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Children could quit school for a trade at 14 Children will be able to quit school for good at 14 and learn a trade under a planned government shake-up of the education system. Instead of school, they...
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Bible for the Big Bang generation
Big Bang
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A man who loved liberty and the law
A Life of H. L. A. Hart
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The 'quick-footed menace' that was really a 'plodding nuisance'
The Life and Death of Smallpox
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Great theory, but not divine
Dawkins' God
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A man out of tune with his world
Samuel Sebastian Wesley
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Outside a very broad church
The Spiral Staircase
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The potential of the Bible to give us a good bashing
The Destructive Power of Religion: Violence in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (four volumes)
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Wise words with a transatlantic accent
Speaking of Higher Education
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Is 'dumbing down' really 'reaching up'?
Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone? Confronting 21st Century Philistinism
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Wanted: an angel investor or Uncle Sam
Academic Entrepreneurship
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Haven for the worldly-wise
SOAS since the Sixties
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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 novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in 1969: "Mr Hackett turned the corner and saw, in...
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Cambridge celebrates a double whammy
Cambridge University scored a double first this week. An anonymous US donor gave $1.85 million (£960,000) to set up an endowment fund to honour cosmologist Stephen Hawking, and the institution also...
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Jobs cull is gathering pace
Hundreds of academic jobs are being culled across Britain as smaller and middle-ranking universities restructure subject provision to compete for research cash. Key figures in the sector warned of a...