Grade error
Queen's University, Belfast has formally apologised to students after an exams blunder left almost 1,000 applicants to both it and the University of Ulster in limbo. An electronic error meant many...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: * 0.6 per cent of first-degree graduates found employment in agriculture and forestry * 11 per cent of first-degree...
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Saw point
(Photograph) - Saw point: Bruce Cuthbert is one of a brigade of unemployed people busy working to build their own houses as part of a Pounds 500,000 project in Huddersfield to regenerate the city....
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Scotland Referendum
(Photograph) - Facing a bleak future? The recent European Court ruling outlawing football transfer fees for out-of contract players could have a particularly damaging effect in Scotland, according to...
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Sir Ron fears
Sir Ron Dearing said this week that his committee proposed student fees because of the need for extra cash in higher education. "For the money not to come to higher education would be a denial of one...
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Employers wipe out debts with gold hellos
GRADUATE employers are gearing up to pay off student debts in the race to secure the best recruits. Mike Killingley, executive member of the Association of Graduate Recruiters, said companies in the...
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Natfhe gagging row
A row over a "gagging clause" blighted the launch of troubled lecturers' union Natfhe's campaign for a new general secretary this week. But an 11th-hour climbdown by the union executive appears to...
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Brand squeezes in appeal before deadline
Chris Brand, Edinburgh University's self-styled "scientific racist" this week appealed against his recent dismissal, two days before the deadline for appeal ran out. Mr Brand was sacked last month...
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Wragg walks onto superquango board
The Government has appointed Ted Wragg, professor of education at Exeter and a vociferous critic of its education policy, to the board of the all-encompassing qualifications super-quango, the...
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Joint safety group means food moves up menu
As a step towards the promised independent Food Standards Agency, the Government this week established a Joint Food Safety and Standards Group. It brings together Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries...
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Natfhe loses High Court pensions review. . .
Lecturers' union Natfhe has lost its High Court case against the Government's changes to teachers' pensions policy. Natfhe argued that the reform of the Teachers Superannuation Scheme (TSS) by former...
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Natfhe climbs down over contracts at Yeovil
Natfhe as climbed down after a six-month dispute over new staff contracts at Yeovil College, Somerset. Lecturers have accepted the contracts, which for some will mean an extra five hours of teaching...
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Scottish standards report published
The Scottish Office Education and Industry Department this week published the first HM Inspectors' report on standards and quality in Scotland's 43 further education colleges for 1995/96, which says...
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Colleges are failing job-hungry students
College careers advisors are failing students who are seeking employment because they divert more resources to those who want to go on to higher education, according to a three-year study by the...
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Poll backs paying for tuition
THE ABANDONMENT of free university education has aroused little concern among the general public, according to a poll for vice chancellors published today. The poll, conducted by MORI, found that 69...