Drama takes centre stage
Drama and design courses continue to become more popular ONCE sniffily regarded as one of the more marginal university subjects, drama and theatre studies is fast becoming part of the establishment....
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Roberts to chair CBI education committee
Post Office chief executive John Roberts has been appointed chairman of the Confederation of British Industry's education and training affairs committee. Mr Roberts, who replaces Sir Dominic Cadbury...
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More employees join 'people development'
More than a third of employees in the education sector are now working with the "people development" Investors in People standard, according to Investors in People UK. This is up 7 per cent on last...
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Howells seeks more TEC improvements
There is "still much to do" to improve the performance of Training and Enterprise Councils, lifelong learning minister Kim Howells said with the publication of TEC performance tables this week. There...
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NatWest loan scheme targets 'professions'
NatWest has launched a new professional trainee loan scheme aimed specifically at students studying to enter one of the "professions", the bank said this week. Up to Pounds 15,000 will be available...
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Minghella to advise performance centre
A performance translation centre which opened this week at Hull University has secured the advisory services of Oscar-winning film director Anthony Minghella. The centre's director is J. Michael...
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Scotland plans its own 'Fame school'
Paisley University and Ayr College are collaborating with South Ayrshire Council to set up a Scottish "Fame school" for the music industry. The Pounds 10 million project is the brainchild of local...
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V-cs split on stand over fees
DESPERATE attempts by university leaders to forge post-Dearing unity failed this week because of fears that money from student fees may not be pumped back into higher education. Splits emerged...
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Call for new loan rules
THE GOVERNMENT's response to funding proposals in the Dearing higher education report is ineffective, inequitable and unrealistic, according to education researchers at the London School of Economics...
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Minister spells out reforms
Education minister Tessa Blackstone blamed the press and the annual "scaremongering" about clearing for misunderstandings around the Government's response to Dearing's proposals in her speech to the...
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Hodge asks for cash answers
THE GOVERNMENT came under more pressure this week to explain what it is going to do about the Pounds 900 million short-term funding crisis faced by universities. Margaret Hodge, who is chairing the...
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Standing order
Never let quality chiefs be accused of favouritism towards the people for whom they are policing standards. When postgraduates wrote to the new Quality Assurance Agency to suggest that one of the...
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Metal courses lose their lustre
Metallurgy's shine is tarnishing FALLING enrolments in the low-profile subject of metallurgy are causing concern for some British companies. According to the Universities and Colleges Admissions...
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Money worries top list of Dearing concerns
The consultation period for Sir Ron Dearing's report ends on October 6. Alan Thomson examines some of the responses so far Further Education Funding Council COLLEGESmay have to restrict the number of...
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Bank raid
The latest development in the new Quality Assurance Agency's search for a headquarters may say something about its policy leanings. Determined not to venture far from his Gloucestershire home, QAA...