Childcare training a priority
CASH to train an estimated 100,000 new childcare workers must be made available if the government is to realise its plans for a revolution in childcare, experts have said. The government has already...
Search
-
-
Flexibility key to quality
A FLEXIBLE system for monitoring standards in higher education is about to be unveiled by the Quality Assurance Agency. Its consultation paper, to be issued to institutions on Monday, is expected to...
-
Year of living diversely for UCL postgrads
PHD STUDENTS at a London college are to be given a helping hand under a scheme offering them a true interdisciplinary training and the funds to afford it. From this year University College Londonis...
-
Good with the chalk, then say 'cheese'
THEIDEA of showing video footage of star lecturers to give all students an experience of outstanding teaching is outdated and could do m ore harm than good, according to learning experts. In its...
-
Who gets the thumbs up?
What makes a lecturer a star among his or her students? Alison Utley asked some Bradford University students for their views Caroline Welsh, an undergraduate at Bradford University, thought filmed...
-
Wrexham college aspires to a title
THE NORTH East Wales Institute is set to become the University College of Wales, Wrexham, provided that its application for university college status as a member of the University of Wales is...
-
On best behaviour
THE government's green paper for lifelong learning will "fall short" of its key purpose, according to the Institute of Education. The plans focus on basic skills at the expense of emerging "workplace...
-
Honorary degrees
Queen's University, Belfast DLit: Maeve Binchy, novelist and journalist with The Irish Times; Roy Foster, professor of Irish history at the University of Oxford. DMedSc: Henrietta Campbell, chief...
-
Chairs
University of Dundee Mike Kerr, former reader, microbiology; Georgina Follett, head of the school of design; Steve Partridge, head of the school of television and imaging; Colin Watts, reader,...
-
Appointments
Canterbury Christ Church College Penny Kimber, former self-employed consultant, has been appointed head of external relations. City University Richard Nichols, the lord mayor of London, former master...
-
Exam probe secrecy
THE University of Ulster has asked to see the results of an investigation into an exams blunder that left almost 1,000 prospective students in limbo last August. But the Northern Ireland Council for...
-
St Patrick's dilemma
Staff at Ulster University are resisting a move to clawback a day's leave in return for St Patrick's Day. Prior to the 1984 merger, the New University of Ulster took St Patrick's Day as a holiday,...
-
Healthy rule change
Overseas students coming to Scotland are to win complete access to National Health Service care following changes in NHS rules this month. Their case was taken up by Brian Potter, Scottish secretary...
-
Rights deal on digitised data
Publishers and higher education representatives have acted to remove the legal uncertainties which surround the use of digitised books and journals in teaching and research. The Publishers...
-
Record breakers
A new web site for the Public Record Office (PRO), the national archives, will contain the beginnings of one of the largest online archive catalogues in the world. By the year 2001 it should contain...