Labouring under a new challenge
The recent report from the House of Commons education and employment select committee recognises that there is a teacher recruitment problem developing that will, if the trend continues, make it...
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Long on vision, short on cash
So further education is to get only an additional Pounds 83 million next year to tide it over while the government completes its spending review and hones plans to rebalance post-16 education to...
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Time to break the grip of the old boys' club
A modernised, more anonymous process of application for research funds is required, writes John Smith. The system of allocating research funds through peer review is one of those "old world"...
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RAE goes Forth and multiplies
A consultation paper on the future of the Research Assessment Exercise has been issued. Bahram Bekhradnia describes its purpose. The research assessment exercise has some of the characteristics of...
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Quality drive blunted by cuts
Colleges' efforts to improve standards and access were checked this year simply because of cash cuts and financial worries, according to the annual Further Education Funding Council inspection report...
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Classes for the masses
Economic success and social cohesion can be boosted by widening the base of further and higher education, argues Helena Kennedy Tony Blair's call for an additional 500,000 places in further and...
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Is it time for the many not the few?
Ministers have placed the Fryer group looking into lifelong learning into virtual purdah, but Phil Baty identifies the problems it is seeking to address The long-awaited lifelong learning white paper...
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Raising an army with demoralised officers
Sue Berryman applauds the government's plan to swell the ranks of further education but urges it to alleviate the plight of the sector's demoralised and underpaid staff The prospect of at least 400,...
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Aim higher and make the money go further
Roger Ward believes ministers can stir the sleeping giant of the college sector by ending the funding bias that favours higher education Who would be an education minister these days - or any day...
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Brum punch
The hospitality industry needs more managers. And Birmingham College can serve up the training courses - so long as it gets more cash. Simon Midgley reports There is a national shortage of...
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Door-to-door diplomas
Mothers wanting a return-to-work course can find it difficult to get to college, soHendon brought classes to them. Simon Midgley describes a pioneering initiative in North London A pioneering return-...
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Too lean to be mean
Colin Flint advises the government to think the unthinkable, say the unsayable and to acknowledge that now it is further education's turn It has not been a good year for colleges. Over 55 per cent of...
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Frames and ambitions
The qualifications framework proposal for widening participation in higher education is fraught with problems, not least of which is the uninspiringly named subdegree, argues Julian Gravatt The...
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Big advances need big battalions
In Scotland, non-degree courses offer the 'best buy' for a government shopping around to get more participation and more qualified people for the same number of places, says Tom Kelly This has been a...
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A flowering that requires healthy roots
If higher education is to stand a chance of widening participation, David Melville claims that the flow from further education must be increased The prime minister announced at the Labour party...