Funding boost for small business staff training
THE DEPARTMENT for Education and Employment has given Pounds 500,000 to encourage small businesses to train staff through the Investors in People standard. Training and Enterprise Councils are...
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Clearout is urged
UNIVERSITIES would need a wholesale clearout of senior staff if Sir Ron Dearing's vision of a seamless interplay between higher education and the business world is to be realised, writes Phil Baty....
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Lending to live - and to really live
Sir Ron Dearing wants student loans extended and means-tested. Chris Condron found that for some students loans are a lifeline and for others a luxury. Kathryn Pyke, 21, University of Greenwich, who...
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Will Wednesday be Winsday?
The culmination of more than a year's research, analysis and thought on higher education by some of the key figures in academe and industry will be packed into an oversized "shoebox" by Sir Ron...
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Biotech go-ahead
The European Parliament this week voted in favour of the controversial European Biotechnology Patent Directive by 388 to 110. After an earlier version was defeated two years ago, it aims to clarify...
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Teacher bonuses
Trainee teachers could get a cash handout under Teacher Training Agency plans to encourage applicants to undersubscribed subject areas. Plans will be put before ministers in September, the TTA said...
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Doom of languages
A national inquiry is urgently needed to prevent "Armageddon" in university language departments, a leading linguist warned this week. Michael Kelly, chair of the Universities Council of Modern...
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Students influence history
History departments are responding more to student demand and less to the research interests of staff, a survey reveals. History Today's annual survey of history at the universities, to be released...
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Med schools need PFI boost
THE ONGOING integration of London's undergraduate and postgraduate medical schools within four multi-faculty University of London colleges represents a "remarkable achievement" that should safeguard...
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Young doctors not vanishing
THERE is no evidence to substantiate claims that up to a quarter of British doctors leave the medical profession within a few years of graduating, new research finds. On the contrary, young British...
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Government keeps science plans under wraps
THE GOVERNMENT will not reveal its plans for science, engineering and technology in a Forward Look report until a full assessment of science in light of Government-wide reviews has been made, it...
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Biotechnology Means Business Challenge
* The Government this week announced the second round of competition for funding through the Biotechnology Means Business Challenge. Application forms for Business Mentoring and Incubator Challenge (...
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Backbenchers swing into frontline action
If the Labour front bench wants advice on A level reform, it need look no further than the chair of its backbench education committee for some informed opinion. John Gunnell, 63, member for Morley...
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Student critics could reform teaching
Asking students to fill in so-called "happy" forms to assess their lecturers may damage rather than improve teaching, according to Lee Harvey of the University of Central England. The widespread use...
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One-minute lectures concentrate the mind
There will be no time to fall asleep during lectures at Leeds University anymore. A new minimalist teaching approach has led to the one-minute lecture. Chemistry lecturer Terry Kee has been given a...