A visit from the Quality Assurance Agency has found that Liverpool University has been failing to meet statutory requirements for training nurses. The university confirmed this week that the QAA...
White paper responses kick off huge reform task. Alan Thomson reports The government will by now have realised the enormity of the task of reshaping post-16 education as it begins sifting through the...
College leaders are delighted that ministers have decided to build the Pounds 5 billion training and skills funding quango on the foundations of the Further Education Funding Council in Coventry,...
Ministers should wipe out the funding inequities between school sixth forms and their poorer college counterparts, the Further Education Funding Council has advised. The FEFC has joined the...
The first of the University for Industry's planned network of 1,000 "learning centres" will be part of a travelling circus, it has emerged. But the confirmation of other fast-track pilot UfI centres...
The Department for Education and Employment will share in a rebate of up to Pounds 117 million previously locked up in training and enterprise councils' reserves, writes Alan Thomson. The latest...
Universities could scupper the government's reform of school qualifications by insisting on their right to make autonomous admissions decisions. It is now clear that universities will resist adopting...
Consensus politics has emerged in the Scottish Parliament over the Scottish University for Industry, with the government accepting an opposition amendment for an investigation into what value it adds...
The landmark report that damned Thames Valley University as the first "failing" British university contains fundamental flaws, it was claimed this week. Documents obtained by The THES show that TVU...
The Open University is 30, flourishing and serving as a role model to universities around the world, as Alison Goddard discovers "Blithering nonsense!" That's how heavyweight Tory politician Sir Iain...
Planning for the Open University began in 1964, when Harold Wilson was elected prime minister. Mr Wilson had unveiled the concept of a university open to all adults in the United Kingdom the previous...
The Knowledge Media Institute is the Open University's flagship research centre. It was established in 1995 to create and study near-term future technologies for the ultimate benefit of OU students,...
Lecturers have suspended industrial action in the old universities over this year's pay offer after more than five months. The decision, which the Association of University Teachers' executive put...
Academics and industrialists mistrust one another. Neither group understands what motivates the other and they clash culturally. This was a common thread in a joint debate between 100 academics and...
The government has again dashed lecturers' hopes of extra cash to fund the Bett pay recommendations days before the chancellor's pre-budget statement. Lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks made it...