HIGHER EDUCATION
Blue is the new white?
British Universities Finance Directors Group - 06/06/2010
In his first key note speech Vince Cable has outlined proposals to bring HE, skills and enterprise together "under the one departmental roof".
CBI warning on weaker universities
BBC News - 09/06/2010
The poorest performing universities may have to be closed so as not to hinder more successful institutions, a business leader warns.
David Willetts hints that university students will face higher fees
The Guardian - 09/06/2010
The universities minister has given his clearest indication yet that students could soon be forced to pay higher tuition fees. In an interview with the Guardian, David Willetts warned that the cost of hundreds of thousands of students' degree courses was a "burden on the taxpayer that had to be tackled".
Dem bones, dem bones, dem very profitable bones
THES - 10/06/2010
A university stands to profit handsomely from the sale of one of the UK's most successful ever spin-off companies to a global healthcare giant.
EDF invests £10m in two engineering skills hubs
Independent - 09/06/2010
EDF is spending £10m on two dedicated "campuses" to boost British engineering skills and support the group's plans to build new nuclear power stations. The French energy group is talking to schools and universities, as well as other industry players, about two centres - one near Bristol, one at an undecided location in the South-east - to be up and running by the end of the year.
It's patently unfair: scholar calls for IP reform
THES - 10/06/2010
Universities are losing millions of pounds a year managing their intellectual property rights thanks to a patenting system that favours the business sector, it has been warned.
Student visa rule is in MPs' sights
THES - 10/06/2010
MPs have called on the coalition government to abolish "short-sighted" rules on English-language requirements for foreign students, which they fear could cost universities £1 billion.
Universities need radical overhaul, says David Willetts
BBC News - 10/06/2010
England's university system needs a radical overhaul to give more value to students and taxpayers, the universities minister has said.
Universities to publish employability statements
HEFCE - 11/06/2010
HEFCE has asked all higher education institutions and HEFCE- funded further education colleges to publish employability statements on the help they provide to students to improve their employability and transition into work.
FURTHER EDUCATION
David Willetts suggests students take degrees at FE colleges
The Guardian - 10/06/2010
The universities minister today suggested more students should consider studying for degrees at a further education college. David Willetts said this would save undergraduates the expense of living away from home, but still enable them to achieve a "prestigious degree".
Fifty colleges in England face closure - report
BBC News - 05/06/2010
A "significant number" of England's further education colleges will struggle to remain viable in the next three years, a report warns.
Workplace bullying rife in the sector, union claims
TES FE Focus - 11/06/2010
Two-fifths of further education employees have been bullied at work in the past six months, with one in ten reporting violent or physical abuse, according to a report by the University and College Union (UCU).
SCHOOLS
Academies expansion in jeopardy
TES - 11/06/2010
The government will be forced to slash the number of academies it had hoped to create by September due to a lack of time and resources.
'Bewildered' GTC mulls legal fight for survival
TES - 11/06/2010
The government could face a legal and political battle if it continues with plans to shut the General Teaching Council for England (GTC), its chief executive has told The TES.
Department for Education statement on BSF
10/06/2010
The Department for Education has not taken any decisions on the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. The Department is reviewing BSF to ensure that when we build schools for the future, we do so in a more cost-effective and efficient fashion. Any future rollout decisions will be announced in due course.
Review of child protection: Better frontline services to protect children
Department for Education - 10/06/2010
The Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, and Children and Families Minister Tim Loughton, today asked Professor Eileen Munro to conduct an independent review to improve child protection at the front line and to report back with final recommendations in April 2011.
