Colleges neglect industry's needs
The training needs of industry and commerce are not being met by colleges. Instead colleges give higher priority to the preferences of individual students, according to a national inspection report....
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Video nasty
Coming soon to a cinema near you? Probably not, but the Higher Education Funding Council for England is making a video explaining the allocation process. Based on one of the books that did not quite...
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Cranfield shelves resources centre bid
Another bidder for the Overseas Development Administration's research arm has fallen by the wayside. Cranfield University has pulled out of the competition to buy the Natural Resources Institute, to...
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Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics
The Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics established by the universities of Liverpool and Manchester is sponsored by the law firm Hill Dickinson Davis Campbell, and not, as stated last week, by...
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Raw material
The Council for Industry and Higher Education has called for a national investigation in to how employers can increase opportunities for students to use workplaces as raw material for learning.
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Very enterprising
South Thames Training and Enterprise Council, which went into receivership in 1994, was paid around Pounds 10 million for running courses for non-existent courses, according to the National Audit...
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Tech me there
A Pounds 4 million scheme to encourage research into transport has been announced by the Government. The Department of Transport wants to stimulate projects to develop efficient, safe and...
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Truly civil engineers
An initiative to get more scientists and engineers into a broader range of jobs in the civil service is being planned by the Government and will be included in a white paper to be published later...
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find:girls/computer crazy/any where?
Are girls put off computing by the nerdy image of an anorak-wearing boffin who communes with a terminal and is, above all, male? The answer, according to John Wilkes, senior lecturer in computing at...
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Forsyth thumbs up to Islands
Michael Forsyth, Secretary of State for Scotland, has unexpectedly backed plans for a University of the Highlands and Islands, previously cold- shouldered by the Scottish Office, writes Olga Wojtas....
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Lifelong ambition
(Photograph) - Lifelong ambition: After years of campaigning, Richmond Adult and Community College is to gain independence from local authority control in August this year, it was announced last week...
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Kingston wrests longer nurse training contract from NHS
Kingston University has succeeded in winning a contract of almost double the normal length with the National Health Service for its new nurse training department. University spokesmen say that the...
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Engineers must learn to play the racket
Engineering graduates are failing to match unqualified executives as top managers because they are "conceptual golfers" rather than "conceptual tennis players". This message came from Richard Barry,...
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Ceredigion FE College
Ceredigion FE College in West Wales is to close its Felinfach campus this summer. Felinfach, which houses the college's agricultural department, has been declared unviable after making losses of...
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Martian visitors killed our dog
Is there life on Mars, albeit in a primitive form, and could it make the journey to Earth? It may already be here, reports Martin Ince. Frequent flyers say that a good landing is one you can walk...