Changing the rules of the game
Mastering the Infinite Game - Sun Tzu and the Art of Business
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Globalisation and after
The Cultural Crisis of the Firm - Pattern in Corporate Evolution
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Orchestrating a future of note
Challenging Reality - The Drama of Leadership
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novelist who has invented a small city: "All day long, I sat half buried in...
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Mahatma Gandhi
(Photograph) - Mahatma Gandhi, Calcutta, 1946: from India: A Celebration of Independence 1947-1997, a magnificent collection of work by 23 photographers, in black and white and colour, published by...
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Holy Roman umpire
John Paul II's papacy appears to be drawing to a close. Will he be succeeded by another conservative or a liberal or a non-European now that his church is increasingly that of the poor and the Third...
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Don't blame it on the gene
The obsession with genetic explanations is a cheap and convenient way of dealing with complex human behaviour. Sociologist of science Dorothy Nelkin tells Gail Vines why she has chosen this issue for...
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Tomes come home
Dramatic settings, intricate plot, money, politics and colourful characters - yes, it's the story of the new British Library, which opens next week. Harriet Swain reports The final chapter of a very...
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Sixth of the best beat colleges
SIXTH form colleges have squeezed general further education and tertiary colleges out of all but 11 of the top 50 post-16 places, according to the Department for Education and Employment. General...
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Time's up for the comatose watchmaker
The empirical evidence is against Darwinism's mechanism of random mutation and natural selection as defined by Richard Dawkins, argues Phillip E. Johnson An otherwise splendid exhibit in the National...
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Passion and PhDs under the dome
Only one person I know claims to have "made out" in the Reading Room of the British Library. He, as the phrase suggests, was an American. As I sit in the rather empty but characteristically noisy...
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Fees, favour and formulae
The government cannot delay much longer making a decision on whether or not to continue to pay Oxbridge college fees for all home and European full-time students regardless of their means. An...
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Study aims to improve impact of warning signs
REACTIONS to danger warning signals is to come under the spotlight of researchers at Plymouth University. Backed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and led by human factors...
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Governors don flak jackets
QUALITY assurance, franchising, downsizing: the academic world is prone to latch on to the latest management mantras long after the private sector and is inclined to have trouble handling them....
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Labouring under a new challenge
The recent report from the House of Commons education and employment select committee recognises that there is a teacher recruitment problem developing that will, if the trend continues, make it...