Performing Endurance: Art and Politics since 1960, by Lara Shalson
Roberta Mock on a form of performance in which a participant commits to a plan and sees it through, not knowing the outcome
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What are you reading? – 6 December 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Bull market: THE/WSJ analysis of business schools
A Times Higher Education/Wall Street Journal analysis suggests that while the two-year MBA remains extremely strong, shorter alternatives are also becoming highly valued in a time-pressed world. Anna...
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Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century, by Lucia Allais
Book of the week: James Stevens Curl is impressed by a marriage of modern architecture and monument preservation
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Appointments – 6 December 2018
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City of Play: An Architectural and Urban History of Recreation and Leisure, by Rodrigo Pérez de Arce
Catalina Pollak Williamson is impressed by a look at how urban settings have negotiated play, but finds that it leaves today’s landscape unexplored
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Many Splendored Things: Thinking Sex and Play, by Susanna Paasonen
Katherine Angel finds a reconsideration of sex through the lens of play evocative but overly ambitious
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New and noteworthy – 6 December 2018
When the press turned left, how artists turned on to Einstein’s universe and the ins and outs of illuminations
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Progress on widening university access in UK slows
‘Entry gap’ between men and women wider than ever before, Ucas data show
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Herbert Lindenberger, 1929-2018
Tributes paid to founder of Stanford University’s department of comparative literature
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Interview with Terry Hughes
The winner of this year’s John Maddox Prize talks about fighting to protect the planet and dealing with adversity
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Starred firsts only a ‘temporary’ fix for grade inflation
Academic who has advocated new band of top degree marks now being considered by sector says system still needs ‘fundamental’ reform
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Netherlands plans overhaul of academic careers in move away from metrics
Country will also consider creating teaching-focused professorships to stop academics being overloaded by responsibilities
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Chinese find graduates of foreign universities ‘harder to manage’
Applicants of overseas institutions still highly rated by employers overall, survey finds
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Labor inquiry offers opportunity to ‘reset’ Australian research
Move by party tipped to form next government triggers speculation over creation of teaching-only universities