Paramedic skills for the 21st century
I JOINED the Ambulance Service in the 1960s when treatment given by officers to patients was very mechanical and skills-based. In the 1980s paramedics were given increased responsibility, both to...
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Fighting over a limited cake
THESE are troubled times for UK higher education, though not on the scale suffered in Nigeria. The government's fees policy became further entangled this week with the decision to give Scottish and...
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The fiscal burden Dearing did not consider
Graduates have always paid for their degrees - and for many of the subsidies enjoyed by the rest of the population. Timothy Curtin argues that the graduate tax scheme is a con THE Dearing report's...
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Excellence into equality does go
If Cambridge is to keep its college fees it must admit more state school students, Anne Campbell argues MY FELLOW MP Phil Woolas argues that new Labour is not against excellence but adds that Labour...
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Maths views don't add up
Professional mathematicians, scientists and engineers have plenty of important issues to discuss with a government that might have been expected to bring fresh thinking to higher education and...
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Excellence has to be elite
It is regrettable when politicians use superficial and populist rhetoric to advance views concerning serious public policy. On the subject of Oxbridge receiving Pounds 2,000 a head extra in funding,...
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Courting controversy
David Balding is wrong to suppose that Bayesian probability theory presents the only satisfactory method for reasoning about factual uncertainties in courts of law (THES, October 24). This is like...
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Party to a partnership
The title of your diary column, Antithesis, could be taken as a licence to get the wrong end of the stick, but your diarist on October 24 clearly enjoyed the recent party at the Royal Institution so...
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As a matter of course
As Oxbridge marginally lowers the stakes in an attempt to deflect possible pruning of resources leading to diminution of the very fabric of the collegiate tutorial system, one solution might be to...
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Innovate to denigrate?
Alison Utley's report on the resistance of lecturers to "innovative" teaching methods (THES, October 24) suggests that the advocates of such methods see resistance as being a defence mechanism, as if...
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A mother superior
Krishna Dutta's review of Anne Sebba's biography of Mother Teresa (THES October 17) was welcome. I was therefore disappointed at inconsistencies in her arguments. Dutta tells us that the Calcutta in...
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Nursing a grievance
Liz Frayn draws a distinction between training and education in medicine (THES, October 24). "Need to know" training is insufficient if professionals are to be able to adapt to new situations and...
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Don's Diary
Saturday and Sunday Fly to Sydney en route to Alice Springs, where I am to attend the Fifth International Literacy and Education Research Network Conference on Learning. This is my third visit to...
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Hunting the snark of destiny
THE fit between higher education and society is a hot-button topic. Managing that fit leads to "policy". Consequently, we have higher education policy, science and technology policy, industry-...
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Cool the words and hot up the process
VICE chancellors learn to be quick on their feet. Often it is the only way to broker the many competing demands on time and resources. One key aspect in being able to "dance like a butterfly" is the...