Higher values encroach on further ideals
Further education provision could be sacrificed in order to pay for more college degree work, say senior staff at Norwich City College. Colleges need core funding for higher education work, say the...
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Franchising threat to funding
FRANCHISING could destroy further education unless funding follow students rather than qualifications, according to one college principal, writes Alan Thomson. Adrian Perry, principal of Lambeth...
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NVQ lecturers hired 'on cheap'
FURTHER education colleges are downgrading lecturers who "are only teaching vocational courses", union leaders claim. Lecturers involved in running National Vocational Qualification courses are being...
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Vocational qualifications
Vocational qualifications are becoming increasingly popular with students although there are signs that overall growth in further education is slowing, according to the latest funding council figures...
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Angst at La Sainte Union
THE MANAGEMENT at La Sainte Union College of Higher Education, forced to close by the Teacher Training Agency last week, will talk only of the future. "We don't want to make life even more difficult...
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Points for key skills on the cards
NUMERACY, communication and other key skills, could become university entry requirements under a new admissions system, writes Phil Baty. The University and Colleges Admissions Service has been...
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Markers lose touch
STANDARDS in higher education are under threat because academics have little time to debate marking and assessment, a report has warned, writes Tony Tysome. Higher education has grown and diversified...
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Man catches politician in Web job
"Prime minister, aren't you, rather than Labour, the party divided on Europe?" At John Major's morning election press conference last Tuesday the media were joined by Gareth Pickering, a London...
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It's not what you say
Too late now, we know, but here is the definitive advice on how you should have voted yesterday. The key factor was not Europe but Esperanto, according to the Esperanto Lobby, which billed the...
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Odd referrals
Third and last in our series of implausible election claims comes not from a candidate, but an academic taking part in our recent opinion poll. Undaunted by the minor consideration that Sir James...
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Tall rail tales
Hard-up students at Bradford University must hope their local Labour parliamentary candidate will be keeping to pre election pledges if he has won a seat in Parliament this week. Marsha Singh, Labour...
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Complete with tumours
Dundee University is a museum it's official. The university has just been awarded official museum status by the Museums and Galleries Commission for its collections of specimens and artefacts,...
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Send them to Siberia
Tired of Emma, Four Weddings and a Funeral and the highlights of Chester City's 1994/95 season? Somewhere in Novosibirsk is a video machine that wants them. The business school there needs old videos...
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Blair's a pretty mover
Alumnus to be proud of No. 100 is a novelist more famed for non-stop bestselling action than the subtle appositeness of his characterisation. We think this view of Wilbur Smith is unfair, and base...
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Internet power plug
Academics have woken up to the political power of electronic media, Internet-based academic network Nexus said this week, writes Phil Baty. The new government faces an academic community with a...