Shephard raises standard stakes
The Secretary of State for Education told colleges this week that more young people needed to reach "higher levels of achievement". But on the same day, a survey revealed that severe financial...
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First annual report of the Chief Inspector of Further Education Funding Council
The first annual report from the Further Education Funding Council's chief inspector, which involved the inspection of more than 100 colleges, has concluded that the sector is "dynamic, responsive...
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Inspection squads to descend on NCVQ centres
A fully-fledged inspectorate for monitoring standards in workplace vocational qualifications is to be established next April by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications. The NCVQ is...
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Long road to freedom
A stark picture of university life in Nigeria was painted by Nigerian academic and Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka on his arrival in Paris this week. "The education system is dead," said Mr...
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Cantab goes part-time
You are in mid-career and thought that the chance of doing postgraduate work at university, let alone Oxbridge, had long passed? Think again. Cambridge University has established a new postgraduate...
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Appointments
BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME The 1994/95 Rome Scholars in Ancient, Medieval and Later Italian Studies are: Edward Bispham, Jesus College Oxford and Amanda Collins, St Hugh's College, Oxford. DE MONTFORT...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL Joan Bordas, head of the synchrotron radiation research division at Daresbury Laboratory, to the chair of experimental physics; David Drakakis-Smith, professor of development...
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Events
ERIC DOBSON EXHIBITION The University Gallery, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, is exhibiting Eric Dobson's paintings, drawings and collages from today to December 23 (Monday-Thursday...
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Grants
continued from last week UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Dr J. Littlechild, Pounds 150,844 from BBSRC (lipase enzyme structure/function relationships and their applications in biotransformation reactions - ROPA...
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Honorary Degree
UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE DLitt: Peter Townsend, emeritus professor of social policy at the University of Bristol. LLM: Maurice Sutherland, Labour leader of Cleveland County Council, 1973-77 and 1981-85...
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RISK RUNNING Psychologists at the University of Hull are looking for volunteers from within the region to help them discover what influences people to take risks. The team is particularly interested...
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Massive job losses for FE
College managers are planning to cut thousands of senior academic jobs next year in their struggle to tackle growing financial deficits. The massive wave of redundancies is a matter of simple...
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Inquiry damns Derby
A damning catalogue of errors and mismanagement at Derby Wilmorton College is released today after a Further Education Funding Council enquiry into the governance of the college. The report calls for...
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Mid-term victors call for student funding cuts
The Republican victors in the United States mid-term election want savings that could lop billions of dollars off student loans and grants. Last week the higher education lobby was studying every...
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Bodmer to Salford
Sir Walter Bodmer is to be the next chancellor of Salford University. Sir Walter is director-general of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. He was professor of genetics at Oxford University between...