Rebuilding a legend
(Photograph) - Exeter College student Philippe Giacalone, 18, rebuilds a Rolls Royce Merlin engine - used in the Spitfire fighter plane - for Arrow Aviation Services while on work experience for his...
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Sturdy tutors in the school of hard knocks
Why are some children resilient in adversity? Julia Hinde discovers that parents do matter. Why does one child in a poverty-stricken single-parent family thrive, while another terrorises the...
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Wirral governors quit to avoid sackings
Key governors at troubled Wirral Metropolitan College have stepped down in an attempt to stave off the threatened mass sacking of the board by the secretary of state. The college submitted an...
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Digital plan stalls at British Library
The British Library has failed to reach agreement with a private-sector consortium for the development of digital access to its collection. The consortium, proposed in 1997 as a private finance...
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New name augurs change in Scotland
Scotland's national agency for community education is being given a change of name and remit in a bid to give it a stronger focus. From April, the Scottish Community Education Council will become...
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Oxford student pays up
Another of the 14 Oxford University students who were withholding tuition fees in protest at the end of free higher education has backed down. A university spokeswoman said they expected the five...
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Bonn
The German government has increased student maintenance support by 2 per cent to a maximum of e5 (Pounds 370) a month. It is the prelude to a further reform of student grants and loans to be...
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Edinburgh art college reviews university link
The governors of Edinburgh College of Art, who met last week to review the college's 30-year association with Heriot-Watt University, have postponed a decision on future links that could range from...
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Schools offered Pounds 60m to improve standards
Teachers and their schools are being offered Pounds 60 million to help them improve their performance next year. The bonus scheme, announced this week by prime minister Tony Blair and education...
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Workplace training receives cash boost
An extra Pounds 120 million has been earmarked for work-based training for young people, amounting to a 17 per cent boost for training and enterprise Council budgets. But TECs say that while the...
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Ofsted demands better reading skills
Many trainee teachers do not have enough experience teaching reading to whole classes, a report from schools' inspector Ofsted has said. An analysis of Ofsted's inspections of primary teacher...
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Assembly adds a department
Northern Ireland's assembly has voted for the creation of a separate department for higher and further education. Senior civil servants are to transfer and there will be a new permanent secretary,...
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Research falls prey to profit seekers
New technologies, new providers of higher education and fee-paying students all threaten to undermine research, according to a leading United States academic. Robert Zemsky, director of the Institute...
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Scots soften the blow of Dearing teaching cuts
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is seeking to protect teaching funds this coming year with a 2 per cent cash rise, which is still a 0.5 per cent cut in real terms. This is only half the...
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Unions press for 10 per cent-plus pay rise
Two higher education unions this week called for pay rises of more than 10 per cent. University and college lecturers' union Natfhe will recommend a headline 15 per cent rise. At least 10 per cent of...