Partiality of UN secretary
This week talks are to take place in Geneva, under the auspices of the UN, in an attempt to achieve a settlement of the long-running crisis that has resulted from the Georgian attack on Abkhazia in...
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Procedures not bypassed
It was perhaps inevitable that a letter headed "Lecturers loathe to report on GNVQs" emanated from the secretary of a Council for Academic Freedom and Academic Standards' (sic). I would like to...
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A halting revolution
The socialist regimes of central and eastern Europe assumed that statements of equality in their constitutions were all that was needed to ensure equality. Yet they did make some special provisions...
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Don's Diary
Sunday. Car from Anglesey to Manchester, then to Nice via Brussels. At the airport study a 15-page Ministry of Agriculture form on which proposals must be submitted. Seems longer than some research...
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AUT aims for uniform pay - but not yet
The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S (November 11) correctly reported that the Association of University Teachers was not in favour of either joint pay scales or joint bargaining for academic and related staffs in "old" and "...
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The ghost in the machine
Most of us are intrigued by our own consciousness. But reading recent books written by eminent people leaves us baffled by what seems to be a demarcation dispute. The explanation of human...
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Suffer little children ...
Developmental psychologists have had a good press this century. Generally avoiding most Freudian excesses, they have established acceptable, clear guidelines covering the normal stages of physical,...
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The code breaker
Sometimes a scientist's career lifts like a surfer catching a wave. A combination of ripe problems and apt techniques appears at just the right time, and someone who was drifting is off, riding the...
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The colonel, the PR man and the MP
In the current furore over the outside interests of Members of Parliament, and in particular over their connections with lobbying firms, it is worth recalling that it was Colonel Papadopoulos, the...
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Practising law with a provisional licence
Academia is not for the faint-hearted: constructionists are knocked down by deconstructionists, structuralists are challenged by poststructuralists, feminists are attacked by revisionist feminists,...
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Charities warn lottery will hit donations
Research funding charities are predicting a big drop in income starting this week when the national lottery is launched. The National Kidney Research Fund and the Kidney Foundation, which between...
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Status bid by colleges queried
Vice chancellors have been unable to come to an agreement on what to do about colleges which use the word "university" in their titles. Instead, a council meeting of the Committee of Vice Chancellors...
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Light fingers
(Photograph) - Light fingers: Caught Shoplifting, a painting by John Smith, a student at Loughborough College of Art and Design, was part of the backdrop for the Blackburn Lectures, given at...
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Mongolian memories
(Photograph) - Mongolian memories: Ts Tsegmid, principal of Ulaanbaatar college of art in Mongolia, shows a traditional painting from an exhibition of Mongolian fine art at Wimbledon School of Art.
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A question of value for money
As Budget Day approaches there have been the usual leaks about fights within the Cabinet over public expenditure cuts. The two alleged victims are social security and education. This is bad news for...