Arts review: Butley
Simon Gray's sharp portrait of a self-sabotaging T.S. Eliot scholar remains poignantly recognisable, observes Deborah Bowman
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Diary
LondonSchiller's Luise MillerIn Friedrich Schiller's play Intrigue and Love (Kabale und Liebe, 1784), which Verdi used as the basis for his 1849 opera Luisa Miller, Ferdinand von Walter - son of the...
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The Pick - Government Art Collection: At Work
Government Art Collection: At WorkWhitechapel Gallery, LondonThe Government Art Collection dates back to the 1890s and includes 13,500 works, two-thirds of them on display at any one time, but...
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Cake Shop shock
Scores of journalists descended on Poppleton this week following the shock news that Professor Gordon Lapping, formerly Head of our Department of Media and Cultural Studies, is to set up his very own...
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Save the seminar
Even in the web age, academic get-togethers remain relevant, says Alice Bell
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Research Intelligence - Briefing encounters
Pairing rapid-response scientific expertise with breaking news stories is the Science Media Centre's core mission. Paul Jump reports
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Off Piste - Fascinating rhythm
A Dance to the Music of Time offers profound insights into life's contingencies and the nature of Englishness in the 20th century, writes Vernon Bogdanor
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The week in higher education
Statistics showing that the number of applicants from continental Europe to UK universities has risen 5.8 per cent this year provoked a shudder at The Daily Telegraph on 3 June. Invoking the spectre...
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Leader: Anthony's Dream School
Recipe for success: take a pinch of existing material, sprinkle a little academic stardust and charge punters £18,000 a year
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From where I sit - Digital killing the lecturing stars
I have a sneaking suspicion that we university lecturers are so good at incorporating new media into our work that we may do ourselves out of a job.When I was an undergraduate student, the only...
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Appointments
University of WolverhamptonJenni JonesA lecturer who believes it is good to talk has received a national award in recognition of her work on a mentoring scheme for West Midlands Police. Jenni Jones,...
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Marx, Pandora & the Tower of Porn
The truth is in here, but so too are countless myths: Colin Higgins on the strange world of the academic library, where cod-antique book curses jostle for shelf space with thieves, tourists and...
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Are friends electric?
Could robots offer our ageing populations care in their dotage, even love? Can machines genuinely become social beings? Will androids one day dream of electric sheep? Kathleen Richardson examines the...
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Sally, united we stand: you know the rest (1 of 2)
The University and College Union congress in Harrogate articulated members' anger and determination to fight education cuts and privatisation, not as a special case but as part of the defence of...
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Agony if cap doesn't fit
When it comes to the battle over USS reform, am I alone in having "reverse worries" about the three main issues? While a move from final-salary to career-average deals (albeit with adjusted accruals...