Merton gets a tune-up
As schools and sixth-form colleges compete to attract and keep their A-level students, general further education colleges are having to find increasingly inventive ways to woo students between the...
As schools and sixth-form colleges compete to attract and keep their A-level students, general further education colleges are having to find increasingly inventive ways to woo students between the...
In the run-up to spending announcements which are expected to favour further education, The THES looks at the state of the colleges Further education has not developed into a cohesive national sector...
Much has happened over the last year that has placed post-16 education firmly in the spotlight. New money, new ways of working and the promise of a new future for further and higher education have...
Further education in Scotland can now see much of the road ahead for the next three years. Clear signposts have emerged from the comprehensive spending review, the paper on Lifelong Learning,...
Further education has been hailed the driving force behind the regeneration of the Welsh economy. But fears are growing that the sector is failing to produce the highly skilled workforce demanded by...
Don Norman's aim is to make companies produce more user-friendly products. Tony Durham met him Don Norman cannot ignore a badly designed door, tap or light switch. He is likely to photograph it,...
The story of a life, from womb to tomb, reconstructs a past, but is it history? asks Ben Pimlott Let's make no bones about it, many historians look down witheringly at biographers, as much for their...
John Davies scans the weekly schedules for TV and radio programmes of academic relevance. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Stand by for first world war information overload, as the BBC...
'One of the great minds of the 20th century' or 'unintelligible in several languages'? Michael Ignatieff asks how the world will remember Isaiah Berlin A year ago, prime minister Tony Blair wrote a...
Last week in The THES ... Jules Pretty explained why we should ban genetically modified crops. Adeela Warley Public information manager Friends of the Earth I would like to register my personal...
Technology is about to transform the way we buy and use learning, Nigel Paine says The clock is ticking for learning in the 21st century. To be successful we have to transform the relationship...
A sense of humour is essential in maintaining classroom discipline, says Sally Brown During a lecture you are suddenly confronted with a pair of entwined students kissing passionately. Behind them a...
Northern Ireland's new Assembly has voiced concern over the massive revamp planned at Queen's University. But managers at the Belfast campus have refused to take part in a joint delegation to the...
The University of Bradford is making a series of awards for excellence in teaching. Nominations from current and former students will be considered by a selection panel which will make...
Graduates from state schools earn less than their privately educated counterparts even when they are the same age and sex and have read the same subject at the same university and achieved the same...