If they work, fix them
A-levels standards are high, a two-year inspection from the Office of Standards in Education has insisted, despite the education secretary's announcement this week that they face the "biggest shake-...
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Shephard aims for exam parity
Clear parity between academic and vocational paths to higher education came a step closer this week as education secretary Gillian Shephard detailed "the biggest shake-up of the qualifications system...
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A level is spanner in the works, says MP
The narrow specialism of A levels has to go if the Government campaign launched last month to encourage more young people into engineering, the Year of Engineering Success, is to succeed, according...
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Job cuts at Derby
All mechanical and electrical engineering staff at Derby University have been told to reapply for their jobs in a restructuring move. There will be some redundancies. A letter circulated to staff...
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Missing billions
Universities are missing out on billions of pounds of industry training money, the CVCP and the HEFCE warned this week. They have commissioned a research project to help higher education win a bigger...
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Correction
Last week's survey of vice chancellors' pay should have listed the pay of Ron Cooke, of York University, as Pounds 89,000 in both 1994-95 and 1995-96. The principal of King's College, London, Arthur...
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Training agency hails success of 'winners take most' scheme
The Teacher Training Agency's first allocations under its new funding system have produced more winners than losers, despite big cuts in recruitment targets, the agency said this week. More than half...
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Teacher Training Agency
The TTA attacked one of its most persistent critics, the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers, in its evidence to the Commons Select Committee on Education's inquiry into teacher...
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Teacher training standards variable
Primary initial teacher training standards in English and Mathematics are too variable, the inspection agency, Ofsted, has concluded. A report on inspections in 1995 and last year says not all...
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Parties air difference in policies
THES looks at reaction to the DFEE's fourth Dearing submission, which queried standards and expansion THE PARTY political truce on higher education policy, instituted a year ago by the appointment of...
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A bit previous
Some say it with flowers, or chocolates, or some other token of appreciation. But it takes real class, and an opportunity granted to only around 650 of our fellow citizens, to say sorry with a...
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A fine mess
Glasgow University's newsletter reports that a copy of The Times, dated April 14, 1937, has just been delivered to the university library. This turns out to be the library's own copy, presumably...
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Pot shot
Students would naturally be expected to object to strippograms on the grounds of political correctness. But strippogram Sid Robertson, interviewed in Edinburgh University's student newspaper, reveals...
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Mission to serve
Perish the sexist thought that Alexandra Burslem, soon to become Britain's seventh female university vice chancellor, will spend an overly long amount of time worrying about the dress-code for her...
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W.H.A.T???
Evidence for those who fear that the world of education is suffering from Compulsive Acronym Syndrome (CAS?) comes with the handlist Acronyms and Initialisms in Education (AIE), produced by the...