UNL consortium's teaching won't do
THE STANDARD of teacher training is unsatisfactory among a consortium of seven schools whose courses are validated by the University of North London, say inspectors. Students are not prepared...
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Hilda to become more attractive to women
OXFORD UNIVERSITY's St Hilda's is to set up a working group to help make itself more attractive to women academics after it failed by one vote last week to overturn its ban on male fellows. It must...
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Rhodes Trust kickstarts American studies
WORK will begin next year on the Pounds 13.5 million Institute for American Studies in Oxford, thanks to the Rhodes Trust. The charitable organisation which provides scholarships for USand...
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Hybrid Islamic college planned for 2000
THE OXFORD Centre for Islamic Studies plans to build a new college in western and Islamic styles to house about 48 fellows, scholarship students and visiting academics, by the year 2000. Sited next...
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Academy of Medicine recommendation
AN ACADEMY of Medicine to speak for the whole of the medical community has been okayed by a working group set up a year ago to consider the issue. The group, chaired by Sir Michael Atiyah, former...
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Inverness debates confidence in management
Inverness COLLEGE academics yesterday marked election day by debating confidence in the college board and senior management. Staff leaders had sought management support for a moratorium on proposed...
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British Library readers ponder annual charge
BRITISH LIBRARY readers are being ask to consider paying annual charges of up to Pounds 700. The library issued some 2,500 questionnaires to readers this week to see how much they would be willing to...
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Higher values encroach on further ideals
Further education provision could be sacrificed in order to pay for more college degree work, say senior staff at Norwich City College. Colleges need core funding for higher education work, say the...
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Franchising threat to funding
FRANCHISING could destroy further education unless funding follow students rather than qualifications, according to one college principal, writes Alan Thomson. Adrian Perry, principal of Lambeth...
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NVQ lecturers hired 'on cheap'
FURTHER education colleges are downgrading lecturers who "are only teaching vocational courses", union leaders claim. Lecturers involved in running National Vocational Qualification courses are being...
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Vocational qualifications
Vocational qualifications are becoming increasingly popular with students although there are signs that overall growth in further education is slowing, according to the latest funding council figures...
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Angst at La Sainte Union
THE MANAGEMENT at La Sainte Union College of Higher Education, forced to close by the Teacher Training Agency last week, will talk only of the future. "We don't want to make life even more difficult...
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Points for key skills on the cards
NUMERACY, communication and other key skills, could become university entry requirements under a new admissions system, writes Phil Baty. The University and Colleges Admissions Service has been...
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Markers lose touch
STANDARDS in higher education are under threat because academics have little time to debate marking and assessment, a report has warned, writes Tony Tysome. Higher education has grown and diversified...
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Man catches politician in Web job
"Prime minister, aren't you, rather than Labour, the party divided on Europe?" At John Major's morning election press conference last Tuesday the media were joined by Gareth Pickering, a London...