The Government's decision to mix employment and education portfolios has met with a cool reception The spoils of the old employment department are to be shared primarily between the new DFEE and the...
Training and Enterprise Councils have set themselves new standards for local accountability which could become a model for governing bodies in further and higher education institutions. The TEC...
The Dorothy Hodgkin fellowships, aimed at preventing the loss of women from science after they have completed their PhDs, have been massively oversubscribed, with 220 applications. The number of...
Architects RMJM have won the London Docklands Development Corporation competition to design the new Royals University College in Docklands, it was announced this week. The plans aim to share leisure...
King Alfred's College of Higher Education in Winchester has announced it is to seek university status by 2005. The college had been in talks with the University of Southampton to create a federal...
An industrial tribunal has ruled that Alan Bryans, a lecturer at Northumberland College, was discriminated against by his employers who ignored their own policy on racial harassment by failing to act...
The Lecturers' Employment Action Fellowship was set up this week to continue the fight against FE college employers over new contracts. Monday's test case in Birmingham, which was to decide whether...
Long-term unemployed people and students with special needs are losing out on training at the hands of Training and Enterprise Council policies, a new report says. As a result of government pressure...
Modern apprenticeships are popular with employers, but questions remain over their suitability for a wide range of sectors and their funding in the future, according to a report by the Industrial...
A daring kayak expedition to Siberia has hit rough water before leaving Barking - because the University of East London canoes are too big for Aeroflot's cargo crates. Eight explorers, mostly current...
The head of music at Wakefield College in Yorkshire will resign at the end of this month in protest over "intolerable" cuts facing music education at the college. Richard Ingham, who is taking...
A computer chip the size of a postage stamp could soon have the power of 1,000 personal computers, say Cambridge scientists. This is because scientists have made a breakthrough in which they can get...
Fears that a trip to the photocopier could lead to copyright infringement could become a thing of the past if a new funding council scheme is successful. The Higher Education Funding Council for...
(Photograph) - Taking the reins: John Webster, professor of animal husbandry at Bristol University and animal welfare campaigner, argues in a book published this month for a pragmatic, utilitarian...
Sir John Cadogan, director general of the research councils has moved quickly to reassure scientists that the United Kingdom research base is secure. The transfer of the Office of Science and...