LEAs face funding admin nightmare
An administrative nightmare is looming for local education authorities as they race to put in place the machinery demanded by the new student funding regime. David Line of Surrey County Council says...
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Warning against turf wars
Huw Richards reports from the fringe meetings at the Labour party conference in Brighton Further and higher education's rare position as a key issue of the Labour conference was reflected in a giant...
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Students' benefit windfall
A LEGAL ruling giving a student on a modular university course the right to income support could cost the government millions of pounds in housing benefit claims. Appeal court judges ruled in July...
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Price deterrent
Huw Richards reports from the fringe meetings at the Labour party conference in Brighton Between 40,000 and 50,000 potential undergraduates are likely to be deterred from seeking university places...
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Inspection proposals rebuffed
Vice chancellors have said they are "alarmed" by proposals for stringent new inspection demands on teacher training courses and tough penalties for failing to meet them. Conditions of funding for...
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Eyeless in Brighton
Conspicuously not making a spectacle of himself at Labour's Brighton conference this week was National Union of Students president Doug Trainer, forced to deliver a fringe meeting speech from an...
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New indifference
So does New Labour hate universities? According to one former minister its main emotion is indifference rather than hostility or enthusiasm. There are far more votes in children at two key points in...
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Just say not
Freudian slip of the conference goes to left-wing weekly Tribune's omission of the word "not" from one of David Blunkett's columns so that the sentence in question read: "Our proposals do involve...
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Christmas dinner
So what would you like for Christmas? Rumour has it that after a bruising couple of months further and higher education minister Baroness Blackstone would not be distressed if the head of admissions...
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Agreeing to disagree
Nice to see that somebody is benefiting from the University for Industry even before the pilot project is fully under way. Gerry Holtham, director of pilot sponsors at the Institute for Public Policy...
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We was robbed
The THES may agree with some points made in Dearing Watch, the anti-fees newsletter published by dissident members of the NUS, but we are critical of its grasp of the Copyright Designs and Patents...
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Dancers in philosophy
BIRMINGHAM Royal Ballet is broadening its dancers' education by enrolling them on a bachelor of philosophy degree programme. The move follows overtures from the ballet's head of education, Jane...
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Mammoth achievement
At the same meeting, Ken Livingstone gave the big picture as usual, drawing the analogy between fees and the persecution of Galileo and the discovery of the wheel and of fire. He also told delegates...
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Union bashing
If the government finds the now largely loyalist National Union of Students less tractable than it hopes on funding policy, it could have some of its own backbenchers to blame. The NUS leadership was...
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Wishful thinking
As Donald Dewar, secretary of state for Scotland, struts his stuff at the Labour Party conference, Strathclyde University's principal John Arbuthnott has been putting a new gloss on the year's...