Snippets: ATTI — Manchester hotspot

This year's conference must surely go down in ATTI annals as the hottest ever. Not that it was tempers inflamed — the radical left did their militant duty and little else. But Manchester defied its reputation and gave us steaming hot weather throughout. Nice for those stretched out on the Piccadilly hotel patio, excruciating for the rest of us incarcerated in the Grand's basement ballroom. Jugs of iced water disappeared as fast as they could be filled. And perspiring delegate after delegate made cracks about ‘having a long cool look at salary policy’ and ‘the further education sweat‐shop’. Yet the city in many ways was an excellent choice boasting of that loyal protector of the FE faith Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, and Frank Hatton chairman of the new Local Authorities' Higher Education Committee, both of whom were guests at the conference dinner.