Flying kites for adult learners
This is adult learning week. A wide range of events, activities, open days and media programmes have been taking place throughout the country to help to focus attention on adult learning. What is...
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Tempest predicts pests
Farmers battling against crop pests will soon be helped by a new device which can predict pest outbreaks. The Tempest pest predictor has been developed by Peter Langley, the manager of Insect...
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Hong Kong head moves
The director of Hong Kong's Open Learning Institute has been appointed to run the Commonwealth of Learning, set up by Commonwealth governments in 1988 to encourage wider international access to...
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Alumni launch PC fightback
Students facing allegations of breaking campus codes on political correctness in the United States will receive a helping hand from an organisation designed to "preserve free speech and free thought...
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Nigerian theatre works lost in fire
A fire at Nigeria's leading university has destroyed thousands of books and other documents on philosophy, theatre arts and Arabic and Islamic studies. Among material lost were dissertations...
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War-torn campus reopens
* Twenty-five corpses were found on the campus during clean-up operations by volunteers in preparation for the re-opening, Vera Rich writes. Two mass graves had previously been discovered next to a...
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A world-class mistake
The more effort British universities devote to the problems of the developing world, the better. But is the plan for the Natural Resources Institute, the research arm of the Overseas Development...
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Andy Wright
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Muscling in on the mind
Hunt for language gene" (THES, April 7) made depressing reading and I hope that the geneticists referred to will have second thoughts before spending their careers on this search. They could look...
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Wait for the loan drop-outs
In your editorial "No More Fool's Gold" (THES, April 7) you mischievously compare the National Union of Students' decision to consider loan aid with Labour leader Tony Blair's abandonment of Clause...
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Pensions in Hong Kong
In "pension funds change horses" (THES, April 7), Susie Weldon reports that the Hong Kong Polytechnic University retirement scheme is 90 per cent solvent and that retiring employees may receive fewer...
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Science: The view from industry
The Technology Foresight Programme is only a stage in a debate which must widen on how science's role in society can best be developed, says George Poste Government desires to develop science and...
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The social side of the lab
Being cornered in one of the darker corridors of the LSE by a post-modern sociologist cannot be a very pleasant experience. But one can only surmise that this must be the reason for John Ashworth's...
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Don's Diary
Sunday. Early start; must get to grips with the 12-inch pile of research funding applications. First meeting of the newly constituted South and West NHS research and development committee tomorrow....
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Happy, chez Heller
While simultaneously on the phone to Chicago and trying to find a book on his desk, the man - who was a total stranger to me -asked: "Are you interested in the history of European cities from the...