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A-level exam is 'terminal decline' The A-level examination system is "in terminal decline", a spokesman for independent schools says today, and its destiny is beyond the Government's control. Geoff...
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Huge majority backs A-level reform The vast majority of the public wants the government to introduce further, radical reforms to A-levels, even though it is broadly split on whether the "gold...
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A-level results to add pressure for university entrance tests Universities are coming under mounting pressure to adopt admissions tests to distinguish between the best candidates as record numbers of...
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The calculated climb of the medieval gentry
Blood and Roses
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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 work by an immigrant who loved Britain's architecture: "A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln...
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Did the ancestors think of the future?
Past Futures
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East-West curiosities exchange
Goa and the Great Mughal
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From below-zeros to absolute heroes
Nimrod - Sir James Wordie, Polar Crusader
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Sumptuous even down to the sweat
The Empire of the Great Mughals
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For the full picture, do not ignore the score
Dmitri Shostakovich
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There will be no end to this timeless quest
The Infinite Book
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Left and right anger at politics clampdown
A decision by the council of the University of Pretoria to depoliticise student governance has angered not only the nationalist Right, but also radical student groups. The council has ordered that...
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Judge backs family in MIT suicide case
A US judge has ruled that a university can be held responsible for a student's suicide, in what could be a landmark decision. Judge Christine McEvoy ordered that the parents of a student at the...
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Anger at scholar's book on abduction
An Italian academic's justification of the Vatican's forcible removal of a Jewish child from his parents to be raised as a Roman Catholic in the 19th century has angered academics, including one of...