Expand NVQ role
Higher education should play a more active role in the delivery of higher-level National Vocational Qualifications, according to a new position paper by the Department of Education and Employment....
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Tax for cash call
Over half of the public would like to see more state funding for schools and universities, even if it means higher taxes. The study by the Economic and Social Research Council reveals widespread...
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Less for more
The Further Education Funding Council published its funding allocations for 1996/97 this week. These confirm the provisional allocations which were published in The THES in May. In all, Pounds 3,045....
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Barber waves age for life of learning
THE DEPARTMENT for Education and Employment should be renamed the Department of Lifelong Learning and have the same status as the Treasury or Home Office, says a leading expert on education....
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Parties go to battle on skills
The Tories launched their white paper Learning to Compete this week to Labour cries that they stole its ideas. THE POLITICAL battle for the educational high ground stepped up a gear this week as the...
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University pioneers argue for research respect
BOTH research and community work spearheaded by the new universities are undervalued, former polytechnics have told the Dearing inquiry into higher education. The Coalition of Modern Universities,...
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V-cs shelve decision on top-up fees
NO DECISION on top-up fees will be made until the Dearing committee has delivered its report, vice chancellors decided last week. Following a Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals council...
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Poetry in motion
Staff and students at the troubled Southampton Institute are to benefit from a steady stream of literary enlightenment, courtesy of the institute's new poet in residence, Julia Copus. In the lead-up...
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On the ball
Is British football's relatively poor record in European competition down to the anti-intellectual culture of the game here? The UEFA Champions League Statistical Handbook entry for Norwegian...
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Security risk
Several delegates at the European Association for International Education's annual conference in Budapest discovered the hard way that entrepreneurialism and the worst excesses of the old regime can...
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Chow-chow
When addressing a workshop about exchanges with Chinese universities, Roger Greatrex, professor of Chinese at Lund University, Sweden, stressed the importance of making sure Chinese academics had...
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Pillars of learning
The means by which universities might develop links with their host communities were well documented a year or two back by John Goddard's report on the issue for the Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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Getting the birdie
Serious alarm for ornithologically inclined staff at the Open University, already contemplating the possible loss of 350 jobs in a shake-up of the institution. Headline on a column in the latest...
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King's ransom
Many thanks to Ged Martin, professor of Canadian studies at Edinburgh University, for news of alumnus to be proud of No. 81, one Nicholas of Hungary. He is pretty unchallengeably the oldest entrant...
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Plea to protect franchise critics
AN ACADEMIC pressure group has called for greater protection for lecturers on overseas franchised courses when they raise concerns about standards. The Council for Academic Freedom and Academic...