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RISK RUNNING Psychologists at the University of Hull are looking for volunteers from within the region to help them discover what influences people to take risks. The team is particularly interested...
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Massive job losses for FE
College managers are planning to cut thousands of senior academic jobs next year in their struggle to tackle growing financial deficits. The massive wave of redundancies is a matter of simple...
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Inquiry damns Derby
A damning catalogue of errors and mismanagement at Derby Wilmorton College is released today after a Further Education Funding Council enquiry into the governance of the college. The report calls for...
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Mid-term victors call for student funding cuts
The Republican victors in the United States mid-term election want savings that could lop billions of dollars off student loans and grants. Last week the higher education lobby was studying every...
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Bodmer to Salford
Sir Walter Bodmer is to be the next chancellor of Salford University. Sir Walter is director-general of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. He was professor of genetics at Oxford University between...
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Hallucinate: you know it's good for you
Out-of-body experiences, where subjects feel they are seeing their bodies from the outside, merit research because of the insight they could give into perception in general, according to the author...
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FE teachers to get training
Ministers have chosen further education as the testing ground for new competency-based teaching qualifications. The Department of Employment and the Department for Education are paving the way for...
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Cornwall pushes to host high-tech university
Cornwall could be the site of a unique high-tech "network" university, according to Sir Geoffrey Holland, vice chancellor of Exeter University. A task force of educationists, local authority...
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Experts cannot tell if a child lies
A "classic" study of children's memories has shown they can be manipulated more than is currently believed, a conference at Leicester University heard last week. The findings form some of the first...
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GNVQs are `already popular'
General National Vocational Qualifications were vigorously defended as "along the right lines" and "already extremely popular" by Tim Boswell, minister for further and higher education, at a...
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Pension claims threaten budgets
Higher and further education colleges could face financial collapse if academic and non-academic part-time staff refused access to pensions schemes ask for their membership to be backdated....
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Midland colleges admit rights mistake
Fifteen further education colleges in the West Midlands have admitted breaking the law over part-time lecturers' rights and have backed off from a costly legal battle. The University of Central...
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Ratings `siphon off' funds
University heads have criticised the assessment scale proposed for the next research selectivity exercise fearing that it will siphon off money from top-rated departments. Delegates at a meeting of...
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Portillo dashes training cash hope
Any hope of a November Budget handout for industry-led training was dashed this week by Michael Portillo, Secretary of State for Employment. Mr Portillo was responding to criticism from Sir Clifford...
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Billionaire backer for India study
Cambridge University has received Pounds 1 million from an Indian billionaire businessman to establish the first research institute in Europe dedicated to the study of India's religio-cultural and...