A single qualifications framework for post-school education and training, with a new points system for entry into higher education, could emerge from a Government-backed review. Sir Ron Dearing, who...
(Photograph) - Don meets the Dons: Vinnie Jones, Wimbledon captain and sometime hod-carrier, tackling an unfamiliar situation - a public speech at the Oxford Union - in an all-too-familiar way. Mr...
Union leaders in the old universities have struck a pay deal with employers designed to safeguard the worst-off universities. The 2.7 per cent increase in salaries is to be recommended to the...
A senior official of lecturers' union Natfhe has been poached by the new lecturers-for-hire business backed by college employers. Richard Eve, assistant further education secretary, was given a week...
More than 70 universities are likely to bid in the first round of the Leonardo da Vinci programme, the five-year Pounds 520 million European vocational initiative launched in the United Kingdom last...
The rector of the "illegal" Albanian-language University of Tetovo in Macedonia has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for "inciting the people to resistance". Fadil Sulejman was...
Six of Scotland's 43 further education colleges have set themselves up as a "polytechnic" sector offering an alternative to university-based higher education. A quarter of higher education entrants...
(Photograph) - Down to earth: The first pictures beamed to earth from the European environmental satellite, ERS-2, include this one of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, taken by a British-...
A row erupted this week between lecturers' union Natfhe and employers over the continued use of strike action while talks carry on at Acas to solve the college contracts dispute. Roger Ward, chief...
Monday. Breakfast at Hotel Villa Kastania (Horsechestnut Hotel). Most of the streets in Charlottenburg (part of the British quarter of Berlin) are named after the trees which line them. We do not...
John Sparkes's understanding of NVQs is incomplete. All bodies responsible for designing NVQs must do so according to national criteria. These criteria demand that they embrace the following: * The...
John Randall (THES, April 14) and John Sparkes (THES, April 28) come from opposite poles in the National Vocational Qualifications and competence debate. As both quote engineering in support of their...
As the debate nears its conclusion John Stoddart sets out his framework for quality assurance. Now that discussions have begun in earnest about future arrangements for quality assurance, we should...
The inaccuracies and distortion of fact in "Follow my Labour" must be corrected. The NUS debate over education funding will be open and controversial. It is however, disappointing that your...
Belying its reputation for arcane irrelevance, quantum mechanics addresses problems of great importance for practical human activity. It explains, for example, the rigidity of chairs and tables...