Drive to promote vocational A levels
The Employment Department has launched pilot projects in ten regions to bring employers and further education colleges closer and promote so-called "vocational A levels". James Paice, minister for...
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Right on tee: Nottingham University mechanical engineers Steve Mather and Dennis Vardy
(Photograph) - Right on tee: Nottingham University mechanical engineers Steve Mather and Dennis Vardy say the golf club they have designed is easier to swing. By redistributing the weight of the club...
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Graduates are ill prepared for jobs market
Universities place too little emphasis on preparing students for employment, according to the compilers of a new report which shows that, while the demand for graduates is greater than ever, the...
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Split in art and design diplomas
The market for pre-degree art and design courses has split into three as colleges boycott efforts to create a unified national system. Thirty further education institutions have joined a new...
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Tussle over vouchers
The second White Paper on competitiveness is expected to reveal Government thinking on a voucher system for post-16 education. There is a Whitehall tussle between the Departments for Education and...
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Mersey firms asked for jobs
Liverpool University has opened a Pounds 2 million graduate employment unit using Pounds 770,000 funding from the European Commission on urban regeneration and the rest from private companies and...
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Quangos take note of Nolan's findings
Tony Tysome on the sleaze committee's implications for higher education. Of all the issues brought to the attention of the Nolan committee as it prepared its first report on Standards in Public Life...
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Vorsprung durch Technik in Wales
Some Welsh factories are shrugging off their traditional role as assembly operations for multinational corporations by becoming innovators in their own right. Kevin Morgan, professor of city and...
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Foreign student growth slows
Australia is facing a sharp decline in the growth of its education export industry as universities compete for fee-paying students in the developing countries, writes Geoff Maslen. According to the...
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Budget sweetener welcomed
An extraordinary outbreak of unanimity between Australia's academics and vice chancellors greeted the federal government's announcement last week that it had allocated Aus$16.5 billion (Pounds 7.9...
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Lifelong mantra for Shephard review
Next month, Department for Education and Higher Education Funding Council officials will meet in Oxford to consider conclusions on the first stage of the Government's higher education review. They...
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Baker's time bomb defused
Iain Crawford and Nicholas Barr suggest privatising loans, starting with postgraduates. Kenneth Baker, the former education minister, started the clock on what, in his memoirs, he genially referred...
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German rector is unmasked as a Nazi
A storm has broken out in Aachen over the Nazi past of one of its university's former rectors. Hans Schwerte has confessed that he really was Hans Ernst Schneider, a member of the "Ahnenerbe"...
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Art of the possible rules imitations of the mind
David Salt falls into the same trap as Roger Penrose when attempting to understand connectionist software, when he suggests that the algorithms are a limitation to computer systems simulating the...