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FE COORDINATION Research Project 931 is a Further Education Unit feasibility study on a coordinated or central production and registration system for learning materials in further education colleges...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND MA: Doris Fiedor, chair of the Hartcliffe Community Council and member of the British Community Health Council, was awarded an honorary degree on February 3. NAPIER...
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Events
NEW YORK, NEW YORK The Hunterian Art Gallery is presenting the only Scottish showing of an exhibition of New York city prints (1880s-1990) from the collection of Reba and Dave Williams. The...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Mark Overton, reader at the University of Newcastle, has been appointed professor of economics and social history from April 1. Simon Wren-Lewis, professor in macro-economic...
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Awards
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Ciba Research Fellowship Award has been presented to Steven Ley of the University Chemical Laboratory. The Ciba Award will underpin work in synthetic organic chemistry....
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Appointments
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY John Annette, professor and head of the university's school of history and politics, has been appointed chair of Middlesex University Press. WELSH COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND DRAMA...
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A sparkling career
A recent memorial service for crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot. Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize for science, was attended by the great and the good. Olga Wojtas traces the life...
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Scientific fraud squad call
The drug industry is calling for independent investigation into allegations of scientific fraud. Claims that medical and scientific research need policing were made by ex-editor of the British...
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Symbolic victory
Andrew Robinson reveals how the secrets of the ancient Maya are being uncovered as Linda Schele and her colleagues learn to decipher the first American writing system. "The American chronicle does...
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Don's Diary
Monday. Off to the University of Luton for an interview for a lectureship in comparative politics. I quite like the idea of teaching politics to HND and mature students on a modular course, and do...
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Terms of empowerment
Colleges have done well since independence, but has anyone noticed? asks Ngaio Crequer. The copy-taker who took the story down over the telephone had no reason to think that he had misheard the...
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Inspired choice for practical partners
Merger mania in Hertfordshire has proved perfectly timed, Maggie Richards discovers. College inspectors touring a further education campus in Hertfordshire recently canvassed one of the staff for his...
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Deskful of paper, earful of woe
Pastoral care is a central part of college culture as pressure builds, Elaine Williams reports. A wide expanse of carpet and a jaunty receptionist greet visitors to Cleveland College in Redcar; to...
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Six million and still counting
Coventry Technical College is being sued over a huge debt which it says it has no chance of repaying. Craig Seton reports. We do not have any money problems," says Janey Rees, principal of Coventry...
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Vocational advert fits The Bill
An Employment Department-funded Pounds 4 million vocational training publicity campaign was launched yesterday when a one-minute television advert appeared during a commercial break in The Bill. The...