Contract negotiations reopen with caution
Further education employers are set to reopen national negotiations on contracts, but will limit the talks to staff who have refused to transfer to private contracts. The College Employers Forum has...
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Portsmouth v-c called to account
Neil Merritt, vice chancellor of Portsmouth University, confessed to staff this week that he had been guilty of substantial "errors of judgement" in the way he handled his travel expenses. Mr Merritt...
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Canada to end direct funding
A social security discussion paper issued in October by the Canadian federal government signals a big change of direction in the funding of post-secondary education. In it, the government says it...
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Dream on
(Photograph) - Dream on: Caroline Pegg in If We Shadows A Midsummer Night's Dream for the 21st century a new production from Insomniac Productions, which opens on November 21 at the Dancehouse...
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A bridge over muddled waters
A new way of reducing the gap between science and the public may have been aired for the first time in London last week. The UK National Consensus Conference on Plant Biotechnology (as reported in...
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Sex, drugs and student hall
Joseph Evans argues that more moral control would make university residence a home from home. If charity begins at home, then we should be thinking more about what sort of home we are offering young...
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Rustling up an Ivy League
When the officers of our Students Union came to talk to me last week I was struck, not for the first time, by the clarity of their vision and by the significance of their questions. Not for them that...
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Queen's speech
Legislation is to be introduced to improve conditions for people with disabilities and to develop the management of the National Health Service, it was announced in the Queen's speech this week. No...
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Food extension
A Pounds 1 million extension to Reading University's food studies building was opened this week. The extension, financed by 25 companies in the food industry, will house laboratory space, additional...
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In bloom
(Photograph) - In bloom: Colin Muir of the University of Bournemouth models a stone acanthus leaf as part of the university's architectural conservation work. As well as being one of the winners of...
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Polys blighted
Nearly a third of employers surveyed by employment research group Industrial Relations Services feel the former polytechnics produce graduates of a lower calibre than the old universities. The figure...
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Teens on the up
The proportion of 16 to 18-year olds participating in education rose to 67 per cent in 1992/93 -- a 3 percentage point rise on the previous year and 14 percentage points up on 1982/83, according to...
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Target failure
The Government's target for half of all employers with more than 200 employees to achieve the Investors in People training standard by 1996 is unlikely to be reached, the Labour Party claimed this...
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Efficiency flop
The Royal Society has concluded that the Government's efficiency scrutiny of the 53 public sector research establishments is "inappropriate". It says there is no evidence that the scrutiny review...
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Grate bunch
(Photograph) - King Carrot, mascot of City University student union, and 20 minions performed a 21-carrot salute at the Lord Mayor's Show in London last week to welcome Alderman Christopher Walford,...