Fees will not put poor off
Undergraduate tuition fees will not discourage poorer applicants and make the student body even more middle-class, according to a controversial report to be published in the autumn. Evidence gathered...
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Let's do a Dearing every five years, says committee
A Dearing-style review of highereducation should take place every five to ten years, Sir Ron's committee is to propose. A 30-year gap, the time betweenthe last major review by Robbins and the...
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Merged college to offer US degrees
FURTHER education students will be able to study for associate degrees from a United States university as part of a unique merger between two Birmingham colleges. East Birmingham and Handsworth...
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Radical research aims to solve industrial problems
THE FIRST four pilot Faraday Partnerships aimed at improving industry links with the research base were announced this week. Selected and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistic's Agency's findings for 1995/967 reveal that: * 77 per cent of UK full-time first degree entrants had A levels or equivalent as their highest academic qualifications *...
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Kennedy 'nobbled', FE claims
FURTHER education colleges may campaign for a share of higher education money amid claims that the university sector "nobbled" Helena Kennedy's drive for funding equity. College principals say that...
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Brunel axes undergrad physics and chemistry
BRUNEL University, founded as a centre of technological excellence, this week confirmed it would stop taking undergraduate physics and chemistry students after September. Instead the physics and...
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Call for key skills in university entrance tests
THE GOVERNMENT should impose key skills exams on universities, Roger Murphy, Nottingham University education faculty dean and author of a Government-commissioned report, suggested this week....
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Better deal for disabled college students
COLLEGES are to become more responsive to students with learning difficulties and disabilities. The Further Education Funding Council will implement about half of the 70 recommendations made in John...
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Contracting career services proves costly
THE LAST government's 1994 decision to transfer responsibility for careers services from local education authorities to private contractors has cost the Department for Education and Employment Pounds...
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Professor denies indecent assault charges
A LEADING expert on Descartes from Reading University has denied two charges of indecent assault. The case against John Cottingham, head of philosophy, was being heard this week in Reading Crown...
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Tutor to face court over body parts thefts
A SCULPTURE tutor from the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture was this week charged with the theft of body parts, which he used in his exhibits. Anthony-Noel Kelly, 41, was arrested in April...
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Howells wants UN backing for adult learning
LIFELONG learning minister Kim Howells has called on the United Nations to back his plan for an "International Week of Adult Learning". Speaking at Unesco's fifth international conference on adult...
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Gregory to step down early from Goldsmiths
KEN Gregory, warden of Goldsmiths College, is to take early retirement next year. Professor Gregory, appointed to the University of London college in 1992, had his five-year contract extended to 2003...
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Funding boost for small business staff training
THE DEPARTMENT for Education and Employment has given Pounds 500,000 to encourage small businesses to train staff through the Investors in People standard. Training and Enterprise Councils are...