Rome site for graduate course on Jewish Italy
A group of academics from the United Kingdom, Italy, the United States and Israel are founding an international postgraduate institute in Rome with the financial backing of a prominent businessman...
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Romania relents on use of language
CLAIMS that changes to Romania's education laws undermine the status of Romanian as the state language have been dismissed by Virgil Petrescu, the education minister. All students in Romania will...
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Students stitch up Ron
Sinking the unthinkable: ministers confess NUS lobbying sidelined Dearing's plans Ministers have admitted that they made a deal with the National Union of Students to soften key funding options put...
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Silence and the ghosts of education past
PERHAPS it was the effect of taking higher education out of party politics for so long. Whatever the reason, David Blunkett's commons statement on the Dearing Report was a distinctly subdued affair...
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...and Blackstone explains
IT WAS left to higher and further education minister Baroness Blackstone to fill in the details and justify the Government's controversial departure on funding from the Dearing report. The baroness,...
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New or strengthened bodies recommended by the Dearing committee
* Institute for Learning and Teaching The institute will accredit training programmes for higher education teachers; commission research and development in learning and teaching practices, and...
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What Dearing says
A NEW "compact" between the main stakeholders in higher education - the Government, students and their families, employers and institutions - is the guiding principle behind Sir Ron Dearing's funding...
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Honorary degrees
University of Bristol DSc: Alice Stewart, professor of medicine, in recognition of her life-long pioneering work on the prevention of cancer. University of Reading DLitt: Gert Kaiser, rector of...
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What Blunkett says...
THE GOVERNMENT's alternative plans for funding, announced at almost the same time as the details of Dearing's report, would "build" on Dearing's preferred option, education secretary David Blunkett...
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No PC, no degree?
FIRST-YEAR students facing tuition bills may have to add Pounds 500 for a basic portable computer. Dearing expects that by 2005/6 all students will need their own portable computer (Rec 46)....
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Funding carrot to aid teaching
SOME departments and institutions are to be encouraged to opt out of the research assessment exercise in a bid to halt the "devaluation" of teaching in higher education. The report says too many...
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Major role for Quality Assurance Agency
DEARING has stopped short of recommending a national curriculum for higher education programmes - but only just. A compulsory code of practice and "threshold" minimum standards for degree programmes...
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CVCP relief on standards
THE broad thrust of the "qualifications and standards" recommendations have been welcomed. Diana Warwick, chief executive of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, was relieved that Sir...
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A new binary divide?
RESPONSES to Dearing's recommendations on teaching focused on plans to move some institutions' missions from research. They were interpreted as the start of a new binary divide and the emergence of...
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Cash dose could aid lab health
THE CREATION of an arts and humanities research council, a Pounds 500-million loan scheme for buying laboratory equipment and an extra Pounds 110 million for research councils are among Dearing's...