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Editorial

•  Above the parapet       

Features

• On the high road of devolution
  Perhaps more than any other area of policy, the Labour Government’s devolution strategy will leave a permanent mark on the United Kingdom. David Lipsey, John Bridge and David Cowling look at the issues.
• Britain towards 2010
  What will life be like ten years beyond the Millennium? David Smith takes a look at Professor Richard Scase’s challenging new report.
• Eureka! - but did anyone get it?
  Ian Hargreaves investigates the relationship between scientists, the media and the public.        

Research Specials

• Have we got news for you: how the media perceives quangos
  Media interest in, and perceptions of, quangos, depends less on their structural relationship with Government than on what they do and what they say
• Getting to grips with the new Europe
  It is hard to exaggerate the extent of change across Europe over the past decade, or the difficulty of understanding what those changes mean.        

Opinions

• Educating the very able
  Is the Government and are educationalists in danger of becoming obsessed with how best to provide for the needs of the very able?
• Transport policy: is there really a backlash?
  Should the Government welcome the public's reported dissatisfaction with transport strategy?       

Concept of the Moment

• Being precise about fuzzy statehood      

Research news

• Equity and social services
• All change at work
• The rise and rise of workplace skills
• It's true - training transforms productivity
• Will trading blocs kill off global free trade?
• Happy to get on their bikes
• How to find true job satisfaction
• A case of managerial blindspots?
• Attitudes on the sexual division of labour are changing, but...
• Time to voluntarily privatise pensions
• Danger! Privacy at work   

News in brief

• A selection of new ESRC-funded research