Brian Sewell: Every picture tells a history
Today’s students are impoverished by a scant knowledge of culture and context, but the story of art should be a sine qua non of any well-rounded curriculum, argues Brian Sewell
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Unbridled success: Germany’s fee foes claim victory
Less than 10 years since their introduction, tuition fees will soon disappear from the country. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports
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Campus round-up - 23 May 2013
Creature comfortsAn animal-obsessed artist will step into character as “Mrs Panda Head” when she gives a live performance at a university show for aspiring artists. Mary Beth Quigley has created a...
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News in brief - 23 May 2013
AustraliaMedia students try to keep it realAn Australian university launched an investigation after it emerged that students had been assigned to plant fake stories in a rival institution’s student...
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Accelerated learning
“Art is long, life is short,” goes the old saying. Scholarship and scientific research suffer much the same condition. They are long. But art, scholarship and scientific research no longer struggle...
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David Eastwood, Kerstin Hoge, R.C. Richardson, Peter J. Smith and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Payback: The Case for Revenge by Thane Rosenbaum
Judith Rowbotham on the arguments for a justice system that enables a victim to be avenged
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Making Scientists: Six Principles for Effective College Teaching by Gregory Light and Marina Micari
Averil Macdonald on a US system of collaborative learning in which facilitator students help their peers to learn
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Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust: The Jimmy Savile Scandal by Frank Furedi
R. Danielle Egan on an analysis of scandals that fails to link them with a sociological narrative
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The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome by Gordon Campbell
Timothy Mowl enjoys an accessible study that wears its learning lightly
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The final flowering of a Nobel hothouse
A derelict research lab once used by Sir James Black is revived in an artistic installation
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Odds and quads - 23 May 2013
These miniature picture Bibles were created by two German sisters from Augsburg around 1690
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Victorian horror author re-emerges from the gloaming
An exhibition gives context and renewed attention to Richard Marsh, whose work outsold Dracula
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Grant winners - 23 May 2013
Action Medical ResearchResearch Project GrantsAward winner: Peter TaylorInstitution: University College LondonValue: £114,845Bacterial meningitis in newborn babies: harnessing the body’s natural...
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THE Scholarly Web - 23 May 2013
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