Elections
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE The Education and Employment Committee of the House of Commons, elected Malcolm Thornton as chairman. Members are: Don Foster, Harry Greenaway, Warren Hawksley,...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL European funds. Dr M. Beach, Pounds 93,374 from the European Commission (ACTS 0026 Tsunami II); Drs A. Munro and J. Kyle, Pounds 694,392 from the Commission (Umptidumpti ACTS...
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Close encounters of a higher kind
Roy Brown, the first professor in the college sector, outlines the benefits of running degree courses with universities. Few in either further or higher education need reminding that we are living in...
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The Big Brother syndrome
Alison Utley relays colleges' fears of merging funding. Rapid changes taking place at the further/higher education boundary have prompted funding chiefs to re-examine the financing of courses that...
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Battle of the baby bulge
The hybrid market-led approach to higher education is the only viable model, argues David Eade. Many colleges have been concerned about what they perceive as growing hostility towards higher...
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Take your partners, please
Peter Scott and Jean Bocock found a cosier learning culture in colleges offering higher education. Once, links between further and higher education were largely confined to colleges putting on access...
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The shape of further education
Official statistics, right and below, give the most up-to-date picture of the sector's progress in England. The further education sector comprises 452 colleges covering different types of study. They...
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Buccaneering spirit in Bradford
Peter Chambers looks at how students from disadvantaged backgrounds made good. Kenneth Baker got it only half right when he described further education as Cinderella. Starved of resource and denied...
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Everyone's a winner in local Derby
Roger Waterhouse looks forward to comprehensive post-school education The divisions education has inherited are local (no other country has them) and rooted in the British obsession with class. They...
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On the right route at Spaghetti Junction
Simon Midgley reports on moves for a community university in Birmingham. Britain's first American-style city community university offering learning for life to local people could be created by the...
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Follow Dearing who dares
Andy Green argues that proposals for 16 to 19-year-olds are too complicated to implement. Sir Ron Dearing is a master at squaring political circles. His meticulous and comprehensive review of...
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City-University-London
City University London has awarded an Honorary DMus to Ian Horsbrugh, principal of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama since 1988. ?
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Appointments
QUEENS' COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. John Eatwell, Labour's economic spokesman in the House of Lords, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, head of college. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. Vice chancellor elect: Colin...
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Unions may 'greylist' Ulster
Unions at the University of Ulster have warned they are on a "collision course" with management over proposed staffing arrangements, which could make it the first United Kingdom university on a "...
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Edinburgh probes 'scientific racist'
Edinburgh University is to investigate the teaching practices of psychology lecturer and self-styled "scientific racist" Chris Brand, whose book on IQ was withdrawn by his publisher last week. Sir...