Ex-head's learning curve
Huw Richards talks to the new education shadows as the Tories slide off the road Phil Willis is having to practise lifelong learning as well as speak on it in the House of Commons. Mr Willis, 55, who...
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Minister out of water
Huw Richards talks to the new education shadows as the Tories slide off the road Being in opposition is still something of a culture shock for the Conservative party, and junior education spokesman...
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Toads get their hole
(Photograph) - Toads get their hole: Following a successful captive breeding programme at the University of Kent, 20 pairs of endangered Mallorcan midwife toads will be flown back to their native...
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Face off
(Photograph) - Face off: university students painted '6 per cent' on their faces to demonstrate outside the Nicaraguan parliament last week against a veto by president Arnoldo Aleman of a bill that...
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Fees the only option
Students stranded by Brown's budget. FEES for students became a near certainty this week when Gordon Brown's budget failed to find any extra cash for higher education. While the Chancellor managed to...
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Lecturer wins race fight
MANCHESTER University has been found guilty of racial discrimination against a law lecturer. A lengthy legal battle ended in a tribunal decision last week. The tribunal found that the university was...
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Sir Ron backs ace regional research
The lion's share of cash for research should be ploughed into regional centres of excellence, Sir Ron Dearing's inquiry is to recommend. Most money currently distributed to universities according to...
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Part-time student wins benefit court case
The Court of Appeal rejected an appeal by the Department for Social Security this week that would have left some part-time students with no entitlement to student grants, loans or income support. It...
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Natfhe strike collapses after sacking threat
Lecturers at Southwark College, London, have returned to work after a 13-week strike. Lecturers' union Natfhe called off further education's longest dispute after members were threatened with...
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Colleges accept 13,000 GNVQ entrants
More than 13,000 students with General National Vocational Qualifications were accepted for higher education courses in 1996, according to figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions...
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Estate cash to favour the cost-effective
Economically minded institutions will benefit most under a new programme allowing them to bid for cash to improve their estates, funding chiefs propose. The Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Ulster peace campus proposal revived
The Government has revived hopes of a new "peaceline" campus for the University of Ulster. The Springvale dream in Belfast faded last year when the university put it on ice. But last week education...
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Sport academy site to be named soon
The long-awaited decision on the location of the National Academy of Sport can be expected in August or September, sports minister Tony Banks said last week. Mr Banks said he had decided to proceed...
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Tecs register Pounds 33m surplus, but 16 post a loss
Sixteen Training and Enterprise councils made a loss in the financial year 1995/96, including the Merseyside TEC which showed a deficit of Pounds 2,868 for the year, lifelong learning minister Kim...
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Scots query help for troubled college
The Association of Scottish Colleges is questioning Pounds 166,000 extra government funding for Clydebank College, which has been facing redundancies because of a substantial deficit. Tom Kelly,...