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Training and Enterprise Councils in England and Wales have made progress in securing jobs for trainees, according to Department of Education and Employment figures to be published this week. The...
Training and Enterprise Councils in England and Wales have made progress in securing jobs for trainees, according to Department of Education and Employment figures to be published this week. The...
Governors of South Bristol College and Brunel College of Arts and Technology are considering a merger of the two institutions, it was announced this week. Union leaders do not expect a merger would...
A 15-year study of haemophiliacs by the Medical Research Council has proved conclusively that HIV is the cause of AIDS. MRC researchers believe the findings will silence critics who have argued that...
The decision to remove the funding of further education colleges in Northern Ireland from local authorities has led to fears of job losses. The 17 colleges will in future be financed directly from...
The Colleges Employers Forum conceded the first round in merger talks last week with the rival Association for Colleges. A joint committee set up to agree terms for the proposed merger was without a...
The TUC voted this week for a Royal Commission on the future of higher education but not without reservations being expressed by Unison, the white collar union. David Triesman, general secretary of...
Half of all academics employed in science are on casual contracts, which university unions say is deterring students from choosing careers in science, writes David Charter. Four unions called for...
Science minister Ian Taylor this week launched a project to find out how 17 to 25-year-olds think science and technology will affect their future over the next two decades. Kicking off the initiative...
A bitter row has erupted between David Trimble, new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, and the pro vice chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast. Mr Trimble said the appointment of Mary McAleese...
New higher level vocational qualifications which could "define the content and standards professional bodies seek in degrees" are proposed in a consultation paper launched this week. General National...
A veteran clergyman who helped achieve the terrorist cease-fires in Northern Ireland has been appointed as a research fellow of the Centre for the Study of Conflict. The Reverend Roy Magee is to...
David Walker argues that the unwritten British constitution is in dire need of some academic corrections, while Vernon Bogdanor (right) laments the sorry state of local government. Well, it works...
John Davies talks to Bernard Rands, the Harvard composer originally inspired by colliery bands. You would not have taken the dapper grey-haired man in a suit who waited in the lobby of his London...
In the middle of July, in the dog days of the parliamentary session, Andrew Rowe, the Tory MP for Mid-Kent, stood up in the House of Commons and delivered a tirade that would not, in its rhetorical...
Government, it has been said, is boring. Local government bores absolutely. Yet local government is the only representative institution we have outside Parliament. It is through participating in...