Retreads for Longbridge
Education and health chiefs in Birmingham have urged ministers to consider a scheme for universities and colleges to retrain up to 2,000 Longbridge workers as "paraprofessionals" in schools and...
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Broadcast fails to pull the men
City University is struggling to recruit men onto its postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism. So far, only one place has been offered to a male applicant, who deferred his place from last year...
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Antibiotics wrongly blamed for superbugs
The use of antibiotics as growth promoters in animals is being made a scapegoat for the rise of the superbug, a survey of leading medical microbiologists has suggested. The survey of the opinions of...
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FE enrolments to double, says funding council
Funding chiefs claimed this week that further education will soon be back on target for recruiting more students, writes Tony Tysome. This is despite numbers falling for two consecutive years. The...
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Historian takes the 'new' out of Labour
New Labour is not as new as it is painted, according to Exeter University historian Andrew Thorpe, writes Olga Wojtas. Senior lecturer Dr Thorpe, speaking at the conference "New Labour, New...
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Colleges lose out on New Deal students
Colleges are being short-changed under the government's New Deal scheme for the unemployed. Further education colleges receive about Pounds 2,300 for educating a New Deal student from the Employment...
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List to fight African looting
The International Council for Museums has issued a "Red List" of archaeological items being looted on a large scale from Africa and sold on to museums, art dealers and auction houses in Europe and...
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Science projects suffer in squeeze
Strategic research by the British Geological Survey has suffered from a combination of government short-termism, the focused demands of commercial contracts and a long, gradual squeeze on science...
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Study finds grants critical for African refugee success
Do Study Grants Help Refugees Find Jobs? The Education, Training and Employment of African Refugees in Britain. Available from Africa Education Trust, 38 King Street, London WC2 8JS. African refugee...
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Visitors may have outstayed welcome
Quality chiefs have called on the government to reform universities' constitutions to guarantee students access to more rigorous and independent procedures for handling complaints and appeals. The...
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College fish get water on tap
Fish living at Swansea University's school of biological sciences are just yards from the Bristol Channel but they have to have sea water delivered by tanker twice a year. However, starting later...
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Mixed review for record funding package
The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has received a mixed response to its first allocations to Scotland's 47 further education colleges. The Association of Scottish Colleges praised the 8...
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Don's diary
Monday 6am flight from Glasgow to London. Arrive early. By 9am I am watching a band drilling in the crisp, bright air at Horse Guards Parade. Retreat into the Royal Society for the Aventis science...
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A game of three terms
At the end of the day, the delights of the Northeast and the prospect of studying at one of its seats of learning may not be enough for prospective MA students from Indonesia. So, along with the...
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Returns to Oxbridge
Just months after its arrival in power, Labour was threatening to slash Oxbridge college fees and muttering about the unfairness of institutions with richer-than-average alumni. Now, as Oxford has...