Course is called to account
Congratulations on your expose of the affairs of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (Whistleblowers, THES, September 3). My further inquiries make depressing reading. ACCA boasts some...
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Visitor does work
A good deal of alarmist piffle is being uttered lately about the impact of the Human Rights Act on the institution of the visitor in universities and colleges, much of it emanating from practising...
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Visitor does work
The Oxbridge visitor system can work very well indeed (Letters, THES, September 10). I asked my Cambridge college to provide a form of Grace acceptable to non-Christians. This caused some difficulty...
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Visitor does work
Peter Butler (Letters, THES, September 10) could not have appealed to Cambridge's visitor since the university does not have one. The office is not provided for in our constitutional arrangements....
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Names in lights
As one of the "media dons" profiled in previous THES articles, I read with great interest Andrew Oswald's article about university publicity ("Bushels: avoid, lights: turn up", THES, September 3)....
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Expansion of learning
A key word was omitted in the story "Dons warn over expansion" (THES, September 10). and distorted our message. We argue against a further expansion of initial HE, not of HE generally. The issue is...
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Sectarian schools
Tom Devine suggests that what he calls "sniping" about Catholic schools in Scotland is an element of residual animosity to Catholics ("Spot the Catholic", THES, September 10). As a secular Scot, my...
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Transylvanian cash row sorted
Hungary has earmarked two bill-ion forints (Pounds 5.5 million) for a Hungarian-taught university in Romanian Transylvania. According to Bishop Laszlo Toekes of the Hungarian Reformed Church, the...
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Americans turn back on physics
More overseas students are studying graduate physics in the United States than Americans, it has been revealed. The news has prompted moves to impose quotas on applicants from abroad and to offer...
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No place for a child
David Blunkett wants to fast-track bright school students, but is university the right place for a 14-year-old, asks Jennie Bristow. One of the less endearing characters in the quirky US comedy Ally...
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Sources for research funds
Each week this section lists funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL www.esrc.ac.uk 1999/2000 Research...
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Philippe Busquin
For a physicist and Belgian politician, Philippe Busquin, confirmed as European commissioner for research on Wednesday, seems to have a knack for creating a stir. In 1995, he surprised everyone by...
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Don's diary
Friday Make it to my rented study at about 10am. Have just begun the final revision of my thesis, with a view to finishing on September 4 (the last, I hope, of many projected deadlines). I am not...
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The Portillo files
All eyes this week have been on Peterhouse College, Cambridge, Michael Portillo's alma mater, and, in his student days, reportedly a place of "high camp" where fellows and undergraduates were given...
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Don't mention the war
While the Jewish community apparently supported moves by the University of Pisa to lay a stone for Giovanni Gentile, the late Italian fascist politician and former education minister, the idea has...