Brum punch
The hospitality industry needs more managers. And Birmingham College can serve up the training courses - so long as it gets more cash. Simon Midgley reports There is a national shortage of...
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Door-to-door diplomas
Mothers wanting a return-to-work course can find it difficult to get to college, soHendon brought classes to them. Simon Midgley describes a pioneering initiative in North London A pioneering return-...
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Too lean to be mean
Colin Flint advises the government to think the unthinkable, say the unsayable and to acknowledge that now it is further education's turn It has not been a good year for colleges. Over 55 per cent of...
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Frames and ambitions
The qualifications framework proposal for widening participation in higher education is fraught with problems, not least of which is the uninspiringly named subdegree, argues Julian Gravatt The...
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Big advances need big battalions
In Scotland, non-degree courses offer the 'best buy' for a government shopping around to get more participation and more qualified people for the same number of places, says Tom Kelly This has been a...
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A flowering that requires healthy roots
If higher education is to stand a chance of widening participation, David Melville claims that the flow from further education must be increased The prime minister announced at the Labour party...
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Ensuring the right guard
Keith Scribbins argues that college governors should equip themselves with a little philosophy Since the incorporation of our colleges and universities college governance has had the odd wobble or...
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The folly of a selective process
As every English studies undergraduate should know, part of the folly exposed by Marlowe's Dr Faustus is that of intellectual self-deception. He constructs a conclusion which attracts him and selects...
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Don's diary
Saturday. We are in Romania with 18 students to teach a module called "Romania in transition: Fieldwork Studies". Daniela, a geography lecturer from Bucharest University, joins us. This is the first...
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FE cash boost worries v-cs
AN EXTRA Pounds 83 million for further education colleges announced this week will not mean less money for higher education, David Blunkett, secretary of state for education and employment, has...
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Teens 'pragmatic' about drugs
MANY teenage drug users prefer to get information about drugs from their suppliers rather than their schools, a study has found. Nearly one-third of 12 to 19-year-olds in Glasgow interviewed by...
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Medics warned to observe African etiquette
MEDICAL researchers studying third world diseases must learn political skills or face possible exclusion from some African countries, a leading British parasitologist has warned. Hilary Hurd,...
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Assessing the cost of renewable energy
ELECTRICAL engineers at Edinburgh University are taking part in a European Union project to design and develop ways of assessing the economic impact of introducing renewable energy into an electrical...
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Courses go on the rails as Capilano gets training
THERE will be fewer assignments hastily finished on the way to college for Vancouver students now that their commuter train is to double as a classroom. Capilano College has decided to put to good...
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Protests mark Jiang's visit
UP TO 5,000 demonstrators, supporters and spectators greeted Jiang Zemin on the first visit by a Chinese president to Harvard University. It was a wet Saturday morning as Harvard played host both to...