Plan for the worst, hope for the best
HIGHER and further education's wish for 1998 must be that the planning blight of 1997 will end. 1997 was a year of waiting - for the election, for reports, for white papers and for money. It was also...
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Abroad thoughts home in on benefits of Russian year
Twelve months learning the language and culture of another country sets students up for life - and work, says Pieta Monks MY "Russian" year abroad in the early 1970s was interesting: five months of...
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Trouble in paradise parking lot
Germans are protesting because universities have become dumping grounds for a whole generation, argues Jennie Brookman THE MOST remarkable thing about the student strikes and demonstrations sweeping...
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Net gains
CHRIS WILLIAMS, the cancer network coordinator, says: "The network is aimed at everyone. The Cochrane network is one way they will be able to get at much of the information available" (Medical...
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Graduate pleads for library pass
AS a member of convocation and a graduate of University College, London, I used to use the libraries of the University of London and University College without payment. I was a student for 11 years,...
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Ghost with a market
THE alarm you report from Peterhouse about a ghost is surely misplaced (THES, December 19). The college is rather to be congratulated on the spirit's appearance. When an undergraduate there in the...
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Case for fee control
In the United States tuition charges vary dramatically between and within universities. This convinces me that our own government will be well-advised to maintain strong control over tuition-fee...
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Case for fee control
ALL MANY potential students wanted for Christmas was a cheque for Pounds 3,000 worth of tuition fees if they gain a place at university next year. Many would-be students will be unable to realise...
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Blame mankind, not God, for mess
If I have inadvertently patronised Shabbir Akhtar in my book (Muslims and Christians Face to Face, THES, December 12), - assuming it is possible to patronise someone one considers one's intellectual...
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Blame mankind, not God, for mess
WHILE appreciating many of the remarks made by Linda Woodhead in reviewing my Studies in Modern Jewish and Hindu Thought (THES, December 12), much of what she says fails to reach its target since I...
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Don's Diary
Monday Fax back to a student in United States to say he is welcome to join the MSc food safety course next year. I hope he gets his fellowship to pay the fees. Sort out the supervisory needs of our...
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Reaping synergies amid scepticism
THE OUTCOME of the debate about the relevance of private finance initiatives in universities will determine our future system. The Treasury is committed to PFI projects because it is convinced that...
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Chairs
King's College, London Sarah Cowley, senior lecturer, has been appointed to the newly established chair of nursing practice and evaluation; David Ganz, formerly at the University of North Carolina,...
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Honorary degrees
University of Liverpool Doctor of Laws: Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth since September 1, 1991. Former principal of Jews' College London, in 1990...
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MEPs agree on research
The European parliament has agreed wide-ranging amendments to the European Union's proposed fifth framework programme. The programme of research funding for Europe should come into operation at the...