Ulster fears FE jobs strife
The decision to remove the funding of further education colleges in Northern Ireland from local authorities has led to fears of job losses. The 17 colleges will in future be financed directly from...
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Merger talks hitch
The Colleges Employers Forum conceded the first round in merger talks last week with the rival Association for Colleges. A joint committee set up to agree terms for the proposed merger was without a...
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Call for Royal Commission
The TUC voted this week for a Royal Commission on the future of higher education but not without reservations being expressed by Unison, the white collar union. David Triesman, general secretary of...
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Minister sells science to young ... But insecurity puts them off
Half of all academics employed in science are on casual contracts, which university unions say is deterring students from choosing careers in science, writes David Charter. Four unions called for...
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Minister sells science to young
Science minister Ian Taylor this week launched a project to find out how 17 to 25-year-olds think science and technology will affect their future over the next two decades. Kicking off the initiative...
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Trimble in Queen's furore
A bitter row has erupted between David Trimble, new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, and the pro vice chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast. Mr Trimble said the appointment of Mary McAleese...
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GNVQ 'degrees' mooted in paper
New higher level vocational qualifications which could "define the content and standards professional bodies seek in degrees" are proposed in a consultation paper launched this week. General National...
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Spiritual policeman is fellow
A veteran clergyman who helped achieve the terrorist cease-fires in Northern Ireland has been appointed as a research fellow of the Centre for the Study of Conflict. The Reverend Roy Magee is to...
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Assemblies minus instruction manuals
David Walker argues that the unwritten British constitution is in dire need of some academic corrections, while Vernon Bogdanor (right) laments the sorry state of local government. Well, it works...
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Mining a native talent
John Davies talks to Bernard Rands, the Harvard composer originally inspired by colliery bands. You would not have taken the dapper grey-haired man in a suit who waited in the lobby of his London...
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A House beyond repair?
In the middle of July, in the dog days of the parliamentary session, Andrew Rowe, the Tory MP for Mid-Kent, stood up in the House of Commons and delivered a tirade that would not, in its rhetorical...
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Assemblies minus instruction manuals
Government, it has been said, is boring. Local government bores absolutely. Yet local government is the only representative institution we have outside Parliament. It is through participating in...
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Beauty is in the eye of the hunter
Continuing our series on the intellectual impact of Darwinism, John Barrow argues that the reason we find such things as parks, cosy alcoves and paintings of flowers so aesthetically pleasing is...
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Don's Diary
THURSDAY. I am in Berlin for the 14th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, always called Inqua. I am a bit worried about this conference, the circulars and registration...
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Lean times for Aussie economists
Economics is the classic case of the emperor without clothes. But what of the emperor's tailors - the practitioners of the dismal science? The economic rationalists of academe are the very ones who...