A chance to build on good work
David Melville welcomes the changes in the government's Learning to Succeed white paper A mere 12 months has seen a sea change in our view of the future of post-16 education and training. Last year,...
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Fewer colleges 'at risk' of financial collapse
The number of colleges in financial crisis has dropped, the Further Education Funding Council's annual report confirms. Fourteen colleges have been removed from the "category C" financial danger list...
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Luanda
Lecturers at the National University of Angola in Luanda are so worried about the financial drain caused by the country's civil war that they have formed the Alliance for a Peace Movement in Angola....
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Ofsted praise for a near-lost cause
Liverpool University has received a glowing quality report from schools' inspectorate Ofsted for the teacher training provision it plans to scrap next year. All aspects of quality at Liverpool's...
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Albanian speakers wanted for classes
Noticeboards at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London announced an Albanian language course this term, but no classes are taking place as there is no teacher of Albanian. The...
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Number of rural homeless rises
Homelessness is not confined to Britain's cities, a conference on tackling homelessness in rural areas heard yesterday. The Grantham conference, organised by researchers from Bristol and Cardiff...
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A two-to-on gender bender
Male academics outnumber women by almost two to one in universities, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Of the total 43,294 women, 35,694 are in England, 4,902 in Scotland, 1,891 in...
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Admission statement
I sensed no hostility from delegates to the new post-16 qualifications at the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals conference ("Admissions officers dig in heels on A levels", THES, November 5...
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Admission statement
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals' survey of universities on post-16 qualifications indicated that the sector welcomes the proposed post-16 reforms, will give weight to the proposed...
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RS and good science
A Royal Society working group report of September 1998 on genetically modified foods was incorrectly described as "extolling the potential benefits of the technology" (In the News, THES, November 5...
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Cambridge rent rises
Students "know all about rent policy", says Charles Larkum (Letters, THES, November 5). In fact, the proposed increases came to light only via a leak. The Cambridge University Student Union wants...
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Floored by flawed audit
Peter Williams claims that the Quality Assurance Agency report on Thames Valley University was "accepted in its entirety by the university's board of governors" (Whistleblower, THES, November 5). It...
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Ensnared by corporate power
Philip Fine reports on an Ottawa union conference on commercialisation Universities will lose their role as impartial observers of society if they continue on the commercialisation road, Canadian...
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Hospital drugs inquiry
Philip Fine reports on an Ottawa union conference on commercialisation An independent inquiry is to investigate how a Canadian university and one of its teaching hospitals may have failed in coming...
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Floored by flawed audit
Andy Ross appears still to be in denial over the 1998 QAA report that was accepted in its entirety by the academic staff of TVU as well as by the board of governors. The misnamed new learning...