By opting for more regulation, the Dearing committee missed its chance to improve UK higher education, says Robert Taylor Sir Ron Dearing told vice chancellors last week that if the United Kingdom...
FOLLOWING the success of the Union of Democratic Forces in general elections earlier this year, it looks possible that Bulgaria may start making reforms in earnest. A United Kingdom Know How Fund (...
Monday The prospect of another strange week in limbo, after a disastrous year in which a neurological operation, followed by a term's teachings, one serious and one catastrophic fall, and another...
I recently chaired a higher education foundation study day in Oxford on the relationship between teaching and research in the modern university. It was a think tank of 30 invited delegates...
(Photograph) - Feeling tipsy:Leeds College of Art and Design student Dan Marsden has won a competition sponsored by Smirnoff vodka with his oddly-angled table. It will take pride of place in a Leeds...
Proceedings of yesterday's IT and Dearing colloquium, organised by the Computers in Teaching Initiative and supported by The THES, will be published by CTISS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN; tel +44...
AIREDALE and Wharfedale College is seeking to merge with local institutions to combat a deficit and address serious management weaknesses. The Leeds college was forced to seek a merger after a...
FURTHER education lecturers may start the new term with a ballot for industrial action after pay and conditions negotiations with employers foundered on teaching hours. Lecturers' union Natfhe is to...
* Strikes could hit a West Country college as lecturers refuse to sign new contracts that would increase hours and cut pay. Yeovil College managers have imposed new contracts on lecturing staff from...
A LEADING cancer charity is writing this week to all British universities for their views on how it can best disassociate its research funding from money given by tobacco companies. Last year the...
Cheered by Dearing's endorsement of ideas which the Computers and Teaching Initiative has been promoting for the past six years, Joyce Martin and Nick Hammond respond to plans which include merging...
Su White praises the Dearing report's call for a professional institute for learning and teaching but believes a deeper cultural change is needed If Dearing achieves one thing, apart from making...
The Dearing report (www.leeds. ac.uk/educol/ ncihe/) has provoked a number of online discussions and responses. The Association for Learning Technology's lively one-day virtual conference is now read...
As tiny computers proliferate at sub-Pounds 500 prices, Matt Jones argues that Dearing could have gone much further in urging students to break free, physically and financially, from what is on offer...
The failure rate of IT projects is unacceptably high and Dearing has missed an opportunity to define the way institutions plan and implement them, Phil Hobbs argues Seldom do policy advisers venture...