Historian is given Scots brief
Scotland's new education minister is Raymond Robertson, MP for Aberdeen South and a former teacher of history and modern studies. Given the dearth of Scottish Tory MPs, he is also responsible for...
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New benefits threat looms
A growing number of part-time students are losing state benefits despite a decision to delay the introduction of tighter rules, the Unemployment Unit has claimed. MPs have been told that the cut in...
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Merged ministry triggers alarm
The Government's decision to mix employment and education portfolios has met with a cool reception The reshuffle of ministers' jobs in the new Department for Education and Employment came under fire...
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Defunct department's duties to be shared with DTI
The Government's decision to mix employment and education portfolios has met with a cool reception The spoils of the old employment department are to be shared primarily between the new DFEE and the...
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TEC 'charter' is a model of openness
Training and Enterprise Councils have set themselves new standards for local accountability which could become a model for governing bodies in further and higher education institutions. The TEC...
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Dotty over PhDs
The Dorothy Hodgkin fellowships, aimed at preventing the loss of women from science after they have completed their PhDs, have been massively oversubscribed, with 220 applications. The number of...
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Designs on docks
Architects RMJM have won the London Docklands Development Corporation competition to design the new Royals University College in Docklands, it was announced this week. The plans aim to share leisure...
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Alfred's hot topic
King Alfred's College of Higher Education in Winchester has announced it is to seek university status by 2005. The college had been in talks with the University of Southampton to create a federal...
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Irish abuse
An industrial tribunal has ruled that Alan Bryans, a lecturer at Northumberland College, was discriminated against by his employers who ignored their own policy on racial harassment by failing to act...
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Lecturers go legal
The Lecturers' Employment Action Fellowship was set up this week to continue the fight against FE college employers over new contracts. Monday's test case in Birmingham, which was to decide whether...
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Jobless and special needs are overlooked
Long-term unemployed people and students with special needs are losing out on training at the hands of Training and Enterprise Council policies, a new report says. As a result of government pressure...
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Brief bloom for modern apprenticeships
Modern apprenticeships are popular with employers, but questions remain over their suitability for a wide range of sectors and their funding in the future, according to a report by the Industrial...
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Steer clear of a tight corner
A daring kayak expedition to Siberia has hit rough water before leaving Barking - because the University of East London canoes are too big for Aeroflot's cargo crates. Eight explorers, mostly current...
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Music head quits over cuts
The head of music at Wakefield College in Yorkshire will resign at the end of this month in protest over "intolerable" cuts facing music education at the college. Richard Ingham, who is taking...
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Computer chips brought down to size
A computer chip the size of a postage stamp could soon have the power of 1,000 personal computers, say Cambridge scientists. This is because scientists have made a breakthrough in which they can get...