Many further education colleges are failing to provide engineering employers with enough tailored training courses to cover the specific skills firms need, according to the Engineer Training...
Local education authorities and universities are complaining that their attempts to crack down on fraudulent grant applications are being penalised by Government policy. They want the Government to...
Conservative MPs have been warned they could shoot themselves in the foot if they try to end the right of students to vote in the constituency where they study. The expansion of higher education has...
Scotland's three further education organisations have joined together to create a single voice for the sector. The Employers' Association, the Association for Colleges Scotland and the Association...
Aisling Irwin reports on a research ship which scientists hope will unlock some secrets from the ocean floor. The strangely shaped JOIDES Resolution, a floating laboratory and ocean drilling rig in...
Blue lasers, the holy grail of laser technology, could revolutionise information technology and compact disc technology, according to physicists and industrial re-searchers meeting at Heriot-Watt...
New school-centred initial teacher training schemes have made a "mixed start" and will need to improve to reach the same standard as existing higher education-based courses, inspectors said this week...
Overworked? Stressed? Burned out? Spare a thought, then, for the social worker disappearing under a mountain of paperwork. The profession's main training body has drawn attention to growing workloads...
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Planting fields of plastic, and coppicing willows for the village power station are just some of the ways in which British agriculture might have to diversify to keep up with international...
(Photograph) - Looking through the eyes of Islam: a rally by the Islamic extremist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, attracted protests from the National Union of Students this week - but passed off peacefully.
Harold Ellis, emeritus professor of surgery at London University, has been reminiscing in the British Medical Journal about a ferocious nursing sister, "tall, majestic and Scottish", who ensured that...
A Training and Enterprise Council chief has launched a scathing attack on the "conspiratorial" neglect of work-based learning by academics, civil servants and politicians. Policy-makers and further...
The United Kingdom has much lower levels of participation in full-time education at 16 to 18 than most of our competitor nations, according to new research from the Institute of Education. When 16-...
How wide-ranging are new higher education minister Eric Forth's ambitions for his new brief? The departmental brief detailing his responsibilities included "content and quality" of higher education....