No compromise on standards
Which was the 'absolute scandal' last week - Oxford's rejection of Laura Spence or Gordon Brown telling universities whom to select? Barry Sheerman (Lessons to be Learned) and Colin Lucas discuss the...
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Why I...believe the government is right to turn the spotlight on Oxford
Labour MP for Croydon Central and a member of the House of Commons public accounts committee. As the only pupil from my comprehensive to be made an offer to Oxford University in 1979, I approached...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a man with a passion for cricket: " Since I left 10 Downing Street, I have often thought - why...
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Riding to rescue the left while sparing the bourses
The Third Way and its Critics
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India's sane get anarchic
India's Newspaper Revolution - "Mr Editor, How Close are You to the PM?"
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A look at mediocrity in the extreme
The Major Premiership
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Derrida dreams about Le Shuttle
Bridging Divides
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Less scandal than haiku
The Making of the New Japan
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Straight-talking prognosticators
Foresight
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Islanders buried by volcano and burned again by London
Fire From the Mountain
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Layers of life sure to provoke
The Weight of the World
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Disarming thoughts on power
Alternative Nuclear Futures
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Ways of making you think secular
Islam and Society in Turkey
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Rooting for lost causes
Refugees in an Age of Genocide
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Russian eyes spy a deeper history
The Russians