Award's logical winner
The Israeli mathematician Amir Pnueli has won the 1996 Turing award, the most prestigious prize in computer science, for work which could prevent disasters such as a plane crash, a failed space...
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V-cs voice engineering fears
THE ENGINEERING Council has proposed tough entry standards for engineering degree courses. But several university heads described the proposals this week as "elitist" and a threat to the profession....
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Councils snub research code
NEW GUIDELINES on research degrees published this week by the Higher Education Quality Council have been snubbed by the research councils. Designed to help institutions check the quality of their...
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Medical research charities
Medical research charities may have lost out on thousands of pounds worth of National Lottery funding because of a misconception that the Charities Board is not interested in funding their research,...
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Galleries on alert after vomit attacks
ART galleries across North America are on the alert after an art student, who admitted to vomiting deliberately on two museum paintings, threatened to strike again. In an article in Toronto's Globe...
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Faculty correction
I WAS sorry to see the THES (November 29) repeat an error which appeared in The Times Diary the preceding weekend by suggesting that Tony Giddens's chair in sociology was in the faculty of economic...
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Harvard is world best
YOUR question: "The best university in the world?" (THES, November 8) is an intriguing one. Unfortunately, it will be impossible to find a satisfying or even commonly agreeable answer. But would it...
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Jung's vital deceptions
ANTHONY STEVENS's response (THES, November 29) to my article on the scientific baselessness of Jung's theories of a collective unconscious and archetypes is a perfect example of the evasion and lack...
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Staff despair at Open University
COMING as it does from your multimedia editor, who is professionally placed for a balanced and objective view, the article ("IT cannot replace eye-to-eye", THES, December 6) gives welcome support to...
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Staff despair at Open University
IT DOES not surprise me that many universities are writing strategies for the funding council based on the illusion that IT reduces staff. Simply put, there is no evidence that IT saves money. IT may...
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Students against fees proposals
WHO DOES the Russell Group think it is kidding? (Fees split Russell 17, THES, December 6) Up and down the country over the next few weeks university governing bodies will be asked to establish the...
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Students against fees proposals
THE IDEA of postgraduate loans (THES, December 6), funded from the private sector, is nothing new. The "deal" negotiated by the '94 Group of Universities is no different from what is on offer on the...
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OECD damns stats
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development has admitted that its higher education statistics are inadequate. At a top-level meeting one week before the launch of "Education at a Glance...
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Tunnel of terror
(Photograph) - Tunnel of terror: John Adams of University College, London, says that the Channel tunnel is bound to become a terrorist target. On page 14 he describes how the problem will be...
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Sunny Sunderland
A new Pounds 15 million media centre at the University of Sunderland, equipped with Sun computers, will deliver courses locally, and to other institutions as far afield as Hong Kong.