Life learners prepare for radical shifts
The central principle of a lifelong learning curriculum, based on knowledge and citizenship, should be a social theory of learning that runs through our lives like the message in a stick of rock. We...
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Diversity: big issue
Consultations on the Dearing committee's report, Higher Education in the Learning Society, are now closed, although late submissions are still trickling in. Next comes the report of Bob Fryer's...
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Marriages of true minds
Dearing on quality: doomed to failure. Compact arrangements are a central theme running throughout the Dearing report. It is difficult to disagree with the partnership arrangements envisaged, based...
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Managing difference as easy as one, two, three
European decision-makers of the future will have to be proficient in at least three languages, says Nicole de Fontaines A common language, spoken and understood by all, is a dream for some people and...
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Lifelong learning left on fringe
THE DEARING report "seriously fails to recognise the lifelong learning agenda" in its proposals on student funding, the National Institute for Adult Continuing Education says. It falls down in its...
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Convergence criteria
THERE should be no arbitrary restriction on further education colleges offering degrees, further education funding heads have said, writes Tony Tysome. The Further Education Funding Council for...
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Scientists face debt
FUNDING changes suggested by the Dearing committee could deter the best graduates from undertaking science PhDs, warns the Royal Society, Britain's academy of science. In its response to Dearing, the...
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Scot's fee concern mounts
FEARS are growing that the government is contemplating differential tuition fees for a Scottish four-year honours degree for students from different parts of the United Kingdom. The Garrick committee...
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Promise on medicine brings relief
THE DEPARTMENT of Health this week gave a firm assurance that it had no plans or "desire" to take over any more funding of medical education. Doctors feared a move on medical training when health...
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Spoof prize causes stir
A SCIENTIST whose research led to the electric chair being outlawed in two US states fears his work has been trivialised by being awarded a spoof Nobel prize. Neurophysiologist Harold Hillman,...
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Heads of architecture schools are meeting
* Heads of architecture schools are meeting this week to discuss the likely effects of fees on their courses. Like vets, architects undertake five years of undergraduate training, yet are being...
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Blind fury over course axing
SCOTTISH eye specialists are warning of an impending recruitment problem if Glasgow Caledonian University abandons its BSc degree in orthoptics, writes Olga Wojtas. The senate is set to consider a...
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Dearing 'cherry picking' warning
A SENIOR member of the former Dearing committee has warned the government against "cherry picking" parts of the higher education report that was designed to stand as an integrated whole. David Watson...
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Vets plead for more student support
VETERINARY schools face becoming more elitist unless the government gives more financial support to students, according to heads of veterinary schools, writes Julia Hinde. Students face paying...
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Labour post-16 vision 'blurred'
THERE is no clear vision in the government's consultation paper on the future of qualifications for 16 to 19-year-olds, educationists said this week. Qualifying for Success, published last week,...