Cloning rights
IN "Devaluing the human factor" (THES, February 6), the director-general of Unesco, Federico Mayor, supports a ban on human cloning and rejects defences of that practice that invoke a "right to...
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Thoughtless theorising
IS Catherine Belsey sending herself up? Her article (THES, January 30) on literary theory contains the following: "Young lecturers take it for granted" and "It must gall senior academics to be...
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Let's have a grant lottery
I WAS interested to read Les Allen's proposals (THES, February 6) for awarding research grants on the lottery principle. This would have the advantage both of dealing with the known biases of the...
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Missing links?
BY PLACING Simon Critchley's "Dare to think" next to your celebration of Michael Craig-Martin (THES, February 6), you ironically illustrate why "Young British Art" serves Charles Saatchi so neatly....
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Purveyors of opium for the universities
SUSSED. As Chris Grey wryly observes in his commentary on the use of "new methods" in teaching students ("Is staff development drivel?" THES, February 6), the advocates of the methods are not neutral...
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Unions of unions
FORMER members and officers of the Association of University and College Lecturers have far more common cause with the Association of University Teachers than was ever likely with Natfhe. Paul...
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Unions of unions
My comments on a possible Association of University Teachers/Natfhe merger may possibly have been sectoral, but they were certainly not sectarian - we who live in Northern Ireland know the meaning of...
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Sharing the chores
VALENTINE Cunningham (THES, January 30) may not be able to get his students to pay him for their references but he could get them to help with the work involved. He does not know, he says, "what it...
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Don's Diary
Thursday I am just getting used to smallness: small country, small town and a tiny college. Vidzemes Augstskola (ViA), a new university college in Valmiera in northern Latvia, has only 200 students,...
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Merger is the price of FE's new money
NEW money hardly ever comes with no price tag. The new money for further education has some clear conditions. One of these is the government's desire for rationalisation. We do not know how many...
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Profit and schloss account
FOR 50 years the Salzburg Seminar has been a centre of intellectual exchange and debate for the world's emerging leaders. Launched in 1947 by three Harvard students, the seminar has sent more than 18...
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Awards
Peter Jones Memorial Trophy The trophy, for distinguished service to the fish farming industry, has been awarded to Niall Bromage, professor of reproductive physiology and endocrinology and assistant...
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Honorary Degrees
University of East London DUniv: Issa Shivji, professor of law at the University of Dar es Salaam; Hans Hoxter, pioneer in the training and education of counsellors; David Austin, rose breeder;...
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Blackstone raises FE stakes
College governance will be made "open and fair" and lecturers will have to sit teacher training qualifications under the government's lifelong learning proposals to be set out later this month. In an...
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BBSRC to revamp food institute
The Institute of Food Research faces rationalisation following a research council probe which concludes that the institute's two-site structure has "compromised" key multidisciplinary research. The...