Genetics debate must be open
THE NEW science of genetics contains some of the most complete challenges ever created to who we are and how we live. By comparison, nuclear power is just another way to boil water and computers are...
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Key issues beyond Sir Ron's remit
It is too bad that Samuel Beckett did not live long enough to see the first half of 1997. He would probably rather have enjoyed the spectacle of British higher education re-enacting his most famous...
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Me-me-me monsters in our midst
I should like to add my voice to those who are recognising an unfortunate sea change in attitude among undergraduates. I am not an aged educational elitist: I am 30 years old, and my research into...
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Ex-polys can now reach for the stars in research
The performance of the 1960s universities in the research assessment exercise gives hope to their 1990s successors and destroys the case for an elite grouping, says Frank Gould It might be assumed...
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Pensions for all
The proposed changes in the pension scheme for teachers have added weight to the arguments for a new superannuation scheme to cover all professors, lecturers and academic-related staff in all...
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Come back, Cardinal Newman
It is refreshing to see Cardinal Newman's The Idea of a University regaining currency in debates on the purposes of higher education. It is quite wrong however for Frank Webster (Opinion, THES,...
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Lady's not an Ivy
The University of Notre Dame is not an Ivy League university, as stated in your item about Notre Dame's takeover of the British School of Osteopathy premises (THES, January 10). The Ivy League, make-...
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Rights of reply
Julian Petley and Martin Barker justify removing our contribution to their book Ill Effects on the effects of the media by accusing us of being "quite unwilling" to go through the normal editorial...
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High price of terror
If the announcement of cuts in Northern Ireland research, student awards and inservice teacher training funds is disgraceful, the view of the secretary of state is stunning. Sir Patrick Mayhew is...
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Wellcome comment
Neville Hodgkinson makes a slight error in his comment on my review of his book on Aids (THES, December ). When the piece was published (though not when it was written), I had already ceased to be a...
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Dons's Diary
Monday Lazy Cypriot winter's morning: relaxing in my over-grown garden. Weather is mild and clear. I finish reading Dervish, the Making of Modern Turkey by journalist Tim Kelsey. Very enjoyable, if...
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The growl and the pussycat
I once tried to tackle the issue of a colleague who was being systematically bullied by her superior. I complained to someone higher up but was told no action could be taken without witnesses and,...
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Weave ideas for material change
Organisational learning is far more difficult to achieve than individual learning, since knowledge has to be shared and woven into an institution's very fabric. Ideally, organisational learning...
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Poor encouraged
Cambridge University Students' Union has launched a handbook to encourage more state school applicants. Every state sixth form will receive the Target Schools Handbook. Topics addressed include: "Do...
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Death offering
Students may find themselves unable to refuse the offer of a new course on Italian-organised crime at the University of Kent. Italian lecturer Tom Behan has prepared a new course for 1997 on the...