Insecurity is a myth
Is a job for life a thing of the past? Two reports paint very different pictures of employment today. THE Perception of job market instability that has guided government thinking on lifelong learning...
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Cold comfort
(Photograph) - Cold comfort: thirty students plunge into Lake Alster, Hamburg in front of a banner that reads "Education is going under, dragging our future with it". The students are asking the...
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Auditors rap quality of overseas links
Quality watchdogs have published a catalogue of concerns over Wolverhampton University's links with two institutions overseas. Auditors found a "notable gap" between quality assurance rules set in...
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Numbers fall despite late rush
A LAST-MINUTE deluge of applications this week failed to halt a fall of nearly 6 per cent in the number applying to study at university. Compared with last year, nearly 21,000 fewer people have...
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Graphic minds
SCIENTISTS from the University of Sussex are developing a way for blind children to read graphs and diagrams. Alan Parkin and Frances Aldrich are trying to find the best way of conveying graphic...
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Groups push for fee aid
Social workers and lawyers have stepped up their campaigns for students on these courses to be assisted with tuition fees. But education ministers have refused requests from the Department of Health...
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Kim Howells
Kim Howells confirmed that students spending a full year out of university as part of their sandwich courses will face a maximum means-tested fee of Pounds 500 for that year. This is to cover...
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Labour offers bill concession
ACADEMIC protest has forced the government to consider amending its controversial Teaching and Higher Education Bill. But serious opposition remains as both the Liberal Democrats and the...
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Ward makes apology to MPs
Colleges chief Roger Ward has apologised unreservedly to a Commons select committee for misleading members over evidence given to their inquiry into further education. The education and employment...
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Loan defaults hit high
MORE students are defaulting on their loan repayments than at any time since the scheme was launched seven years ago. Figures in the Student Loans Company's annual report for 1996-97 show defaults...
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Tuition waiver criticised
The University of Central England's decision to waive fees for some of its courses has been condemned by some local institutions. UCE announced last week that students joining its engineering and...
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The community magnets
CHURCH institutions were very important in the early phases of town development in medieval times, according to a researcher who has investigated the growth of Gloucester and Worcester. Richard Holt...
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Awards
The Partnership Trust The trust's prize for economics has been awarded to Jonathan Aylen, senior lecturer in the department of economics at the University of Salford, for his innovative approach to...
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Chairs
University of Derby Marie Parker-Jenkins, formerly at the University of Nottingham, has been appointed research professor in education and chair of the school research committee. Aston University...
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The killer stalking campuses
Howard Newby describes how Southampton University responded to the death from meningitis of three first-year students Last year it was Cardiff, this year Southampton; next year...? Such is the...