Line of sight
The Secretary of State for Employment may think he is divinely inspired, but do the vice chancellors of Britain's universities have to swallow the story? Today the Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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Right balance
Rather more the PAC's sort of thing was the conversation a year or two back between two principals of further education colleges. One expressed a degree of amazement that the other had left his...
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Off the map
Those Marriott Hotel advertisements that have succeeded, by excluding Wales, Ireland and Scotland from their map of the British Isles, in annoying the Celtic fringes on a scale previously only...
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Parliament to debate 16 to 19s
The National Commission on Education's report on reforming post-school learning is to be debated at a major parliamentary inquiry into 16 to 19 provision. The report, Learning to Succeed After 16*, (...
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Lords told of science career obstacles
Many young academic scientists are being denied the career security necessary to help them become established, the Medical Research Council told the Lords this week. Sir Dai Rees, MRC chief executive...
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Alas poor Celt
(Photograph) - Alas poor Celt: Archaeologist Bob Watts holds a severed human skull, possibly a Celtic sacrifice, found around Malham Tarn in the Yorkshire Dales. University of Bradford staff are...
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Probe into why doctors drop out
The British Medical Association is drawing up plans to follow the careers of 500 medical students to discover why up to a quarter drop out of the profession three years after qualifying. One possible...
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Vice chancellors' pay
Huw Richards surveys the information currently available on top people's pay in institutions for 1993/94 In the notes which accompany the financial statement, balance sheet and auditors' report for...
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Simon Baker
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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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Diane Gilhooley
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Following Freud
In Frederick Crews's splendid article (THES, March 3) dealing with the responses to his attack on Freud, he comments that his original essay continues to attract more attention than all of his...
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Following Freud
Frederick Crews makes a number of basic factual errors in his "triumphalist" critical attack on psychoanalysis. First, he makes the absurd assumption that clinical psychoanalysis has not changed...
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The Don Juans
'I was worried it would affect my degree';Claire Sanders tells of her experiences at the hands of a lecherous tutor. It was over ten years ago that one of my supervisors at Cambridge University...