Onwards and upwards
(Photograph) - Onwards and upwards: a week of celebrations to mark the London School of Economics's centenary were crowned on Wednesday with the news that the school's professor of international law...
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Britain 1945-95
(Photograph) - In at Number Ten: Since 1945 ten prime ministers have come and nine gone, yet serious historical study of "the twilight years" has only recently been attempted by academics. Next week...
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Safety pins for a safety net
Nicholas Timmins describes the ever-troubled history of the country's welfare state. "It is the same story . . . in every social service. there is greater demand. . . because the standards of the...
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Learning to love biographers
Ben Pimlott stands up for a derided bunch of individuals. A colleague recently told me a story that could have been meant to put me my place. He had been talking over the brandy at an international...
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History as it is bought
John Campbell argues that academics should value the popular appeal of biography. Political biography, as a form of history, comes in for a lot of criticism these days. But serious questions are...
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Slow on the uptake
Eric Roll lists the errors in Britain's postwar economic policy. First one cautionary remark: hindsight can show what should not have been done and what should have been done; but it does not...
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Feeding the enemy
Noel Annan discusses the conflicting aims of the allied occupiers of Germany. When prime minister Attlee and foreign secretary Bevin returned to Potsdam after the general election in 1945, British...
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Hear, hear and over there
Samuel Beer discerns the Americanisation of British politics and the decline of party government. Recently a British journalist recalled that Baroness Thatcher had once said that it would be a great...
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Our noble cause
David Cannadine argues that their lordships have gained prestige just as the Commoners have lost it. After the general election of 1945, as after the "People's Budget" of 1909, there were those who...
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V-cs redraft quality reply
The council of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals last week tore up a draft letter to the Education Secretary, Gillian Shephard on the Higher Education Funding Council for England's...
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Access denied money
Thousands of access students expecting to receive the Pounds 1,000-a-year mature students' allowance have had their hopes dashed despite an apparent reprieve earlier this year. In March, the...
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Mergers knocked
Gordon Kirk, principal of Moray House Institute of Education, has attacked "mergermania," saying that it was dangerous to maintain that economies of scale could be achieved by merging smaller units...
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Sunny future
(Photograph) - Sunny future: Mark Thurston, an Exeter University engineering graduate, displays his final-year project. He linked a computer programme providing the exact angles to an engraving...
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City goes local
City and Islington College became the first inner London FE college to sign a local agreement with staff this week. As well as giving set weekly and annual teaching hours, the contract takes in broad...