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What's the alma matter?

The rise in tutorial fees is now inevitable so the debate must move on to the next stage, which involves answering the question: how can universities charging upwards of £7,000 continue to attract the...

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‘People power’… perhaps not

Today David Cameron promised to end the era of ‘bureaucratic accountability’ and usher in the era of ‘democratic accountability’. From an era with a bureaucracy held to account by the government for...

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David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ Faces the Taxman

By David Conway Coalition government almost invariably makes for bad government. This is because the need for compromise between coalition partners typically results in their adopting such a melange of...

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The King’s Fund on Funding

Though the Department of Health budget was nominally ‘ring-fenced’, the NHS currently faces perhaps the biggest funding challenge in its history, as the service tightens its belt and the cost of the...

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Lamb announcement of NHS mutuals review is a valuable move

Thursday saw the launch of a new NHS staff engagement review by Lib Dem Care Minister Norman Lamb, which will explore expanding the role of mutuals, cooperatives and social enterprises in the NHS....

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How volunteering can benefit the NHS

In recent years, political discourse has promoted civic action in society, due to the perceived limits of what the core state can at times do – this is Phillip Blond and Jesse Norman MP’s ‘Big Society’...

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Back to the community: Cruddas and Rutherford point the way for Miliband

It has been little noticed by much of the media given the crisis facing the Union this week, but Jon Cruddas and Jonathan Rutherford have just published a document which should give Labour supporters...

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Credit unions can revive Cameron’s Big Society

When David Cameron ran for election in 2010, the only positive message his campaign carried among austerity warnings was the pledge to bolster the third sector, the Big Society. That idea was ridiculed...

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