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A-level results: Sixth form colleges

Friday, 20 August 2010

A-level results: Grammar school results

Thursday, 19 August 2010

How college lecturers are keeping up by training one another at work

Thursday, 1 July 2010

It's not every day that a former student stops you in the street and recites a poem about plant hormones which they learnt 15 years ago. But when your name is Richard Spencer and you have a following in Australia, the USA and Europe, it is perhaps hardly surprising.

Nelson Mandela took an external London degree while imprisoned on Robben Island

Online degrees: A model worth emulating or a plan that risks creating a two-tier system?

Thursday, 24 June 2010

David Willetts wants more people to take degrees by distance learning at further education colleges. Lucy Hodges looks at what it could involve

Personal touch: shorter business courses are now focused on meeting specific individual requirements, such as developing presentation skills

Learn to take control of your career

Thursday, 17 June 2010

When you need an edge in the workplace, it's time to take a course, writes Virginia Matthews

Short business courses - It's amazing how much can happen in three days

Thursday, 17 June 2010

Can anything of enduring value be learnt on courses which provide a quick turnaround? Amy McLellan reports

From lace-making to mushroom-foraging, Arca has the course for you

Thursday, 3 June 2010

Have you always wanted to spin your own wool or carve yourself a country-style stool, immerse yourself in Chopin's works, or master that digital camera you got for Christmas? If so, then there may well be somewhere nearby offering a course that fits the bill.

Creative courses: Programmes that are music to your ears

Thursday, 27 May 2010

More than 20 institutions now offer courses from acting to design management

Sample this: the Murder Trail project has attracted interest

On the Murder Trail: How staff are finding original ways to improve themselves and enhance the way students learn

Thursday, 22 April 2010

When students at North Warwickshire and Hinckley College recently turned up for class, they got more than they bargained for – the sight of a severed head (happily, not a real one) in the bushes. As if that wasn't enough drama for one day, they watched in amazement as tutors ran around panicking that the crime-scene investigation team wasn't available. There was only one solution, they said: the students would have to do the investigation themselves. "It wasn't like the recent case of a pretend shooting in a school, where students thought it was real," assures lecturer Paul Barlow. "We set the scene as being fictional from the outset, with things such as film-style music in the background."

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