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Higher pass rate drops for first time since 2002 Rising pass rates for Scotland's flagship exam suffered a blip this year, according to results released today. Figures show that the proportion of...
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Today's news
Cardiff tops best value list Cardiff University has been declared the best value university in Britain, according to a league table that found the city combined low living costs with the...
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International education comparisons - National Audit Office's compendium of published information on education provision and achievement in ten countries (link)
London, 4 August 2006 International Education Comparisons - A compendium of published information on education provision and achievement in 10 countries (2180 KB) The position of the United Kingdom...
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Tall tale of the internet sale
The Long Tail
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Sex, sea craft and insanity
Classic Biographies series
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Too right to redress wrongs
The Intellectuals and the Flag
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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 novel by a West Indian writer: "One grim winter evening, when it had a kind of unrealness about...
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Beauty in world's oldest literature
Gilgamesh - The Literature of Ancient Sumer
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Tommy's massive leap into dataage
Colossus
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Fairweather fixers of US war machine
The Jasons
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Enough ideas to fill a Tardis
The Science of Doctor Who
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A healer with star quality
Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London
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Of an age intent on controlling nature
The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain
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The hothouse that wilted imperial ambitions
Before the Bauhaus
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Staff are silenced by fear of reprisals
Poll shows lecturers are alarmed at growing threats to their academic freedom, reports Jessica Shepherd Four in ten academics say their freedom to express controversial or unpopular opinions is under...