Lecturers unite
The UK's two largest lecturers' unions have relaunched potential merger talks following the failure of an existing scheme to achieve greater unity. Executive members of the Association of University...
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Merger go-ahead
As expected, the Education Bill unveiled by the Government on Wednesday contains proposals to merge the Schools Curriculum and Assessment Authority with the National Council for Vocational...
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Strike ballot
Lecturers in 92 further education colleges across England and Wales will be balloted next week on strike action over pay. College-by-college ballots open on Monday with possible strikes set for...
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Criminal obsession
The propensity for British women to fall for prisoners on death row is to become the focus of a study by Ellis Cashmore, professor of sociology at Staffordshire University. Professor Cashmore hopes...
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New cistern
The idea of installing Pounds 200 equipment that uses rainwater to flush the lavatory and water the flowerbeds appeals to over 90 per cent of people in the Leamington and Coventry areas. The study by...
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Women told to take risks to get a first
High achievement in the Cambridge history course, one of the country's most prestigious, depends less on accuracy and more on brilliant wit and "bull**** of a high quality", an investigation by the...
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Call for rethink on pay for job losses
Hard-up colleges anticipating future redundancies have forced the Further Education Funding Council to consider reviving its restructuring scheme. The announcement last week that De la Salle sixth-...
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Global bar to learning
World demand for education and training is growing exponentially in the same way as demand for news grew in the 1970s and 1980s, delegates at the first Global Summit on Distance Education were told...
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V-cs pull reins on overseas franchises
Vice chancellors are to address the worries created by damning quality agency reports on some British-accredited courses in Greece. The council of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals,...
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Closure staved off
Rotherham College of Arts and Technology pulled back from the brink of closure with the aid of a tough recovery plan and a troubleshooting neighbour. Speculation mounted this summer over its imminent...
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In training
Any place deserving of the name "university" is keen to show that it is going places. But isn't the new Liverpool John Moores University Express taking things a little far? London-bound passengers...
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Poor relations
The public relations department at University College London must have been sorely tempted to turn on its master following a recent restructuring shock from provost Sir Derek Roberts. Sir Derek's...
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It's raining beer
Half-hoping for rain this weekend are the more convivial spirits at Dartington College of Arts, whose graduation ceremony is held tomorrow. Not out of any desire to do a happy occasion down, but with...
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Mile-high hazards
Before you complain about the poor quality of your in-flight meal or lack of leg room when next jetting round the world, spare a thought for the flight attendants who face numerous health hazards...
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Water works
Alumnus to be proud of No:73 is that consummate quangocrat, Brandon Gough, chairman of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. He recently attained the unique distinction for a HEFCE chief...