Spooks and ghouls

23rd March 2001, 12:00am
We’ve had to get used to the new term of “ghost pupils” in the past weeks, youngsters who, it seems, are in school only in spirit. Does this mean, one curious observer asked, that sch youngsters in Roman Catholic schools are to be known as “the Holy Ghost pupils”?

Glasgow education offices at Nye Bevan House have been renamed “Ghostbusters HQ”.