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Further Education

Courses to change your life

Published: 08 December 2005

Sign up now if you want to learn a language, study art or go an expedition

Designs on gaining university status

Published: 24 November 2005

Art colleges are opting to merge with one another as a way to survive and grow

Why the lesson for today is don't delay

Published: 10 November 2005

Adults may have to pay higher tuition fees in the future. Will fewer sign up?

John Brennan: We need strong, effective self-regulation and higher levels of trust

Published: 10 November 2005

Next week the Association of Colleges stages its 10th annual conference - the biggest non-union event in the education year, attracting thousands of delegates. It will be a milestone, and not only because of this anniversary.

A chance to study, wherever you are

Published: 20 October 2005

For people with neither the time nor desire to learn full-time, there's a solution, says Nick Jackson

John Brennan: 'There is no reason why vocational qualifications should not be acceptable for Cambridge'

Published: 06 October 2005

Remember Laura Spence? Five years ago, a pupil at a state school, she found herself at the centre of a national row about the élite universities' admissions policies.

Politicians keep one eye on colleges

Published: 06 October 2005

Party conference season yielded no new policies, but tactics were up for discussion

History never had it so good

Published: 15 September 2005

There has been an explosion in taught history Masters degrees in subjects as diverse as the media, the UK's Celtic past and early modern Britain. Huw Richards investigates a new trend

The fight to find funding

Published: 15 September 2005

Should I start working as a lab technician? Can a philosophy graduate take a fine art MA?

Development Studies: Crusade for a better world

Published: 15 September 2005

Good intentions are all very well, but now there are MAs in turning them into reality

Postgraduate Lives: Julia Laite, a PhD student

Published: 15 September 2005

'I do cause some raised eyebrows'

Lost in translation? Not any more...

Published: 15 September 2005

Universities are on course to meet the huge demand for film and TV subtitlers, reports Amy McLellan

Apprenticeships. They've started, but will they finish?

Published: 08 September 2005

Despite attempts to stem the flow, apprenticeship drop-out rates are too high, says Hugh Thompson

Postgraduate Lives: 'We'll be studying the new Pope'

Published: 08 September 2005

Martha Rose Coll, Catholic studies Masters student

How colleges are jazzing up their act

Published: 04 August 2005

A Government funding bombshell has left managers reeling - and rising to the challenge

So, what do you think of the course?

Published: 07 July 2005

Students are being asked for their opinions as part of a review of further education By Neil Merrick

Future learning

Published: 23 June 2005

Baroness Greenfield, professor of pharmacology at Oxford and director of the Royal Institution, is good at provoking debate. Last week, she was at it again at the Association of Colleges conference. The Government should launch an urgent consultation, she said, into how students learn in the new technological age, in which lectures, exams, books, and even reading and writing may become obsolete. She is right to raise the issue. Much university teaching is still in the dark ages. Universities need to take a hard look at how students learn, and put more effort into making their material exciting and accessible.

Green shoots of recovery in Kent

Published: 09 June 2005

Hadlow College is flourishing after sowing the seeds of reform three years ago, writes Amy McLellan

A taste of things to come

Published: 26 May 2005

During July and August you can take courses that prepare you for life at university

When studying just clicks

Published: 26 May 2005

More than a million and a half people have tried the Government's e-learning service

Blowing away from home

Published: 26 May 2005

Residential colleges offer a solution to those who want to escape family life, says Caitlin Davies

Can I land my helicopter here?

Published: 05 May 2005

College students and staff met the politicians in the general election campaign, says Neil Merrick

Eight years of hard Labour

Published: 07 April 2005

The Government has ducked the big issues in further education, says Neil Merrick

Leading article: Colleges deserve more

Published: 10 February 2005

Schools, celebrities and college students will join together today in a campaign to press the Government to close the grossly unjust funding gap between school sixth forms and local sixth-form and further education colleges.

Degrees that take you to work

Published: 09 December 2004

Two-year foundation degrees are proving a hit with students. Tim Walker reports on the success stories
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