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  6. Further education in England: Facts and figures

    The further education sector comprises 435 colleges covering different types of study. There are also 52higher educationinstitutions that deliver further educationprogrammes and 235 "external...

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  7. Merton gets a tune-up

    As schools and sixth-form colleges compete to attract and keep their A-level students, general further education colleges are having to find increasingly inventive ways to woo students between the...

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  8. 18-plus centre is way ahead

    In the run-up to spending announcements which are expected to favour further education, The THES looks at the state of the colleges Further education has not developed into a cohesive national sector...

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  9. Returner learners need quality

    Much has happened over the last year that has placed post-16 education firmly in the spotlight. New money, new ways of working and the promise of a new future for further and higher education have...

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  10. Scots take the high road for three years

    Further education in Scotland can now see much of the road ahead for the next three years. Clear signposts have emerged from the comprehensive spending review, the paper on Lifelong Learning,...

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  11. Welsh not filling industry's skills gap

    Further education has been hailed the driving force behind the regeneration of the Welsh economy. But fears are growing that the sector is failing to produce the highly skilled workforce demanded by...

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  12. Science of the appliance

    Don Norman's aim is to make companies produce more user-friendly products. Tony Durham met him Don Norman cannot ignore a badly designed door, tap or light switch. He is likely to photograph it,...

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  13. Once upon a lifetime

    The story of a life, from womb to tomb, reconstructs a past, but is it history? asks Ben Pimlott Let's make no bones about it, many historians look down witheringly at biographers, as much for their...

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  14. Higher channels

    John Davies scans the weekly schedules for TV and radio programmes of academic relevance. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Stand by for first world war information overload, as the BBC...

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  15. The last great liberal

    'One of the great minds of the 20th century' or 'unintelligible in several languages'? Michael Ignatieff asks how the world will remember Isaiah Berlin A year ago, prime minister Tony Blair wrote a...

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