Inspectors praise beleaguered Stoke staff
Inspectors have praised staff at Stoke College for delivering a generally sound education to students despite "serious failings" in the leadership and the institution's "severe financial difficulties...
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FEFC sounds out colleges on Kennedy report
The Further Education Funding Council is consulting colleges on the emerging conclusions of its widening participation committee, chaired by Helena Kennedy QC. The committee, which will report...
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Teachers may get own Royal College
A NEW, independent professional association for teachers, to oversee training, professional development and standards in the profession, could soon be set up. The College of Preceptors is meeting...
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Accountants are star performers
MANUFACTURING companies headed by accountants perform better than those run by qualified scientists and engineers, according a study by Warwick University researchers. The report also says half of...
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Scots science seeks Millennium cash
SCOTTISH scientists are anxiously awaiting the Millennium Commission's decision on supporting key strands of a national science network. The Scottish Science Trust, which includes leading academics,...
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A-level maths proposals hit mechanics
PROPOSED new rules for marking A-level mathematics discriminate against students choosing to study mechanics, an essential foundation for university engineering and physics, educationists have warned...
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Relaunch for Cluster mission
BRITISH space scientists have received the boost they had been hoping for with news that the Cluster mission which ended in an explosion nine months ago is to be relaunched. Funding to build Cluster...
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Whig heir shows liberal roots
Conrad Russell, scion of one of the most patrician families in the land, is unhappy with Tony Blair's lurch to the right. The Liberal Democrat peer tells Huw Richards why he detests new Labour...
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The knowledge monopoly
Peruvian Francisco Sagasti appeals to scientists for a little more equality in the global order of knowledge When Francisco Sagasti addressed this year's opening session of the annual meeting of the...
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Trading Queen Vic for a car park
The Irish not only threw out the British, but their statues too. Paula Murphy traces the ruins of Dublin's imperial past Art history may not, at first glance, seem to be very relevant to a discussion...
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Madness becomes normal
Schizophrenic traits may be common in many people If media coverage of schizophrenia was all you had to go on, you could be forgiven for thinking that all schizophrenics were violent murderers. If so...
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Dark episodes and scar tissue on the psyche
A new study argues that people can remember previously forgotten experiences, including abuse by their parents Can people remember previously forgotten traumatic incidents? The debate about so-called...
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Deer hunters must call off the dogs
Red deer cannot sweat and are not designed to run for long distances, so literally hounding them to death cannot be justified, argues Patrick Bateson, author of a National Trust report published this...
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Learning a new body language
A former Bunny girl turned immunologist may have found the answer to why tumours are not attacked by the body's immune system There is nothing conventional about Polly Matzinger, America's latest...
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Singular man of sceptical faith
Alan Sked does not look like a politician or sound like an academic but he is both. Lucy Hodges talks to him about his political party and his loathing for the European Union Alan Sked was getting...