Further education in England: the facts
(Photograph) - Official statistics giving the most up-to-date information on the further education sector in England. The further education sector comprises 456 general further education colleges,...
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The learning lottery
John Cassels introduces today's National Commission on Education report on progress towards the knowledge society. In a "learning society" not only will individuals of all ages be encouraged to learn...
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Off on the wrong foot
The contract dispute is affecting morale. David Charter reports. Talk to college principals and lecturers around the country, and the word most commonly mentioned in connection with their long-...
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Two down, many to go
April 1995 is the second anniversary of further education colleges' freedom from local authority control. Below William Stubbs looks at their progress. Two years on from the creation of the further...
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Exam-sitting targets
Andy Green argues for more coherence in the national qualifications jigsaw. Further education has been a long time coming of age. For a century or more, the local "tech" was the backbone of British...
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The value of Acas conciliation
I would like to make it clear where this union stands in relation to the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. Natfhe has sought the advice and assistance of Acas on numerous occasions and...
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Profit in diversity
It is next to impossible to assess the true overall value of a species," Norman Myers writes in his review this week of a clutch of books on biodiversity (pages 22-28). We cannot tell what may come...
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Noble image of a learning society
If all the oratory about the importance of education means anything, it is surely that this country badly needs to become a learning society. What exactly a learning society might be gives fertile...
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Balancing the books
Universities are losing their ivory-tower image, transformed by what one Cambridge University administrator calls "a new breed of academic". Vice chancellors are now regarded as high-flying chief...
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Students put peace politics first
University students have historically played an active role in politics, often in the vanguard of the movement for change. For students at Birzeit University on the West Bank, politics, in the shape...
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New strings for old craft
The Chinese government recently established a centre for the production of European classical string instruments in Beijing. Its director learned the craft of making violins, violas, cellos and...
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Excellent marks for S. Africans
Forty South African scientists have received an "A" rating as world leaders in their fields. For the first time one of them, Christina Mynhardt of the distance-learning University of South Africa, is...
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Faraday base seeks buyer
The British Antarctic Survey has given the Ukrainian government until the end of April to decide whether it wants to take over the Faraday base in Graham Land. It has told the Ukrainians that if a...
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Fort Hare forges Australian links
Two Australian universities last week signed co-operative agreements with a South African tertiary institution in what is being hailed as the beginning of a new stage in relations between the two...
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Presidential eye on the dorm
The Nelson Mandela building is a popular name for British student unions, or perhaps even the Yasser Arafat building, but at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, the student union is housed in the Frank...