Landlord jailed for gas fume deaths
The landlord of a student house was jailed for two years this week after fumes from a faulty gas boiler killed one of his tenants. Peter Owen, 40, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Sonja Hyams, a...
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Community school teacher training slammed
OFSTED schools inspectorate has condemned as "poor" a school-based teacher training scheme in Essex. The Coastal Confederation secondary initial teacher training partnership, based at Colne Community...
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Recruitment drive to cut infant class sizes
The Government has raised the recruitment target for primary initial teacher training to help cut infant class sizes, schools minister Estelle Morris announced this week. Ms Morris has asked the...
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Move to raise black managers' profile
Leeds Metropolitan University has launched a diploma aimed at aiding black and ethnic minority middle managers to further their careers in local government. The diploma, the first of its kind in...
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Graduate cheer from job stability over time
Four years after graduating most people are in jobs they want, that are relevant to their degrees, carry responsibility and higher salaries, the Institute for Employment Studies following up a 1995...
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Full-time post with safety strings attached
David Warner, pro vice chancellor of the University of Central England, Birmingham, has been appointed principal of Swansea Institute of Higher Education from January, but he is on secondment from...
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Scottish universities set up computer campus
EDINBURGH, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt and Strathclyde universities are setting up a joint institute on the Scottish site of US chip design software company, Cadence Design Systems. The institute will act...
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Human right to learning confirmed
Colin Power, Unesco assistant director general, has warned that if inability to pay was shown to affect access to higher education it could be in contravention of the International Declaration of...
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Scots face 2.75% cut in funding
SCOTTISH higher education faces a 2.75 per cent cut in real terms for next session under Scottish Office plans. This compares to a real terms cut of almost 6 per cent under the Tories' public...
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Brian Wilson instructs SHEFC to be "flexible" next session
Scottish education minister Brian Wilson has instructed SHEFC to be "flexible" if institutions under-recruit next session. Mr Wilson said concern about tuition fees and maintenance grants had been "...
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Principals rule out own debt collection agency
SCOTTISH principals have abandoned plans to set up their own debt collection agency to recover fees from students next session. A working group chaired by Martin Lowe, secretary of Edinburgh...
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Heads predict fees toll
secondary school headteachers in Scotland believe the government's student support proposals will undermine equal access and lead to a drop in applications to higher education. University student...
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V-cs fear government power over fees
MINISTERS will have the power to control fees charged to post-graduate and part-time students unless wording in the new teaching and higher education bill is changed, vice chancellors have warned....
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Door open to privatisation of student loans
Student loans could be privatised under the bill, according to Nick Barr, economist with the London School of Economics and joint architect of radical proposals to privatise loans. The bill gives the...
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No provision for humanities research council
Heads of art and design schools and colleges are concerned that the bill gives no indication that the government intends to establish a research council for the arts and humanities. Such a council,...