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
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Fortunes and misfortunes of war
War and Underdevelopment. Volume One - War and Underdevelopment. Volume Two
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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 trilogy about war: "The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropical...
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Laurie Taylor column
Universities use "culturally narrow" selection criteria - Audit Office report, January 2002. Yes, come in. Mr Errol Constantine? That's right. Excellent. My name is Professor Lapping and this is Dr...