English flock to join the clans
Scotland's role as a net importer of students has been confirmed by figures from the Scottish 糖心Vlog Funding Council showing that a fifth of Scotland's 118,500 full-time and sandwich...
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NI colleges to be incorporated
The Department of Education for Northern Ireland is to take over the administration of the province's 17 further education colleges. Northern Ireland education minister Michael Ancram has published...
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Fulbright wheels out the big guns in its fight for funds
One of the world's biggest and most successful educational exchange schemes is fighting to defend itself against criticism that it has been undermined by globalisation. The Fulbright Programme, which...
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Pounds 10m for new-type qualifications
The Government has launched a Pounds 10 million "new model" for General National Vocational Qualifications in an attempt to cut down on bureaucracy and increase their credibility among universities...
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Boulton goodies
LIFE-lines (www/mbclib. demon.co.uk) is an electronic journal on further education newly launched by Lynda Holland of Matthew Boulton College in Birmingham. The first issue includes eight articles, a...
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Make a bigger fuss over making the tiny things, urges POST
The United Kingdom is failing to keep pace with its competitors in developing the technology behind the creation of tiny devices measuring billionths of a metre, according to a report out this week,...
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Sound low sweet pain reliever
A DIY ultrasound machine has sparked medical research and development which could mean a small revolution in physiotherapy. As a result of a chance happening, an orthopaedic surgeon at the Institute...
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GNVQs 'failing science students'
Advanced General National Vocational Qualifications fail to prepare some students adequately for science and mathematics-based higher education, according to a new document. The finding comes from a...
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London colleges' budgets at risk
Further education colleges in London could lose up to a third of their budgets if present funding policy continues, a London principal has warned. Figures compiled by Adrian Perry, principal of...
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A year of waiting lies ahead
Waiting for Dearing is likely to be the dominant theme in higher education policy over the next year. And it forms the main element in vice chancellors' responses to the 糖心Vlog Funding...
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Collider slides off course
The future of the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle physics laboratory being built at Cern in Geneva, hung in the balance yesterday. Germany's recent non-negotiable demand for a cut of 8.5...
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CV row hits Durham college status
The University of Durham is to review its relationship with one of its colleges after discrepancies were found in the principal's academic record, writes Harriet Swain. Inaccuracies in a work permit...
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Englishmen use sun to go out in Mad Dog
A TEAM of five from London's South Bank University this week completed an arduous 3,000 kilometre journey across the Australian outback in a solar-powered car, writes Alan Thomson. The university's...
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Twin scheme to probe costs
Colleges are to be twinned over the next few months to help collect evidence in the funding argument. The scheme, supported by the Further Education Funding Council and overseen by its Tariff...
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Scientists urged to leave labs in hunt for mates
Evolutionary psychologists know that we are all instinctively drawn to people with good looks. But they still have to explain how we sift through the available population to find a spouse, according...