Bill to give Ofsted main role in FE inspections
The bulk of further education college quality inspections will be led by schools watchdog Ofsted in future, it has emerged. Provisions in the Learning and Skills Bill, due for its second reading in...
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UCAS sees applications fall
More students got into universities and colleges this academic year than previous years, despite fewer applying. The number of people who applied for a place in full-time higher education fell by 0.8...
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Nobels fight for Daresbury
Nobel laureates and other leading scientists have made a last-minute bid to sway government opinion in favour of building the Diamond synchrotron at Daresbury in Cheshire. An array of scientific...
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University denies allegation that staff 'ran a brothel'
Glasgow Caledonian University and Moray College are under investigation by the National Audit Office following allegations of a misuse of public funds. An unnamed correspondent has alleged that a...
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QAA blamed for delay in publication of student complaints code
Objections from universities will further delay the publication of the Quality Assurance Agency's code of practice on student complaints and appeals, which is already six months late. Student leaders...
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Art collections admit most treasures are not insured
University museums and libraries are keeping hundreds of millions of pounds of valuable assets uninsured against theft, it emerged this week. The Pounds 3 million Cezanne stolen from the Ashmolean...
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Boards lack student governors
Dozens of further education colleges have failed to comply with new rules on including student governors on their boards, says the National Union of Students. The union, which holds its first student...
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FO to scrutinise visa refusals
The Foreign Office is to investigate complaints that visa officials are blocking genuine overseas students' entry into the United Kingdom. The Association of Colleges has complained that entry...
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Irvine admits weakness
The Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, has offered his "profound apologies" for a series of blunders in his handling of a student's complaint against Bath University. He admitted his department lacks the...
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SCOP review to look at widening membership
Higher education college heads have launched a sweeping review of their umbrella organisation following a similar exercise last year by vice-chancellors. The Standing Conference of Principals is...
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See you, mac
(Photograph) - Alexander Li attends a college computing class for teachers, despite being only 11. He wrote to Anniesland College in Glasgow saying he had a PC but wanted to learn how to use an Apple...
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Job prospects dictate Welsh students' choice of courses
More higher education students in Wales are choosing courses that relate directly to future employment, say new statistics. Figures published by the Welsh funding councils in further and higher...
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Pounds 3 billion needed for extra students
Lecturers are demanding more than Pounds 3.3 billion extra for higher education in the government's next comprehensive spending review. In its submission to the review this week, lecturers' union...
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Pier review
(Photograph) - Pier review: civil engineering students from the University of Plymouth have been working with counterparts from the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain studying coastal erosion. Pictured...
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Hint of more cash to widen Scots' access
Scottish finance minister Jack McConnell this week hinted at extra funds for higher education in the wake of the Cubie report but stressed that these would have to come from existing budgets. The...