Confident of a better future
Advances in biotechnology must be life-enhancing and not dehumanising, says John Battle Biotechnology is fast becoming a major global industry. That much is beyond doubt. Equally certain is the fact...
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Surplus professors urged to fall on their swords
It is time to introduce a stricter system for awarding chairs, writes Ken Stout SINCE the early days of the education system, the position of professor has been widely sought by academics as a mark...
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Pay review better for all
I FEEL sure that the general secretary of Unison will wish to set the record straight and deny the remark attributed to a spokesperson for his union (THES, October 31) that the Association of...
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Taking on Blackstone
BARONESS Blackstone (THES, October 24) points out with some justification that quality rather than quantity is the key issue in the education of our science and engineering students. However, I hope...
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Taking on Blackstone
SURELY Sir Harry Kroto could not have missed Huw Richards's article (THES, June 21 1996) titled "Blackstone goes for fees"? In it she made the same points as in her THES item of October 17. Last year...
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Taking on Blackstone
BARONESS Blackstone writes of the scope for growth in higher education from non-traditional sections of the population - "older men and women from lower middle-class and working-class backgrounds" (...
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Longer, not shorter
FOR THE benefit of students dedicated to a career in science/engineering and whose future career aspirations extend beyond the United Kingdom, I would suggest that more attention be given to the...
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Perceptions versus the reality
THE IMAGES of problem-based medical curricula given in the editorial and in Liz Frayn's "Personal View" (THES, October 24) would seem to bear little, if any, relation to the reality of such curricula...
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Shoddy science
IN HER recently publicised survey of therapists, ("Childhood trauma rings true", THES, October 31), Bernice Andrews claims to have found proof for "recovered memories". Far from it. She and her...
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Theory and authority
FROM what I read Jacques Lacan was very probably a complex and in many ways not a very nice man. However, those of a psychoanalytic orientation could take the ferocity of the attacks on Lacan's...
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Theory and authority
I AM sure Raymond Tallis is right that as a moral individual Jacques Lacan was a monster (THES, October 31). The trouble is that if you demand card-carrying sanity and decency from your thinkers, the...
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Don's Diary
Saturday Yerevan, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Armenia, and another Council of Europe seminar on "transition democracies", how pluralist democracies are supposed to work in practice...
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Is there a future for freedom?
"University autonomy under threat" was one headline in South Africa's Financial Mail in the past few weeks. It drew attention to the new higher education bill being presented to parliament and to the...
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Beware the shotgun merger
On the face of it university/further education college mergers are attractive propositions. They offer the prospect of comprehensive, inclusive institutions for tomorrow's students - home based, from...
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Pillow talk for cavemen
The Symbolic Species