Leave them a beaver (no Lama)
When in China, don't mention Tibet but do wash well, firm's code advises. David Matthews reports
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Community of scholars: lifelong learning needs lifetime readers' tickets
Offering library access to alumni and independent researchers helps to keep a university at the heart of its community, says Susan Gibbons
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Through the eyes of others
Can life-writing gain fresh insights when biographers cross the gender divide? Matthew Reisz hears academic authors' views
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The Pick - Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935
Credit: Rusakov Workers' Club/Richard PareBuilding the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935Royal Academy of Arts, London 29 October to 22 January 2012The paintings of Liubov Popova -...
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Diary
BirminghamLost in LaceDesigned to challenge our preconceptions of what lace can be and do, this exhibition includes large and often spectacular works in which spaces become fluid and thread creates...
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Did you know this man?
Our university has responded promptly to the recent claim by Janet Beer, vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes University and Chair of the Higher Education Public Information Steering Group, that "...
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TV reviews: Colouring Light: Brain Clarke - An Artist Apart & Faster than the Speed of Light?
Experiments with light can astound and delight us aesthetically and intellectually, says Gary Day
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Film review: The Silence
The emptiness of the landscape reflects the bleak heart of a new German thriller, says Philip Dodd
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Mike Smith, 1945-2011
A "hugely respected" academic administrator with a pan-European outlook has died.Mike Smith was born in London on 16 February 1945 and educated at the University of Cambridge and the London School of...
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You can't tell me anything
To judge by the gleefully bull-headed ignorance shown by politicians, bloggers and others, scientific evidence and scholarly analysis may soon count for nothing. Jon Marcus considers where this anti-...
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Appointments
University of LincolnJacqui BriggsA politics expert from the University of Lincoln has been chosen to take on a senior role at the Political Studies Association. Jacqui Briggs, principal lecturer in...
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Odds and quads
Most stained-glass windows feature scenes from the Bible or the lives of saints.
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It's hard to bite the hand that feeds
Ahead of Lord Woolf’s report on the scandal of the LSE’s links with Libya, Christopher Davidson examines the issue of UK university funding by Gulf autocracies in the light of the Arab Spring
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From where I sit - A life still far from normal
"The effects of radiation do not come to people who are happy and laughing. They come to people who are weak-spirited, who brood and fret."Those were the words of Yamashita Shunichi, adviser to...
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