Cinderella sector needs better outfit
In a radical rethink of post-16 learning, Helena Kennedy is pushing for a seamless education system, shorn of bias with better access for the poor. Alan Thomson reports HELENA Kennedy's long-awaited...
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Blair's 'feeble' dream
TONY BLAIR's dream for a truly learning society is based on "incomplete, one-sided and feeble theory", says one of the UK's leading educationalists. Frank Coffield, who delivered the King's College...
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Banging a different drum
A LEADING writer and broadcaster from outside the academic world has been appointed to head the first world music department in a British university. Simon Broughton, a BBC music producer and editor...
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Cash crisis hits music academies
TWO OF Britain's top music conservatoires fear cash constraints may threaten the quality of their work. The Royal Academy of Music in London and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in...
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Far East academics top of the pay scales
ACADEMIC pay in Hong Kong and Singapore far outstrips earnings at universities in other leading Commonwealth countries, according to a new study. Professors in Hong Kong earn at least twice as much...
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Exeter rethinks 'flawed' job plan
Exeter University's senate was expected this week to announce its proposed changes to a restructuring plan which could lead to over 100 job losses. Members of the senate who met last week to consider...
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Promotion ballot stalls Cambridge budget
Cambridge University has suffered its first major embarrassment in the row over its procedures for promoting academic staff. History lecturer Gill Evans, who claims "outdated and secretive"...
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Peace in research review
Peace has broken out at Glasgow University over management's "rigorous research review", with the Association of University Teachers abandoning plans for a ballot on boycotting the exercise. There...
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Alarm watch
(Photograph) - Deborah Withington of Leeds University has developed an emergency siren system, which is being tested by the police. The new alarm should be an improvement on traditional sirens as it...
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Campus meningitis fears spur charity to act
A leading charity is to teach universities and colleges how to deal with a meningitis outbreak after the disease claimed the lives of 15 people in the sector last year, writes Julia Hinde. The...
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Colleges told how to spend Pounds 1 billion
COLLEGES have received comprehensive new guidelines amid fears that they may be failing to get the best deals when spending close to Pounds 1 billion worth of taxpayers' money on goods and services...
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Growthin VQs falls shy of target
THE NUMBER of vocational qualifications awarded increased by 60,000 in one year according to latest figures, but there is still a long way to go to reach national targets for 2000. The Department for...
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Japan's model praised
BRITAIN'S further education system could learn from Japan's, which attracts more private funding and gives a higher status to its lecturers, according to a report. The Further Education Funding...
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London strikers face the sack
BRITAIN'S longest running further education dispute took a turn for the worse this week as managers issued an ultimatum to 160 striking lecturers telling them to return to work or be sacked. Dorothy...
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Scots rush to bedside drama
MORE THAN 100 Taysiders have signed up to star in their own version of the hospital drama ER in a bid to help medical students improve their bedside manner. Medical schools have traditionally built...