Scots float education and industry merger
The Scottish Office is proposing a merger of its education and industry departments as part of a national review of the civil service. The move would underline the widespread belief that education...
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Heard it through the grapevine
(Photograph) - Heard it through the grapevine: Swansea College struck a chord when it organised what it believes to be the country's first course on rock music management. Kevin Palmer (left),...
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Medics lobby for Pounds 1,000 top up
London University medical students held a day of action on Monday in a bid to win an increased student loan for medical, dental and veterinary students, who they say are suffering increasing hardship...
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Guildhall victimised lecturer
London Guildhall University subjected one of its senior law lecturers to unlawful victimisation on four occasions over three years, an industrial tribunal has found. Amir Majid first brought a claim...
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Mercury's magnetic pull
A mission to Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, will be discussed by an international group of scientists next week at Imperial College, London. The planet has puzzled scientists since 1974,...
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Welsh consider capital idea
Welsh universities and colleges have been asked whether they would like recurrent and capital funding to be merged. A consultation paper issued this week by the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Borders penalised for unfair dismissal
A senior lecturer in health studies at Borders College has been awarded the maximum compensation for unfair dismissal of Pounds 11,000 by an industrial tribunal. Sandra Lewis was made redundant after...
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Ignorant firms neglect training
A lack of hard information on the benefits of training might explain why many British companies show a reluctance to devote resources to improving staff skills, according to a survey by the Brighton-...
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Business worry for assessors
Business and management course providers have emerged as too complacent in the latest quality assessments by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Only one of 13 higher education...
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Head teachers offer peace
School head teachers have offered to work with college principals to help heal the wounds caused by hostile local battles for 16-year-olds. Joint local curriculum boards and a code of practice on...
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Colleges to bid for data rooms
A Pounds 20 million Millennium Fund proposal for further education colleges envisages their becoming information centres for use by the whole community. The bid for cash by the Further Education...
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Scots union overhaul
There is uncertainty over future union support for the Educational Institute of Scotland's College Lecturers' Association as a result of the increasing localisation of education. The EIS is...
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Ahead by a nose
(Photograph) - Ahead by a nose: Jane Brett, a student on Plymouth University's degree course in perfumery, inhales the sweet smell of success. Students on the sandwich course, now in its second year...
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Cheap teaching angers lecturers
New universities' growing use of teaching assistants and graduate students to deliver education on the cheap may lead to industrial action, said Natfhe, the university and college lecturers' union,...
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Love thy neighbour
Heriot-Watt University's Norwegian Students Association has led Edinburgh's celebrations of Norwegian Constitution day on May 17, marked by an early morning ascent of Arthur's Seat, (the nearest...