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  4. Fees, favour and formulae

    The government cannot delay much longer making a decision on whether or not to continue to pay Oxbridge college fees for all home and European full-time students regardless of their means. An...

    #Alan Ryan
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    #Opinion

  5. Mahatma Gandhi

    (Photograph) - Mahatma Gandhi, Calcutta, 1946: from India: A Celebration of Independence 1947-1997, a magnificent collection of work by 23 photographers, in black and white and colour, published by...

    #Features

  6. Holy Roman umpire

    John Paul II's papacy appears to be drawing to a close. Will he be succeeded by another conservative or a liberal or a non-European now that his church is increasingly that of the poor and the Third...

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  7. Don't blame it on the gene

    The obsession with genetic explanations is a cheap and convenient way of dealing with complex human behaviour. Sociologist of science Dorothy Nelkin tells Gail Vines why she has chosen this issue for...

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  8. Tomes come home

    Dramatic settings, intricate plot, money, politics and colourful characters - yes, it's the story of the new British Library, which opens next week. Harriet Swain reports The final chapter of a very...

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  9. Sixth of the best beat colleges

    SIXTH form colleges have squeezed general further education and tertiary colleges out of all but 11 of the top 50 post-16 places, according to the Department for Education and Employment. General...

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  10. Time's up for the comatose watchmaker

    The empirical evidence is against Darwinism's mechanism of random mutation and natural selection as defined by Richard Dawkins, argues Phillip E. Johnson An otherwise splendid exhibit in the National...

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  11. Passion and PhDs under the dome

    Only one person I know claims to have "made out" in the Reading Room of the British Library. He, as the phrase suggests, was an American. As I sit in the rather empty but characteristically noisy...

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  12. Classes for the masses

    Economic success and social cohesion can be boosted by widening the base of further and higher education, argues Helena Kennedy Tony Blair's call for an additional 500,000 places in further and...

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  13. Is it time for the many not the few?

    Ministers have placed the Fryer group looking into lifelong learning into virtual purdah, but Phil Baty identifies the problems it is seeking to address The long-awaited lifelong learning white paper...

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  14. Raising an army with demoralised officers

    Sue Berryman applauds the government's plan to swell the ranks of further education but urges it to alleviate the plight of the sector's demoralised and underpaid staff The prospect of at least 400,...

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  15. Aim higher and make the money go further

    Roger Ward believes ministers can stir the sleeping giant of the college sector by ending the funding bias that favours higher education Who would be an education minister these days - or any day...

    #Specials