US visa block on foreign workers
A POLITICAL impasse over the availability of visas has shut the door on foreign academics who had hoped to enter the United States in time to teach or do research in the academic year now beginning....
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Techno future not easy to predict, says report
Forecasting how technology and people will mix in 2020 will need more than the "gee-whiz optimism of the technophiles", concludes a Foresight report from the Economic and Social Research Council out...
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Pagan but not godless
I was appalled by the closing paragraph of Shabbir Akhtar's review (THES, August 21), in which he identifies secularism with paganism and denounces the latter as ruthless, power-seeking and "godless...
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Insult to Serbs
Vera Rich (THES, August 21) "informs" us that "Kosovo was cut off from Albania in the Communist era ..." This is grossly incorrect and insulting both to Serbs today and their forefathers who fought...
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On record
Christopher Phipps refers to the British Library and other major libraries collaborating to ensure a continued national public archive (THES, August 21). Anyone from the London Library should be...
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A levels as entry route
It is disappointing to see yet another example of questionable graphical display used to substantiate a point based on dubious interpretation of data. Phil Baty ("Colleges overtake schools", THES,...
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Better pensions cost money
Alastair McDougall (THES, August 21) has some interesting ideas. The Association of University Teachers and the corporate trustee both agree with him in attaching importance to improvement of the...
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Better pensions cost money
Alastair McDougall could be accused of proposing the wrong solution to the wrong problem at the wrong time. If there is genuine concern about the stress levels of university staff these should be...
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Hong Kong cash myth
Orlan Lee, writing about higher education in Hong Kong in your review of the Commonwealth, regrettably perpetuates a myth about the research assessment exercises undertaken by the University Grants...
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21x21 vision
(Photograph) - "21x21" vision: a student strools past ranged small works of art at a summer exhibition that is being staged at Northumbria University Gallery, Newcastle. Every exhibitor was required...
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Appointments
Open University Fraser Woodburn, registrar and secretary at the University of Essex, has been appointed secretary of the university. University of Teesside Elizabeth Roberts, postdoctoral researcher...
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Sticking his neck out
(Photograph) - Sticking his neck out: James Acord, artist-in-residence at Imperial College, London, has his nuclear waste handling number tattooed on his neck. Interview, page 20
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Call for genetic food watchdog
THE ROYAL Society has called for independent monitoring of genetically modified crops. The call is contained in a Royal Society statement on genetically modified food, which concludes that there are...
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Fact file
Findings from the Further Education Funding Council for England reveal that for 1996-97: * 11 per cent of all unemployed qualifiers were males aged 25 and over with first degrees * 9 per cent of all...
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Don's Diary
As chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, the end of August was one of the busiest times of the year for Tony Higgins. A-level results were published and school leavers...