Sole trade
Dual support for university research - which appeared safe following the thumbs-up from Dearing and the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee - is once again, it is rumoured, up for...
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Machiavellian reason
This week's Manchester conference on Machiavelli (page 8) heard at length from local MP Gerald Kaufman of the enduring power of Machiavelli's name as a byword for ingeniously unobtrusive realpolitik...
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Somethin' not so stupid
Someone else who needs nowhere to put his car but will be remembered for some time is this week's Alumnus to be proud of, No 174 in the series. Ol' Blue Eyes has gone, and a deep gloom has presumably...
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Share cropper
An article on car sharing in Edinburgh University's graduate magazine, Edit, has prompted a letter from reader Andrew Bairden. Now in California, he has found local companies have had little success...
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More pay, no fees, say AUT delegates
CALLS for better pay and criticism of student tuition fee charges dominated the Association of University Teachers annual conference beside the seaside in Worthing last week. The association pledged...
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List 'lottery' decried
Up to 60,000 college students will suffer from the withdrawal of courses after more changes to the list of government-approved training qualifications, a report from the Association of Colleges says...
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Regional cooperation
A new era in post-16 education was heralded this week as the Further Education Funding Council, the Local Government Association and the training and enterprise councils agreed to cooperate in...
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Learning hurdles
More adults want to learn, but major barriers to education are still posed by unemployment, low socio-economic status and poor previous experience of learning, a survey says. In a Mori poll of more...
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Quality threat in fiscal crisis
A firm message to the government to be "realistic" about its future funding for colleges has been delivered by the Further Education Funding Council, as it confirmed this week that more than a...
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Honorary degrees
Nottingham Trent University DMus: Daniele Gatti, music director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, former conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the...
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Dunstable, Herts merger axed
A PLANNED merger between the University of Hertfordshire and Dunstable College has collapsed at one of its final hurdles. The merger, which would have been the first between a university and a...
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Lecturers, AoC seek pay peace
A FIVE-YEAR dispute between further education employers and lecturers could near an end after commitments from both sides to try for a national framework on pay, conditions and employment policies,...
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Grand illusions
(Photograph) - Leeds University fine art students created a media frenzy around an elaborate deception this week. The students' claim that they used university money to go on holiday to Malaga as...
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Kiwi funding shifts towards vouchers
New Zealand has opened a free market in higher education with the announcement of a demand-driven student funding system that some have denounced as a "voucher" system. The universal tertiary tuition...
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MPs want Pounds 350m for FE
Further education needs Pounds 350 million a year to fund growth, but the extra money should not come from the current education budget, an all-party committee of MPs will recommend early next month...