Ministers propose skills initiatives
Ministers this week proposed new learning and skills initiatives but have offered no extra funding to support them. Baroness Blackstone, further and higher education minister, announced a system of "...
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Can do kendo
Can do kendo: Cheltenham and Gloucester college of higher education students Yuichiro Kishigami and Sotaro Honda who won the Mumeishi Threes international clubs competition at kendo - Japanese sword...
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NHS students bring better funding
The University of Central England in Birmingham is to stop recruiting extra full-time students funded by the funding councils to avoid bad debt and bureaucracy. Over the next four years, it will...
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Blunkett sets goals for skills council
The government has laid out its spending plans and targets for the new Learning and Skills Council, which takes control of post-16 education and training from April. The LSC's £5.5 billion grant for...
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Oxbridge statistics point to class bias
Accusations of elitism at Cambridge and Oxford resurfaced this week as the latest figures revealed that, proportionately, white public school boys still stand a far better chance than any other group...
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Chatham House loses first female director
Chris Gamble, the first female director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, is to resign just two years after taking the job. Dr Gamble, who is leaving to spend more...
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Dropout rate hits nursing targets
Universities and colleges must improve clinical placements and cut dropout rates if they are to meet targets for increasing the number of student nurses, according to a report from the Royal College...
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College ethos is key to success
The ethos and management style of a further education college has a greater impact on students' achievements than student origin, researchers have concluded. A report on a study by the Learning and...
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Modern Languages Association conference 2000
The MLA's conference has been called a 'passion of solemnity', but with subjects ranging from Greek musicals to jailed writers, you are bound to find something to your taste. Criminals, perverts and...
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Lamenting a bygone discipline
Critical Condition
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Latest spin on earth's evolution
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from it's opening sentence, comes from a French novelist who began by writing opera libretti: " In the year 1866 the whole maritime...
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