Poetry in motion
Staff and students at the troubled Southampton Institute are to benefit from a steady stream of literary enlightenment, courtesy of the institute's new poet in residence, Julia Copus. In the lead-up...
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V-cs shelve decision on top-up fees
NO DECISION on top-up fees will be made until the Dearing committee has delivered its report, vice chancellors decided last week. Following a Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals council...
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Parties go to battle on skills
The Tories launched their white paper Learning to Compete this week to Labour cries that they stole its ideas. THE POLITICAL battle for the educational high ground stepped up a gear this week as the...
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Barber waves age for life of learning
THE DEPARTMENT for Education and Employment should be renamed the Department of Lifelong Learning and have the same status as the Treasury or Home Office, says a leading expert on education....
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Less for more
The Further Education Funding Council published its funding allocations for 1996/97 this week. These confirm the provisional allocations which were published in The THES in May. In all, Pounds 3,045....
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Expand NVQ role
Higher education should play a more active role in the delivery of higher-level National Vocational Qualifications, according to a new position paper by the Department of Education and Employment....
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Teacher drought
The Teacher Training Agency says there is still "significant under-recruitment" of teachers in key subject areas. This year's secondary teacher training courses show an expected shortfall of 25 per...
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Moneybrains of Britain
ACADEMICS are joining the ranks of millionaires as big business rushes to recruit brainpower. Philip Beresford, an expert on Britain's wealthiest people, said: "Anyone who seems to have a half decent...
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All-white team angers black community
EDUCATION ministers are under pressure from racial equality groups to investigate why an all-white team won a research project on multi-ethnic teaching. The African Caribbean Network for Science and...
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FCO in protest over arrest
The Foreign Office has protested formally to the Nigerian government over the arrest and deportation of a British academic caught up in tensions between Muslims and Christians. Michael Motimoore was...
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Limits to growth
As the research assessment exercise looms, a starred five for lateral thinking is surely in order for the unnamed department in one university which was told its submission was not lengthy enough. It...
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Science fears for Birkbeck
A projected deficit of more than Pounds 2.6 million at Birkbeck College could signal the abandonment of laboratory-based science and a wave of redundancies, it was claimed this week. The college's...
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Whither Scotland's flower?
Is Scotland an integral cultural and economic part of the United Kingdom or would it be better off as an independent state in another, looser, union of European states? Malcolm MacKenzie and Neil...
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Tunnel vision
The Channel tunnel cannot be made safe from terrorism, contends John Adams. So why is the Government refusing to even face the issue? Early promotional literature for the Channel tunnel featured a...
