Stoke set to axe 200 staff jobs
Stoke-on-Trent College is planning to axe 200 jobs to save Pounds 8 million on its Pounds 30 million annual budget, writes Chris Johnston. The college missed student recruitment targets by per cent...
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What a Quanca
Hard to tell at this stage how the merged National Council for Vocational Qualifications and Schools Curriculum Assessment Authority will fare, but we forecast a dazzling career in rhyming slang for...
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Therapy the doctor ordered
Nearly a third of GP practices offer patients counselling, but how effective is it? COUNSELLING services at local doctors' surgeries may not be so good for patients' health, according to the author...
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Anxiety about feel good factor
Nearly a third of GP practices offer patients counselling, but how effective is it? GOOD counselling in general medical practice can more than halve the severity of patient anxiety, according to...
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Maths reform irks critics
THE School Curriculum and Assessment Authority has largely ignored its own 15-month investigation into maths A-level standards by rushing through the widely condemned new maths syllabus, according to...
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Looking up: Alec Shepley
(Photograph) - Looking up: Alec Shepley, a PhD art student at Manchester Metropolitan University, displays his work "Watch the Birdie", which is images of birds projected on to scaffolding and...
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'Wild boy of Bavaria' was an impostor
KASPAR HAUSER, the mysterious German foundling who many scholars believed to be the true heir to the Baden throne, was an impostor. This is the conclusion of scientists at the Institute of Forensic...
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Troubled Soton institute gets second council visit
Funding council officials are to re-visit Southampton Institute just a month after a council audit described irregularities at the institute as "minor". The Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Top and the bottom institutions in the HEFCE quality assessment overview reports
Points scored by institutions on a scale of one to four in six categories. The highest total is 24. Totals are in brackets. Italian: Top, Queen Mary and Westfield (23) Bottom, Huddersfield (15)...
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Cuts force university to extend Xmas holiday
STUDENT anger at the deterioration of Bulgarian universities is spilling on to the streets with both local protests and a one-day strike. Students are frustrated with government's seeming inability...
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Four in five want to get out
EIGHTY per cent of staff in new universities and further education colleges would seriously consider early retirement if offered, according to a new survey. The survey, to be published next week by...
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Killer bug targets halls
Students are most at risk of developing meningitis during their first weeks at university, before they have become accustomed to the infections bombarding them in their new environment, a leading...
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Universities should buy loans
THE Dearing committee will be asked to consider radical proposals to sell off the Student Loans Company to the UK's universities, it was revealed this week. Two academics from the London School of...
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A malady, ma'am!
MANAGERS at Manchester Metropolitan University this week dismissed as "mischievous" union claims that an Pounds 11 million humanities building, opened by the Queen yesterday, is unsafe and unhealthy...
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Colleges fight to avert strike
Scotland's former centrally funded colleges are lobbying their staff in a bid to avert industrial action in the coming term. Academic staff unions at the 13 institutions, which include Glasgow...