Tuition fee muddle hits access courses
Government "confusion" over student funding and the prospect of tuition fees is putting students off access courses, according to City and Islington College, pioneer and one of the country's biggest...
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Dearing queries will fill CVCP agenda
Questions are likely to be thicker on the ground than answers at next week's annual residential meeting of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. It will be almost entirely taken up with...
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Assessments 'to go'
THE current round of teaching quality assessments may be ditched before they are complete, despite the tens of millions of pounds already spent on the exercise. Diana Warwick, chief executive of the...
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Linguists seek legal protection
Linguists under pressure to accept early retirement from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies are considering legal action to protect their jobs. Seven academics at the school have been...
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Keele hauled
The struggle for leadership in education policy between the beached whale that is the University of London Institute of Education and a noted service area on the M6 (or, as the University of Keele...
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Divestors in people
Followers of events at the University of Luton, which has lost more than 100 staff over the past year, will not be surprised to learn they have missed out on regaining Investors in People status....
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Gale warning
Volcanic movements in Montserrat have already caused quakes for overseas minister Clare Short. But Scottish secretary Donald Dewar needn't think he's at a safe distance. Alistair Dawson, reader in...
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Soft sell
When is a business not a business? When it is an educational institution. If an ordinary business wanted to buy 14 copies of AutoCAD Release 13, 12 AutoCAD LT, four AEC Release 5 and three copies of...
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Acid remarks
It might be a prime example of stating the obvious, but the Further Education Development Agency report on issues arising from drug use in FE notes that "several colleges reported that students used...
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Red mist
Alumnus to be proud of No 134. Nathan Thomas, who plays rugby for Bath and Wales, recently secured his place in pub sports quizzes by his conduct in the match between Bath and Newcastle. Brought on...
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May spring
Scientists were two to a seat to hear Margaret Beckett address the British Association meeting this week. Organisers so hopelessly underestimated the turnout when the meeting was brought forward that...
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Research inquiry sparks row
PLANS for an inquiry into the quality of educational research by chief inspector of schools Chris Woodhead met with fury from university educationists this week, as the British Educational Research...
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Education research costs millions of pounds a year
* Education research costs millions of pounds a year, yet politicians and teachers seem to find little in the results, says Brunel University's Alan Smithers. Criticising education research at the...
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Woodhead's allies
LORD Pearson of Rannoch (Conservative): Former commerce and industry representative on the now defunct Council for National Academic Awards. Ofsted said that Lord Pearson's comments in a Lords debate...
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Austria revisits Holocaust past
TWO AUSTRIAN graduates are working with Holocaust survivors in Britain as part of their compulsory national service. In place of serving eight months in the armed forces at 18, Martin Pletersek and...