Cinderella steps out
The government wants more higher education students in further education colleges. Alan Thomson reports. FURTHER education colleges, for so long called the Cinderella sector, will be leading the...
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How Fe colleges act as stepping stones to higher education
Running a farm on the Isle of Wight while bringing up five young children, Zoe Chapman (above) would not be studying for a degree if it were not for her local further education college, writes Phil...
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How Fe colleges act as stepping stones to higher education
David McWilliams (above), aged 18, says he would not have had enough confidence in his abilities to apply direct to university from school, writes Olga Wojtas. "If I committed myself to a four-year...
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Halton misused funds
Halton College was this week ordered to repay Pounds 7.3 million of misappropriated public funds, more than four months after Whistleblowers exclusively revealed that a multimillion pound financial...
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Bilston governors implicated in massive debts
Financial management was so bad at Bilston Community College that a funding council enquiry team has said the college could face debts of between Pounds 3 million and Pounds 10 million. Audit...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. "Progress" meeting for the Unit for Space Sciences and Astrophysics at 9am. This week sees the switch-on of one of our experiments on the Cassini spacecraft, currently en route to Saturn....
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Glittering prizes
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, professor of physics at the Open University, who discovered pulsars - stars which send out pulses of radio waves that sweep across the sky in identifiable patterns - has...
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Famous last words?
One hopes the University of East Anglia is dedicated enough "to the advancement of learning and the increase of knowledge" to look kindly on an article by Peter Womack, senior lecturer in English...
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On the move
Ray Dowd, principal and chief executive of Hopwood Hall College, Rochale has been appointed principal and chief executive of Wirral Metropolitan College. He will succeed Jenny Shackleton, who is...
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Regal-eyed readers
The review of Joyce Tyldesley's Nefertiti (THES, April 9) was accompanied by a picture of Queen Nefertari, wife of Ramesses II (her name even appears in the cartouche) instead of Nefertiti, wife of...
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Conflict of interests
Scientists who collaborate with industry can find themselves gagged, says David Weatherall Mounting pressures on scientists by government and funding bodies to develop links with industry and to...
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Why I
...would happily eat a BSE hamburger The first time I saw a BSE cow in 1989, I was struck by how similar its behaviour was to that of people with multiple sclerosis. MS sufferers can use their hands...
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Englit must transform itself
Professors ofEnglish literature must become devotees of cultural studies, argues Anthony Eastope Cultural studies has not had a good press. Literary journalists in particular tend to be antagonistic...
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Star Turn
Watch out - a style guru is about. Olga Wojtas listens to what dramas a social anthropologist working in Edinburgh can detect around the kitchen sink The citizens of Edinburgh should be very afraid....
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How to..tell your side of the story
WHAT. Maxine Alterio talks to Jennifer Currie about a New Zealand project that got lecturers to talk about their experiences in a formal setting. WHY. Introducing storytelling sessions on a one-to-...