Transferring money between higher education funding and research councils could be seen as merely "moving deckchairs on the national research ship", not addressing - and possibly exacerbating - the...
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Three research projects reveal the many roles music can play MUSIC may prove the key to detecting learning difficulties in children while they are still in the womb. Research at the University of...
(Photograph) - As Chile's universities entered the third week of a student strike, thousands of students demonstrated in the capital, Santiago, to demand improvements to the loans system.
The Government should be concerned about weaknesses in the careers services of higher education institutions, according to a report to be published next week. While further education students and...
WESTMINSTER and Guildhall universities were close to financial disaster last year as they struggled to control serious budgetary deficits, according to a new compilation of accounts from London...
THE Further Education Funding Council may take the unprecedented step of dictating college targets for growth as part of its drive to achieve funding parity between institutions, it emerged this week...
A senior civil servant has admitted that his staff have been given only "sketchy policy directions" about the future of qualifications for 16-19-year-olds. Michael Richardson, director of...
The DFEE was due to announce a rationalisation of the exam boards this week. Labour in opposition favoured replacing the six A-level boards with a single, national body to guarantee parity between...
The Government must not use the Ford Motor Company's in-house staff training scheme as the model for its proposed University for Industry, a consortium of European Universities has warned....
Following the decision to abruptly halt the implementation of Sir Ron Dearing's 1996 review of qualifications for 16-19-year-olds, ministers at the Department for Education and Employment have been...
Education and employment secretary David Blunkett and higher education minister Tessa Blackstone, are understood to be determined to pursue their own ideas on funding if they don't like Dearing's...
Entertaining though the convulsions of the Conservative party have been, their conclusion this week will bring blessed relief both to the Labour whips and to MPs anxious to join departmental select...
THE increasingly market-mad world of further education welcomed a third lecturer supply agency this month in the unlikely guise of pest controller Rentokil. The company Rentokil Initial - pre-tax...
Alumnus to be proud of No. 111 is the latest member of the bash-the-teachers brigade, Charles Philip Arthur Windsor, known to the authorities as the Prince of Wales. At least he had the grace not to...