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Institutions warn that flagship skills policy is in jeopardy due to cost of living crisis
Taking part-time courses can improve your work life and revive academic aspirations
Many over-60s retrain by updating their digital skills
Hudson Bay microbes proven to be up to 4.3bn years old
Central St Martins applies designer-style problem-solving to business education
Bank draws up plans for run on sterling and interest rate dilemma ahead of vote
From Dr Dionyssis G Dimitrakopoulos, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London
Julia Hobsbawm on the daunting intellect and tireless curiosity of her father Eric Hobsbawm, the historian and champion of the left who died last year
Sixty years after the discovery of DNA’s double helix structure, an astonishing genetics archive is to be placed online by the Wellcome Library. Clive Cookson has a look
Lord Gulam Noon on breaking the housewife’s shackles
That the city is no longer majority ‘white British’ is a remarkable development
Online bullying at work can be curbed
Susie Harries’ biography of the German historian offers a hilarious view of 20th-century England
The EU and ECB need to have greater transparency
Reputable websites should start insisting people use their names
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