Thomas Gradgrind, in Dickens’s novel Hard Times, is obsessed with unambiguous facts and numbers. When I asked a press officer at HMRC for an estimate of how many “open cases” it plans to write off, ...

The late Peter Drucker claimed to have invented the term 'the knowledge economy' in the 1960s. Whereas industrial-age workers toiled with their hands and produced 'stuff', he posited, today's ...

ON April 8 we were told it would take #510m to set up in a free Scotland the kind of DSS bureaucracy we thole today. Surely the real question is why not simplify and streamline social security ...

A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.… ...

Thomas Gradgrind - from Hard Times - is one of Charles Dickens's coldest characters and is the twelth in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters. Granada's critically acclaimed ...

Mr. Gradgrind is the alter ego of Paul Brians, professor of English at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, who sets out to provide specific, concrete answers to life's rhetorical ...

Lagretta Gradgrind’s denunciation of graduate-student training shows a surprising lack of self-awareness in someone who has been advising graduate students for 25 years (“Too Many Bad Apples,” Careers ...

Easter is traditionally the time for one or other of the teaching unions — why are there so many of them? — to behave like March hares and carry on as if education, education, education, out of which ...

Suddenly, Nigeria is literally drowning in an avalanche of facts and figures on every aspect of the National Condition. There was a time, not long ago, when you could hardly hold on to anything about ...