Are students a therapists' gravy train?
As students we are continually told that demand for counselling services is increasing, stress levels are high and "surviving" college life today is far harder than ever before. It is true that...
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Relations with poor
Sir Ron Dearing's idea to "enthuse the poor" (THES, October 25) has its origins earlier than the Robbins report. In 1884 the Rev Samuel Barnett opened Toynbee Hall in the Commercial Road, Whitechapel...
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Relations with poor
Sir Ron may not be aware that some of us in have been working on council estates and in inner-city areas for many years. His appeal for units on "working-class estates" is timely, however, since many...
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School of thought
There is much food for thought in Michael Barber's proposals for reforming initial teacher training (THES, October 25). Though perhaps it is too strong to say that "initial teacher training is in a...
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Hungary for truth
Your story about our research on the fate of Hungarian intellectuals who came to Britain after 1956 (THES, November 1) compressed part of a conversation to give an incorrect impression. The story...
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Sony's lab looks for artistic mix
Japan's electronic giant Sony has sited a basic research laboratory in the Latin Quarter of Paris because it believes that "in the 21st century, scientific technologies need to co-exist with cultural...
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Life mutates in MOO dimension
Three years old this month, the Weizmann Institute's BioMoo biology centre was acclaimed by Science magazine as the first major attempt to use a virtual environment for day-to-day science and science...
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Pleasure principle makes a career move
Technology will help lifelong learners to track their progress and tailor their studies says Morag Arnot. Lifelong learning through part-time study at the University of Paisley is a reality for more...
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Class of '96 colour the new worlds
Whether the CD-Rom and other interactive media are dead or merely resting depends largely on the quality of graduates who make them their career. Tim Greenhalgh followed a cohort through their final...
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Operation Overload in the shadow of the Somme
Information-warfare offers the prospect of a bloodless victory. Lawrence Freedman asks whether war without death is possible. We have on offer visions of a cyber-war with "logic bombs" and "high...
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Direct line to multimedia
THE MULTIMEDIA AND CD-ROM DIRECTORY 16TH EDITION TFPL Multimedia, +44 171 881 8000, Pounds 175 +VAT for two issues ISBN 0 333 670 345. Multiplatform DOS/Macintosh/ Windows CD Since most personal...
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Leanliness of the long-distance runner
MEGA-UNIVERSITIES AND KNOWLEDGE MEDIA John Daniel Kogan Page, 211 pp, Pounds 35.00. - ISBN 0 7494 2119 3. This year has been the Year of Lifelong Learning. Perhaps as good an indicator as any of the...
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Dream of a bureaucrat
Romuald Rudzki (THES letters, October 25) accepts David Albury's rosy picture of happy, self-employed scholars interfacing with their universities and colleges through a managed pseudo-market on the...
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Dream of a bureaucrat
David Albury's radical suggestion sounds like a senior manager's dream come true. I find it fantastic that he could have been prompted to this conclusion, having started from the premise that...
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Speak up for science
I am one of the science communicators that Ian Hughes wants more of (THES, Personal View, October 25). I am not one of the bright new MSc graduates from Imperial or Dublin/Queen's but a professional...