Second thoughts on Scots mentors
The Scottish Office Education Department has postponed its controversial mentor scheme for student teachers following lack of support from schools. College of education staff fear that the scheme,...
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University College Salford's brass band in Sao Paulo, Brazil
(Photograph) - Top brass: The University College Salford's brass band is currently in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on a two-week concert tour in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Cultura Inglesa, an...
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Rebuilding masonry brick by brick
Masonry, the use of brickwork and stonework, was once a skilled art. Today, brick and stone block are invariably flat faced and dull. But the art of the mason could be revived, thanks to work at the...
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Welsh women boost learning numbers
Fifty-five per cent more students were enrolled in higher education in Wales in 1993/94 than in 1989/90, according to the Further and Higher Education Statistics recently published by the Welsh...
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Funders act on complaints
Between October 1993 and April this year the Further Education Funding Council adjudicated on 17 complaints relating to the quality of education at various colleges around the country. Grievances...
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Scots formula for more women
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has earmarked Pounds 300,000 for guides to encourage and support women in science, engineering and technology, backed by pilot projects to develop good...
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Swindon vision focuses on cable campus
A blueprint for a high-tech university, with students working largely from home instead of on a traditional campus, is being commissioned to help meet the outstanding lack of higher education...
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Hull plans Moors learning centre
Now Hull University is set to tackle one of the few remaining higher education wildernesses in the United Kingdom with the development of a University of the Moors for north Yorkshire. Although the...
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Rice designers go back to their roots
A new breed of "designer" rice, so productive that it could make a significant dent in Third-World food problems, is being developed by scientists in the United Kingdom and the Philippines....
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Slimline tonic for the shape of UK business
There is rather less of George Bain than there used to be - three-and-a-half stone less to be precise, after a highly successful slimming campaign by the principal of London Business School. But the...
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Enrolment bonus for colleges
Colleges exceeded their own student growth projections between 1992/93 and 1993/94, according to Further Education Funding Council figures released this week. Overall there has been a 6 per cent...
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Acas looks at Silver Book
College lecturers who refuse to abandon local authority working conditions are under attack in two disputes between employers and unions that are seen as test cases for the survival of Silver Book...
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A pariah in the republic of letters
F. R. Leavis
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Acas looks at Silver Book
College lecturers who refuse to abandon local authority working conditions are under attack in two disputes between employers and unions that are seen as test cases for the survival of Silver Book...
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Accessible routes to awareness
A Concise History of Buddhism - The Wisdom of Buddha - Passionate Enlightenment