeal. He hoped that the final figures would raise the total to £5m through a large number of smaller but equally vital subscriptions.