Jobs skills skewed
The new Modern Apprenticeship scheme is not attracting young women and people from ethnic minorities, although new evidence suggests it is proving popular with employers and young people. A report by...
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Il Duce ad nauseam
Being a high-class biographer has its costs as well as benefits. To be found dubiously contemplating no fewer than 40 bound volumes of the complete works of Benito Mussolini last week was Paul...
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Something fishy
A real catch for the Southampton Oceanography Centre must have been Dr Peter Herring, who works on pelagic biology there. Rumour has it he is known as "kipper" to his mates. But he is not alone and...
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Dearing of course
Ever get the feeling that higher education is actually run by about half a dozen people, all wearing about four hats apiece? Delighted to be awarded an honorary degree by Trinity College of Music,...
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Trying time
The Brunel University College rugby club are at it again. One might have thought a 104-4 demolition of new masters Brunel University sufficient response to the loss of their old identity as West...
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Cabbage pitched
Another poster you are unlikely to see comes from the Association of University Teachers. It aims to bring in recruits using the slogan "Food for Thought" and a curious image of sliced-up red cabbage...
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Murphy's address
Jim Murphy, president of the National Union of Students, narrowly avoided a possible stoning to death before last week's launch of the NUS campaign against campus racism. The posters for the campaign...
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Union fury over pension privatisation
Unions in further and higher education and across the civil service reacted with anger this week at the Government's announcement that the running of the Teachers' Superannuation Scheme is to be...
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Professor claims book fails to be novel
A British-based academic is at the centre of an Australian literary scandal. Brian Matthews, head of London University's Menzies centre for Australian studies, found himself sharing Australian front...
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GNVQ plan doubts
Higher education quality watchdogs have questioned the need for new higher-level General National Vocational Qualifications. Work already under way on defining academic, vocational and personal...
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Staff query colleagues' exit
Staff at Coventry University's school of engineering want an independent inquiry into the way the institution's senior management handled disciplinary proceedings brought against two professors, who...
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Recycling
(Photograph) - Recycling: Darren Speck, a first-year engineering student at Warwick University, seen here with a sculpture, won the BTEC engineering student of the year award last year with his...
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Video's star rises over in East London
Job applicants to British universities may soon find face to face interviews have become obsolete after the University of East London successfully conducted an interview with a United States...
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Geoffrey Alderman
Geoffrey Alderman, head of academic development and quality assurance at Middlesex University, is not a member of the quality assessment committee of the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Food for thought
The British Association for the Advancement of Science this week launched its bid to write a youth science White Paper with a public debate on food production at Surrey University. The debate is the...