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Technological concentrations
Technology and Market Structure
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The decline and rise of UK plc
From Empire to Europe
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a novel that mixes fiction with non-fiction: " Imagine, then, a flat landscape, dark for the...
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dons.com
Remote and ineffectual Don, Where have you gone, where have you gone? Don interfacing, Don interactive, Don returned as research-active; Don inspected and Don assessed, Don internationally ranked...
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A remedy reject in the fight against flu
Flu has laid Britain low this winter. Would an epidemic have been prevented had government advisers given support to a possible wonder drug? Julia Hinde reports. If I got flu, I would want Relenza,"...
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Women with children last
Latest research shows that babies are designed to learn from their parents. But academic mothers who wish to play an active role in their children's early development must too often sacrifice their...
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Higher channels
John Davies looks, listens and selects programmes of academic interest (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week. Human ancestry seems to be a media obsession. While C4's Secrets of the Stone...
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A second world war of words
The courtroom, says US academic Deborah Lipstadt, is no place to debate theHolocaust, but faced with a libel suit froma fellow historian, she has no choice but to fight her corner. Profile by Anne...
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First year's salary: Pounds 23m
As increasing numbers of academics flex their mathematical muscle in the City, Thomas Bass examines the multimillion-pound prospects for two pioneers and sketches the emergence of a new field of...
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A look to the future for Britain's past masters
History will remain a popular choice among students, says William Rubinstein, because it is a soft option. Most of today's students are the first from their families to have gone to any university;...
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First right, second left...
Whose thinking underpins those manifesto pledges that make or break political parties? In the run-up to the next election, Harriet Swain kicks off a new series on the brains behind Britain's...
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We're on a road to nowhere
You might think that after six years training in the law, you'd be guaranteed a job. You'd be wrong. Phil Baty asks whether universities are cashing in on student naivety. The old-boy network is...
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Political input
Board member of the London-based think-tank Centre for European Reform; published the monograph After Social Democracy through the think-tank Demos three years ago and now writing another on the...
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Chris's story
Five years after embarking on a law degree at University College London and spending tens of thousands of pounds on the way, Chris will next year begin the final year of training on the road to...