Cramped college chosen for PFI debut in province
Northern Ireland's most cramped college has been selected for the first private finance initiative in the province. A consortium of three local companies will build a replacement college costing an...
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QCA to tackle vocational qualifications
The new Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, officially launched this week, is to invite representatives of higher education institutions to take part in national advisory groups on improving the...
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Defer tuition fees north of border, says SNP
The Scottish National Party, which is holding its annual conference in Rothesay, has backed a resolution from the Federation of Student Nationalists calling on the government to postpone the...
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Sociologists in call for welfare rethink
MORE THAN 50 professors of social policy and sociology have called on the government to rethink its policies towards people on benefit. In a letter to a national newspaper, they asked the new social...
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Two studies find support for BSE-CJD link
Two BSE studies have this week provided the strongest evidence yet that new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is the human version of BSE. One, carried out by John Collinge of the prion disease group...
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DFEE spells out its lifelong learning priorities
The Department for Education and Employment has committed itself to "making a reality of lifelong learning" in its draft strategic framework for the next five years, spelled out in a consultation...
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Joint ventures succeed in cutting drop-out rates
Further education colleges often work with other training organisations to tackle the problem of young people who opt out of education, says a report from the Further Education Development Agency....
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LEAs face funding admin nightmare
An administrative nightmare is looming for local education authorities as they race to put in place the machinery demanded by the new student funding regime. David Line of Surrey County Council says...
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Warning against turf wars
Huw Richards reports from the fringe meetings at the Labour party conference in Brighton Further and higher education's rare position as a key issue of the Labour conference was reflected in a giant...
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Students' benefit windfall
A LEGAL ruling giving a student on a modular university course the right to income support could cost the government millions of pounds in housing benefit claims. Appeal court judges ruled in July...
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Price deterrent
Huw Richards reports from the fringe meetings at the Labour party conference in Brighton Between 40,000 and 50,000 potential undergraduates are likely to be deterred from seeking university places...
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Inspection proposals rebuffed
Vice chancellors have said they are "alarmed" by proposals for stringent new inspection demands on teacher training courses and tough penalties for failing to meet them. Conditions of funding for...
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Eyeless in Brighton
Conspicuously not making a spectacle of himself at Labour's Brighton conference this week was National Union of Students president Doug Trainer, forced to deliver a fringe meeting speech from an...
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New indifference
So does New Labour hate universities? According to one former minister its main emotion is indifference rather than hostility or enthusiasm. There are far more votes in children at two key points in...
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Just say not
Freudian slip of the conference goes to left-wing weekly Tribune's omission of the word "not" from one of David Blunkett's columns so that the sentence in question read: "Our proposals do involve...