CBI knocks 'flawed' apprenticeship reforms
Captains of industry have criticised government proposals to improve modern apprenticeships as "seriously flawed". In its response to the plans, the Confederation of British Industry warned that...
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Girls are setting career sights higher
Teenage girls' career choices have become more ambitious since the 1980s, according to new research by the University of Greenwich. The study, which analysed 50 boys and 50 girls aged 14-16, found...
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Male role models
* A government scheme to use professional footballers as male role models in after-school centres at premiership clubs around the country could backfire, according to a Newcastle University education...
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Colleges face bias from QAA
Colleges being inspected by the Quality Assurance Agency are penalised unfairly for their lack of resources, according to a report from the Further Education Development Agency. The agency is...
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Students attack Cubie dilution
Scotland's student leaders are continuing to demand the full implementation of the Cubie committee's recommendations for student support. Responding to the Scottish Executive's consultation paper,...
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Bullied, but no pay-out
Disabled academic Robert Giddings was "inexcusably" bullied and harassed throughout his career at Bournemouth University. But he is not entitled to compensation, and there was no discrimination...
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V-c says scrap state red tape
The damage inflicted on British universities by the "suffocating bureaucracy of government assessment" was a matter of escalating concern, the vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, Sir Alec Broers...
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UEL gets rapped over staff 'neglect'
Quality watchdogs have criticised the University of East London for its "disturbing" neglect of staff development and training. Limited resources have led the university to focus on other priorities...
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Study begins at home for Pounds 1m Welsh project
Cardiff's centre for language and communication research is to assess the impact of globalisation on languages such as Welsh, Finnish, Tamil and Polish in a five-year, Pounds 1 million research...
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An open door is not enough
More must be done to ensureuniversities recruit students from poorer backgrounds. Alison Goddard reports from Spain on European approaches to access Targets should be set for enrolling students from...
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Don's Diary
Thursday One week to go before Soundings, our art/science exhibition about the ear, opens at the Royal College of Art. After months of collaboration with my sister Henrietta and with two hospital...
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UfIs in the sky
The University for Industry, recently relaunched for the general public as learndirect, has been given another new name by disgruntled college principals. Fed up with confusion over the lifelong...
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The prophet speaks
The truth is out there. Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, famous for having a silicon chip transponder surgically implanted in his left arm, is to give this year's...
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In the news
'She has a CV that would make the fattest of fat-cat bosses shudder' Rita Donaghy kick-started the TUC annual congress this week with an attack on the sexism that hampers women who are beating a path...
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Missing papers mar solidarity's celebrations
June 1979: Pope John Paul II visits Poland, to acclamation by huge crowds. July 1980: Increases in food prices trigger a wave of strikes throughout Poland, culminating in August in the strike at the...