Fund blow for colleges
A CASH fund to help colleges meet the costs of restructuring will not be renewed this year, the Further Education Funding Council has announced. The fund, which has paid out Pounds 77.2 million since...
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So much, by so many, for so little
THE research assessment exercise is carried out by panels largely made up of winners from the previous occasion who assess publications they themselves have largely refereed during the previous four...
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Legal threat hots up maths syllabus row
A LEADING mathematician has been threatened with legal action by School Curriculum and Assessment Authority chief executive Nick Tate following his vociferous attacks on SCAA's changes to the maths A...
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So much, by so many, for so little
YOUR correspondent (THES, January 3) asks "when do you start work?". There is a researchable issue here (I feel a proposal coming on): academic productivity is related to generating new and valued...
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Trainers fear quality link to cash
UNIVERSITY and college teacher training heads have expressed alarm over the prospect of a direct link between new quality ratings and funding. A follow-up wave of inspections of all primary initial...
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So much, by so many, for so little
LEST my concerns about the RAE1996 are discounted (THES, December ) because they come from a disappointed head of a department that many thought worthy of a 5-star rating, I want to place on record...
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Web spotters
So what did you do during the Christmas and New Year vacation? Sad to relate, the reply "I browsed through the research assessment exercise results on HEFCE's website", may not be so rare in...
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So much, by so many, for so little
THE CALLS in the national press to concentrate research funding in a small number of institutions must be resisted if the quality of degrees for the majority of undergraduates is to be maintained. In...
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The F words
The often impenetrable world of educational psychology is not without its lighter moments as shown by a recent report from the Campaign for Learning (page 7). Amid talk of neuro-linguistic...
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Grapevine growl
Glasgow University has been doing its bit for town-gown relations by sending a newsletter, Prospect, to 50,000 neighbouring households. The university management has just received an incandescent...
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So much, by so many, for so little
THE main preoccupation of senior academics, now known as resource managers, seems to be to replace expensive but old-fashioned lecturers, who care about students, with "young lions", who boost the...
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Former faux pas
Yet another consultancy joins the higher education circuit with the formation of NMC and KAY Academic, an offshoot of existing consultants NMC and KAY. No doubt they have plenty of expertise. But was...
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So much, by so many, for so little
THE GRAPHS (THES, December 20) in the "at a glance guide", does not show the University of Portsmouth's "5" research rating in Russian, Slavonic and East European languages. In the HEFCE Circular,...
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Panel head rejects bias claim
ENVIRONMENTAL science heads have attacked their research assessment exercise panel for being "biased" against them. But panel chairman Michael Worthington has dismissed their argument. The assessment...
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Mission admission
The Educational Institute of Scotland is drawing up plans to celebrate its 150th anniversary this year, which it believes makes it the oldest established national teacher association in the world....