Debenture stuck on the slipway
In your leader column (THES, March 10) you stated that Lancaster University had launched a Pounds 35 million debenture issue. Not so, unfortunately. We have been on the slipway for some time, and had...
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Neural nonsense
While I find John Taylor's argument (THES, March 3) interesting and although I share an interest in neural network techniques, I cannot agree that we are on the verge of a breakthrough in...
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Union demands a say in reforms
Academic staff are threatening to boycott the transfer of university degrees to New Zealand's qualifications framework unless they are involved in the administrative structure. The Association of...
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Deskilling of the probation service
Your reporter was right to draw attention to the widespread academic and trade union opposition to the proposed abolition of university-based training for probation officers (THES, March 3). The...
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Social engineers with cash in hand
The Government would like to see a shift in the balance between full-time and part-time study. The rationale is transparent: under current arrangements, more students can be educated at a lower cost...
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Hallucinate: you know it's good for you
Out-of-body experiences, where subjects feel they are seeing their bodies from the outside, merit research because of the insight they could give into perception in general, according to the author...
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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...