Yanked purse string
Jon Marcus allows the "overseas study costs no more" myth to continue (THES, January 17). Perhaps administrators and academics from United States overseas programmes who come to the United Kingdom...
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Sell your body bits
Perhaps there is an easy way to avoid the risk of transferred animal diseases while saving money and the lives of those who die while awaiting organ transplants (THES, January 17).A very small...
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Take a bet on Bolton
You report that Gillian Shephard has asked the Privy Council to speed up the process of conferring university status on Bolton Institute (THES, January 3). Worthy as Bolton is, this represents a...
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A member's reminder
Contrary to your report on my meeting with Sir Ron Dearing to discuss the European Business School London's proposals on how the independent sector can help in the future structure of higher...
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Don's diary
MONDAY Am in the masochistic throes of completing a book to get to my publishers by Friday, writing two conference presentations to give tomorrow and wondering how to tell my research students that...
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Poll pundits predict without perspective
WE ARE in the heat of the pre-election period. You can almost smell the cordite as trench warfare takes shape. The parties are hurling their ammunition of propaganda and statistics at each other with...
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English's hold on Asians
REPORTS of the importance of English are commonplace. But the recent spate of news about English in Asia begs attention. In Hong Kong the University Grants Committee has proposed tougher English...
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Revamp for NVQ mooted
A "NEW and improved" model for the much-criticised National Vocational Qualification is in the pipeline to bolster the flagging qualification. The revamp is expected next spring in line with the...
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PFI fuels bid for Stirling polytechnic
THE first further education project under the Government's Private Finance Initiative has been hailed as a milestone by Scottish secretary Michael Forsyth. The Pounds 3.5 million further education...
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Hitch in pig organ trials
THE Cambridge-based company at the centre of plans to transplant genetically modified pig organs to humans is in talks with academic departments in the United States and plans to spread its work...
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Poor encouraged
Cambridge University Students' Union has launched a handbook to encourage more state school applicants. Every state sixth form will receive the Target Schools Handbook. Topics addressed include: "Do...
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Death offering
Students may find themselves unable to refuse the offer of a new course on Italian-organised crime at the University of Kent. Italian lecturer Tom Behan has prepared a new course for 1997 on the...
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BSE research boost
The Office of Science and Technology has earmarked Pounds 17 million from the 1997/98 science budget for research into BSE and related diseases, including scrapie in sheep. Science minister Ian...
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Talks held on universities buying loans co.
THE COMMITTEE of Vice Chancellors and Principals is investigating the feasibility of the universities buying the Student Loans Company. The CVCP's director of policy development, Tony Bruce, will be...
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Warning over animal organs
In the week that the Department of Health was expected to publish a report supporting animal to human organ transplantation, a leading scientist warned that such transplants could result in the...