Union gives technical staff new guidelines
Technicians and instructors working in further education and sixth-form colleges have been issued with guidelines from their union to cover new responsibilities. Public sector union Unison says the...
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Bids invited to house headteacher college
Universities and colleges will be invited to bid for a new national college for headteachers. The college, announced by Tony Blair and education secretary David Blunkett (above) this week, would have...
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Work experience centre launched
A government-funded National Centre for Work Experience, set up by the Council for Industry in Higher Education, was launched in London this week. The centre will produce guides on the benefits of...
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Proposals due for research funding
Outline proposals from institutions bidding for a share of the government's Pounds 50 million university challenge fund for commercialising academic research, were due in this week. The Department of...
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Blackstone cleared in discrimination suit
The race discrimination case against higher and further education minister Tessa Blackstone has been dismissed unanimously by a London tribunal. Chandra Sharma brought the case after failing to...
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Researchers attack DFEE contracts
Education research leaders have accused the government of undermining the validity of their research into policy initiatives. New research contracts from the Department for Education and Employment...
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Funders strive for research formula
The national interest and international standing of subjects could dictate how some research money is awarded from next year. But the Higher Education Funding Council for England is struggling to...
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UACE calls for split in education research
Education research should be split into two distinct fields for assessment purposes, according to the Universities Association for Continuing Education. In response to consultation on the future of...
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Glasgow stalker quits
A business administration professor found guilty of stalking his former secretary has resigned from Glasgow Caledonian University during an internal inquiry into his behaviour. Gordon Anderson was...
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Kingston questions Ofsted's integrity
Procedures to withdraw Kingston University's accreditation to provide teacher training have been initiated by the Teacher Training Agency following an inspection report by Ofsted. Ofsted found the...
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HE development unites Ireland's extremes
A higher education project is to be built on a site destroyed in the IRA's Remembrance Day bomb in Enniskillen. The Pounds 4.5 million scheme, devised by Fermanagh County Council and the University...
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Cambridge lights lost
At an estimated cost of tens of thousands of pounds, Cambridge University has lost its six-year battle to erect floodlights at its athletics track. Opposition came from neighbouring scientists at the...
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Medical students may switch to journalism
A novel course in medical journalism has been validated by the University of Westminster and will start next October. The one-year BA is open to the UK's 20,000 medical students after two years...
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State pupils beat independent
Students from state schools do better at the old universities than their independent counterparts. That is the finding of a study of all full-time students in all subjects at the old universities...
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Mature students put off by fees
Mature students have been deterred by tuition fees and more undergraduates are living at home because of higher costs, according to university admissions figures for 1998-99. The figures from the...