Archaic system for admissions has had its day
Giving A-level students marks instead of grades - an idea put forward by the Qualifications and Curriculum Agency and the master of New College, Oxford, Alan Ryan, last week - seems a breathtakingly...
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Divisions of work ensure profitable partnerships
Academics do research; industry does business. Collaborations should play to each's strength, writes Paul Leonard. Britain's universities receive far more from industry for research and development...
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Why I... believe that volcanoes can be better studied from a safe distance
Jurgen Neuberg Geophysicist University of Leeds Scientists are currently not able to predict the size or nature of a volcanic eruption, although we are close to being able to predict when it will...
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5* means nothing off campus
Obsessed with their RAE scores, academics are having ever less impact on the cutting edge, argues A. D. Harvey. Revolutionary advances during the 20th century in different areas of science,...
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Horses for courses
Geoff Layer applauds a government initiative to promote a greater variety of learning experiences. Higher education is continually urged to be more inclusive but demand is at best steady....
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Still seduced by the final theory
Brian Pippard looks for God between the arcs of a double rainbow. Steven Weinberg is a distinguished physicist who has found time in recent years to write for a more general readership, and his books...
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Taking stock of the market
The Case against the Global Economy and for a Turn Towards Localization - Private Planet
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Everything owes a debt to nothing
Zero - The Book of Nothing
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It's a funny business
Dr Strangelove's Game
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Opportunity knocks equality
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume II
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Era of alphabet soup for aliens
Regulating Financial Services and Markets in the 21st Century
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Measures of man
Measuring and Weighing in Ancient Times
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Growing pains of a fiscal colossus
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume III
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Right-hand men with the power to change destiny
Second Amongst Equals