Overseas controls at Swansea 'very flawed'
An unknown number of blank Swansea Institute examination certificates were printed and distributed in Malaysia due to the institute's "seriously flawed" overseas control arrangements, a report...
Search
-
-
Academics condemn Cambridge reform plan
Cambridge University's plans to reform its procedures for promoting staff have received a battering from academics, writes Phil Baty. The plans, which include promoting about 300 lecturers to a new...
-
AUT probes branch boss
Cambridge lecturer Gill Evans has accused her Association of University Teachers branch president of conducting a "campaign of personal vilification" against her. The AUT is investigating the claim....
-
Bradbury charts creative sea change
A GREY light, washed from the sea, picked out the animated figures of academics, community workers and writers as they debated the future of creative writing among the cliff-top buildings of the...
-
Humanities awards shake-up
A SHAKE-UP of a Pounds 4 million postgraduate award scheme is planned by the British Academy's Humanities Research Board. Managed by the Department for Education and Employment for more than 20 years...
-
Case study one: an off-year to pay the bills
MICHELLE Polley, 35, pictured above, was a secretary in Oxford when she decided to take an NVQ in childcare. She went on to an access course at a local further education college at the suggestion of...
-
Case study two: watching managers at M&S
RICHARD Jolliffe isone of six pre-pilot guinea-pigs. Now in the second year of a social and managementsciences course, which has no inbuilt work experience, he has drawn on his job for Marks and...
-
Broad Left revival
A BROAD left-wing alliance of students will challenge Labour Students' leadership of the National Union of Students at its annual conference in late March. Carolyne Culver, a member of the NUS...
-
Search for class factor
how social class affects access to higher education and what institutions are doing to encourage less well-off students is the focus of a nationwide research project. A team from the European Access...
-
Highlands cast net
Up to 40,000 adults could have a link with the proposed University of the Highlands and Islands each year, according to the Highland Council. But it warns that the project must reduce its dependence...
-
Hope for Newbattle
Scotland's sole adult residential college, Newbattle Abbey, has won a hearing from Scottish education minister Brian Wilson on the restoration of its grant, axed in 1989. The college funds about 20...
-
New Deal partners
Further education colleges are forging ahead with public-private partnerships under the government's New Deal for the unemployed. Rosemary Thew, New Deal project manager at the Department for...
-
College target fears
The Association of Colleges has warned employment ministers that the New Deal welfare-to-work scheme could jeopardise colleges' ability to meet student number targets. John Brennan, AoC director of...
-
Part-time working 'can harm studies'
STUDENTS' academic work may suffer if their part-time jobs take up more than ten hours a week, Paisley University research suggests. Jim McKechnie, senior lecturer in psychology, has surveyed more...
-
Sociology's job spin-off
NAPIER University students may soon earn more than a pittance for menial part-time work - they may also be able to earn academic credit. Iain Marshall, senior lecturer in Napier's department of...