One in five further education colleges are "in poor financial health", and the government's withdrawal of demand-led funding this year is likely to make things worse, the National Audit Office told...
UNIVERSITIES could face legal and industrial action as part of a new campaign against casualisation by the Association of University Teachers. The union, which launches its campaign on November ,...
THE MEDICAL Research Council's former head of public communications this week took her past employer to industrial tribunal claiming unfair dismissal and breach of contract. Mary Rice, 50, was...
THOUSANDS of students, parents and sixth formers will march through 14 towns in Britain tomorrow to protest against government plans to charge tuition fees. Organisers of the demonstrations, which...
THE TEACHER Teacher Training Agency met for the first time under new chairman Clive Booth this week, with a new remit. Education secretary David Blunkett called on the agency to clamp down on...
THE GOVERNMENT has not gone far enough in supporting further education colleges and students through ongoing problems of delayed student awards, the Association of Scottish Colleges has said. It...
THE University of Wales Institute Cardiff's attempt to cut the amount of time a lecturer was allowed for trade union activity has failed. A Cardiff tribunal ruled that Howard Harris should have been...
"IRREGULAR and erroneous" payments of public money to training providers for 1996/97 are likely to be double the Pounds 8.6 million identified last year, Department for Education and Employment...
VICE chancellor Mike Fitzgerald has admitted that an internal Thames Valley University memorandum ordering assessors to turn student fails into passes was amistake. In a frank interview with The THES...
THE GOVERNMENT has rejected Sir Ron Dearing's recommendation to nominate a chairman for his proposed pay review committee for university staff. The Department for Education and Employment has written...
Higher education should not expect more money from industry, Margaret Beckett, president of the board of trade, said this week. She told the House of Lords select committee on science and technology...
Scotland's higher education institutions could form their own debt collection agency to recover fees from students under the government's new loan proposals. The Committee of Scottish Higher...
Private investors will shun deals with universities under the Private Finance Initiative because of fears that tuition fees will drive students away from higher education, potential lenders claimed...
FEARS of an impending meningitis epidemic increased this week as two Southampton University freshers died and three more were admitted to hospital, writes Julia Hinde. University welfare officers are...
There is no evidence that education and training can help small firms to prosper, a report for the Department for Education and Employment has found. The report warns that "policy-makers need to...