EDUCATION - FURTHER EDUCATION
£500m for training to combat recession
The Guardian
18/11/2008
Colleges to get government money for wider range of courses to help people back to work.
Colleges freed to boost economy
The Times Educational Supplement
21/11/2008
Flexible use of budgets could enable colleges to help unemployed people back into the workplace.
Student grant firm fired for delays
The Guardian
19/11/2008
Now Capita, which took over Sats contract earlier this year, takes charge of 16-18 student payments. Liberatas contract was scrapped by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) five years early after the company failed to pay thousands of teenagers education maintenance allowance (EMA) grants of up to £30 a week to continue studying.
EDUCATION - HIGHER EDUCATION
Corby and Crawley hope to become university towns
The Guardian
21/11/2008
Corby, Crawley and Croydon are bidding to join Cambridge as university towns, it was announced yesterday. Basildon, Basingstoke, Dudley and Stockport are also among 27 areas in England bidding for funding to launch new higher education (HE) centres, said the universities secretary John Denham. They are among the first places to apply to take part in the governments university challenge initiative, launched in March.
Dundee provides Hefces new chief
The Guardian
20/11/2008
Alan Langlands, former head of the NHS, is seen as strong appointment, allaying sector fears.
Keep the money, IP academic told
Times Higher Education
20/11/2008
Australian ruling in favour of professor is likely to influence UK courts.
Universities told to plough more money into pensions
Times Higher Education
20/11/2008
Members benefits may be cut because of the current credit crunch.
EDUCATION - SCHOOLS
Four deaths a week in system offering patently inadequate care for children, says Ofsted report
The Guardian
20/11/2008
Councils have systematically failed to learn from the mistakes made in dozens of the most serious cases of child abuse, while too many frontline staff in schools and health centres are still unable to recognise signs of abuse,
Ofsted concern at pupil safeguards in some private schools
The Guardian
22/11/2008
Ofsted has raised major concerns about the safety of thousands of pupils in private schools that have failed to abide by rules designed to protect children in their care from abuse.
Pupil voice to grow with right to exclusion appeals
The Times Educational Supplement
21/11/2008
But unions say the proposals are a step to far and will cause confusion.
