Agony aunt
Q I am staring at a growing pile of exam scripts and wondering if there is any hope of marking them objectively.Any advice would be very welcome A Cliff Jones Director of continuing professional...
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ATL confronts college bullying problem
Bullying in colleges is on the increase, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers said this week. The ATL has issued a guide for members who face bullying at work and set up a helpline on 08705 234...
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Correction
* Westhill College is planning to enter into a strategic alliance with the University of Birmingham, and is not merging with the University of Central England as reported in The THES last week. We...
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Pay fight threatens Labour proposal
Leaks of the imminent Bett report on university pay galvanise teachers' unions Lecturers are prepared to sink the government's plans to widen participation in higher education unless they get more...
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Damning TQA report for Wigan
Quality chiefs' fears that further education colleges are failing to provide adequate higher education courses have been exacerbated by a damning new teaching quality assessment, writes Phil Baty....
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Access bait fails to lure poor
Government attempts to widen participation by under-represented groups are failing following the phasing out of maintenance grants, according to an analysis by the Universities and Colleges...
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Blunkett confirms lifelong overhaul
* The post-16 education and training sector needs a new, single, national funding agency, education secretary David Blunkett has said. Speaking about ministers' fundamental review of lifelong...
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Lib Dem leadership spat to focus on education
Lifelong learning will form a central plank of education spokesman Don Foster's campaign to become the next Liberal Democrat leader. Campaigning will start in earnest after the European elections on...
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New Labour accused of failing post-16s
The government has neglected post-16 education in its drive to raise standards in schools, according to a new book from the Institute of Education. The book's author, Ken Spours, said that the...
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Film industry gets Pounds 1.5 million training boost
Culture secretary Chris Smith has announced a Pounds 1.5 million-a-year scheme to help boost film production training in Britain. The funding will finance training in camera and sound work, editing...
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EU should follow UK's high-technology lead
The European Union should borrow the British government's idea of setting up university enterprise centres to create 20 of its own to help boost the high-tech sector, according to a report this week...
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Conference urges more business, college links
Industry leaders and academics met yesterday to discuss ways of forging stronger partnerships between universities and businesses. Michael Zietlyn, director of the conference organiser, Oakland...
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Birmingham and Aston join institutional forces
The Universities of Aston and Birmingham have embarked on what has been described as an institutional collaboration. The move comes as a response to the government's request that universities co-...
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Said business centre in supermarket sweep
Science minister Lord Sainsbury has made a multimillion-pound donation to Oxford University's Said Business School. The undisclosed sum from the former supermarket chairman is to be put towards a...
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Primary trainers fail to impress Ofsted
Some primary school teacher training providers are still falling short of minimum quality standards, schools inspector Ofsted has warned. Ofsted's primary follow-up survey, 1996-98, found that 34...