Out-of-date tables on teaching attacked
Wide variations in the quality of teacher training are revealed today in the first national performance profiles of training providers - but university education departments have condemned the tables...
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Poor pay puts off language teachers
The future of foreign languages in schools is in doubt because of a shortage of graduate teachers, according to a national report to be published soon. Only French is still attracting graduates into...
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Judge and jury out on teachers
Mike Newby, chair of the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers, said: "We have no objection in principle, they can be helpful to institutions, but if they are used to make league tables...
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Universities bolster NVQs
National Vocational Qualifications are "part of the higher education landscape" and will continue to be integrated into degree curricula, a new NVQ validating body has proclaimed. Launched this week...
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Baroness calls for higher education to be privatised
Universities and the Government should urgently consider privatising higher education to allow it to meet financial and widening access targets, according to Baroness Perry, president of Lucy...
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Franchising must go on, says HEFCE
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has rejected Lord Dearing's recommendation that universities should not be allowed to sub-contract courses to further education colleges. HEFCE...
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Cold mould
(Photograph) - Cold mould: Five life-sized ice sculptures representing gardeners who once worked in The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall and failed to return after the First World War, have been...
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Female students ahead in survey
FEMALE business students performed nearly 10 per cent better in their first year than their male colleagues, a study that tested admissions details against results shows. The study, by John...
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Fees concession gets lukewarm response
Student leaders this week gave a lukewarm response to the government's decision to waive tuition fees for thousands of part-time students on benefits. The National Union of Students said that the...
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The unhappy undergrads... and the academics who feel betrayed
A survey among academic staff by the chaplaincy at Nottingham University has uncovered "worrying responses", including feelings of betrayal and the erosion of collegiality. It examines the personal...
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Take a new mature approach, Blackstone urges v-cs
Universities and colleges need to be more responsive to the needs of mature students as part of a wider review of their admissions policies, Baroness Blackstone, the higher education minister, told...
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England's research is top class
English research is the best in the world or second only to the United States in at least 23 of the 69 subject areas defined by the research assessment exercise. That is the conclusion of a study...
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Public optimism in biotech
Europeans support the use of biotechnology to produce medicines and genetic tests for certain diseases. But they think there is a great risk to society in inserting human genes into animals to create...
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'Share EU R&D efforts'
The European Union's multimillion pound biotechnology research effort should be opened to collaboration with scientists in the rest of the world, according to a five-year assessment of the programme...
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Zeneca plants Pounds 50m in Norwich
Zeneca is pouring Pounds 50 million into the John Innes Centre in Norwich to develop genetically modified crops, writes Alison Goddard. The money will pay for a new laboratory for 30 Zeneca...