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Sliding through the bars of imperial music
Under Western Eyes
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The greening of the chief executive
Environmental Management and Business Strategy
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Where to address post-16 issues
Learning to Succeed The Department for Education and Employment white paper http://www.dfee.gov.uk/ post16 TEC National Council http://www.tec.co.uk/tecnc/index.html Further Education Funding Council...
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Higher channels
John Davies picks programmes of interest to academics. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Andrew Graham-Dixon takes on a big subject with the help of a big travel budget in BBC2's new six...
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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...