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Viewpoint: Skollarship, or how to forget your scruples

By Nick Cater, Third Sector Online, 15 November 2006

Despite all the talk of new roles and mega-contracts, are traditional charities really part of a sunset industry, with flatlining income, poor investment and few prospects, stuck in the past, their endless scruples unfit for modern times?

It's not hard to see the enthusiasm compass of government swinging away from cack-handed charities towards those new hybrids of principle and profit. This is despite their chequered history and confused focus: what's the priority - the social or the enterprise? Ed Miliband recently confessed that, after a bad day...

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