Labour puts vouchers on think list
The Labour Party is to examine a voucher system for funding further and higher education, writes Tony Tysome. Think tanks set up by Labour's education team will weigh up whether vouchers would create...
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Academic sparkle
The Consumers' Association Which? report removed some of the sparkle from mineral water recently, claiming that it is overpriced and over-rated. But we can still have faith in Findlay's finest...
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Erika Strenski, an MSc student from Sheffield University
(Photograph) - Digging in: Erika Strenski, an MSc student from Sheffield University, sifts for remains of pre-historic wolves, reindeer, lemmings and bears in an unexplored cave in south Devon in a...
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Clearing house plan for law graduates
A proposed clearing house for law graduates seeking training places in barristers' chambers should help protect women applicants from sexual harrassment, the Bar Council said this week. Peter...
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CVCP seeks health and safety cash
Vice chancellors are bidding for an extra Pounds 350 million in the next public spending round to meet the rising cost of health, safety, and disabled access. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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Northern board puts exam proposals
One of Britain's largest examination boards has proposed a single post-16 qualifications system, the backbone of which would be reformed A and AS exams. The Northern Examinations and Assessment Board...
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Oxford Brookes student, David Allison
(Photograph) - Fly me: Oxford Brookes student David Allison, who will represent Britain in the European Gliding Championships in Poland this July, is desperately in need of sponsorship.
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Major kicks off revival in sport
John Major has told ministers he wants to revive sport in further and higher education, possibly using National Lottery funds. A White Paper on sport, due to be published in the summer, is being...
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Oxford pair
Oxford University has announced the creation of two new colleges. Royal Charters have been awarded to Mansfield College and Templeton College, which began as the Oxford Centre for Management Studies...
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Useful NVQs
A review of the 100 most used National Vocational Qualifications, and their Scottish equivalents, was launched this week. The review will be carried out by the National Council for Vocational...
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Seeing double
Data on home, first-year mature students on higher education courses published in Hansard last week shows a doubling in full-timers from 34,700 in 1990 to 66,400 in 1992 and in part-timers from 14,...
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FEskivers
Four out of 15 further education students fail to attend their lessons. The non-attendance rate in the median class was revealed by college inspections over two years of 20,000 classes, Sir William...
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Scots record
Full-time higher education student numbers in Scotland are at record levels. Full-time numbers rose by 10 per cent from 1992/93 to 132,509 in 1993/94, and the proportion of women full-time entrants...
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Status fight
Roehampton Institute is to renew its fight for university status following planning permission to develop its campus for the relocation of the new Southlands College from Wimbledon and the creation...
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MPs' probe
The House of Commons select committee on education is to beef up its annual examination of the Department for Education's expenditure to an investigation of education spending in general. The Higher...