Rationalisation of exam boards
The DFEE was due to announce a rationalisation of the exam boards this week. Labour in opposition favoured replacing the six A-level boards with a single, national body to guarantee parity between...
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Forget Ford, Blair told
The Government must not use the Ford Motor Company's in-house staff training scheme as the model for its proposed University for Industry, a consortium of European Universities has warned....
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Wastebasket case
Following the decision to abruptly halt the implementation of Sir Ron Dearing's 1996 review of qualifications for 16-19-year-olds, ministers at the Department for Education and Employment have been...
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Name your poison
Education and employment secretary David Blunkett and higher education minister Tessa Blackstone, are understood to be determined to pursue their own ideas on funding if they don't like Dearing's...
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Hodge your bets
Entertaining though the convulsions of the Conservative party have been, their conclusion this week will bring blessed relief both to the Labour whips and to MPs anxious to join departmental select...
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Rat race
THE increasingly market-mad world of further education welcomed a third lecturer supply agency this month in the unlikely guise of pest controller Rentokil. The company Rentokil Initial - pre-tax...
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Choirs of disapproval
Alumnus to be proud of No. 111 is the latest member of the bash-the-teachers brigade, Charles Philip Arthur Windsor, known to the authorities as the Prince of Wales. At least he had the grace not to...
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Boxed in
(Photograph) - Househunters taken by the specifications for one of Sheffield estate agent Blundells latest properties (Mod, brck-cld, det prop. Elect, ample prkg) will have to get cracking. It will...
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Lecturers get jobs back
Two London Guildhall University lecturers sacked last year have been reinstated following an appeal to the governors, writes Huw Richards. Senior lecturer Pat Brady won his appeal against being...
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VAT changes may cost Pounds 25m
Up to Pounds 25 million could be drained from the higher education sector if plans by Customs and Excise to change the way in which universities recover VAT go ahead. The British Universities Finance...
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Watchdogs will be funding the QAA
The cost of setting up a new Quality Assurance Agency for higher education will have to be met out of existing quality watchdog budgets, it emerged this week. Up to Pounds 1 million may have to be...
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Libraries' costly converter
Fifty million library catalogue records must be converted into a computer-readable format at a cost of up to Pounds 100 million, according to a study out next week. The report says the records need...
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Run to work to dodge bullets
AN ACADEMIC who braved three years in war-torn Sarajevo to help keep the university running gave Unison members a vivid account of his experiences at their annual conference last week. Farouk Sifaric...
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TTA is called to account
AN accountability crisis faced by the Teacher Training Agency detracts from the key issues facing teacher education, a study to be published in August will conclude. The study, funded by the Economic...
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Colleges fear incorporation
THE NEW Labour Government is to press ahead with incorporation for Northern Ireland's 17 further education colleges and institutes - but almost a year later than originally planned. In his first...