Natfhe official changes sides
A senior official of lecturers' union Natfhe has been poached by the new lecturers-for-hire business backed by college employers. Richard Eve, assistant further education secretary, was given a week...
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Training millions spark interest
More than 70 universities are likely to bid in the first round of the Leonardo da Vinci programme, the five-year Pounds 520 million European vocational initiative launched in the United Kingdom last...
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Rector gaoled for ethnic resistance
The rector of the "illegal" Albanian-language University of Tetovo in Macedonia has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for "inciting the people to resistance". Fadil Sulejman was...
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Scots colleges go poly
Six of Scotland's 43 further education colleges have set themselves up as a "polytechnic" sector offering an alternative to university-based higher education. A quarter of higher education entrants...
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Down to earth
(Photograph) - Down to earth: The first pictures beamed to earth from the European environmental satellite, ERS-2, include this one of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, taken by a British-...
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Strikes cloud Acas contract talks
A row erupted this week between lecturers' union Natfhe and employers over the continued use of strike action while talks carry on at Acas to solve the college contracts dispute. Roger Ward, chief...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Breakfast at Hotel Villa Kastania (Horsechestnut Hotel). Most of the streets in Charlottenburg (part of the British quarter of Berlin) are named after the trees which line them. We do not...
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Knowing your NVQs
John Sparkes's understanding of NVQs is incomplete. All bodies responsible for designing NVQs must do so according to national criteria. These criteria demand that they embrace the following: * The...
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Knowing your NVQs
John Randall (THES, April 14) and John Sparkes (THES, April 28) come from opposite poles in the National Vocational Qualifications and competence debate. As both quote engineering in support of their...
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Collective key to standards
As the debate nears its conclusion John Stoddart sets out his framework for quality assurance. Now that discussions have begun in earnest about future arrangements for quality assurance, we should...
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Students set their pace on funding policy
The inaccuracies and distortion of fact in "Follow my Labour" must be corrected. The NUS debate over education funding will be open and controversial. It is however, disappointing that your...
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What is quantum mechanics?
Belying its reputation for arcane irrelevance, quantum mechanics addresses problems of great importance for practical human activity. It explains, for example, the rigidity of chairs and tables...
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A city of lost hopes
Amela Sadagic on the war in her beloved Sarajevo. The day I left Sarajevo in April 1992 I thought I would have the kind of weekend I always had: a short visit to my parents' home 70km away in the...
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Conjurers of conjecture
Peter Holland condemns the mystification of science by the popularisers. Physicists are claiming quantum mechanics is incomprehensible and science can chart a path to God. But quantum physics does...
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Liberal with the ink
Colin Matthew edited one prime minister's papers that were donated to the nation. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was four times chancellor of the exchequer and four times prime minister. He was...