Scotland advances its 'gold standard'
Scotland's higher education principals, in their first statement on Government plans to reform school exams, have warned that the proposed two-year Advanced Higher must not be confused with A levels...
Search
-
-
Lib-Dems push voucher funding
Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman who put his job on the line when he announced a policy U-turn last year, is preparing another bold move with proposals to overhaul funding and...
-
Ballot answer
Glasgow University is seeking Privy Council approval for a new single transferable vote system to elect its chancellor, to replace the first past the post method. Chancellor, Sir Alec Cairncross, who...
-
Looking east
Sheffield University is opening an East Asia research centre to help strengthen its links with the region. The centre will provide fellowships and graduate bursaries for research in areas such as...
-
Bradford deal
Bradford University's Management Centre has won a contract to provide an MBA course in Israel. It will link up with the Israel Management Centre in Tel-Aviv to provide a two-year part-time course for...
-
Feeling twitchy
Last week's request for possible titles for the academic soap opera suggested by the Association for Colleges brought a rapid response from Alan Broad of Oxford, who nominated Drop the Dead Don. For...
-
Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies' First seminar
(Photograph) - Lingua judaica . . . Dov-Ber Kerler (left) leads discussion of the semiotics of the Mayse Bukh in Old Yiddish Literature at the first seminar held by the new Oxford Institute for...
-
Firms oppose levy
About three-quarters of employers surveyed by the Confederation of British Industry oppose a compulsory training levy. The CBI said the firms object for various reasons: the levy would be too...
-
Booster jab
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has signed an agreement with the Department of Health to help boost co-operation between the two in areas of joint interest in the medical...
-
Kennedy mission
Helena Kennedy QC, chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, is to chair a new Further Education Funding Council committee looking at ways of widening recruitment to further education and training....
-
Essex economies
Essex University departments will be set targets for expenditure cuts or increased income to avert losses projected for the university in the late 1990s. A gap of about Pounds 1 million per year will...
-
Teething troubles for FE courses
A survey of how vocational qualifications are assessed by colleges and awarding bodies has revealed patchy progress towards consistent national standards. The Further Education Funding Council report...
-
Universities go to markets
Four Midland universities are turning to the capital markets to raise investment With the co-operation of Birmingham City Council the city's three universities, Birmingham, Aston and Central England...
-
Unesco accepts fees idea
Unesco this week accepted the reality of students contributing to the cost of their university education, but warned that alternative sources of funding cannot end the international crisis in higher...
-
Medical textbooks are a killer, Lords told
A leading health services researcher said this week that he had killed patients as a result of a technique he had been advised to use at medical school. Iain Chalmers, director of the UK Cochrane...