MP distances himself from failing Bilston
Labour MP Dennis Turner is standing firm as chairman of the all-party parliamentary group for further education, despite a report this week that implicates him in a severe college crisis. Mr Turner,...
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Ethnic recruitment is 'cavalier'
Prestigious London higher education institutions are showing a "cavalier" attitude to ethnic minority recruitment, according to the author of a major study into London skills needs. The study, to be...
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Racism rife in nursing
Lecturers' failure to challenge racist attitudes and their lack of cultural knowledge often upsets and discourages Asian students from pursuing careers in nursing and other health-related jobs,...
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Medical schools
Medical schools are expected to start publishing annual details of their admissions procedures next year, including a breakdown of applicants and admissions by ethnicity, writes Julia Hinde. The...
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Opposition to asylum controls grows
Tens of thousands of international students could be deterred from studying in Britain as a result of "racist" new immigration and asylum controls, student leaders, lecturers and vice- chancellors...
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Colleges struggle to meet New Deal training demands
Further education colleges are struggling to meet the demands of chancellor Gordon Brown's vision of a "high-skill economy", researchers claimed this week. Many colleges have been unable to adjust...
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Unions, bosses talking again - but not about hours
The dispute between further education employers and unions over contracts, which hit its seventh anniversary this week, is over. Members of lecturers' union Natfhe agreed at an emergency weekend...
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Joy at FE funding round
All but 4 per cent of colleges will get more funding next year in one of the best ever further education funding settlements. Provisional funding allocations for 1999-2000 released this week by the...
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Loughborough sets sights on Pounds 100m
Loughborough University plans to attract Pounds 100 million of engineering research over the next ten years with its multimillion research and teaching complex. Construction of the Pounds 14.3...
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Glasgow librarian loses sex bias case
An industrial tribunal has condemned Glasgow University's grievance procedures as "unfair by any standard of natural justice". Librarian Metta MacLeod brought a sex discrimination case against the...
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Three-day wait predicted for car orders
Car buyers could have customised cars delivered in three days thanks to a Pounds 1.5 million project just launched by the universities of Cardiff and Bath and leading car makers and associations. The...
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Top 200 firms see quality slip
More than half of Britain's major employers think degree standards are falling, while just a tenth think they are improving, a national study has found. In some sectors, such as civil engineering, up...
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A vital role in the peace process
As Northern Ireland secretary Mo Mowlam struggles to set up Ulster's assembly, Noel McAdam and Olga Wojtas examine higher education's contribution to the fragile peace. Northern Ireland's two...
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'Poverty' wage set
The introduction of the national minimum wage next month will boost the pay of nearly two million employees by an average of 30 per cent, according to a study out this week. The study by David...
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Students sit in to stop fees sanction
About 100 students have been occupying a building at Goldsmiths College, London, since last Friday in protest against the university's threat to expel eight students for refusing to pay tuition fees...