Figures reveal teacher shortage
Acute shortages of trained teachers have led to a 50 per cent increase in vacancies for primary teachers in inner London, figures released by the government last week reveal. The figures show that...
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Surprises in store for post-16s
Alan Thomson explains what the government's comprehensive spending review could offer further and higher education TREASURY adviser Paul Gregg believes that further and higher education will be...
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Rumours of science cash with strings attached
Alan Thomson explains what the government's comprehensive spending review could offer further and higher education SINCE the arrival of Labour and the publication of the Dearing report, scientists...
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Inexperience damned DFEE, says Dorrell
Alan Thomson explains what the government's comprehensive spending review could offer further and higher education OPPOSITION education spokesmen have accused education secretary David Blunkett of...
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Pounds 4 billion shopping list
Alan Thomson explains what the government's comprehensive spending review could offer further and higher education Further and higher education have asked for an extra Pounds 4 billion during the...
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Accounting on the never-never
Alan Thomson explains what the government's comprehensive spending review could offer further and higher education STUDENT loans could be the key to CSR cash for universities and colleges if the...
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Spending sword with two edges
Alan Thomson explains what the government's comprehensive spending review could offer further and higher education A YEAR after higher education spent a long spring and summer in anticipation of the...
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May flower
(Photograph) - Mani McClenaghan, a psychology and counselling student, is this year's Roehampton Institute May Monarch. The institute has had a May monarch festival ever since the Victorian...
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Scarborough talks merger with Hull
University College Scarborough has reluctantly entered merger talks with Hull University to keep its title and status. Officials hope the merger will allow Scarborough to keep university college...
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Wilde at heart
(Photograph) - Students from Leeds Metropolitan's University Conspiracy Theatre Company perform A Woman Carved in Jewels. The work is based on an Oscar Wilde manuscript that was left in a Parisian...
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Roaming robots
Loch Ness may have its monster and the Himalayas their Yeti, but the mystery beasts are a little more high-tech in Sussex. An electronic discussion group reports that the University of Sussex's...
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The spirit of ... Hornsey
Sadly The THES goes to press too early to report on this week's newest escapade from the indefatigable revolutionary Keith Flett, the only person on earth to have noticed that 30 years have passed...
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First among equals
The Further Education Funding Council, the Local Government Association and the training and enterprise councils have signed an historic pact to cooperate with each other. Traditional competition for...
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Seeing double
What's worse than sitting one lot of law exams? More than 50 third-year students taking a Glasgow Caledonian University degree in law with administrative studies degree have had to sit their end-of-...
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Hell's bells
Alarm bells were ringing at the Association of University Teachers' west London headquarters this week. Ringing phones, however, are less likely to be heard. The AUT's imminent move to Tavistock...