Pounds 8.6m question mark over NVQs
"Incorrect and uncertain" payments amounting to Pounds 8.6 million were paid by the Department for Education and Employment to training providers in 1995/96, the Public Accounts Committee says in a...
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Bug alert
(Photograph) - Bug alert: Gordon Ramel of the Exeter University Amateur Entomological Society shows off a Malaysian Junal Nymph which will take part in science week from today until March 21. More...
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V-cs want law on title use
SELECT higher education institutions should be able to call themselves university colleges, according to a working party set up by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. But it wants...
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Cambridge merges education arms
THE UNIVERSITY of Cambridge is to merge two branches of its education faculty as a result of doubts over the Government's moves to make teacher training more classroom-based. As part of a strategic...
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Celebrity squiggles
(Photograph) - Celebrity squiggles: a sketch by Yoko Ono and a drawing of Magic Roundabout character Dougal by Emma Thompson are among over 70 postcards donated by famous people to fine art students...
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Cash fears prevent joint work
CVCP COUNCIL MEETING. UNIVERSITIES want to collaborate more but fear the costs, according to a study being presented to the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals at its council meeting today...
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HEFCE amends debt offer after mass response
AN INITIATIVE by the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England to buy out institutions' inherited debt has been oversubscribed eight times. The council launched the scheme last December to redeem...
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Barrister bosses eye demise of dining tradition
TRAINEE barristers may no longer have to dine at the Inns of Court in London before qualifying at the Bar. The council of the Inns of Court and the Bar Council are considering proposals to replace...
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Lewisham defends franchising blueprint
LEWISHAM College of Further Education has defended its controversial discussion paper on franchising in the face of legal threats. Principal Ruth Silver rejected claims from the 21 Group of colleges...
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Former Royal Academy bursar jailed for theft
TREVOR Clark, a former bursar at the Royal Academy of Arts, was this week jailed for four years after being caught filching Pounds 400,000 from the institution. The cash-strapped academy said that a...
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Physicists query profit of industrial work
THE FINANCIAL returns from industrial collaboration rarely justify the efforts involved, according to most physicists in a report commissioned by the Institute of Physics. The survey, carried out by...
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Reinvented
Crikey! If we are not careful, someone will (re)invent engineering student apprenticeships (pooh-poohed as pointless), which is where I and others came in 30-odd years ago ("Job placements are good...
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Adelphi's island hop
THE article "Adelphi chief packs his bags" wrongly places Adelphi University in Garden City, New Jersey (THES, March 7). Perhaps the author was thinking of New Jersey's nickname "The Garden State"....
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Scots to challenge NUS full grant policy
THE NATIONAL Union of Students' year-old policy not to seek a restoration of full grants is set to be challenged at the union's Scottish conference tomorrow. A pressure group, Free Education Scotland...
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London University cuts library access
STUDENT access to the University of London library is to be reduced as part of a new college subscription mechanism. The UoL library board met on Tuesday and approved a system of funding which cuts...