Courses They'd Like to See

At last, an institution of higher education is teaching something truly practical. Northampton College, in England, has offered free courses in assembling flat-pack furniture, the particle-board slabs made famous by the Swedish home-furnishings giant Ikea.

Anyone who has ever puzzled over those maddeningly abstruse pictographic instructions might be glad to turn to academe for help on this or life's other banal challenges. A few experts weighed in on the courses we might see if only

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