Much ado about IQ
There are many people who refuse to go to the dentist because they might discover some cavities; some even fail to consult a physician when they fear they might have a cancerous growth, in case he...
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Wild about Harry
It is not often that the creators of a new opera, before its premi re, come to a university music department and answer questions about it. But that was what happened last month when Sir Harrison...
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Netting a fine cache
In the mid-1600s, two determined Quaker women left their husbands and children behind and set out for Rome. Their extra-ordinary mission was to convert the Pope. Instead they found themselves...
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Crick's science is just not 'serious'
Fraser Watts, lecturer in science and religion at Cambridge University, this week accused two leading biologists, Francis Crick and Richard Dawkins, of using "ideologically-motivated reductionist...
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Colleges in fight for Pounds 14 million
Two colleges began a case at the High Court in London this week to recover Pounds 14 million of European funding from Birmingham City Council. The Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative...
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Poetic justice
(Photograph) - Poetic justice: Christopher Hogg picked up this slim volume of T. S. Eliot's Prufrock and Other Observations for Pounds 1.50 in a Bournemouth bookshop. It turned out to be an excellent...
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Contract negotiations reopen with caution
Further education employers are set to reopen national negotiations on contracts, but will limit the talks to staff who have refused to transfer to private contracts. The College Employers Forum has...
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Portsmouth v-c called to account
Neil Merritt, vice chancellor of Portsmouth University, confessed to staff this week that he had been guilty of substantial "errors of judgement" in the way he handled his travel expenses. Mr Merritt...
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Canada to end direct funding
A social security discussion paper issued in October by the Canadian federal government signals a big change of direction in the funding of post-secondary education. In it, the government says it...
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Dream on
(Photograph) - Dream on: Caroline Pegg in If We Shadows A Midsummer Night's Dream for the 21st century a new production from Insomniac Productions, which opens on November 21 at the Dancehouse...
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A bridge over muddled waters
A new way of reducing the gap between science and the public may have been aired for the first time in London last week. The UK National Consensus Conference on Plant Biotechnology (as reported in...
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Sex, drugs and student hall
Joseph Evans argues that more moral control would make university residence a home from home. If charity begins at home, then we should be thinking more about what sort of home we are offering young...
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Rustling up an Ivy League
When the officers of our Students Union came to talk to me last week I was struck, not for the first time, by the clarity of their vision and by the significance of their questions. Not for them that...
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Queen's speech
Legislation is to be introduced to improve conditions for people with disabilities and to develop the management of the National Health Service, it was announced in the Queen's speech this week. No...
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Food extension
A Pounds 1 million extension to Reading University's food studies building was opened this week. The extension, financed by 25 companies in the food industry, will house laboratory space, additional...