Students to get learning vouchers
A voucher funding system for post-16 education and training to create a more student-led market is proposed in a Government-backed consultation paper published this week, writes Tony Tysome. But the...
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Medics on community call
A shift in the teaching of medical students out of universities and into the community was launched this week as the Government proposed changes to its allocation of funds for medical teaching. From...
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Research overheads row hits new peak
Disagreement over who should pay the overheads for charity-funded medical research increased this week as the issue became linked to charities' demands that they should benefit financially from the...
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Envoy soothes union fears
A TUC special envoy is trying to make peace between the two main lecturers' unions after fears of membership wars at universities merging with colleges. Union relations officer Brian Ward was called...
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Banking on success
(Photograph) - Banking on success: Geoff Evans, head of the school of applied sciences at South Bank University, expected to spend this week dealing with the Higher Education Quality Council's...
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Middle class access fear
Europe's universities have been warned they risk barring the middle classes from higher education if they try to bridge the funding gap by increasing tuition fees substantially without tax...
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Student nurse shortage
(Photograph) - Nurses have called for higher bursaries to support training and more robust quality assurance arrangements to protect standards on courses. Delegates at the Royal College of Nursing's...
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Unions urge colleges to accept redundancies
Further education unions have this week held talks with two Scottish colleges in the hope of staving off compulsory redundancies. Both Falkirk and Jewel and Esk Valley Colleges are facing cuts as the...
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Ancient foundation courses
Even a superficial acquaintance with England's past brings with it a realisation of the central role of Latin and of ancient Greece and Rome in the development of our culture. Shakespeare, Milton, T...
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Doctors leaving South Africa
Advisers to the South African health ministry are suggesting national service for new doctors in response to a brain drain. The ministry wants to ensure that they work off some of the state money...
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Human eco centre under threat
Edinburgh University's unique centre for human ecology has launched an urgent appeal for Pounds 250,000 after discovering that it faces closure in September. The 23-year-old centre, which straddles a...
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Ancient foundation courses
Does the absence of classics in the national curriculum foreshadow their demise in universities? Peter Jones (left) fears it may, Nick Tate (right) is more optimistic. Sir Kenneth Dover, classicist...
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Taking the tablets
Paul Bompard reports on the most amazing archaeological discovery since the second world war, the lost city of Ebla. In 1962 a 22-year-old graduate student from Rome University might have been...
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Don't ask, don't get
When the vice chancellor of an Irish university ran into a prominent alumnus, he asked him a question that had been bothering him for some time. "I heard you gave a major gift to another university...
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Flying kites for adult learners
This is adult learning week. A wide range of events, activities, open days and media programmes have been taking place throughout the country to help to focus attention on adult learning. What is...