Inquiry damns Derby
A damning catalogue of errors and mismanagement at Derby Wilmorton College is released today after a Further Education Funding Council enquiry into the governance of the college. The report calls for...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Canon fire
I am surprised that the director of the Courtauld Institute, London, should say that he "did not believe there is a canon in the history of art...", (Perspective, THES, October 28). He, along with...
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John Gardiner
The Royal Academy of Engineering has awarded a fellowship to John Gardiner, head of the department of electrical and electronic engineering at the University of Bradford.
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On the wrong road
Some of the comments attributed to Michael McCarthy ("The last island takes road to Rome", THES, October 14) make curious reading for Irish art historians. Particularly bizarre is the notion that,...
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Dot shots
Jane Seaton's piece on Marshall McLuhan ("Speaking Volumes", November 4) struck some 1960s chords. McLuhan did write some wonderful dotty things - including the aphoristic exposition of his "dot"...
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The greatest deterrent
Students took to the streets of London on Wednesday. In doing so they ignored the example set them by the Union of Communications Workers. The UCW, making use of its nationwide network, has just run...
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Limits of tolerance
Is Britain's liberal and secular academic tradition coming under fire? It would appear so. Last week, there were stories that an Islamic fundamentalist party, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, had been stirring up...