AUT probes branch boss
Cambridge lecturer Gill Evans has accused her Association of University Teachers branch president of conducting a "campaign of personal vilification" against her. The AUT is investigating the claim....
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Bradbury charts creative sea change
A GREY light, washed from the sea, picked out the animated figures of academics, community workers and writers as they debated the future of creative writing among the cliff-top buildings of the...
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Humanities awards shake-up
A SHAKE-UP of a Pounds 4 million postgraduate award scheme is planned by the British Academy's Humanities Research Board. Managed by the Department for Education and Employment for more than 20 years...
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Case study one: an off-year to pay the bills
MICHELLE Polley, 35, pictured above, was a secretary in Oxford when she decided to take an NVQ in childcare. She went on to an access course at a local further education college at the suggestion of...
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Case study two: watching managers at M&S
RICHARD Jolliffe isone of six pre-pilot guinea-pigs. Now in the second year of a social and managementsciences course, which has no inbuilt work experience, he has drawn on his job for Marks and...
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Broad Left revival
A BROAD left-wing alliance of students will challenge Labour Students' leadership of the National Union of Students at its annual conference in late March. Carolyne Culver, a member of the NUS...
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Search for class factor
how social class affects access to higher education and what institutions are doing to encourage less well-off students is the focus of a nationwide research project. A team from the European Access...
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Highlands cast net
Up to 40,000 adults could have a link with the proposed University of the Highlands and Islands each year, according to the Highland Council. But it warns that the project must reduce its dependence...
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Hope for Newbattle
Scotland's sole adult residential college, Newbattle Abbey, has won a hearing from Scottish education minister Brian Wilson on the restoration of its grant, axed in 1989. The college funds about 20...
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New Deal partners
Further education colleges are forging ahead with public-private partnerships under the government's New Deal for the unemployed. Rosemary Thew, New Deal project manager at the Department for...
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College target fears
The Association of Colleges has warned employment ministers that the New Deal welfare-to-work scheme could jeopardise colleges' ability to meet student number targets. John Brennan, AoC director of...
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Part-time working 'can harm studies'
STUDENTS' academic work may suffer if their part-time jobs take up more than ten hours a week, Paisley University research suggests. Jim McKechnie, senior lecturer in psychology, has surveyed more...
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Sociology's job spin-off
NAPIER University students may soon earn more than a pittance for menial part-time work - they may also be able to earn academic credit. Iain Marshall, senior lecturer in Napier's department of...
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E.coli danger lurks in vacuum-packed food
Some vacuum-packed chilled foods may not be as safe to eat as manufacturers and consumers think, researchers have warned. The treatment used to kill E.coli 0157 bacteria is less effective than food...
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Nurses lose ideals
Student nurses become "less idealistic and more realistic" as they progress through their training, but they still perceive listening to patients as the most important part of their caring function,...