Moans monitor reduces disputes
New technology could help higher education institutions avoid acrimonious student complaints by enabling them to monitor how quickly the complaint is being dealt with. Dennis Farrington, editor of...
Search
-
-
British Council probes Israeli franchises
THE BRITISH Council has ordered a probe into the franchising activities of British universities in Israel to quell concerns over the quality of courses. The Israeli government is threatening to...
-
Big city life beats Oxford punting
Claire Gardner, 17, from Blessed Robert Johnson College, Telford, hopes to study history, her best subject, at university, but did not know what to expect from the summer school. "I was really...
-
Oxford courts state schools
MOre than 60 students from state-maintained inner-city schools spent this week at Oxford University's first fully-funded summer school. All the students' travel and accommodation has been paid for by...
-
Wider access threat to autonomy
This might be the last year that universities have true autonomy over their entrance requirements. Twin moves to broaden the range of qualifications leading to university entrance, and to encourage...
-
Long-term magic is urged for Cinderella
The political profile of further education has traditionally matched its popular designation as the "Cinderella sector". But that looks likely to change at this year's Labour party conference to be...
-
FEFC in cash plea on jobless scheme
FURTHER education has told the Government that it must "piggyback" its new welfare-to-work programme on existing college and sector funding structures or risk wasting public money on bureaucracy. The...
-
...as Wales offers vocational and traditional mix
Welsh schools and colleges may soon be offering a single overarching 16-19 certificate linking vocational and traditional education courses, writes Huw Richards. This week's Welsh Office white paper...
-
'Lab school' linkup to boost English teaching standards...
Universities will be urged to adopt the best schoolteachers as associate professors and fellows, and to work with them in "laboratory schools" in a bid to raise school standards, writes Phil Baty....
-
Catholics face threats
CATHOLIC students have been targeted in a "hate" campaign as tensions rise in Northern Ireland. A number of Queen's University undergraduates and student nurses are seeking to move after leaflets...
-
Continental divide to end
A NEW blow has been struck in the battle of minds between continental and analytical philosophers with the founding of the first Society for European Philosophy. More than 100 people met at Warwick...
-
Against the odds
(Photograph) - AGAINST THE ODDS: A Bradford University student who had a brush with death is this week celebrating the degree she thought she would never get. Linguist Amanda Wilson contracted...
-
Beijing shares medical secrets
Britain may have lost Hong Kong to China, but a new degree of partnership is developing between the nations. Middlesex University has started interviewing for its new five-year degree in traditional...
-
Sage wisdom
For centuries European folklore has said that sage improves the memory. Now clinical trials are to get under way to test this and to find out if sage could be used in the treatment of illnesses such...
-
Hairy jobs for the bold
As the world gets smaller and science continues to push back the frontiers, scientists find themselves working in ever greater extremes. As researchers in Montserrat have discovered, being in the...