Good technology, bad attitude
William Saunderson-Meyer reports on the country's world competitiveness rankings There are regular bouts of national breast-beating by South Africans when surveys such as the latest World...
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Wicks gets top learning job
Former university lecturer Malcolm Wicks has been promoted to lifelong learning minister. He replaces George Mudie, who returns to the backbenches. Mr Wicks (MP for North Croydon), who lectured in...
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Student loans to take fast track
Local authorities are expected to use a "fast-track" authorisation system for student loans to overcome delays caused by the new computer software, writes Olga Wojtas. Councils have warned that...
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Why I...believe medical students should study unorthodox treatments
Reg Jordan Director of medical studies at Newcastle University, the first university in the United Kingdom to make study of complementary medicine compulsory for medical students Contrary to what...
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It's a question of interpretation
Accurate science reporting is to be encouraged, but Jon Turney is sceptical about a code of practice Ah, if only journalists would get their facts straight. Then we would all know what we were...
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How pensions came of age
The Politics of retirement in Britain 1878-1948
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Muffling the voice of the Other
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
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A salesman and a revolutionary
Sun Yat-sen
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Caution, not conviction
A Brief History of Western Philosophy
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Cracks in the foundations of an historical enigma
Imperial Power and Popular Politics
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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 novelist whose maxim was "Make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait.": " This is the story of...
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Great minds that thought differently
From Poliziano to Machiavelli
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No need for a depression
The Return of Depression Economics
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Sowers of the seeds of doubt
The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Volumes One and Two
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Story teller versus history man
The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain