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15 March 2018 Lens on the Week UK SPRING IS SPRUNG: Well perhaps. Chancellor Philip Hammond stated that debt would begin to fall as a proportion of GDP (85.5% as against 85.6%) and then on down to 77.9% for 2022-23. That isn’t an absolute drop in cash terms of course, the debt creeps on up,
15 March 2018 Apples and Oranges Reforming TEF By John Watson Well, I suppose it is an improvement. That the results obtained by universities under the Teaching Excellence Framework (the “TEF”) should be on a course-by-course basis will introduce more granularity. Unfortunately, though, it is only granularity along one particular axis. The TEF was introduced
15 March 2018 Back to the Dark Ages Damnatio memoriae. By Neil Tidmarsh Here’s a mystery. Last month I saw an exhibition called “Crossroads” at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam. The Allard Pierson is the University of Amsterdam’s archaeology museum. The exhibition was about Europe in the early middle ages, about the peoples, journeys,
15 March 2018 “This is evolution; we need a revolution!” Macron’s education reforms don’t go far enough. By Richard Pooley Before I came to live in France I knew three things about the French education system. First, on any given day at exactly the same time all primary school children in the same school year
15 March 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Corbyn’s leadership qualities in question. May still talking a good game. by Don Urquhart 8 March New Look are planning to close 60 stores and make 980 people redundant. Businesses come and go, but in the last few weeks there have been a number of high profile failures
15 March 2018 The Ides of March by J R Thomas One wonders as to the mood of the Roman aristocracy, and indeed the plebeians, as the empire rapidly shrank and the former imperial possessions fell to the Barbarian hordes. Did they shrug and say that things were all for the best, and imperialism was
15 March 2018 Returns to Gender The economic costs of misogyny. By Frank O’Nomics Beneath the deafening clamour of companies trying to explain away their disgraceful gender pay gaps lies the beating heart of the problem – that of promotion. Data from the Chartered Management Institute showed that, while 73% of entry level positions were
15 March 2018 Perfidious Albion Continentals in ditch. By Chin Chin “Bonjour, mon Cousin.” “Bonjour, mon vieux croissant,” then kissing noises as ‘la bise’ is delivered over the receiver. No, no, not a French kiss in that sense, telephone receivers taste disgusting anyway, but the formal double kiss exchanged between French males of the same
15 March 2017 Where We Are The State of Britain Now A book by Roger Scruton Reviewed by J R Thomas Sir Roger Scruton is a very rare thing – a Conservative philosopher. Mrs Thatcher was perhaps the last proponent of a reasoned coherent approach to Conservatism. The Iron Lady’s considerable brain, trained in science
