Appointments
THE ROYAL SOCIETY. The following vice presidents have been appointed: J. H. Horlock, treasurer, Royal Society, former vice chancellor of Open University; P. J. Lachmann, Sheila Joan Smith professor...
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Irish weigh up no-fee cost
When the next history book on Irish education development is written a chapter will have to be devoted to the saga of the abolition of tuition fees. A suitable title might be "Free fees - no thanks...
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Why no nudes is good news
In a phoney row about political correctness, the Southampton artist Larry Wakefield and a local journalist cynically seized an opportunity last week for publicising Wakefield's work. However, media-...
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Community teaching to continue
Bournville College of Further Education, Birmingham, has said it will continue with community teaching despite having called in the police to investigate fake franchised courses for 3,000 students....
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Germans delay start of Socrates
The start of Socrates, the European Union's central education programme which includes student exchanges, faces delay because of a dispute over its Ecu860 million (Pounds 660 million) budget. This...
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An inside job or a set-up?
The debate about the causes of violence long predates the current furore; only the language in which it is cloaked changes. Two decades ago the focus was not genes but chromosomes, when it was...
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The empire strikes back
The West insists on seeing the war in Chechenia as an internal Russian affair. But as Richard Clogg points out, it is only the latest episode in an old struggle by an independent people against their...
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Czech list for reform
For better or worse, continuity has proved a factor to be considered much more seriously in the process of transforming Czech education than either outright pessimists or rather naive optimists...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Early start - a colleague picks me up from home in Crewe at 6.15am to give me a lift to work in Manchester. We discuss Crewe Alexandra's magnificent 4-0 win over Brighton, the week's work...
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An inside job or a set-up?
It is indisputably the case that genetic and biological factors play a non-trivial role in predisposing people to criminal behaviour. I firmly believe this because the past decade of biological...
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An inside job or a set-up?
Crime, a major London conference will hear next week, could be in the genes. As the argument that some people are biologically disposed to criminal behaviour has gained ground, Kam Patel asks...
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For weddings and inaugural lectures
Universities may have changed a lot since I became an administrator in the 1960s but at least that grand institution - the inaugural lecture - has survived. I am an unashamed sentimentalist about...
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Governing business, managing change
John Daniel (THES, January ) takes too narrow a perspective of management and as a result becomes confused. To identify management "away-day" profligacy is commendable but is undermined by the...
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Governing business, managing change
The call for the governance of the "new" universities to be modelled on that of the "old" universities (THES, January ) is highly questionable, as is Liz Allen's conclusion (THES, January 13) that...
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State schools' gripe with Oxbridge entry
As the head of a state comprehensive school with a good record of examination success and which regularly puts forward candidates for entry both to Oxford and Cambridge, I find Ruth Deech's remarks (...