Hands-on era reaches lift off
Critics call them Noddy courses, but more and more students are opting for highly vocational study NEW breeds of highly vocational degrees are growing rapidly to meet student demand to be trained for...
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Oxbridge defiant
OXBRIDGE colleges are unlikely to hold on to the full college fee, worth a total Pounds 35 million a year, once a government review is completed this autumn. But they are confident they will be able...
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Rich to subsidise access
A fees rise to pay for widening access in further and higher education is being considered by the government's lifelong learning advisers. Key members of the National Advisory Group for the...
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Labour raids fees to aid FE
Money raised from undergraduate tuition fees is to be diverted to help further education colleges, according to an internal government memo seen by The THES. The Department for Education and...
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One in five further education colleges are "in poor financial health"
One in five further education colleges are "in poor financial health", and the government's withdrawal of demand-led funding this year is likely to make things worse, the National Audit Office told...
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Union launches onslaught against casualisation
UNIVERSITIES could face legal and industrial action as part of a new campaign against casualisation by the Association of University Teachers. The union, which launches its campaign on November ,...
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Former MRC employee alleges unfair dismissal
THE MEDICAL Research Council's former head of public communications this week took her past employer to industrial tribunal claiming unfair dismissal and breach of contract. Mary Rice, 50, was...
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Nationwide protests over tuition fee plans
THOUSANDS of students, parents and sixth formers will march through 14 towns in Britain tomorrow to protest against government plans to charge tuition fees. Organisers of the demonstrations, which...
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Blunkett calls for more applied research
THE TEACHER Teacher Training Agency met for the first time under new chairman Clive Booth this week, with a new remit. Education secretary David Blunkett called on the agency to clamp down on...
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Funding hold-ups upset Scottish colleges
THE GOVERNMENT has not gone far enough in supporting further education colleges and students through ongoing problems of delayed student awards, the Association of Scottish Colleges has said. It...
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Time off for union work 'reasonable'
THE University of Wales Institute Cardiff's attempt to cut the amount of time a lecturer was allowed for trade union activity has failed. A Cardiff tribunal ruled that Howard Harris should have been...
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Warning on irregular payments to trainers
"IRREGULAR and erroneous" payments of public money to training providers for 1996/97 are likely to be double the Pounds 8.6 million identified last year, Department for Education and Employment...
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Move to mark fails as passes was 'a mistake'
VICE chancellor Mike Fitzgerald has admitted that an internal Thames Valley University memorandum ordering assessors to turn student fails into passes was amistake. In a frank interview with The THES...
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Government ducks pay review
THE GOVERNMENT has rejected Sir Ron Dearing's recommendation to nominate a chairman for his proposed pay review committee for university staff. The Department for Education and Employment has written...
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Beckett deflates cash hopes
Higher education should not expect more money from industry, Margaret Beckett, president of the board of trade, said this week. She told the House of Lords select committee on science and technology...