NVQ's vulnerable to fraud
Procedures for paying providers of National Vocational Qualifications and other training programmes are vulnerable to fraud, says the National Audit Office. A report published this week by NAO...
Search
-
-
Kids brush with Matisse
Is modern art too abstract and complex for children to understand? This seems to be the assumption of many primary school teachers, according to research which challenges the idea that realism in art...
-
Academics take a back seat
One of the side effects of Binyamin Netanyahu's election victory in Israel is a marked drop in the role of academics in political life. The outgoing government included three law professors in the...
-
Sloppy end to a coup
Alan Sokal's coup (THES, June 7) should be applauded. But in the interest of the "evidence and logic" he upholds, may I point out that it does not follow from his exposure of a widespread and lazy-...
-
Search for Sixties' soul
As mailings from the Rutgers University Alumni Association have been reminding me, it is 25 years since my graduation. Given my own reaction, I am sure that the arrival of "reunion announcements"...
-
Healthy managers
A Centre for Healthcare Management opens at Staffordshire University this month, headed by a former health authority chief executive, Jim Bartlett. It will try to involve clinicians in management;...
-
Canada fertile field of study
Canadian studies, rather like the country it examines, is much bigger than you might think. The latest survey on the subject in Britain, to be published next week, shows that it encompasses enough...
-
Britain out on the hoof
John Major's game of dare over the beef embargo could deny Britain a place in a free market in education. At the beginning of May, just before John Major's embargo on all European legislation, the...
-
Whitehall to run teacher training
Teacher training will become the first area of higher education to have course content set by the Government, under plans unveiled this week. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and...
-
St Andrews wins Pounds 1m place in the sun
The solar theory group at St Andrews University has won nearly Pounds 1 million over four years from the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, the largest award to go to a theory group....
-
Italy under influence
More than 200 Italian academics, including such eminent names as economist Luigi Spaventa and linguist Tullio De Mauro, have formed an interdisciplinary think tank to influence the new Italian...
-
Subject to change
A. H. Halsey is a sociologist and a social phenomenon. He began life on a London council estate and rose to become a professor at Oxford. But has his subject enjoyed a similar progression? Then......
-
Law candidates put their cases
Five solicitors campaigning to become president or vice president of the Law Society have set out their case for better education and training in the legal profession. Candidates, announced late last...
-
Doctoral research in standards limbo
The postgraduate research sector needs urgent review to secure better quality assurance, states a discussion paper published today. The paper, produced for the United Kingdom Council for Graduate...
-
Government tightens control of the professions
Training for the professions is to come increasingly under the control of central government, according to a report out this week. The report investigates the "destruction" of partnerships between...