Scottish colleges get cooperation funds
FURTHER education colleges in Scotland have won Pounds 1.3 million from the government to encourage them to work together. The Strategic Initiatives Fund for Further Education follows an ongoing...
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Praise for Irish venture
A VENTURE between Queen's University, Belfast and University College, Cork has been hailed as a landmark for north-south cooperation in Ireland. The initiative, also involving shipbuilders Harland...
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Ireland's further education sector has been left out of a cash boost for education
The province's further education sector has again been left out of a Pounds 2 million cash boost for education. Natfhe's Jim McKeown said: "The government has come up with substantial extra resources...
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A donnish Dearing
Yet another honour for Sir Ron. No, not the peerage yet, but Tory MP Nick St Aubyn, speaking in the Commons debate on tuition fees, was so overcome by his admiration that he unilaterally renamed him...
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Rise and rise of the FEmale
Men and women will always compete, but for different reasons. Alan Thomson reports MORE women are reaching the top in further education having proved themselves adept opportunists when it comes to...
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'No room for bias'. The City mounts its defence
Phil Baty asked employers in the Square Mile what they were doing to recruit more ethnic minoritygraduates. Here are their responses: Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Vivian Dykstra, head of graduate...
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Overwork fraying nerves at the OU
OPEN University staff are suffering stress and ill-health as a result of overwork, the university's own internal audit has discovered, writes Phil Baty. The report, Health, Stress and Well-Being,...
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Oxbridge stays 'special'
OXBRIDGE should be able to maintain its "special character" under any future funding arrangements, the Higher Education Funding Council for England stressed this week. But colleges remain no wiser...
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Leaked report shows fear and chaos in the Thames Valley University
A LEAKED internal report on Thames Valley University paints a warts-and-all picture of an institution beset by staff/management antipathy, organisational chaos and fears over educational standards....
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Scots welcome conduct code
ALMOST two thirds of Scottish further education college boards of management have adopted a code of conduct as recommended by the Nolan committee, writes Olga Wojtas. This was revealed in an...
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Lecturer turns to European Court of Human Rights in university fight
Lecturer Gill Evans is set to turn to the European Court of Human Rights in her fight against Cambridge University. Last week, Dr Evans, who remains a lecturer after 18 years at Cambridge, took the...
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Anti-sleaze policy too slow to arrive
The fourth Nolan report is published today, with institutions being criticised for complacency Universities and colleges have been too slow to adopt "anti-sleaze" recommendations from the Nolan...
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Fraud inquiry leaves training hanging in the balance
Colleges in the Midlands fear losing millions of pounds worth of training contracts as the future of their local training and enterprise council hangs in the balance. Initiating a Pounds 1 million...
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Bar flies
Mary McAleese, newly elected to the Irish presidency, has arrived. One moment, pro vice chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, the next, gracing publicity material from Strathclyde University's...
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Julian in the crown
It's a topsy-turvy, seesaw world in modern-day politics. Southampton students demonstrating against tuition fees hit a low moment when social security minister John Denham, one of the few Labour MPs...