'Policies that were tried and trashed a while back resurface, gleaming and newly hatched. Yet the ministers and civil servants are completely unaware'
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The Civil Service in the United Kingdom is extraordinarily bad at dealing with evidence and could learn from the French system of seconding research experts to spending ministries if it is to learn how to use evidence effectively to inform policy. It is contended that part of this inability may be political as the Government is more interested in producing evidence that supports its policy instead of using evidence to inform policy.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2004
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What makes a successful democratic government?
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An examination of what makes a successful democratic government with particular attention paid to the Labour Government's in the UK in the past and the current Labour Government of Tony Blair. It is suggested that successful government is generally non-ideological, is aware of its limitations, is quiet and is governed by men and women with a keen sense of history.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2004
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'Government reports lack an instant rapport with the reader. The answer: training days with top astrologers'
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A satirical analysis of Government reports and how those that write them could do well to learn from those who produce astrological horoscopes in magazines so they could generate work that was as popular as a horoscope and equally as nebulous and meaningless.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2006
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