Insanity plea
Their job involves fire-fighting, policing and door-to-door selling, but increasingly less of the role they were trained to do - psychiatry. Martin Deahl warns that the crisis in community care...
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Burlington Berties' battle
A dispute between learned societies that occupy coveted buildings in London's Piccadilly and the Government department that owns the buildings could end up in court. The occupants of Burlington House...
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Empty ahead
Freudian slip of the week, or evidence that Labour's new commitment to hardheaded capitalism extends to endorsing downsizing just as its strongest proponents start to have second thoughts? Shadow...
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Post-school vouchers on the cards
Education Secretary Gillian Shephard aims to improve post-compulsory education by introducing learning vouchers for 16-19-year-olds by September 1997. The decision, announced last week in the...
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Entente cordiale lures brains
Last week's launch of the Entente Cordiale Scholarship Scheme at the British Embassy in Paris could scarcely have been more timely. Parts of the French press and political establishment, reacting to...
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Consensus and sensibility
After the outcome of the 1992 general election, there are few people bold enough to state that Scottish devolution is a certainty after the next one. But there is increasing public debate of the home...
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We are not a 'Mum's army'
Brian Williams (THES, June 14) fears the erosion of the established professions such as teaching, social work, probation service and architecture by the rise of the "neo-professions". For some time...
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Feel-bad folly
Centre-left academic Peter Robinson tells Lucy Hodges why Tony Blair is storing up trouble if he fuels middle-class angst about job security whipped up by the media. New signs of a government public...
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The feel-bad fees factor
I was saddened to read that Birmingham University is considering a Pounds 700 fee for new students (THES, June 14). While studying there between 1988 and 1991, it was obvious to me that I was one of...
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Pincer move
(Photograph) - Pincer move: Michael Depledge, co-director of the Environmental Research Centre at Plymouth University, has led pioneering research which uses crabs to measure pollution. Infrared...
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Artists need a brush with PR
Universities and colleges should do more to promote the benefits of their arts courses, the Arts Council said this week. They ought to be clearer and more open about the kinds of skills and...
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A game of two pints
In a week when English sports writers had to concede that beer drinking might not be fatal to performance, an exercise scientist has offered hope for more modest sportspeople who cannot disentangle...
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Debagged
Alumnus to be proud of No 54 is a man to avoid if you are sensitive to noise pollution. Sean MacGlonin contributed greatly to the peace and quiet of central London last weekend by playing the...
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Scots see benefits of Westminster divorce
The establishment of a Scottish parliament could produce a new approach to running the education system, characterised by accountability and consensus. This view emerged at a conference on "Education...
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Belarus nuclear protest trials
Two Belarusian scientists have appealed for help from the international academic community to ensure they receive a fair trial. Yury Khadyka and Viachaslau Siuchyk were released from custody last...