Don's Diary
Monday. Off to the University of Luton for an interview for a lectureship in comparative politics. I quite like the idea of teaching politics to HND and mature students on a modular course, and do...
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Terms of empowerment
Colleges have done well since independence, but has anyone noticed? asks Ngaio Crequer. The copy-taker who took the story down over the telephone had no reason to think that he had misheard the...
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Inspired choice for practical partners
Merger mania in Hertfordshire has proved perfectly timed, Maggie Richards discovers. College inspectors touring a further education campus in Hertfordshire recently canvassed one of the staff for his...
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Deskful of paper, earful of woe
Pastoral care is a central part of college culture as pressure builds, Elaine Williams reports. A wide expanse of carpet and a jaunty receptionist greet visitors to Cleveland College in Redcar; to...
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Six million and still counting
Coventry Technical College is being sued over a huge debt which it says it has no chance of repaying. Craig Seton reports. We do not have any money problems," says Janey Rees, principal of Coventry...
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Vocational advert fits The Bill
An Employment Department-funded Pounds 4 million vocational training publicity campaign was launched yesterday when a one-minute television advert appeared during a commercial break in The Bill. The...
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Further education in England: the facts
(Photograph) - Official statistics giving the most up-to-date information on the further education sector in England. The further education sector comprises 456 general further education colleges,...
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The learning lottery
John Cassels introduces today's National Commission on Education report on progress towards the knowledge society. In a "learning society" not only will individuals of all ages be encouraged to learn...
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Off on the wrong foot
The contract dispute is affecting morale. David Charter reports. Talk to college principals and lecturers around the country, and the word most commonly mentioned in connection with their long-...
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Two down, many to go
April 1995 is the second anniversary of further education colleges' freedom from local authority control. Below William Stubbs looks at their progress. Two years on from the creation of the further...
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Exam-sitting targets
Andy Green argues for more coherence in the national qualifications jigsaw. Further education has been a long time coming of age. For a century or more, the local "tech" was the backbone of British...
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The value of Acas conciliation
I would like to make it clear where this union stands in relation to the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. Natfhe has sought the advice and assistance of Acas on numerous occasions and...
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Profit in diversity
It is next to impossible to assess the true overall value of a species," Norman Myers writes in his review this week of a clutch of books on biodiversity (pages 22-28). We cannot tell what may come...
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Noble image of a learning society
If all the oratory about the importance of education means anything, it is surely that this country badly needs to become a learning society. What exactly a learning society might be gives fertile...
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Balancing the books
Universities are losing their ivory-tower image, transformed by what one Cambridge University administrator calls "a new breed of academic". Vice chancellors are now regarded as high-flying chief...