The Pick - Optical revelations
Bridget Riley: Paintings and Related WorkNational Gallery, London, until 22 May 2011Bridget Riley has long been associated with the National Gallery. She copied one of its holdings, a portrait by Jan...
Search
-
-
Nobody loves us - and we don't care!
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has warmly welcomed the recent declaration by Tim Marshall, chief executive of the UK's Janet IT network, that managers who sought to "...
-
What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
-
Leader: Short-term relief, long-term grief
UUK's readiness to toe the government line ignores the troubling questions at the heart of the coalition's proposals
-
From where I sit - Strategic limitations
What makes some special convocations at the University of Delhi more "special" than others? A few are special because of the occasion they commemorate - as in 1948, when, as part of its silver...
-
Judit Nagy, 1963-2010
A pioneer in the vital new field of proteomic medical research has died.Judit Nagy was born into a family of engineers in Budapest on 20 April 1963 and studied at the Eötvös Loránd University in...
-
Give it to us straight
The coalition must admit the downsides of its reforms, demands Kevin Fong
-
Research intelligence - Sailor made for a crisis
RAEng captain defends CSR stance and tells Paul Jump about science's economic responsibilities
-
In the US, solid states give bang for the buck
Alan Ryan tells us that even at £9,000 a year, higher education in the UK will still be cheaper than going to the University of California, Berkeley as an in-state student ("A big bang is off the...
-
No twist in Cable's logic
I did not appreciate Times Higher Education's editorialising about Vince Cable's "tortuous logic" ("The Week in Higher Education", 25 November)."We didn't break a promise," says Cable, reasoning...
-
Don't pass your problems on
Many thanks to Robin Baker for articulating the need for "a united voice" in the academy ("Sector must address 'fundamental' failure to challenge funding cuts", 25 November). Students and staff in...
-
Sub-optimal experience
Prime Minister David Cameron recently told students at the University of Peking that the increases to English tuition fees will reduce the high prices currently paid by international students who...
-
Two cultures, one humanity (1 of 2)
Patrick Curry will excuse me if, like many others in these pages, I take the accusation that I am "deluded" as something of a badge of honour in these dark days ("Mission impossible", Letters, 25...
-
Two cultures, one humanity (2 of 2)
Amid the sound and fury of the Browne plans and the Comprehensive Spending Review, it was wonderfully refreshing to read Martin Mills' eloquent plea for rapprochement between the sciences and the...
-
Ill suited for the task
Tim Marshall, chief executive of the UK's Janet IT network, believes that within the academy, "ponytails and sandals" who waste money should be replaced by managers "with the guts to take things...