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...
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A negative result
David Edmonds on the campaign to outlaw affirmative action in the US. James Meredith wanted to study at his local state university. But when he sought to enrol there in 1962, President John F....
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Harmonising Hellenist
John Davies meets Pat Easterling, Cambridge's first female regius professor of Greek. It is hard to find a bad word said about Patricia Easterling. The newly appointed regius professor of Greek at...
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Public `paying for commercial research'
Universities are leaving themselves open to the accusation that they are "subsidising commercial work from the public purse" by not recovering costs from externally sponsored research, Graeme Davies...
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Testing time
(Photograph) - Testing time: Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, an engineering lecturer at Cambridge University, finally got rid of his L-plates on his 13th driving test last week. The 40-year-old passed with...
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Funders forced to rethink quality
An acrimonious public row erupted at the annual conference of the Higher Education Funding Council for England this week when quality - which had originally been left off the agenda - took centre...
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Active minds keep atrophy at bay
A combination of good education and continuing mental activity may help delay the onset of dementia, according to psychiatric researchers. A report from the Erasmus University in the Netherlands in...
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Nurse training deal
Vice chancellors and National Health Service officials have reached an agreement over new arrangements for nurse training. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals and the NHS executive are...
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Seda recognitions
The Staff and Educational Development Association says it has been approached by 36 UK institutions of higher education seeking recognition for their training programmes for new teaching staff. Seda...
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Helen Swire