CONTROL of the multimillion-pound training budget could be wrested from the training and enterprise councils as pressure mounts for the planned regional development agencies to steer regional post-16...
Glasgow Caledonian University is implementing a range of reforms in advance of a National Audit Office report on alleged mismanagement. These include a review of employment procedures, new procedures...
Scottish education minister Brian Wilson has rejected a further education college merger proposal which he concedes would have educational and financial benefits. Last summer, Mr Wilson urged...
Nottingham Trent University and Brackenhurst College in Southwell are considering merger. The college, which has nearly 800 full and part-time students, is one of the university's eight associate...
The pro vice-chancellor who made the controversial decision to lower the pass mark at Thames Valley University last autumn has resigned. Susanne Haselgrove is to become a visiting fellow at Cambridge...
Union leaders have urged the government to back international standards adopted by Unesco that are designed to protect the terms and conditions of employment for academics. The Association of...
LONDON University veterinary students are fighting government plans to charge tuition fees for all five years of their degree. James Clappison, Conservative MP for Hertsmere, has taken up the...
THE government faces accusations of misleading new students into assuming there would be a more gradual shift in balance between grants and loans than has emerged. Government leaflets have said that...
GOVERNMENT plans to recover student loans through the tax system will cost employers millions of pounds and will stop many firms recruiting graduates, tax experts and small businesses have warned....
A WORKING party of MPs is to hold talks with City finance companies in a bid to break the impasse over attempts to privatise student loans. The move, by the Education and Employment Committee, marks...
LOCAL authority chiefs have warned the government that its new student support system could founder if details are not ready within a month. They say some of the smaller authorities will not be able...
Alan Thomson explains the powers given to the education secretary under the Teaching and Higher Education Bill as it stands and gives examples of what this could mean AN unamended Teaching and Higher...
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an educational thinker who put five of his children in a foundlings' home: "...
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