The Pick - Fissure
FissureYorkshire DalesLouise Ann Wilson, formerly part of the creative team wilson+wilson, creates intense site-specific performances. Earlier examples of her work have taken small audiences through...
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We're on our way!
"We're hoping to send at least a couple of coachloads."That was the enthusiastic response of Gerald Thudd, our Head of Research Impact, to the news that the London School of Economics will be hosting...
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Refute it thus
Citation indices are poor and distorting proxies for research quality - they should get the boot, argues Thomas Docherty
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Research intelligence - Rocks and a hard place
AHRC head feels heat of defending funding plans to the academy, reports Paul Jump
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The week in higher education
Fabian ideals of social improvement, lots of overseas students and possibly the first sub-£9,000 tuition fee in the Russell Group: the London School of Economics has always been a place of innovation...
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Leader: Since when is debate a bad thing?
David Willetts is getting flak for voicing controversial policy ideas. But universities could suffer too if debate is stifled
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From where I sit - Money is the least of their worries
Saudi Arabia has big plans for higher education. The kingdom is trying to build an academic system that recognises excellence at all levels, from research universities to vocational institutions....
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Appointments
St Mary's University CollegeJanine Griffiths-BakerA legal scholar who has "always had a sense of justice" has been named the new deputy principal at St Mary's University College, Twickenham. Janine...
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For-profits, student losses
Alan Ryan on an American battle that deserves the UK’s attention
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The well-being of nations
Andrew Oswald considers recent moves in economics, famously the most dismal of sciences, to take the happiness and psychological health of the population as seriously as a country's GDP
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The seat of knowledge: smart and comfortable
Can science provide the ultimate explanation of human nature? No, says Simon Blackburn, who tells us there's life in the philosophical armchair yet
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No bloom for Chopin
Rather late in the day, I have caught up with Tim Birkhead's charming piece on bullfinches ("Tweet sensations", 21 April).The German forestry workers of the 1800s would have been familiar (as are...
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A right royal obscenity
Congratulations to Felipe Fernández-Armesto ("Insane in the membrane", 12 May) for capturing perfectly the insanity and the obscenity that was the royal wedding.Howard Moss, Swansea
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'Big Society' a small part of our anxieties
Rick Rylance's reassurance that the Arts and Humanities Research Council's interest in the "Big Society" is confined to "informed and appropriately critical investigation" is welcome ("Unsound...
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Establishment fall guy
Those who were colleagues when Mike Fitzgerald was my deputy at Coventry Polytechnic may be surprised at my writing in his support ("Back from the brink", 12 May). However, your account of the...