Foster's pints
MPs are often reputedly driven to drink by their constituents, but not many of them are as frank about it as Don Foster, Liberal Democrat education spokesman and MP for Bath. An assiduous attender at...
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Relative values
Margaret Beckett, president of the Board of Trade, started her speech to Save British Science's annual general meeting by explaining why she was addressing them. "This is an invitation I felt not...
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Shelling out
The Scottish Office brochures explaining to a grateful public what the student support arrangements will be from 1998-99 include a handy erratum slip pointing out, for example, that the reference to...
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Bill's rite of passage faces pitfalls
BY INTRODUCING the Teaching and Higher Education Bill in the House of Lords the government has left its legislation vulnerable to a major potential pitfall. This is because bills introduced in the...
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Local authorities to pay PGCE tuition fees
The DFEE confirmed this week that local education authorities will pay the full Pounds 1,000 tuition fee of students on PGCE courses.
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MPs unswayed by FEDA chief's replies
MPs were left unconvinced of the value of the work of the Further Education Development Agency after its chief executive, Stephen Crowne, appeared as a witness before the Commons education and...
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Sacked principal seeks tribunal hearing
Stan Mason, former principal of Glasgow Caledonian University, has applied for an industrial tribunal hearing, claiming that he has been unfairly dismissed. The university has warned that Dr Mason,...
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Museums overlooked
University museum collections of national and international importance are at risk because of "severe" funding problems, according to the Museums and Galleries Commission. Giving evidence recently to...
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Budget ignorance leaves colleges 'blind' in consultation
Scottish further education colleges are being asked to "shoot blind" in consultation on a new funding formula in the absence of information on the sector's budget, the Association of Scottish...
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Scots lead on contract staff
Scotland is in the vanguard of creating a better deal for contract research staff, according to Gus Pennington, acting director of the Universities and Colleges Staff Development Agency. He told a...
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No new research cash offered
Scientists were dismayed but not surprised as Margaret Beckett, president of the Board of Trade, failed to commit any new money for research in a speech last week to Save British Science. Although Ms...
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Infrastructure crisis facing Britain's universities is urgent
The infrastructure crisis facing Britain's universities is urgent and should be addressed soon and not wait until the end of the comprehensive spending review, the Royal Society heard. Sir Aaron Klug...
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Scottish Office adds Pounds 17 million extra funding
The Scottish Office this week added Pounds 17 million to next year's planned Pounds 653 million higher education funding. The rise for Scottish further education will be Pounds 8 million, taking...
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Highlands officials push to keep EU funds
Highlands and Islands Enterprise Development Agency officials this week lobbied Scottish MEPs for continued European Objective 1 funding after 1999. The funds, to help cut economic disparities...
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Funding councils rejig under Welsh assembly
The Government of Wales Bill, published last week, confirms that the National Assembly will gain some powers over the Further and Higher Education Funding Councils of Wales. The FEFCW will come...