Think Tank Library

In this pamphlet, Prof Steven Schwartz, Vice Chancellor of Brunel University, asks what the future of higher education in Britain should be. How can we increase access to university? Should we continue our centralised, state-funded approach, or move to a market-led university system? This timely pamphlet argues that if the slide into mediocrity is to be stopped and access made fairer, a modern, market-led approach must be implemented.

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The Libertarian Alliance (LA) is Britain`s leading free market and civil liberties think tank. It currently has more than 700 publications in print dedicated to the principles of life, liberty and property.

Over the past decade, there has been a sustained fall in the number of people who are unemployed. In Spring 1992, there were around 2.8 million unemployed people in Britain. That figure is now down to 1.5 million. What is much less well known is that this drop in unemployment has been accompanied by a rise in the number of people who are neither employed nor officially unemployed – a group described as economically inactive. Over 7.7 million people of working age now count as economically inactive, up from 7.3 million in 1992 and 7.6 million in 1997.Who they are, and what more can be done to help them, are the main themes of this paper.

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On 12 June 2003, a press release on a Cabinet reshuffle declared as a footnote that the Office of Lord Chancellor was to be abolished and that a new Supreme Court would replace the House of Lords as the Highest court in the UK. Off With Their Wigs!: Judicial Revolution in Modern Britain seeks the views of constitutional experts in a critical analysis of the Government`s plans, including their desired abolition of the QC system.

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The Libertarian Alliance (LA) is Britain`s leading free market and civil liberties think tank. It currently has more than 700 publications in print dedicated to the principles of life, liberty and property.

The Libertarian Alliance (LA) is Britain`s leading free market and civil liberties think tank. It currently has more than 700 publications in print dedicated to the principles of life, liberty and property.

The Libertarian Alliance (LA) is Britain`s leading free market and civil liberties think tank. It currently has more than 700 publications in print dedicated to the principles of life, liberty and property.

The Libertarian Alliance (LA) is Britain`s leading free market and civil liberties think tank. It currently has more than 700 publications in print dedicated to the principles of life, liberty and property.

The Libertarian Alliance (LA) is Britain`s leading free market and civil liberties think tank. It currently has more than 700 publications in print dedicated to the principles of life, liberty and property.

The Libertarian Alliance (LA) is Britain`s leading free market and civil liberties think tank. It currently has more than 700 publications in print dedicated to the principles of life, liberty and property.