If the cap fits
(Photograph) - If the cap fits: Labour leader Tony Blair became an honorary doctor of civil law at the University of Northumbria last week: his party's education standards document, published this...
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FE expansion threatened
Budget shocks reverberated through further education this week as principals tried to make sense of swingeing cuts in capital allocations which may mean the end of expansion. The settlement was far...
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Research cash switch
Millions of pounds earmarked for university infrastructure, including the hiring of technicians for research in universities, was spent on employing research assistants and on extra grants, a report...
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Maths does not add up
Scrapping A levels and slimming the number of competing examination boards are among measures urgently needed to raise students' ability in mathematics, according to Geoffrey Howson of Southampton...
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A levels under fire
A levels are outdated and should be replaced by a single overarching academic and vocational qualification, according to a Tory Reform Group report by Giles Marshall published this week.
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Marriage lines
The first meeting of the committee overseeing the merger of the Association for Colleges and the Colleges Employers Forum took place this week. Good progress was reported following rocky initial...
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Crewe takes helm
Ivor Crewe is the new vice chancellor of the University of Essex. He has been acting vice chancellor since May, when Ron Johnston left. He arrived in Essex as a lecturer in 1971. His new book on the...
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Richmond voices
The Further Education Funding Council has decided to support a proposal from Richmond Adult and Community College to join the FE sector as an independent corporation. The council has had more than...
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LSE bid
The London Residuary Body fulfilled its statutory duty to get the best price possible in selling County Hall to Japanese property dealers Shirayama, rather than the London School of Economics, the...
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Exam merger in Bill
Legislation to merge the Scottish Vocational Education Council and Scottish Examination Board into a Scottish Qualifications Authority has been published in the new Education (Scotland) Bill.
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Ex-poly scoops prizes
British business has acclaimed Oxford Brookes University as the most innovative teaching and learning institution in the country. This week it became the first institution to scoop three prizes in...
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Toilet training for rail novices
An engineering student on a placement spent three hours searching through 26 train manuals to find "lavatory seat" - only to discover that the technical term is "hopper cover". His frustrations led...
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Sir Bill's art move
Further education is losing one of its key figures to the art world. Sir William Stubbs, chief executive of the Further Education Funding Council for England, has been appointed as rector of the...
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CBI calls for 'skills passport' boost
Business leaders are backing the idea of a "skills passport" to boost the flagging skills revolution. In a new report, Realising the Vision: A Skills Passport, the Confederation of British Industry...
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Scientists to share in company flotation
An academic unit has launched itself as a company, without venture capital, because it developed its product sufficiently in academia. Scientists in the molecular cell pathology unit at the Royal...