Correction
Last week's survey of vice chancellors' pay should have listed the pay of Ron Cooke, of York University, as Pounds 89,000 in both 1994-95 and 1995-96. The principal of King's College, London, Arthur...
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Training agency hails success of 'winners take most' scheme
The Teacher Training Agency's first allocations under its new funding system have produced more winners than losers, despite big cuts in recruitment targets, the agency said this week. More than half...
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Teacher Training Agency
The TTA attacked one of its most persistent critics, the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers, in its evidence to the Commons Select Committee on Education's inquiry into teacher...
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Teacher training standards variable
Primary initial teacher training standards in English and Mathematics are too variable, the inspection agency, Ofsted, has concluded. A report on inspections in 1995 and last year says not all...
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Parties air difference in policies
THES looks at reaction to the DFEE's fourth Dearing submission, which queried standards and expansion THE PARTY political truce on higher education policy, instituted a year ago by the appointment of...
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A bit previous
Some say it with flowers, or chocolates, or some other token of appreciation. But it takes real class, and an opportunity granted to only around 650 of our fellow citizens, to say sorry with a...
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A fine mess
Glasgow University's newsletter reports that a copy of The Times, dated April 14, 1937, has just been delivered to the university library. This turns out to be the library's own copy, presumably...
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Pot shot
Students would naturally be expected to object to strippograms on the grounds of political correctness. But strippogram Sid Robertson, interviewed in Edinburgh University's student newspaper, reveals...
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Mission to serve
Perish the sexist thought that Alexandra Burslem, soon to become Britain's seventh female university vice chancellor, will spend an overly long amount of time worrying about the dress-code for her...
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W.H.A.T???
Evidence for those who fear that the world of education is suffering from Compulsive Acronym Syndrome (CAS?) comes with the handlist Acronyms and Initialisms in Education (AIE), produced by the...
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He'll always have Paris
Alumnus to be proud of No 90 is the founder of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, which has been holding large parts of the Lima diplomatic corps hostage for the last eight weeks. Victor Polay...
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Building will be a burden
Cambridge University's 150-acre expansion masterplan has run into difficulty, with one senior academic dismissing proposed building programmes as "wildly impractical". Oliver Rackham, a botanist at...
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'Elitism' hinders learners
Entrenched, elitist prejudice and anachronistic teaching methods at Cambridge University are failing its ethnic minorities, state school students and women, the student union has claimed. In its...
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Flood warning: prepare to be sued by students
Thames Valley University became the latest university to receive a summons from a former pupil this week. And lawyers called for urgent clarification of the legal basis of universities' contracts...
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Geographers bucked up
Geographers are "cautiously optimistic" following a meeting with the Higher Education Funding Council for England to argue against its plans to place the discipline on the lowest funding band. A...