College courts suitable merger partners
AIREDALE and Wharfedale College is seeking to merge with local institutions to combat a deficit and address serious management weaknesses. The Leeds college was forced to seek a merger after a...
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Union ponders strike action
FURTHER education lecturers may start the new term with a ballot for industrial action after pay and conditions negotiations with employers foundered on teaching hours. Lecturers' union Natfhe is to...
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Yeovil College
* Strikes could hit a West Country college as lecturers refuse to sign new contracts that would increase hours and cut pay. Yeovil College managers have imposed new contracts on lecturing staff from...
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Charity quits tobacco habit
A LEADING cancer charity is writing this week to all British universities for their views on how it can best disassociate its research funding from money given by tobacco companies. Last year the...
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Dearing backs the learning net
Cheered by Dearing's endorsement of ideas which the Computers and Teaching Initiative has been promoting for the past six years, Joyce Martin and Nick Hammond respond to plans which include merging...
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An end to excellent suspicions
Su White praises the Dearing report's call for a professional institute for learning and teaching but believes a deeper cultural change is needed If Dearing achieves one thing, apart from making...
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Dearing discussions
The Dearing report (www.leeds. ac.uk/educol/ ncihe/) has provoked a number of online discussions and responses. The Association for Learning Technology's lively one-day virtual conference is now read...
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Lower cost learning handheld with care
As tiny computers proliferate at sub-Pounds 500 prices, Matt Jones argues that Dearing could have gone much further in urging students to break free, physically and financially, from what is on offer...
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Warm words but cold comfort for developers
The failure rate of IT projects is unacceptably high and Dearing has missed an opportunity to define the way institutions plan and implement them, Phil Hobbs argues Seldom do policy advisers venture...
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Chris Stephens
(Photograph) - Chris Stephens, professor of child dental health, and his team at the University of Bristol offer a textbook example of how IT can be successfully introduced. Computer Assisted...
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Basic business for the millennium
Tony Durham reports on Nottingham Trent's IT strategy review - a model endorsed by Dearing For Martin Reynolds, dean of the business school at Nottingham Trent University, the university's decision...
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University debt soars
DEBT levels in higher education have risen by 75 per cent in three years, with the former polytechnics hit hardest, according to an annual financial guide. Average total debt as a ratio of average...
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Factfile
* There are 135,348 full-time postgraduates in the UK * There are 234,771 part-time postgraduates in the UK * Of all postgraduates, 54 per cent are male.
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Fees: there's no limit
Tuition fees of Pounds 1,000 a year could quickly rise, Sir Ron Dearing has warned students. There can be no guarantee that fees will stay pegged at 25 per cent of course costs, he told a meeting of...
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Heavy-duty reading
Part of Sir Stewart's journalistic training must have been in speed reading, but his skills are apparently not shared by his senior management team, one of whom dejectedly confessed he had so far...