Colleges warn of inspectors'double trouble
Responses to Learning to Succeed, the white paper on 16 to 19-year-olds The Association of Colleges warns that involving two different agencies in inspecting the same provision in the same classrooms...
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World watch
Turin Polytechnic is offering Italy's first degree course in automobile engineering. Four women are among the 60 students enrolled on the five-year course, which is the result of a joint project by...
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World watch
Italy's largest trade union for university workers has called an official national strike in support of more than 1,500 lettori, following the breakdown of negotiations for a new national contract.
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Industry training bodies views of the white paper
Responses to Learning to Succeed, the white paper on 16 to 19-year-olds Industry training bodies see the white paper as a chance for radical reform of the principles behind lifelong learning. The...
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Students pleased with their stake
Responses to Learning to Succeed, the white paper on 16 to 19-year-olds Students welcome the white paper's stress on coherence. The National Union of Students is pleased about the creation of a...
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Let them eat cake
Is there no end to the inequality inherent in Oxford colleges? The latest Oxford Magazine carries the shocking disclosure that while some colleges provide puddings for fellows at Senior Common Room...
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Don's diary
Thursday In Bournemouth the political biography launch season is in full swing. The Labour Party conference has everything from Glenda Jackson's story through to the Dictionary of Labour Quotations....
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Prostitution rife on Thai campuses
BANGKOK A team of undercover agents has been dispatched by Thailand's parliament to investigate reports of rampant prostitution at Bangkok's universities. Claims by two campus newspapers at Thammasat...
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Keen to lend a gland
More than 850 eager freshers have volunteered to take part in a study at the University of Edinburgh on glandular fever. The study, to find out why the illness is so common among students and why...
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Going solar
(Photograph) - Martin Stevens at the wheel of SunSurfer, built by engineering students at the University of Southampton to compete in the World Solar Cycle Challenge. Photograph by NEIL TURNER
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Industry prefers slower reform
Responses to Learning to Succeed, the white paper on 16 to 19-year-olds Captains of industry have fired a broadside at the government's plans for an overhaul of post-16 education and training....
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World watch
Croatian education minister Bozidar Pugelnik, has resigned after a row with his deputy, Miroslav Doresic. Prime minister Zlatko Matesa has accepted his resignation but has proposed to President...
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Blair idea benefits big-wigs' children
Allegations of cronyism are dogging government plans to raise the number of prestigious scholarships for overseas students to study in Britain. The Foreign Office was quick this week to scotch...
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Stress buster
(Photograph) - Students at Coventry University had lessons in tai chi chuan to coincide with World Mental Health Day. University mental health coordinator Diane Cunningham organised workshops on tai...
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GM hot potato is a burning issue
The Lancet's publication of Arpad Pusztai's genetically modified potato research today has drawn heavy criticism from leading scientists, including two of the experts called in to peer-review the...