Labour stakes claim in training for life
Labour is planning a two-pronged strategy to improve the quality of training and learning at work. A leaked draft of their training document, which will be released "in the near future" shows the...
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Teaching courses set a price-list
The Teacher Training Agency has dropped plans to introduce a "crude" payment-by-results element into its 1997/98 funding system unveiled today. But it is to press ahead with setting common price...
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Prosaic solution to unspoken issues
Fiona is in the final year of an honours degree in architecture. In tutorials she discusses issues fluently. Her tutors have been impressed by the imagination in her design work. But Fiona is...
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Forth needs a bridge to the real world
Eric Forth (THES, March 22) is unfit to be a minister in an education department, for he shows himself to have not even a beginner's idea of what education is about. Inability to find books in the...
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Forth needs a bridge to the real world
The manufacturer, Fila, is representing its shoes through the advertising campaign "The best F in shoes". In the light of last week's colourful interchange on the link between resources and quality,...
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The professionals take the stage
The Dearing inquiry will also be an inquiry into professional education, for two reasons. First, preparation for the professions constitutes a big chunk of what universities and colleges do. Second,...
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Just a push at an open door
Sir Ron Dearing's review of higher education starts in a few weeks. Below, academics kick off debate in The THES with their views on what evidence he should consider. The Dearing review is Britain's...
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Stage-managed
(Photograph) - Students on the theatre design degree course at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design are competing to produce the best stage design for the Birmingham Royal Ballet's new...
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Heaven and helium
(Photograph) - As part of Sheffield Hallam University's Elastic Frontiers Festival, fine-art student Tatjana Kovachevic used helium filled balloons to decorate the city's Victorian cemetery. She...
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Orbit gambit
(Photograph) - Orange-emitting helium II ions are formed at about 70,000 K. Such emissions are blotted out by the earth's atmosphere. On the bottom left a plume stretches far into space.
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Northern light
Paul Clark, the Higher Education Funding Council for England's director of quality, has been appointed director of teaching and learning for the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Dr Clark...
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Growing up fast
Edinburgh University's centre for human ecology last week held a press conference protesting against the previous day's announcement by the university that it was unlikely to renew the contracts of...
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Stirling accused of racial bias
The National Union of Students Scotland and Central Scotland Racial Equality Council are investigating Stirling University's treatment of an Ethiopian research student who failed a PhD. Wondimu...
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Giant leap in new recruits is deceptive
Enrolments in higher education grew by 6 per cent this academic year compared with 1994/95, figures published this week show, writes Tony Tysome. Recruitment to both first degree and postgraduate...
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Orbit gambit
Ropelike plumes, and hairlike jets of gas that stream through the sun's atmosphere at 450 kilometres a second, have been pictured in unprecedented detail by a new observatory balanced in space...