Clocking up the years
Your back-page picture caption (THES, February 20) said "there are no clock restoration courses in south England". This overlooks the well-established course at West Dean College. Taking six students...
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Appointments
Standing Conference of Principals John Cater, director and chief executive of Edge Hill University College, has been elected vice-chairman of SCOP for 1998-99. University of Wolverhampton Jean...
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Conflicting interests
IT WAS with great disappointment that we discovered from Hansard that Douglas Trainer, the national president of the National Union of Students, had written to the Liberal Democrats asking them to...
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Missing billions
John Edmonds, general secretary of the GMB union, has said that leaving training to voluntary efforts by employers does not work: "some companies train, the vast majority poach". Education secretary...
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Libraries for OU medics
I was interested to read "OU revolution for doctor training" (THES, February 6). The idea of medical students doing the clinical part of their course at district general hospitals and GP practices is...
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Appoint of principal
CONTRARY to what was stated (THES, February 20), I did not appoint my wife to the post of vice-principal. The board makes appointments at that level. She was also not promoted. Ms Hay holds the same...
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Tailor loans to cover all study costs
Correspondents argued last week that higher education should be free ("Professors call for fee and grant rethink"). We agree completely that higher education should be free at the point of use....
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Ministries divide and rule
THE symbolic importance of Santiago de Compostela's central square is often commented on. Around the square there is the university, which recently celebrated its 500th anniversary, the cathedral...
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Title holders fight changes
University colleges have warned that they may be forced to close degree courses if the government pursues plans to make them change their names. They said that proposed strict rules on the use of the...
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RGO back to first site
A national centre for the understanding of astronomy could soon be attracting more than a million visitors a year to Greenwich, writes Julia Hinde. The council of the Particle Physics and Astronomy...
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Battle defends FP5 budget
Science minister John Battle has mounted a firm defence of a European council agreement to cut research spending, writes Tony Tysome. He told The THES this week that the Council of Research Ministers...
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Wish-list drafted for Mars trip
Europe's space scientists have come up with almost 30 different proposals for experiments to accompany the European Space Agency's proposed Mars Express mission. Mars Express, due to launch in 2003,...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a Cambridge botanist with country connections: "Why is Herefordshire more...
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Time, immemorial
Questioning the Millennium
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Great poets with rather small heads
Lives of the Great Romantics II