Dobson issues health warning on fees
HEALTH secretary Frank Dobson is understood to have warned education officials that plans to charge Pounds 1,000 annual university tuition fees might undermine attempts to attract students into the...
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Nolan sets sights on higher education
FURTHER and higher education funding councils and representative bodies of universities and colleges are to be quizzed by the Nolan Committee on what they are doing to become more open and...
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Ulster vice chancellor set for House of Lords
HIGHER education is to win another voice in the House of Lords, with Sir Trevor Smith, vice chancellor of Ulster University, set to receive a peerage next month. Sir Trevor, who will be a Liberal...
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Laptops cost piles on agony
THE GOAL of a laptop computer for every student by 2006 will put financial burdens on undergraduates and institutions, technology experts have warned. Delegates to a conference last week on "IT and...
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Retirement row rages
COLLEGE employers have blamed trade union campaigning for ending early retirement options for hundreds of lecturers, writes Alan Thomson. The Association of Colleges said it was "extremely...
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16-19 curriculum is 'misunderstood'
Higher education institutions have a "depressing" understanding of developments in the 16-19 curriculum, especially in their relationship with the Advanced level General National Vocational...
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Government introduce "beefed-up" criteria for NVQs
* The Government introduced "beefed-up" criteria and a tougher quality code of practice for National Vocational Qualifications this week, in a bid to meet criticisms of the qualification. Education...
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Big brother tracks porn addicts
BIG brother is watching out for students using pornographic web sites or playing games on the computer network when they should be studying, writes Harriet Swain. Most institutions have the software...
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On the job beats enrolment
Britain's "expensive and incomprehensible" education system, with too many students in full-time schooling and mass higher education, is failing to met its economic and social needs, according to a...
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Clapping at the end
Sir Ron Dearing may well have been quaking in his boots when he met over 100 student activists just two days after announcing plans to sting their successors for thousands of pounds in tuition fees....
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Dear stalking
There seems to be rather more in a name than meets the eye - at least where Sir Ron is concerned. Diana Laurillard, on his main committee for the past year, confesses her 13-year-old daughter has...
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Labour dispute
Labour Research, the venerable trade union-based research body, had a simple aim - to publish gory details from 1995-96 college accounts. These were released to provincial media organisations, which...
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That's tall, folks
So what do you give the man with a six-figure salary and a knighthood? Vice chancellors recently found an ingenious solution when bidding farewell to retiring chairman Gareth Roberts. At what was...
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Do the logo motion
The National Postgraduate Committee felt it time for a new logo full of get up and go. A handful of bright young things pitted their grey cells against each other to come up with a suitable design....
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Coastwatch cleans up
Chris Condron finds balancing sun and sex and avoiding sewage makes summer holidays a risky business OLD TYRES, medical waste, "sewage-related" debris and household furnishings are just some of the...