The garage has become a hive of activity, writes Nathan Keen. All the snow blowers, Caterpillars and SkiDoos are gone. Carpenters are fashioning a stage from food boxes and spare shuttering plywood....
Colin Samson reports on the native Innu of Labrador and their battle to reclaim independence and dignity. We watched helpless from the shore as our motor-powered canoe floated off into Utshisk-nipi....
Forget the low pay of its academics, economics is in trouble because it is failing to shed light on everyday dilemmas, argues Alan Shipman. Economics can explain the demise of wheelwrights, weavers...
It is appropriate that Elgar's Nimrod echoes over casualties of war in Iraq, writes Kevin Jones. As the war in Iraq ends, one of the nation's favourite elegies - Nimrod, from Elgar's Enigma...
Deborah Lipstadt argues that erasing Soviet graffiti from the Reichstag will also erase part of Germany's past. Adolf Hitler despised the Reichstag. He avoided the neo-Renaissance former home of...
'Sometimes that doesn't happen all the time' - the verbal chaos of America's president has baffled many people, but Alan Cienki finds linguistic logic in it. At a press...
Using tarpaulins and potato crates, polar explorers staged theatrical works to save their sanity in the frozen darkness, writes Mike Pearson. Early in 1903, Lieutenant Michael Barne rigged his sledge...
We write concerning decisions taken by the Department for Education and Skills and the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England on the funding of research following the 2001 research assessment...
Daniel Hutto's comments on the research assessment exercise (Letters, THES , April 18) are misleading. A department that submits eight staff to the exercise, three of whom are internationally...
Will the Stakhanovite researchers of the future be required, like the former Heroes of Soviet Labour, to pin their stars to their breast pockets? Or will US-military style, with stars on epaulettes...
The idea that the intellectual standard of dance academics has somehow transformed the quality of the UK's dance culture is laughable ("Research cash loss to cripple dancing", THES , April 25). Given...
"Golden hellos" to recruit lecturers in shortage subjects ("Thumbs down for £9K hellos," THES , April 25) would address only symptoms of the problem. They would operate like a revolving door - with...
I can only imagine that Ivor Crewe was being ironic in saying that Universities UK was "pleased that the government has recognised the size of the recruitment problem". The proposal is eloquent...
The closure of chemistry departments at King's College London and at the University of Kent at Canterbury must sadden, but scarcely surprise, anyone who has worked in a UK chemistry department. This...
As organiser of the Warwick Spring 1970 workshop, I read Ivor Gaber's report ("Middle-class posturing or a victorious fight for real changes?", THES , April 18) with interest. While discussion did...