More craic, less Spivak
Terry Eagleton tells Jennifer Wallace why he is tired of all this dislocated postmodern talk and why he is happy with a concept called 'home' in a place called 'Ireland' The Irish are not necessarily...
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God, the Russians and unk-unks willing
Karl Sabbagh looks at the gamble of putting the International Space Station into orbit piece by piece and why British scientists don't want to play Recently Mike Foale, the British-born Nasa...
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Found: city, Mexico area
Following up on local talk, Alan G. Robinson discovered a lost city that may transform our view of a great ancient civilisation. Andrew Robinson reports The dream of any archaeologist must be to...
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Space: the non-british frontier
(Photograph) - Paul Murdin (pictured) is director of science and microgravity at the British National Space Centre, the organisation that oversees research funds for British space studies. He has...
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Dodging Telegraph readers between jobs
Departing CBI boss Adair Turner, right, talks to Kam Patel about primary schoolinitiatives, mad Eurosceptics and his day job at the LSE Sitting in his London office Adair Turner hunches his shoulders...
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The theory that promised so much
The key to Black, Scholes and Merton's work - that derivatives can be replicated - is best illustrated by an example. Suppose you own a share worth Pounds 100 today. But in one month it will either...
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The postdocs who lost millions
David Seetapun and Andrew Felce gave up glittering university careers to trade for huge salaries at leading investment banks. Both lost their jobs as a result of trading losses. British-born Felce...
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A $4.5bn hole in the hedge
When two professors devised a mathematical model, one of the world's biggest financial disasters followed. Nicholas Dunbar reports Just over a year ago, the global financial markets went into a...
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Cash and questions
The fight over which funding system is most fair reveals tensions over who does and who should control post-16 education, writes Keith Scribbins Funding systems and salary systems have something in...
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Formation of a future workforce
Students must be made aware of the wider job market's changing needs and be given skills to compete, says Caroline Mager Changes proposed in the white paper Learning to Succeed address fundamental...
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A chance to build on good work
David Melville welcomes the changes in the government's Learning to Succeed white paper A mere 12 months has seen a sea change in our view of the future of post-16 education and training. Last year,...
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Fewer colleges 'at risk' of financial collapse
The number of colleges in financial crisis has dropped, the Further Education Funding Council's annual report confirms. Fourteen colleges have been removed from the "category C" financial danger list...
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Luanda
Lecturers at the National University of Angola in Luanda are so worried about the financial drain caused by the country's civil war that they have formed the Alliance for a Peace Movement in Angola....
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Ofsted praise for a near-lost cause
Liverpool University has received a glowing quality report from schools' inspectorate Ofsted for the teacher training provision it plans to scrap next year. All aspects of quality at Liverpool's...
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Albanian speakers wanted for classes
Noticeboards at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London announced an Albanian language course this term, but no classes are taking place as there is no teacher of Albanian. The...