EDUCATION - FURTHER EDUCATION
Picking up skills in bite-sized chunks
The Guardian
14/11/2008
Learners will collect credits and build up tailor-made vocational qualifications
EDUCATION - HIGHER EDUCATION
A closed book to outsiders - Japan and South Korea want their universities to attract overseas academic talent, but doubts persist about their readiness for the global market
Times Higher Education
13/11/2008
Japan and South Korea are trying to dismantle the barriers that put their higher education systems at the bottom of the list of countries in which students and academics wish to study and work.
Credit crunch will lead to freeze on university fees
The Times
08/11/2008
University tuition fees could be frozen for the next five years.
Grants fiasco will stall student participation
The Guardian
12/11/2008
Approach to student access like driving with the accelerator and brake to the floor, say Tories.
Lecturers pay is above average
The Guardian
17/11/2008
The latest government figures on salaries - the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings - show that higher education academics pay in the year to April 2008 was significantly more than other professionals.
Oxford University opens controversial animal research laboratory
The Guardian
11/11/2008
Thousands of animals will eventually be housed in the new facility, which will test new treatments for cancer, leukaemia, heart disease, HIV, arthritis and diabetes.
Review calls for pick and mix degrees studied over lifetime
The Guardian
13/11/2008
Degree classifications could be replaced by report card system and the academic calendar reformed.
Student places freeze anxiety
BBC Education News
11/11/2008
Universities are warning that a funding shortfall will mean a freeze on extra places - damaging the ambition to widen participation in higher education.
Tories plan exam standards checks
BBC Education News
18/11/2008
The Conservative Party is promising to link exams in England to an international benchmark to ensure standards are maintained.
EDUCATION - SCHOOLS
£40m directed at coasting schools
The Times Educational Supplement
14/11/2008
Those classed as satisfactory but not improving will come under close scrutiny from local authorities.
Academies accused of covert selection as number of poorer pupils falls
The Guardian
14/11/2008
A major review of the governments academy programme will conclude that results have improved markedly but that the proportion of pupils they take from the poorest homes has shrunk, the Guardian has learned.
Prep schools will close in recession
The Guardian
11/11/2008
Heads told they will have to consider merging with other schools to survive downturn.
Primary schools in major rebuild
BBC Education News
12/11/2008
Hundreds of primary schools in England will be rebuilt, as ministers release £1.75bn for approved building work.
Private US company to profit from running academies
The Times Educational Supplement
14/11/2008
An American education company, Edison Schools, is set to sign a series of multi-million pound deals to run academies for profit.
Pupil voice to become law
The Times Educational Supplement
14/11/2008
Schools will be legally forced to consult pupils on everything, from the way they are taught to behaviour and uniform policies, under a new law the Government has backed this week.
Superficial inspections warning
BBC Education News
16/11/2008
The report by the think tank Civitas says poorly trained inspectors take a tick-box approach to gauging quality.
