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Oxbridge Universities are the go to places for academic research and expertise: but it’s not the whole story

Carole Talbot By Carole Talbot Filed Under: All posts, Whitehall Watch Posted: May 19, 2015

Can ‘outsider’ universities break the Oxbridge stranglehold on the Civil Service? Carole Talbot explores… It’s well understood that Whitehall Civil Servants go to Oxford and Cambridge Universities more often than elsewhere. And, many of the linkages into these universities are based on civil servants having attended one of the Oxbridge Colleges themselves and that the […]

Tagged With: Cambridge, Civil Service, Golden Triangle, LSE, Oxford University, UCL

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The Political Power of the Business Corporation

Carole Talbot By Carole Talbot Filed Under: All posts Posted: September 23, 2013

The Political Power of the Business Corporation, Stephen Wilks. Edward Elgar. March 2013. In The Political Power of the Business Corporation, the author argues that making corporations accountable is one of the most fundamental problems facing 21st century society along with terrorism, nuclear war and epidemics. It provides both an up-to-date analysis of how big […]

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