Odds and quads: The Camberwell Collection of Applied Arts
This pinwheel windmill, intended as the centrepiece for a table, has discs set at exactly the right angle to respond to the slightest currents of air.
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Research Intelligence - Why blue skies is still vital
The MRC's head knows it must deliver impact, but he tells Paul Jump that he's equally aware of the need to help the best ideas germinate
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Arts review: Greenland
A climate-change play at the National fails to either inform or entertain Graham Farmelo despite the cast’s commitment
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From where I sit - Why the mighty are falling
In the mid-1980s, when I was a university student, the stereotype of Chinese universities was that they were ivory towers. And in the 1990s, there was a popular saying about the widespread corruption...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
London School of EconomicsCredit line for post-crisis studyA hedge-fund manager has donated £2.5 million to fund new research and teaching on Europe's role in the post-financial crisis world. The...
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The Week in Higher Education
The life of the climate scientist has not been an easy one as the debate with global warming sceptics has grown ugly over the past year or two. Now, one climate scientist has gone on the attack,...
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Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey
Prospectus promises don’t always match reality, so how can young people get what they need to make an informed choice? As the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey reveals what...
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17 February 2011
Happy. Unhappy. Other. - How do students rate the quality of their undergraduate experience?
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Leader: Count the collateral damage
We must not let the high-stakes political game being played by ministers and v-cs overshadow the human toll change can exact
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Urania's lessons for Clio
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the humanities' need for scientific insights
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Polyglots plot as Glasgow letter screams foul over axe
Academics close ranks to defend beleaguered foreign language study. Matthew Reisz reports
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Gifts that just stop giving? Donation fears when matched funding ends
Conference hears that scheme's imminent demise could arrest momentum. Hannah Fearn reports
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LSE gender studies gives lie to narrative of loss
Gender studies is often perceived as a discipline in decline, but rumours of its impending demise have been greatly exaggerated, according to Clare Hemmings, director of the Gender Institute at the...
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News in Brief
United StatesQuantity of mercyOne hundred academics at the University of California have signed a letter of protest over the treatment of Muslim students who disrupted a speech by Michael Oren, the...