Dream with a mission
Simon Targett reports from the Training and Enterprise Council annual conference on Shephard's vision of her new super department. The new Department for Education and Employment is seeking a popular...
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Skill breaks disabled block
This has been a year of anniversaries for Deborah Cooper. Skill, the National Bureau for Students with Disabilities, which she runs, is 21 years old and the Open University, which has just awarded...
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Medical schools press for cash
Medical schools are warning Government that they must have funding for planned student expansion. The Government is to boost intakes by 10 per cent over the next five years, from 4,470 to 4,970, but...
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Inner cities win the Lottery
Huw Richards and David Charter report on sport in HE and Fe after John Major's announcement of a national review. The Sports Council is to offer greater amounts of National Lottery funds to inner...
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Scholars enjoy a sporting chance
Huw Richards and David Charter report on sport in HE and FE after John Major's announcement of a national review. The relationship between sport and scholarship, not to mention the extent of sports...
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Science 'safe' in shuffle
Sir John Cadogan, director general of the research councils has moved quickly to reassure scientists that the United Kingdom research base is secure. The transfer of the Office of Science and...
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Computer chips brought down to size
A computer chip the size of a postage stamp could soon have the power of 1,000 personal computers, say Cambridge scientists. This is because scientists have made a breakthrough in which they can get...
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Music head quits over cuts
The head of music at Wakefield College in Yorkshire will resign at the end of this month in protest over "intolerable" cuts facing music education at the college. Richard Ingham, who is taking...
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Steer clear of a tight corner
A daring kayak expedition to Siberia has hit rough water before leaving Barking - because the University of East London canoes are too big for Aeroflot's cargo crates. Eight explorers, mostly current...
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Lecturers go legal
The Lecturers' Employment Action Fellowship was set up this week to continue the fight against FE college employers over new contracts. Monday's test case in Birmingham, which was to decide whether...
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Alfred's hot topic
King Alfred's College of Higher Education in Winchester has announced it is to seek university status by 2005. The college had been in talks with the University of Southampton to create a federal...
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Designs on docks
Architects RMJM have won the London Docklands Development Corporation competition to design the new Royals University College in Docklands, it was announced this week. The plans aim to share leisure...
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Dotty over PhDs
The Dorothy Hodgkin fellowships, aimed at preventing the loss of women from science after they have completed their PhDs, have been massively oversubscribed, with 220 applications. The number of...
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Defunct department's duties to be shared with DTI
The Government's decision to mix employment and education portfolios has met with a cool reception The spoils of the old employment department are to be shared primarily between the new DFEE and the...