Oxford Brookes student, David Allison
(Photograph) - Fly me: Oxford Brookes student David Allison, who will represent Britain in the European Gliding Championships in Poland this July, is desperately in need of sponsorship.
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Major kicks off revival in sport
John Major has told ministers he wants to revive sport in further and higher education, possibly using National Lottery funds. A White Paper on sport, due to be published in the summer, is being...
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Oxford pair
Oxford University has announced the creation of two new colleges. Royal Charters have been awarded to Mansfield College and Templeton College, which began as the Oxford Centre for Management Studies...
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Useful NVQs
A review of the 100 most used National Vocational Qualifications, and their Scottish equivalents, was launched this week. The review will be carried out by the National Council for Vocational...
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Seeing double
Data on home, first-year mature students on higher education courses published in Hansard last week shows a doubling in full-timers from 34,700 in 1990 to 66,400 in 1992 and in part-timers from 14,...
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FEskivers
Four out of 15 further education students fail to attend their lessons. The non-attendance rate in the median class was revealed by college inspections over two years of 20,000 classes, Sir William...
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Scots record
Full-time higher education student numbers in Scotland are at record levels. Full-time numbers rose by 10 per cent from 1992/93 to 132,509 in 1993/94, and the proportion of women full-time entrants...
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Status fight
Roehampton Institute is to renew its fight for university status following planning permission to develop its campus for the relocation of the new Southlands College from Wimbledon and the creation...
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MPs' probe
The House of Commons select committee on education is to beef up its annual examination of the Department for Education's expenditure to an investigation of education spending in general. The Higher...
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Russia lacks regional dimension
Russia needs a proper regional policy to ease the pressures of economic and political transition, a Moscow expert told theconference. Sergei Artobolevski, senior researcher at the Russian Academy's...
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Paying the price of unity
Germany may have been unified for almost five years, but the economic repercussions of the incorporation of the German Democratic Republic will reverberate through the European Union for some time...
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Boom in local heroics
For those surfeited with VE Day, neutral Sweden was ideal last weekend. Most Swedes were more concerned by the national ice hockey team's failure in the World Championship final. But there is no...
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Dearing looks to single post-school qualification
A single qualifications framework for post-school education and training, with a new points system for entry into higher education, could emerge from a Government-backed review. Sir Ron Dearing, who...
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Vinnie Jones, Wimbledon captain public speaking at the Oxford Union
(Photograph) - Don meets the Dons: Vinnie Jones, Wimbledon captain and sometime hod-carrier, tackling an unfamiliar situation - a public speech at the Oxford Union - in an all-too-familiar way. Mr...
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Pay deal plays safe
Union leaders in the old universities have struck a pay deal with employers designed to safeguard the worst-off universities. The 2.7 per cent increase in salaries is to be recommended to the...