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The British seem to be heading for trouble in their sporting relations with South Africa, but the case for an academic boycott remains as insubstantial as it has always been.
The Spanish government plans to shorten the length of undergraduate degree courses. The wisdom of this move is questionable and its execution impossible without a major overhaul of the present system.
Apart from being philosophically unacceptable, the Big Bang is an over-simple view of how the Universe began, and it is unlikely to survive the decade ahead.
