* 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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Chris Condron finds balancing sun and sex and avoiding sewage makes summer holidays a risky business THE three As - alcohol, anonymity and accessibility - lead to young people being twice as likely...
FINANCIAL problems and poor degree choices have resulted in recruitment problems at five state universities in Kenya. The universities have the capacity to admit 8,500 undergraduates out of an...
Is Chris Patten a double agent, leaking Britain's few remaining secrets to international spy Jonathan Dimbleby? Or has the whole thing been concocted by counterspy Mandelson to cover Government...
Plans for a University of Gloucestershire are back on track after the successful conclusion of a three-year struggle to bring higher education back to Gloucester city. Gloucester City Council has...
The first tangible foundations for the proposed new University for Suffolk were laid this week with the launch of a Suffolk Business School, which is expected to become the business studies arm of...
An agricultural college bidding for degree-awarding powers has been criticised by quality watchdogs for the way it has used the title "university sector college". Writtle College, near Chelmsford in...