Reasons to riot, a need to believe
Max Farrar arrived promptly on the scene of the rioting in Leeds two weeks ago. A sociologist living and working in the notorious Chapeltown district of the city, Mr Farrar interprets communities...
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Tax break for best trainers, trainees
The statutory minimum wage and tax system should be developed to privilege individuals and companies who invest in training, according to leading educationist Sir Christopher Ball. Sir Christopher...
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Dream with a mission
Simon Targett reports from the Training and Enterprise Council annual conference on Shephard's vision of her new super department. The new Department for Education and Employment is seeking a popular...
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TECS get vote for changing future
Training and Enterprise Councils will be given a high priority by the new Department for Education and Employment but could face some substantial restructuring, according to James Paice, the minister...
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Innkeeping with success
(Photograph) - Innkeeping with success: Alexandria Gardiner and Charles Cole, pupils of the Licensed Victuallers' School and winners of the 1994 William Grant Centenary Awards, start their award's...
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Sporting life
However inclusive the intended athletic scholarships scheme is, it is unlikely to reproduce some of the academic performances of past university sportsmen. Oxford cricketers in particular appear to...
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Wise owls
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council recently hosted a celebratory lunch for all those departments which had achieved an excellent rating in its teaching quality assessments. But there has...
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Cliff hanger
Mixed fortunes for distinguished early modern historian Cliff Davies of Wadham College, Oxford. After seeing his daughter Liz on the receiving end of a vicious press campaign following her selection...
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Sitting comfortably
While 16 years of Conservative rule have been blamed by some for Britain's brain drain, there is an argument that it has helped keep some pretty useful talent in our universities. John Ramsden, about...
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Crib sheet
An appeal in Portsmouth University's staff newsletter for a wooden baby's cot has so far not brought any offers of help. But perhaps the purchase of the next item in the classified ads (portable...
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No sanctuary
Also present at the CVCP party - much Schadenfreude over the fate of civil servants at the newly merged Department for Education and Employment, where there are now more senior civil servants than...
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Alas, poor Warwick
Among the entertainments of the coming academic year should be watching the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals incoming management team of chair Gareth Roberts and chief executive Diana...
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Getting to bottom of beauty
How to solve one of the greatest cosmological mysteries - why matter survived to be around today and was not annihilated at the beginning of the universe - has become clearer with research reported...
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Safe sun
(Photograph) - Safe sun: Students from Paignton Community College take part in a "Be safe in the sun project" as part of a national pilot for GNVQ health and social care.
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BTEC bill causes budget chaos
Colleges are furious at unexpectedly high bills for their vocational courses after an awarding body said its fees would rise by up to 20 per cent. The decision by the Business & Technology...