Edinburgh art college reviews university link
The governors of Edinburgh College of Art, who met last week to review the college's 30-year association with Heriot-Watt University, have postponed a decision on future links that could range from...
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Schools offered Pounds 60m to improve standards
Teachers and their schools are being offered Pounds 60 million to help them improve their performance next year. The bonus scheme, announced this week by prime minister Tony Blair and education...
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Workplace training receives cash boost
An extra Pounds 120 million has been earmarked for work-based training for young people, amounting to a 17 per cent boost for training and enterprise Council budgets. But TECs say that while the...
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Ofsted demands better reading skills
Many trainee teachers do not have enough experience teaching reading to whole classes, a report from schools' inspector Ofsted has said. An analysis of Ofsted's inspections of primary teacher...
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Assembly adds a department
Northern Ireland's assembly has voted for the creation of a separate department for higher and further education. Senior civil servants are to transfer and there will be a new permanent secretary,...
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Research falls prey to profit seekers
New technologies, new providers of higher education and fee-paying students all threaten to undermine research, according to a leading United States academic. Robert Zemsky, director of the Institute...
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Scots soften the blow of Dearing teaching cuts
The Scottish 糖心Vlog Funding Council is seeking to protect teaching funds this coming year with a 2 per cent cash rise, which is still a 0.5 per cent cut in real terms. This is only half the...
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Unions press for 10 per cent-plus pay rise
Two higher education unions this week called for pay rises of more than 10 per cent. University and college lecturers' union Natfhe will recommend a headline 15 per cent rise. At least 10 per cent of...
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BT plans to found its own academy
British Telecom is considering plans to establish an academy of training and research centres. "We have a big commitment to investing in training and development," said a spokesman. "This proposed...
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The Mercury Gallery, Cork Street, London
(Photograph) - Print-works: The Mercury Gallery, Cork Street, London, displays work by De Montfort University students as part of its fourth annual Young Printmakers exhibition. The event is a...
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Venture capital firms flourish
Venture capital has tripled in the United Kingdom in the 1990s but its economic benefits have not been shared equally by the regions, a Southampton and Ulster universities study reveals. In 1992,...
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Biochemists' RAE merger
Biochemistry will not have its own panel in the next research assessment exercise, but will be subsumed into the biological sciences unit of assessment instead. Biochemistry is the only panel to...
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Finance officers face rule change
A new set of accounting rules for universities is expected by the summer, giving universities a year to put them in place. A member of the government group looking at financial openness in...
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Nurse teachers 'not up to speed' on ward life
A "substantial minority" of nurse educators lack up-to-date clinical experience, the head of a leading university health department claimed this week. The head, who refused to be named, suggested...
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Battle to keep nursing in higher education
The battle to keep nursing in higher education stepped up this week. The RCN, responding to health secretary Frank Dobson, said "scapegoating nurse education avoids the real issues of low pay,...