Polys blighted
Nearly a third of employers surveyed by employment research group Industrial Relations Services feel the former polytechnics produce graduates of a lower calibre than the old universities. The figure...
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Teens on the up
The proportion of 16 to 18-year olds participating in education rose to 67 per cent in 1992/93 -- a 3 percentage point rise on the previous year and 14 percentage points up on 1982/83, according to...
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Target failure
The Government's target for half of all employers with more than 200 employees to achieve the Investors in People training standard by 1996 is unlikely to be reached, the Labour Party claimed this...
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Efficiency flop
The Royal Society has concluded that the Government's efficiency scrutiny of the 53 public sector research establishments is "inappropriate". It says there is no evidence that the scrutiny review...
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Grate bunch
(Photograph) - King Carrot, mascot of City University student union, and 20 minions performed a 21-carrot salute at the Lord Mayor's Show in London last week to welcome Alderman Christopher Walford,...
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Banner man
(Photograph) - NUS president Jim Murphy at Battersea Park, London, for this week's demonstration against the replacement of student grants by loans. NUS stewards traded hundreds of these red placards...
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AUT ready for double trouble
A membership war between the two main lecturers' unions will be fuelled further by revelations that the Association of University Teachers wants separate national negotiations for old and new...
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Leaked loans plans dismissed
Economists have dismissed two models for privatising the student loans scheme being considered by the Government as financially and politically unattractive both to students and the private sector....
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Employers may back training levy
The CBI this week refused to rule out the possibility of backing a compulsory training levy on employers after hearing a passionate plea from trade unionist Bill Jordan at its annual conference in...
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Call for visits
University and college lecturers are calling for the appointment of a Visitor in every higher education institution to ensure that allegations of institutional abuse can be investigated independently...
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Lib Dem seminar
Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman, is preparing to hold a seminar on the future of his party's policies on higher education, after declaring previous plans "unsustainable". The...
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Business plan
City University Business School has appointed three new professors with the aim of reinforcing its international research programme. The university's 1994 centenary programme has provided the funding...
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Infectious link
The department of medical microbiology in Edinburgh University's medical faculty has formed a five-year link with leading pharmaceutical company, Bayer, which will help combat infectious diseases.
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Canny lassies
The proportion of Scottish pupils staying on in the sixth year has more than doubled over ten years, from 20.5 per cent in 1983 to 41.7 per cent in 1993. Forty-eight per cent of female school leavers...
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Excellent Hull
The University of Hull's school of chemistry was rated excel-lent in this year's quality assessment exercise, not satisfactory, as reported in The THES on September 30.