Blunkett targets key skills for all
The Labour party has launched a Pounds 1.5 billion new deal for the young offering a guarantee of minimum qualifications for school-leavers and a choice of work or education for 18 to 25-year-olds....
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Italian jobs favour foreign professors
The article by Dr Davies on Italian universities (THES, April 26) raises some well-taken points, which are being widely discussed in Italy. However it contains a very serious imprecision, which I...
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Nolan shines complaint torch
University and college staff and students would have new channels for complaints under recommendations expected to be made this week by Lord Nolan's Committee on Standards in Public Life. Further and...
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Sir Ron picks dream team
Sir Ron Dearing's recipe for a well-balanced and dynamic committee of inquiry into higher education appears to be flavour of the month among the academic community, writes Tony Tysome. Vice...
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Post marked
The absence of any Standing Conference of Principals members on Sir Ron Dearing's committee has raised an eyebrow or two. One commentator noted this week: "He's got off SCOP-free". But as Sir Ron...
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Fan-tastic
Bob Oxtoby, with luck soon to be the 105th member of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals when Bolton Institute gets upgraded, has a second identity as possibly the world's unluckiest...
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Dream come true
Allan Stewart, pickaxe-wielding Conservative MP for Eastwood, has just published his autobiography, The Long March of the Market Men. He reveals that he was able to attend St Andrews University with...
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Ofsted off course
Neil Buxton, vice chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire, was a little puzzled at the deficiencies of a letter addressed to him as "Director, University of Lancaster, Hatfield, Hertfordshire...
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Drink to live
Meat-loving coffee drinkers are repeatedly told by epidemiologists that their gastronomy will be their doom as studies reveal that fruit, vegetables and water are best for a healthy life. With one...
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Mother's union
Recent protests by Oxford Brookes University's Conservative Society against the naming of its student union building after the its chancellor Helena Kennedy QC, evoke a nostalgia for that long line...
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Cooking on gas
Alumna to be proud of No 49 is at the centre of what may have been the most vitriolic exhange yet between a privatised company and its regulator. Clare Spottiswoode, director general of gas supply,...
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Welsh pool expertise
Welsh further education college heads have called for a common post-16 framework for all FE institutions and schools in Wales. They should work in partnership to give students a wide choice of...
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Board ballot
Members of the Association for Colleges have resolved unanimously to merge with the Colleges Employers Forum from August. Ballots for board membership of the Association for British Colleges (...
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Tory watchdogs
Tory students are gathering data on political activity in student unions for their headquarters. They were asked to report on "abuse of student power" and leftwing or extreme views expressed by...
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Library lowdown
Seating demand at the controversial new British Library building at St Pancras may oustrip supply, says a National Audit Office report. Technical problems have led costs to soar since building...