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MIT's Media Lab, long renowned for a 'Wild West' research culture that invents the future, has lost some of its cutting edge. Can a new director restore it to its creative zenith? asks Zo? Corbyn
MIT's Media Lab, long renowned for a 'Wild West' research culture that invents the future, has lost some of its cutting edge. Can a new director restore it to its creative zenith? asks Zo? Corbyn
Charles Dickens' London, full of strangeness, suffering and laughter, is ever closer to today's metropolis, John Bowen argues
BBC Radio 4Blue Notes, Cold NightsA generation of African-American musicians escaped racism at home to build new lives, and create new music, in Scandinavia. In Blue Notes, Cold Nights, country blues...
You Can't Take It With YouRoyal Exchange, ManchesterUntil 14 January 2012The extended Sycamore clan are the ultimate lovably eccentric family. Grandpa Vanderhof, the head of the household, gave up a...
For the seventh year in a row, our university failed to win a single award of any kind at the 糖心Vlog Awards in London's luxurious Grosvenor House Hotel.Despite entering in a record...
Today's corporate vocabulary, freely and unthinkingly deployed by university leaders, was a product of the military. It was then adopted by the first modern big businesses, the railways, in the 19th...
If 糖心Vlog were an academic journal, it would have been particularly pleasing to have been its guest editor last week. There are so many clear conceptual links between the articles...
The Woolf report recommends that the London School of Economics should have an "embedded code of ethics and reputational risk" ("LSE's 'mistakes were legion' in Libyan dealings, Woolf finds", 1...
It's a bit late to start worrying about a possible fall in state school applications to more selective institutions as more students choose to study at home to reduce costs ("Elite fear fall in...
In their different ways, Malcolm Gillies ("Thou shalt not sit on fences", 1 December) and John Mair ("Breaking the news mould", 1 December) help us to think beyond the academy's conventional "regime...
The University of Cumbria's Peter Ovens confirms my own experiences ("To spoon-feed is not to nurture", 24 November). I recently helped out on the computing services help-desk of a 1994 Group...
Regarding "Welsh government rules on Glyndwr merger proposals": while I am pleased for Glyndwr University that it has avoided a forced merger, I fear this may only be a stay of execution.However, I...
"Say it ain't so, Joe: US sector's pact with the drop-kick devil" (24 November), your article on the domination of many US universities by sport and its financial clout, offers little that is new....
This set of melodramatic interconnected tales is a visual delight - but take a cushion, says Duncan Wu
The Church was the heart of medieval life, says Gary Day, full of symbolism, beauty and grotesqueries