Last updated 01/11/2006
SCHOOLS
Boost for Blair as academy school wins building award
Independent - 27/10/2006
Tony Blair's controversial academies programme received a boost last night when one of the schools was named as the best new public building in the country.
Businesses to be offered funding for workplace nurseries
DfES - 26/10/2006
Children, Young People and Families Minister Beverley Hughes today announced how a £16.8 million package of investment would be used to help small and medium sized businesses provide childcare for their employees.
Lords reject faith school quota plans
The Guardian - 31/10/2006
A move to give councils the power to insist that new faith schools in their area offer up to 25% of places to pupils of other religions was rejected by peers last night.
Recent developments in education law
Legal Action - November 2006
Twice-yearly series considering changes and developments in the law relating to education
Veil case woman considers appeal
TES - 27/10/2006
Aisha Azmi, the teaching assistant who refused to remove her veil in the presence of male teachers, is considering whether to appeal against a tribunal's ruling that she had not been discriminated against.
FURTHER EDUCATION
Johnson announces the first National Skills Academies ready to go live
DfES - 31/10/2006
Education and Skills Secretary Alan Johnson today announced the launch of the first three National Skills Academies to drive up the standard of industry training, improve productivity and tackle skills shortages across England.
Nuclear industry signs up to skills academies
The Guardian - 31/10/2006
The Government will agree to plans for a national nuclear skills academy today as the industry gears up for a £65 billion clean-up programme and the possibility of a new generation of reactors.
HIGHER EDUCATION
Call for part-time funding
The Times - 31/10/2006
Thousands of part-timers are struggling to pay for courses, prompting vice-chancellors to ask the Government for more funding. At present, there is no financial support for those studying less than half the hours of a full-time course. Students with an existing higher education qualification do not qualify for support.
Edinburgh University spin-outs double
The Scotsman - 30/10/2006
Edinburgh University doubled the number of companies it created and spun-out last year, including its first ever arts-based companies.
Universities to collect students’ visa fees
The Guardian - 30/10/2006
Companies and universities are to be asked to take responsibility for collecting the visa fees of their migrant staff and overseas students in an overhaul of immigration and nationality charges to be unveiled by Home Office ministers today.
V-c calls for cheap drinks ban
Daily Telegraph - 26/10/2006
A university vice-chancellor has written to all clubs and pubs near his campus asking them not to offer cut-price drinks to his students in a bid to end binge drinking. Tony Downes of Reading University said that alcohol discounts and promotions encourage young people to drink more and that in turn affects attendance at lectures because students are suffering from hangovers.
Welsh university heads call for action over funding gap
The Guardian - 24/10/2006
Welsh university chiefs are urging assembly members to make urgent changes to a draft budget amid fears underfunding of higher education is worsening in Wales.
Why students won't behave badly
BBC News - 30/10/2006
With a huge student population, the two universities in Nottingham have launched initiatives to curb bad behaviour, encouraging students to ensure they have a good relationship with residents who often await the annual influx of students in trepidation.
Work disparity casts doubts on student degrees
Financial Times - 31/10/2006
The degree classification relied on by graduate recruiters has been thrown into question after it emerged that students at different universities are being awarded the same degrees despite putting in very different levels of work.
