A draft adrift
When Gordon Brown unilaterally announced plans for the UFI at a Labour Party Conference in his days as opposition spokesman for trade and industry, hackles were raised since the party's education...
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Stuck in the middle
Though it went largely unmentioned publicly at last weekend's Liberal Democrat spring assembly, the decision to drop the party's recommital motion while the Teaching and Higher Education Bill was in...
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With friends like that...
Innocent victimhood seems to be in fashion in the Lib Dem education team. Easy winner of any contest to find the most dumbstruck expression of the month would be further and higher education...
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Shotgun weddings
Hubert Markl, head of Germany's Max Planck Society, was standing no nonsense at the Royal Society's meeting on European science funding this week. When some participants bemoaned the forced...
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Big bad Ben
Alumnus to be proud of this week reaches No 163 in the series, with a man whose determination to pursue Gordon Brown-type family values is so acute that he has refused (under the guise of a political...
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Colleges denounce 'betrayal'
A lobby group of up to 32 inner-city colleges attacked the government this week for "betraying" Helena Kennedy's agenda to tackle social exclusion and widen participation in education. Inner-city...
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Whistleblower bill a step nearer lawbook
The Public Interest Disclosure Bill, which offers legal protection for people who blow the whistle on fraud, crime and malpractice at work, moved closer to the statute books last week as it reached...
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The Government wants to reduce the dominance of business interests in college governance
The government wants to reduce the dominance of business interests in college governance as part of measures to increase accountability in further education. Its consultation paper, Accountability in...
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EU funds promote lifelong learning
The government has secured a Pounds 160 million boost from the European Social Fund to support the University for Industry and other lifelong learning proposals. David Blunkett, secretary of state...
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Welsh repair damage of past cuts
Strong teaching institutions have come out on top in the Welsh funding allocations for 1998-99, as the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales attempts to repair the damage done by last year's...
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Scots stick to the tried and tested
There will be no dramatic redistribution of Scottish higher education funds in the coming year. The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has already implemented its funding changes based on the...
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Battle for national science
The British system of attribution - whereby every pound a government department spends on the European Framework Programme for science is subtracted from its research and development budget - needs...
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Glasnost for science
GLASNOST has arrived at the Council for Science and Technology after accusations of secrecy. Under new terms of reference, it will publish an annual report and all its advice. The number of...
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Good advice probe
scientific advice to the government is under the spotlight of the House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee. An inquiry announced this week will look at the uses and quality of advice from...
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Overseas shortfall
Universities stand to lose more than Pounds 130 million in fee income next academic year following the Asian markets crisis, a poll of institutions by Hobsons Publishing has revealed. Some 10 per...