Mining a native talent
John Davies talks to Bernard Rands, the Harvard composer originally inspired by colliery bands. You would not have taken the dapper grey-haired man in a suit who waited in the lobby of his London...
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Assemblies minus instruction manuals
David Walker argues that the unwritten British constitution is in dire need of some academic corrections, while Vernon Bogdanor (right) laments the sorry state of local government. Well, it works...
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Rift and squeeze in 1960s
Harold Wilson's Labour Government was still pretty new in late 1964 and so was the merged Department for Education and Science. Government papers newly released under the 30 year rule by the Public...
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Dundee's fight to become a university
By January 1964, six Scottish towns had made bids to house the country's next university: Stirling, Falkirk, Perth, Inverness, Dumfries and Ayr. But an emergency resolution from Dundee Council urged...
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Honorary degrees
BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY DLitt: David English, chairman, Associated Newspapers. MA: Barbara Chamberlain, former academic secretary of the university. UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE DLitt: Alan Davie,...
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To forgive but not forget
SOUTH AFRICA. F rank Mdlalose," called out a white man in received English pronunciation. A cheer erupted from the almost all-black audience seated amid the Victorian splendour of the Durban City...
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Loans boycott threatens banks
STUDENTS. Last May the National Union of Students called an extraordinary conference to debate student funding. It promised to be a watershed event, marking a radical change in NUS policies. It...
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V-cs take controls of joint audit vehicle
QUALITY. A quality breakthrough finally came in September of this year when vice chancellors won the three-year battle with the funding councils for control of the quality assurance process in...
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PFI tests water
FINANCE. Not too many people could have spoken knowledgeably about the Private Finance Initiative this time last year. That is hardly surprising. It was only launched in higher education in March....
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New year wishes... Diana Warwick
With one wave of the Good Shephard's crook, we could move to a better deal in three ways for students in higher education. A new loan scheme with an extended repayment method: would reduce students'...
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New year wishes... Gillian Shephard
This coming year will offer great opportunities to exploit the benefits of the merger of the Departments for Education and Employment. My department can now take a unified approach to the whole span...
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Digging deeper
While I enjoyed reading Nicholas Saunders's review of recent archaeology books (THES, December 8) I was astonished by his assertion that the study of the interrelationship between cultural...
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New year wishes... Ruth Gee
For too long further education has been stitched-up. Now we must do the stitching. And we can do it by realising the rhetoric of the "seamless robe", for too long a phrase and an inspiration. This...
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New year wishes... David Triesman
My aspiration for a higher education policy advance in 1996 is to find a political party with a higher education policy. That means a policy which determines how big the learning and research task is...