PFI tests water
FINANCE. Not too many people could have spoken knowledgeably about the Private Finance Initiative this time last year. That is hardly surprising. It was only launched in higher education in March....
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New year wishes... Diana Warwick
With one wave of the Good Shephard's crook, we could move to a better deal in three ways for students in higher education. A new loan scheme with an extended repayment method: would reduce students'...
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New year wishes... Gillian Shephard
This coming year will offer great opportunities to exploit the benefits of the merger of the Departments for Education and Employment. My department can now take a unified approach to the whole span...
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Digging deeper
While I enjoyed reading Nicholas Saunders's review of recent archaeology books (THES, December 8) I was astonished by his assertion that the study of the interrelationship between cultural...
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New year wishes... Ruth Gee
For too long further education has been stitched-up. Now we must do the stitching. And we can do it by realising the rhetoric of the "seamless robe", for too long a phrase and an inspiration. This...
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New year wishes... David Triesman
My aspiration for a higher education policy advance in 1996 is to find a political party with a higher education policy. That means a policy which determines how big the learning and research task is...
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Choice of freedom or mediocrity
Nineteen ninety-six is going to be the year when the universities either break for freedom or settle for tutelage and mediocrity. Graeme Davies, lately chief executive of the Higher Education Funding...
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Ruttgers closes on student loan interest bill
German education minister Jurgen Ruttgers's controversial plan to charge interest on student loans has moved a step closer to victory after being accepted by the federal cabinet. The reform would...
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English becomes passport to entry
Would-be students at Auckland University may have to prove their competence in English language before they can enrol. The university has been concerned for some time about the standard of English of...
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Strike threat sets up national talks
A threatened industrial dispute at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen is likely to precipitate national talks on conditions of service next month. The University Lecturers' Association of the...
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Sussex council attacks registrar job deal
Council members at Sussex University have rebuked a committee chaired by the vice chancellor for agreeing to spend Pounds 150,000 on a house for the incoming registrar without consulting the...
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Probe of the Yule slog
Christmas can be lonely for overseas students but a new survey hopes to make it happier, Tony Tysome reports. The council for international education, UKCOSA, is planning to launch a national survey...
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North-east pride
A short story competition in honour of Booker prize-winner Pat Barker has been announced at New College Durham. The Pat Barker prize is designed to discover a new generation of writers from the...
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Merger remit
The Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Further Education Funding Council have set up a joint committee to consider issues likely to arise from mergers between institutions in the...
