'Skills paper sidelines universities'
The government's skills strategy white paper marginalises higher education and could stunt development, Universities UK said this week in its response to the paper. In a three-page letter to the...
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Goals focus stifles adult education
Government targets for improving workforce skills are frustrating efforts on the ground to get people back into education, adult-learning leaders have warned. Bureaucrats holding the purse strings of...
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Aspiring lifelong learners need cash and confidence boost
THE EDUCATOR Susan Weall, deputy lifelong learning manager for Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Learning and Skills Council, thinks some of the more common reasons adults give for not getting back into...
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Bid to boost FE staff quality
Tony Tysome reports from the Association of Colleges conference, Birmingham The government has announced measures to improve teacher training for further education lecturers, after an Ofsted report...
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Study? No we'd rather go out, say teenagers
Tony Tysome reports from the Association of Colleges conference, Birmingham A national survey has confirmed what lecturers and parents have always suspected - most teenagers value their social life...
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Industry 'refuses to pay for training'
Tony Tysome reports from the Association of Colleges conference, Birmingham College heads accused employers of blocking progress on the government's skills agenda by refusing to invest more in...
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Ministers dismiss claims that LSC lacks funds to meet targets
Tony Tysome reports from the Association of Colleges conference, Birmingham Ministers have dismissed claims by college heads that the Learning and Skills Council does not have the funding to meet...
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Doubts over lure of academy
Doubts are emerging over the new higher education academy's ability to attract members without compulsion or significant reward. Liz Allen, a national official at lecturers' union Natfhe and a member...
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Postcode premium is failing to deliver goods
The postcode premium approach to widening access is inefficient and unjust, according to two Northern Irish researchers. Bob Osborne, from Ulster University, and Ian Shuttleworth, from Queen's...
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Survey brings bad news if you're young and male
Older undergraduates and women do better across a range of university subjects than teenage schoolleavers and men, according to analysis from two universities. Also, state-educated students tend to...
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Former editor honoured
Auriol Stevens, former editor of The THES , has been awarded an honorary degree by the Southampton Institute. A commentator and analyst, she was made a doctor of letters for her contribution to...
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Bursar suspended
Roger Salmon, bursar of King's College, Cambridge, has been suspended, but no reason has been given for the move by university officials. "I can't even tell you whether or not he's been suspended on...
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Pembroke turns to MI6
Sir Richard Dearlove, the head of MI6, has been elected master of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He will take over next August when his five-year Secret Intelligence Service contract ends. Until then,...
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£5 million for spin-offs
The recently floated IP2IPO, which helped fund Oxford University's new chemistry building in exchange for equity in any companies spun off from research conducted there, has put aside a £5 million...
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Correction
The £900,000 that Middlesex University repaid to the Higher Education Funding Council for England ("Research elite winners in 'special pot' league", THES , November 7) was the partial repayment of a...