Watchdogs will be funding the QAA
The cost of setting up a new Quality Assurance Agency for higher education will have to be met out of existing quality watchdog budgets, it emerged this week. Up to Pounds 1 million may have to be...
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Libraries' costly converter
Fifty million library catalogue records must be converted into a computer-readable format at a cost of up to Pounds 100 million, according to a study out next week. The report says the records need...
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Run to work to dodge bullets
AN ACADEMIC who braved three years in war-torn Sarajevo to help keep the university running gave Unison members a vivid account of his experiences at their annual conference last week. Farouk Sifaric...
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TTA is called to account
AN accountability crisis faced by the Teacher Training Agency detracts from the key issues facing teacher education, a study to be published in August will conclude. The study, funded by the Economic...
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Colleges fear incorporation
THE NEW Labour Government is to press ahead with incorporation for Northern Ireland's 17 further education colleges and institutes - but almost a year later than originally planned. In his first...
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Deals avert two academic boycotts
LECTURERS at two universities and a college have settled disputes with managers, while strike action continues at a fourth institution. Both Derby and Westminster universities have reached agreement...
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NATFHE granted leave
NATFHE has been granted leave for a High Court review of the former Government's controversial decision to change teachers' pensions policy. The move is a challenge to former education secretary...
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Psychologists could give help
EDUCATIONAL psychologists could help colleges release the full potential of students with learning difficulties and behavioural problems, according to new research. The Further Education Development...
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Brass bands strike a different note
Three research projects reveal the many roles music can play THE popular perception of the industrial-age community brass band as an undisciplined gaggle of working-class amateurs is a myth,...
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Scotland demands more collaboration
A GOVERNMENT review of Scottish further education funding must foster collaboration rather than "over-vigorous competition", Scottish Office education and industry minister Brian Wilson has warned....
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Unis eye Euro regeneration funds
AS European Union leaders this week thrashed out the Treaty of Amsterdam, the Labour Government proved it could take as firm a stand as its predecessor when it felt its interests are threatened. But...
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Musicians fight theme-park image
Three research projects reveal the many roles music can play LIVERPOOL - home of The Beatles; New Orleans, jazz capital of the world. Music is the key to the image which attracts foreign tourists to...
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Child leukaemia and infections link examined
EDINBURGH University's public health sciences department is studying the causes of childhood leukaemia. The project will analyse data on diagnosed cases of leukaemia in the hopeof better...
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Jadwiga: patron saint of the university
"The road to the well-being of a state, to its sovereignty and recognition in the world leads through its universities," Pope John Paul II said when, in the final ceremony of his visit to Poland this...
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Long loan allows free ranging
A book borrowed from the library at Harvard University and believed lost has been returned to the stacks - 233 years overdue. The thick, calfskin-covered volume appears to have crossed the Atlantic...