Don's Diary
Monday. Off to the University of Luton for an interview for a lectureship in comparative politics. I quite like the idea of teaching politics to HND and mature students on a modular course, and do...
Monday. Off to the University of Luton for an interview for a lectureship in comparative politics. I quite like the idea of teaching politics to HND and mature students on a modular course, and do...
Colleges have done well since independence, but has anyone noticed? asks Ngaio Crequer. The copy-taker who took the story down over the telephone had no reason to think that he had misheard the...
Merger mania in Hertfordshire has proved perfectly timed, Maggie Richards discovers. College inspectors touring a further education campus in Hertfordshire recently canvassed one of the staff for his...
Pastoral care is a central part of college culture as pressure builds, Elaine Williams reports. A wide expanse of carpet and a jaunty receptionist greet visitors to Cleveland College in Redcar; to...
Coventry Technical College is being sued over a huge debt which it says it has no chance of repaying. Craig Seton reports. We do not have any money problems," says Janey Rees, principal of Coventry...
An Employment Department-funded Pounds 4 million vocational training publicity campaign was launched yesterday when a one-minute television advert appeared during a commercial break in The Bill. The...
(Photograph) - Official statistics giving the most up-to-date information on the further education sector in England. The further education sector comprises 456 general further education colleges,...
John Cassels introduces today's National Commission on Education report on progress towards the knowledge society. In a "learning society" not only will individuals of all ages be encouraged to learn...
The contract dispute is affecting morale. David Charter reports. Talk to college principals and lecturers around the country, and the word most commonly mentioned in connection with their long-...
April 1995 is the second anniversary of further education colleges' freedom from local authority control. Below William Stubbs looks at their progress. Two years on from the creation of the further...
Andy Green argues for more coherence in the national qualifications jigsaw. Further education has been a long time coming of age. For a century or more, the local "tech" was the backbone of British...
FE COORDINATION Research Project 931 is a Further Education Unit feasibility study on a coordinated or central production and registration system for learning materials in further education colleges...
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND MA: Doris Fiedor, chair of the Hartcliffe Community Council and member of the British Community Health Council, was awarded an honorary degree on February 3. NAPIER...
NEW YORK, NEW YORK The Hunterian Art Gallery is presenting the only Scottish showing of an exhibition of New York city prints (1880s-1990) from the collection of Reba and Dave Williams. The...
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Mark Overton, reader at the University of Newcastle, has been appointed professor of economics and social history from April 1. Simon Wren-Lewis, professor in macro-economic...