Cost threat to teacher courses
Some universities may pull out of teacher training because of plans published today to set a common price for teacher education courses in England from 1997 onwards. The scheme would also rate...
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Oxbridge men keep top jobs
Oxbridge graduates have retained their hold on further and higher education in the Department for Education and Employment's newly restructured senior ranks. Only three of the nine officials at board...
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Fry's delight
Actor and entertainer Stephen Fry, who has been somewhat elusive in recent months, is appearing at Dundee University next week to be reinstalled for a further three years as university rector. The...
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Scout's outrage
As any Tom, Dick or Andrew Roberts can tell you, the way to get public and media attention for history is to lay into one of British history's traditional heroic figures. No surprise then that the...
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Listening banker
Suitable modesty last week on behalf of Terry Thomas, managing director of the Cooperative Bank, launching the business and ecology centre which the bank is funding at four Manchester universities (...
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Nobel divorce prize
Robert Lucas may have made a lot of money from the theory of rational expectations, but his former wife has just got half of it. Possibly the most conceited clause ever included in a divorce...
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A star in Labour's new shadow team
Ex-academic Stephen Byers joined the expanded shadow employment and education team this week as Labour completed its front bench appointments. Mr Byers, 42, has been employment whip for the past year...
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Prison vices
VACANCY: High profile public service post. Must be able to cope with chronic overcrowding, underfunding, grumpy staff, reams of paperwork, endless dubious performance indicators, meddling ministers...
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A long time choosing
Social Choice, Welfare and Ethics
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Anchors, bankers... and politicians
The Bank of England 1694-1994 - The Central Bank and the Financial System - The Future of Central Banking
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Cuddly capitalism
Capitalism With Morality - Real Freedom For All - The World After Communism - Economic Democracy - Passions and Constraints
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Dole line management
Actively Seeking Work
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Long march to reform
Economic Reform and State-Owned Enterprises in China 1979-1987 - Agricultural Reforms and Grain Production in China
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Married to the mop
The Social and Political Economy of the Household - The Measurement of Household Welfare
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On His shide of the street
Religion in Africa - The Church in Africa 1450-1950 - A History of Christianity in Africa