City goes local
City and Islington College became the first inner London FE college to sign a local agreement with staff this week. As well as giving set weekly and annual teaching hours, the contract takes in broad...
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Open to all
The Commonwealth secretary-general's commission on the state of Commonwealth studies (THES, June 30) welcomes submissions which could help its inquiry. Contact the commission's secretary Peter...
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V-c clarity on loan terms questioned
The Student Loans Company has accused vice chancellors of being unaware of its repayment terms and of raising irrational fears of default. Sir Eric Ash, acting chief executive, criticised the...
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Ousted scholar off to Oxford
Cyril Edwards, the German medieval and linguistics scholar who was made redundant by Goldsmiths College last year on the grounds that his subject was not in demand, has landed a full-time job at...
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Sunny future
(Photograph) - Sunny future: Mark Thurston, an Exeter University engineering graduate, displays his final-year project. He linked a computer programme providing the exact angles to an engraving...
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Mergers knocked
Gordon Kirk, principal of Moray House Institute of Education, has attacked "mergermania," saying that it was dangerous to maintain that economies of scale could be achieved by merging smaller units...
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Bolton boosted
Bolton Institute of ÌÇÐÄVlog's hopes of attaining university status have been boosted by a satisfactory teaching quality rating for its mechanical engineers after a revisit from Higher...
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Bart's bill passes
The Private Member's Bill to merge St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College with the Royal London Hospital and Queen Mary and Westfield Colleges has successfully gone through the House of Commons by...
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Access denied money
Thousands of access students expecting to receive the Pounds 1,000-a-year mature students' allowance have had their hopes dashed despite an apparent reprieve earlier this year. In March, the...
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V-cs redraft quality reply
The council of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals last week tore up a draft letter to the Education Secretary, Gillian Shephard on the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England's...
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Shephard rounds up Employment
The Government has scrapped the Employment Department and divided its duties between the Department for Education and the Department of Trade and Industry. In this week's Cabinet reshuffle, Gillian...
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IQ tests just the job
IQ tests taken by ten-year-olds should replace current school and university exams because "IQ is the single best predictor of job performance and productivity", an academic argues in this week's...
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Blimp, Jeeves and Wooster
Correlli Barnett argues that Britain failed to reinvent itself after the war partly because of its inept and liberal elite. When Britain under its new Labour Government made the transition from war...
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Our noble cause
David Cannadine argues that their lordships have gained prestige just as the Commoners have lost it. After the general election of 1945, as after the "People's Budget" of 1909, there were those who...
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So what do you do, Mr Major?
As John Major resumes normal life at No 10, Peter Hennessy helpfully shows how the function of premiership has changed since the 1940s. This is a very odd moment to be discussing the power of the...