Spurt in part-time students
There are 10 per cent more part-time students in Scottish higher education institutions this academic year than last, provisional figures out this week show, Olga Wojtas reports. This brings the...
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College chiefs call to simplify sackings
Sacking staff should be easier, college leaders have told government. Figures just released show that more than 3,500 college staff were made redundant last academic year. But the Association of...
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Draft government guidance for regional development agencies too limited
Draft government guidance for regional development agencies is too limited on the role of further education, the AoC has warned. It also said it was puzzled by a lack of any reference to the Further...
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Ofsted under fire from university teacher trainers
Universities have accused schools' and teacher training inspectorate Ofsted of being unaccountable, inconsistent and possibly irrelevant to the quality of newly qualified teachers. Their attack was...
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Lecturer training 'not top spending priority'
The government needs to think more about its green paper pledge to ensure that all college lecturers become fully qualified teachers, education minister Tessa Blackstone said this week, writes Phil...
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Disruption promised in lecturer pay feud
Strikes and protests will blight this year's university exams and admissions rounds if employers do not agree within weeks to pay higher salaries, lecturers have warned. Agreeing a 10 per cent pay...
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Blackwell leads field in cut-price e-journals
Blackwell Science has become the first publisher to sign a deal to provide university libraries with cheaper access to electronic journals. The National Electronic Site Licence Initiative (Nesli) has...
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Education spokesman eyes Lib Dem top spot
Liberal Democrat education spokesman Don Foster may run for party leader in the wake of Paddy Ashdown's decision to stand down. Mr Foster, MP for Bath, said last week: "I am neither ruling it in nor...
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Women take interdisciplinary route to research
A nationwide survey of academics has revealed that women conduct more interdisciplinary research than men. The findings come from independent consultancy Evaluation Associates, and form part of the...
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Can teaching centres work?
The success of specialist subject centres hinges on their getting proper recognition and finance. Alison Utley reports The drive to raise the status of university teaching, long perceived to be the...
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Promotions uproar
Confidential details of the decision-making process behind Cambridge University's last controversial round of staff promotions have emerged. Minutes and reports from the 1998 promotions round, which...
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Son at centre of APU storm will not return
The lecturer at the centre of allegations of nepotism at Anglia Polytechnic University will not be returning from sick leave, his trade union has told staff. Jonathan Jenkins, a lecturer at the...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Work on the emails that accumulated over the last week while my colleagues and I were preparing the school's academic plan. Lunchtime: start reading a doctoral thesis I am externally examining...
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In the news
A man with homely hobbies - he lists "my family (including sundry cats)" and cooking as his interests in Who's Who, along with golf and rugby union - Tony Higgins, chief executive of the Universities...
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On the move
Brice Dickson, a barrister and professor of law at the University of Ulster for the past eight years, has been appointed the first human rights commissioner for Northern Ireland. He will head a team...