Work training fillip
THE first batch of inspection reports of government-funded workplace training by the new Training Standards Council has given a clean bill of health. More than 90 per cent of the first 14 programmes...
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Skills advantage
KEY skills are becoming a major element in the selection process for job applications, according to a study for the government by the Institute of Employment Studies. Employers, the study found, have...
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Exit stage left
More dramas for those hapless thesps at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Kent. Student union president Stuart Campbell, who played a starring role in demonstrations against the sacking of...
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One-way Woody
Nothing can stand in the way of schools inspector Chris Woodhead when he's got a policy line to peddle - least of all empirical evidence, it seems. Fresh from the row over his interesting...
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Pencil pushers
Higher education is in the vanguard of developments in information technology. But are the heads of institutions up to speed? In a submission to the consultative steering group on the Scottish...
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Alas Smith and Jones
Amid fears that students from elsewhere in the United Kingdom will be deterred from studying in Scotland by the absence of a fourth-year fee waiver, there seems to be evidence that at staff level,...
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Should it all add up?
While having fun as usual recently, glancing over Internet catalogues of mathematics textbooks, Antithesis could not help noticing a fine set of web pages relating to a book called Inconsistent...
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One suit fits all PhDs
A new and exciting way for the heavily educated to make money has been suggested by readers of R&D Magazine, a US publication that recently featured an ad for a microbiologist. After detailing...
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True-blue axeman
Alumnus to be Proud Of this week, No 182 in the series, is Conservative Party deputy chairman, MP and former Asda boss Archie Norman. He became famous for 15 minutes this week by proposing some very...
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How much has the landscape changed?
A year after Dearing's landmark report, THES reporters gauge the progress made, while committee members and other academics give their verdicts Lord Dearing did as he was asked and thought "the...
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Sacked principal cites staff support
THE former principal of Glasgow Caledonian University, who was fired for gross misconduct, wants to return to the job. Stan Mason told an industrial tribunal last week: "Ninety-eight per cent of...
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BSE eroded faith in MPs
Homophobia and mad cows: Alison Goddard reports from the British Psychological Society conference People who are concerned about the genetic modification of food are less likely to trust the...
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Library usage under threat
Lobbying from the film and music industries for tougher European copyright laws threatens to undermine access to digital technologies, according to EBLIDA, the umbrella organisation for Europe's...
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Oxford silences critics
Oxford University has scotched reports that it is to offer postgraduate and degree courses over the Internet, silencing critics who have warned that the university's drive to widen access is damaging...
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Honesty code to stop cheats
A COALITION of 200 United States universities and colleges is drafting a national code of ethics to stop student cheating. The seven-page document calls for clearer policy, disciplinary measures and...