Core no more in skills-go-round
Just when educationists think they are getting the hang of the technical vocabulary of vocational qualifications, bureaucrats go and change it all. "Core skills" is to be phased out and replaced by "...
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Schools happy to leave training to institutions
Schools are happy to let higher education continue to play the major role in initial teacher training, a national study has found, writes Tony Tysome. Despite the misgivings of Government agencies...
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Shake-up in Italian jobs
Universities minister Luigi Berlinguer has launched a package of reforms which should result in the most radical revolution in Italian higher education since the second world war. The reforms, if...
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Japanese enjoy their tipples too
Russians dying for a drink" by Zhores Medvedev (THES, July 12) contains a number of inaccurate comparisons making reference to Japan. Japanese living standards are not lower than those of Americans...
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Circling around the Dearing ring
The gradual clarification of Labour's ideas on English regional governance may well provide a context for at least some of the issues which the Dearing committee will need to address. Having spent 25...
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Institute of Physics
* The president-elect of the Institute of Physics (IOP), Brian Manley, said last week that the institute may fund research into the structure and content of post-16 education, writes Graham Lawton....
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Stars in her eyes
(Photograph) - Stars in her eyes: Hazel Hall, single parent of two, has just been awarded a first-class honours on the part-time BA fine art course at the Canterbury College of the Kent Institute of...
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Cambridge sends smoke signals
More than 3,500 Cambridge University dons will finally decide today whether to accept the controversial gift of Pounds 1.5 million from tobacco giant BAT Industries for a professorship in...
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Post script
We apologise to THES subscribers whose copies are delayed by this week's planned one-day postal strike, which, as we went to press, was due to take place on Thursday.
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Class act
(Photograph) - Diane Modahl will run in the Olympic 800 metres having just done a media studies degree
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Disco Gold: John Tomlinson
(Photograph) - Disco Gold: John Tomlinson, head of department at Glasgow School of Art, won second prize with this photograph in the college winners 'category in the 1996 Fujifilm student awards
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Better dead end than nothing
Graduates are taking "boring" and "routine" jobs once shunned by self-respecting university students, according to a report by the Institute of Employment Studies. In a survey of 1,000 Sussex...
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Tough talk from top woman v-c
Fay Gale, the first woman to head the Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee, is a high-flying academic with a string of prizes, papers and books to her credit. Vice chancellor of Western Australia's...
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Wish-list or hit-list: wait for Dearing
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has just issued a consultative document on the funding method it should adopt for teaching from 1997/98 onwards. To its credit, the council's...
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Fall-out from the nuclear family
Divorce, single parenthood and live-in lovers have changed the variety and complexion of the British family. But one thing has not changed - the woman who has a man and the child who has a resident...