Teaching agency puts recruitment first
* The Teacher Training Agency has made recruitment and quality its priorities this coming year. The TTA's corporate plan, published this week, includes three core aims: boosting recruitment; raising...
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University accounts face radical reform
* Research-intensive universities will have give a breakdown of spending to account for the money they receive under plans published this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for England....
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Lloyds TSB banks on being the biggest
Lloyds TSB bank launched its corporate university this week. With 77,000 potential students, the bank claims the University for Lloyds TSB is "likely to be the largest corporate university in Europe...
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Israel delays Derby licence
Derby University has been denied a licence to award degrees in Israel. It has to wait for the Israeli regulatory authority, the Council for Higher Education, to be satisfied that the university's...
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Snobby Britannia gets Pounds 5m revamp
The British Council will spend Pounds 5 million on changing the elitist image of British education overseas. It has awarded a three-year contract to create a single umbrella brand for British...
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The University of Exeter
(Photograph) - The University of Exeter has launched a part-time theological degree in Cornwall to cater for demand produced by the ordination of women. The picture shows Rev Christine Jago, one of...
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Living on borrowed time
In part one of a six-week series, students share their views on course fees, student loans and the pressures of dealing with debt. Alan Thomson reports Earlier this year, more than 30 university...
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Foreign student expansion fears
Colleges may lack the support resources to cope with plans to double overseas student recruitment in FE, the Association of Colleges has warned, writes Phil Baty. The AOC has broadly welcomed "...
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Employers fear role loss when TECs axed
The government's new post-16 education and training framework could undermine progress towards national learning targets, it has been claimed. Training and enterprise councils fear that the Learning...
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Clash of Scottish cash inquiry titans
Andrew Cubie, chair of Scotland's independent committee of inquiry into student finance, has warned of a potential timing clash between his report and the Quigley committee's review of the Scottish...
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Student leaders go into battle on fees
Leaders of the National Union of Students have voted to campaign more rigorously against tuition fees in the next academic year, with a national demonstration and lobby of Parliament. The decision,...
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University ushers in back door private fee
Oxford Brookes University is using a funding loophole to charge full-time undergraduate tuition fees of up to Pounds 4,700 a year for "private" courses. The move was described this week by student...
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Campus could be built on
A University for Cornwall could be built on the site of the country's last remaining tin mine, it has emerged. South Crofty mine is one of several proposed sites before the steering group for the...
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Fallout from accountancy feud spreads to exams
A bitter row between two accountancy bodies over the basis of exam exemptions will end up hurting the students most, it is being claimed, writes Bibi Berki. The Association of Accounting Technicians...
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Blackstone blesses the birth of the ILT
A fast-track membership policy and rigorous professional standards are envisaged for the new ILT, writes Alison Utley The Institute for Learning and Teaching was opened for business last week by...