Deskful of paper, earful of woe
Pastoral care is a central part of college culture as pressure builds, Elaine Williams reports. A wide expanse of carpet and a jaunty receptionist greet visitors to Cleveland College in Redcar; to...
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Six million and still counting
Coventry Technical College is being sued over a huge debt which it says it has no chance of repaying. Craig Seton reports. We do not have any money problems," says Janey Rees, principal of Coventry...
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Vocational advert fits The Bill
An Employment Department-funded Pounds 4 million vocational training publicity campaign was launched yesterday when a one-minute television advert appeared during a commercial break in The Bill. The...
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Further education in England: the facts
(Photograph) - Official statistics giving the most up-to-date information on the further education sector in England. The further education sector comprises 456 general further education colleges,...
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The learning lottery
John Cassels introduces today's National Commission on Education report on progress towards the knowledge society. In a "learning society" not only will individuals of all ages be encouraged to learn...
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Off on the wrong foot
The contract dispute is affecting morale. David Charter reports. Talk to college principals and lecturers around the country, and the word most commonly mentioned in connection with their long-...
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Two down, many to go
April 1995 is the second anniversary of further education colleges' freedom from local authority control. Below William Stubbs looks at their progress. Two years on from the creation of the further...
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Exam-sitting targets
Andy Green argues for more coherence in the national qualifications jigsaw. Further education has been a long time coming of age. For a century or more, the local "tech" was the backbone of British...
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FE COORDINATION Research Project 931 is a Further Education Unit feasibility study on a coordinated or central production and registration system for learning materials in further education colleges...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND MA: Doris Fiedor, chair of the Hartcliffe Community Council and member of the British Community Health Council, was awarded an honorary degree on February 3. NAPIER...
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Events
NEW YORK, NEW YORK The Hunterian Art Gallery is presenting the only Scottish showing of an exhibition of New York city prints (1880s-1990) from the collection of Reba and Dave Williams. The...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Mark Overton, reader at the University of Newcastle, has been appointed professor of economics and social history from April 1. Simon Wren-Lewis, professor in macro-economic...
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Awards
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Ciba Research Fellowship Award has been presented to Steven Ley of the University Chemical Laboratory. The Ciba Award will underpin work in synthetic organic chemistry....
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Appointments
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY John Annette, professor and head of the university's school of history and politics, has been appointed chair of Middlesex University Press. WELSH COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND DRAMA...
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A sparkling career
A recent memorial service for crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot. Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize for science, was attended by the great and the good. Olga Wojtas traces the life...