Accountancy action
Nearly half of the members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales think there should be more on-the-job assessment of trainees working towards qualified status, a MORI poll...
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Oxford jackpot
Oxford University's research income has topped Pounds 100 million for the first time, it was revealed this week. Overall research income was Pounds 104.2 million for 1995/96, an increase of 10.4 per...
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Write on
Reviewing books on writing systems (THES, October 18), Oliver Moore makes the remarkable claim that "no one has yet invented a purely written language". John Wilkins invented one as long ago as 1668...
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HERA for equality
I WAS saddened to read Opinion (THES, October 11) as it gave a biased and ill-informed impression of the COMCON project. The project was initiated in 1993 by a group of personnel directors and with...
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Wrong umbilical chord
I hope that the seriously smug Jennie Bristow ("Students who can't cut the umbilical cord", Personal View, THES, October 18) continues to cope so masterfully with "life" as neither Sussex nor Kent...
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Snobbery along the binary line
AS HEAD of a philosophy department in a former polytechnic, where one philosophy programme was validated by Baroness Warnock in the days of the Council for National Academic Awards, I was intrigued...
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V-cs unilaterally disarmed
The Labour party has shot the vice chancellors' fox. The leaders of UK universities, in collaboration with higher education unions and the National Union of Students, have been campaigning vigorously...
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Vocational reform cannot afford delay
Throughout October there has been a bitter row rumbling over national vocational qualifications. How many were taking them, how many achieved them, had they done more than displace existing...
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War of new campus
The University of Alicante and the Valencian regional government are locked in a bitter struggle over plans for a new institution in the city. In an outbreak of open warfare, Andres Pedre$o, Alicante...
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Insurance firms facecost of genetic secrets
People who know they have adverse genetic traits, but are not compelled to declare it to insurance firms, could expose the industry to extra costs, according to a study by Angus Macdonald of Heriot-...
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Ethicists tread the moral maze
Public concern over euthanasia, foetal pain, assisted fertilisation and gene therapy has left western ethicists working overtime to draw the elusive line between "right" and "wrong". But there will...
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Beware of the eco crisis mongers
WESTERN predictions of environmental crises caused by the feckless management of natural resources in developing countries are often inaccurate and misleading, British and United States scientists...
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Irish squeezed out with a tear
At least a third, and possibly half, of young people leaving Northern Ireland to study on the mainland do so reluctantly, claims Ulster University. Students are being forced to leave because of an...
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There was Nel, Nel . . .
Warm congratulations to the publishers of The Science Reporter, august organ of the Association of British Science Writers, for a classic display of the havoc that can be wrought by omitting a single...