Market gamble, public payoff
Mike Emmerich, Gerry Stoker and Dan Corry explain why choice and market principles are key to reforms in public services The public service reform debate has become inextricably linked, in media eyes...
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It came from the East: the greatest gift of the wise men
Paper before Print
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Life after death gives birth to a significant prize
The Road to Stockholm
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Charmed space of silent showman
Writing Himself into History
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Will science fix it for 'us'?
The Next Fifty Years
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Showtime for popcorn sellers and the besieged
Sundance to Sarajevo
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel with Nazi resonances: "What are the first words a visitor from France can expect to hear upon...
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From war to Waugh via the Cam
The Land of Green Ghosts
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Darwin and the 'heredity' peer
A Life of Sir Francis Galton
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Laurie Taylor column
Some PhD vivas are "held behind closed doors and examiners can behave as they like" - Susan Bassnett, The THES, January 10. Ah, Mr Maull, welcome to your PhD viva. I'm Professor Lapping, your...
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Alan Ryan
By the time you read this, Charles Clarke may have decided how universities are to be funded and how students are to pay for their courses. It looks as though some version of Nicholas Barr's long...