Last updated 26/07/2007
EDUCATION - FURTHER EDUCATION
College immigration fronts to be targeted
The Guardian
24/07/2007
The government is to crack down on fake colleges that enlist immigrants who come to Britain to work while pretending to be students. From 2009, all private colleges that recruit overseas students will be required to register with the Home Office and prove that they are genuine educational establishments.
Colleges win awarding power - but businesses will have to wait for increased influence over courses, say ministers in response to Leitch
The Times Educational Supplement
20/07/2007
Colleges and employers are to be allowed to create their own qualifications without reference to awarding bodies.
Government defers demand-led course funding
The Guardian
19/07/2007
The government is to delay implementing the Leitch review on skills in full for fear that it will "destabilise" colleges and the private training companies.
Peers seek more apprenticeships
BBC Education News
20/07/2007
The economic affairs committee in the House of Lords has published a report criticising the apprenticeship system. They argue that there are too few places and that children are not taught enough about this option at an early age.
EDUCATION - HIGHER EDUCATION
Embrace Leitch or lose out to FE, sector warned
the Times Higher Education Supplement
20/07/2007
In the week in which the Government published its response to the Leitch report on skills and moved to give further education colleges the unprecedented power to award higher education qualifications, universities faced a clear choice: embrace the £5 billion skills agenda or leave it to the colleges and the private sector.
New strategy to promote global research partnerships
The Guardian
24/07/2007
The Research Council UK (RCUK) which oversees research funding is opening offices in China, India and the US as part of a strategy to promote the UK as a world centre for research.
New university grants 'are no help to poorest'
The Guardian
23/07/2007
Plans to give university students hundreds of millions of pounds in extra grants will do nothing to help the poorest undergraduates, economists warned yesterday.
Research commissioned to throw light on university league tables and their impact on institutional behaviour
HEFCE Press Release
24/07/2007
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has commissioned research into newspaper league tables of higher education institutions (HEIs), how they are compiled and the impact they have on institutions' reputations and behaviour.
The right prescription?
The Guardian
24/07/2007
The Dearing report broke a taboo by asking students to pay for their university education. But 10 years on , fees remain highly controversial.
Union alarm as pre-92s demolish statutes
The Times Higher Education Supplement
20/07/2007
Academics' historic employment rights are being eroded. For example, at Salford University union leaders are complaining that, as part of governance reforms, the University is in the process of removing provisions from its governing statutes that cover disciplinary, grievance and redundancy procedures - the so-called "model statute" that has provided rights and privileges in pre-1992 universities for decades.
EDUCATION - SCHOOLS
Academies 'popular with parents'
BBC Education News
20/07/2007
Academies are proving popular with parents says an ongoing progress report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers management consultancy.
Admissions expert: 'I would make them all academies'
The Times Educational Supplement
20/07/2007
All secondary schools would be academies if the admissions watchdog had his way. Philip Hunter, the chief schools adjudicator, decides which new schools get the go-ahead.
Charity 'pass' for independent school
The Times Educational Supplement
20/07/2007
A Scottish independent school has become the first to pass new public benefit tests laid down by charity regulators. The decision has been welcomed by schools in England and Wales, who will also have to prove they are providing public benefit following changes to the law.
Fake schools targeted by visa law
BBC Education News
24/07/2007
Bogus schools and colleges are to be targeted in a new drive to bring down the number of fake students being given visas to come to the UK.
Schools get rules on biometrics
BBC Education News
23/07/2007
Schools are being given official guidelines to clarify how they can use and store pupils' biometric information, such as fingerprints.
Teenagers support 'green' schools
BBC Education News
24/07/2007
Pupils want their schools to use renewable energy sources and rainwater resources, a survey commissioned by the DCSF finds.
