ILA scheme grew too fast to afford
The government has admitted that the individual learning account programme, shut down without warning last month, had "expanded beyond its capacity". The programme, launched in September last year,...
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£380m injection for UK science Science projects are to receive £380 million of government funding over the next ten years. Science minister Lord Sainsbury made the announcement following a meeting of...
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From today's UK papers
Government to reform university funding Ministers want an end to "one size fits all" funding for up to 100 institutions in England so that the government can reward universities for excellence in...
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Courtroom without the John Grisham drama
The Holocaust on Trial
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Picking holes in litany of loss
Crisis, what environmental crisis? Eric Neumayer examines the facts. Rarely has an essentially academic book created as much media attention as Bjorn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist . One...
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New Whig's soapy sequel
A History of Britain
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Soaring above the intellectual magpies
The Quarrel of the Age
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Forgotten role in Raj quartet
India's Prisoner
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Fleshing out the canon's greats
A History of English Literature
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In debt to Declan
New Voices in Irish Criticism
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If you know your onions, you'll steer clear of setting targets
The Tyranny of Numbers
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Primers of Oxford's enterprise explosion
Magnetic Venture
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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 a magical realist interested in memory: "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds...
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Dotcom deity didn't have a prayer
Dot.bomb
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Why capitalism is a very social animal
Divergent Capitalisms