Object lessons in new shapes
Ceramicist and scholar Edmund de Waal argues for combining museum collections with recent work. Matthew Reisz reports
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Diary
LondonUn peu de tendresse bordel de merde!Canadian choreographer Dave St-Pierre has been a major force in the contemporary dance scene for more than five years, an enfant terrible whose work has...
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Close the door behind you
Our Corporate Director of Human Resources, Louise Bimpson, has welcomed the news that University College London plans to outsource all its cleaning and security services.Ms Bimpson told our reporter...
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Bloody hell - is that art?
Yes, says Sally Feldman, of Tracey Emin's display of her own menstrual fluids
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Leader: Lab bench needs front bench help
The right state formula is needed to tackle the wasteful mismatch between so many trained scientists and so few jobs
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US unplugged: manifold benefits of disconnected learning
Momentum gathers behind efforts to reduce or ban online access during lectures. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
Parents, teachers and admissions officers will be hoping that a little stardust sprinkled by Michelle Obama will achieve what widening-participation initiatives have struggled to do: convince bright...
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From where I sit - 'Right attitude' to the workplace
This year, the graduate job market in Japan is the worst on record. That's the nature of records, of course: they keep being broken. But since the records only began in 1994, it's not that unusual...
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Appointments
University of HullSteven ErsserOne of the first academics to hold a chair in dermatology care has been appointed professor of nursing and dermatology care and dean of the Faculty of Health and Social...
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The Pick - Little Platoons
Political schooling
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No fixed address
A postdoctoral position was once the passport to a research post for life. But the inexorable growth in numbers of postdoctoral researchers means competition for academic careers is fierce. Paul Jump...
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Signs and wonders
The narrow focus of 'profane' media studies on semiotics and consumption ignores the extent to which culture is rooted in our deep yearning for the sacred, argues Eduardo de la Fuente
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MPs' heinous abuse of privileged position
During the Commons debate on human trafficking on 18 May 2011, Denis MacShane, MP for Rotherham, quoting from the list of essay titles for an academic political theory course at the London School of...
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Work-to-rule is way forward
We must hope that the unfair and useless response of hitting the students through strikes and assessment boycotts, trotted out by the sample of University and College Union presidents and chairs in...
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Index-linked spoilers
As a card-carrying member of the attention-deficit generation, at least as far as novels are concerned, the article by Valerie Sanders ("Docked tales", 26 May) reinforced a long-held view about...