The O. J. Simpson trial and rotten apples
Academics are to blame for the neglect of police racism unmasked by the O. J. Simpson trial, argues Christopher Cooper. The United States scholarly community has contributed to the existence of Mark...
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High casualty cost of open market
During the recent elections for the president and vice president of the Law Society the problem of an excessive number of entrants into the profession loomed large. One of my manifesto proposals was...
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Social work on probation
The implications of the Home Office decision to scrap the diploma of social work as the compulsory entrance requirement for the probation service are more far-reaching than the interests of the...
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Patten's post is hard to follow
The appointment of the political leader as chancellor of all Hong Kong institutes of higher education is antiquated and should be scrapped, according to the vice chancellor of the territory's most...
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Tax officers eye colleges
Tax exemptions for United States non-profit groups, including prominent private colleges, are under scrutiny at both national and state level. Tim The Internal Revenue Service is stepping up its...
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Art history enters PC fray
Denouncing the practice of art history in America as "one great big post-modern mish-mash", art historian Bruce Cole has set out to take on the forces of political correctness in his field. An...
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Net loss is a big gain
Joe Sinyor welcomes the end of the Net Book Agreement. The end of the Net Book Agreement is good news for academic books - for their authors, their readers, and their booksellers. Last week, the NBA...
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Buy a book, win a burger?
Confusion reigned in the book trade this week after the collapse of the 100-year-old Net Book Agreement. The decision by publishers and high street booksellers to pull out of the NBA has meant the...
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Buy a book, win a burger?
Confusion reigned in the book trade this week after the collapse of the 100-year-old Net Book Agreement. The decision by publishers and high street booksellers to pull out of the NBA has meant the...
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Net loss is a big gain
Joe Sinyor welcomes the end of the Net Book Agreement. The end of the Net Book Agreement is good news for academic books - for their authors, their readers, and their booksellers. Last week, the NBA...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a recently returned member of the Labour diaspora: "To substitute the politics of mutual education for the politics of command and exchange would be to gamble - not...
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Speaking Volumes: The English Constitution
Peter Hennessy on Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution . For 29 years I have been in thrall to a man and a book - Walter Bagehot and his The English Constitution. I read it one autumn evening in...
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Splashes of red on a postwar canvass
Election '45
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The dream machine
The Chemistry of Conscious States
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A deadly inheritance and a will of iron
Genes, Blood and Courage