Tragic lives and death by toilet brush
The Oxford Dictionary of Plays
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To Sir, with love, from a star of the backstage
Let Me Set the Scene
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A statesman of stagecraft
Arthur Miller
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From artifice to au naturel
The French Actress and her English Audience
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Shoes with three stripes are in, but design software is out
A Dictionary of Modern Design
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The lastest fashions - by Nasa
Extreme Textiles
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work that despite its title is by an academic and not a farm mechanic: "Two years after my mother...
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You can't put a good bird down
Penguin by Design
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Off key and out of context
Graphic Design School
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Hefce rule leaves students out in cold
Universities are pushing to relax student recruitment rules that are forcing them to turn away thousands of well-qualified applicants this year that they could otherwise accommodate. Vice-chancellors...
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IQ claim will fuel gender row
Men are more likely to win Nobel prizes and other academic distinctions because they are more intelligent than women, according to a study to be published in a leading research journal. In a paper...
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'Ustinov offers a fantastic opportunity to develop a real community'
Penelope Wilson is the new principal of Durham's Ustinov College, one of the UK's largest graduate schools Supporting postgraduate education will be central to the agenda of Penelope Wilson, who is...
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On the move
* Edinburgh College of Art has appointed Miles Glendinning director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies, a post combined with postgraduate course leader in the masters programme in...
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Free up training, academy urges
Universities should have the freedom to determine their own professional development programmes for staff, the Higher Education Academy said this week. The HEA is to launch the final round of...
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Anger at Brunel over recruits' family ties
Lecturers' leaders have reacted furiously to the discovery that Brunel University has appointed two close relatives of senior staff as lecturers after making 45 academics redundant. The Times Higher...