TEC-nical detail
The Further Education Funding Council has today published a guide advising colleges and Training and Enterprise Councils how to work together. The Employment Department is currently sponsoring a...
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Flying times
Universities are being invited by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to bid for up to six research chairs for research into innovative manufacturing in four sectors: aerospace,...
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Student handouts
The Department for Education plans to spend Pounds 2,095 million on mandatory awards and Pounds 644 million on student loans in the 1995/96 academic year, according to a written answer in Hansard...
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It shouldn't happen
Veterinary schools have failed in all but one case to win money earmarked by the Wellcome Trust to develop centres of research excellence in veterinary medicine. The failure illustrates a weakness of...
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Welsh resist English takeover
Plans for a single quality assurance body drawn up by the Higher Education Funding Council for England came in for fresh criticism this week - from the council's sister quango in Wales. The Higher...
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Hull fears merger exodus
The merger of Humberside University and the University of Lincolnshire has alarmed parts of the community in Hull who fear an exodus resulting in a loss of prestige, jobs and investment from the city...
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Chair quits in model code row
The chairman and vice chairman of governors of one of the country's largest further education colleges have resigned in protest at the "watering down" of a model code of practice for governors. They...
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Axe lifted from labs
The Government is about to drop radical proposals to reorganise research council institutes geographically and create managers responsible for cutting public laboratories. The U-turn features in a...
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Wee colleges feel pressure to merge
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's latest allocations have come under attack for putting disproportionate pressure on smaller colleges. At St Andrew's College, Scotland's national Roman...
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New horizons
(Photograph) - New horizons: Sir Arnold Wolfendale, former astronomer royal, opens the Alston Observatory at the University of Central Lancashire. The site, which has been redeveloped, contains the...
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In from the cold
(Photograph) - In from the cold: Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor and critic of political power, processes along King's Parade in Cambridge after receiving an honorary doctorate from the...
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A rebel with an endless cause
Simon Targett talks to the establishment scourge Cambridge has honoured with a doctorate, Noam Chomsky. The college flags were unfurled, and the Duke of Edinburgh was leading a procession of...
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University for cars
The UK motor industry is looking to establish a "virtual university" to help it stay level with world competition in the 21st century. If the virtual university becomes a reality, managers at more...
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Staff morale falls in ex-polys
Surveys of staff attitudes at two former polytechnics have found serious criticism of management at both universities. A Natfhe survey at the University of Westminster found that 42 per cent of...
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Labour to revamp A levels
Labour leader Tony Blair is unveiling his party's plans to reform A levels and post-14 vocational qualifications at a lecture at the Institute of Education in London today. Labour wants to create a...