Essex closure highlights worrying maths trend
Essex University is to cut its single-honours maths degrees in response to falling demand. The department recruited 14 home and European Union students to the department last autumn. A spokesperson...
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Merger possible for Scots institutes
Aberdeen and Robert Gordon universities are the latest Scottish duo to begin collaboration talks, and they have not ruled out the prospect of a merger. The move follows the development of close links...
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Pregnant women help in ethical study
THES reporters look at global developments in stem-cell research and legislation. Scientists have launched a two-year probe into the ethics of using for research tissue samples from pregnant women or...
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Canada opts for middle ground
THES reporters look at global developments in stem-cell research and legislation. American researchers seeking a more liberal terrain for stem-cell research could find a haven in Canada, where new...
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Bespoke spare parts
THES reporters look at global developments in stem-cell research and legislation. The promise of bespoke spare parts made from your own cells will require major advances in tissue engineering. The...
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US pours cash into UK bank
THES reporters look at global developments in stem-cell research and legislation. Millions of charity dollars raised in the United States are to back British embryonic stem-cell (es-cell) research in...
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Key patent open to challenge
THES reporters look at global developments in stem-cell research and legislation. A key stem-cell patent may ultimately prove invalid in Europe, according to a leading scientist, writes Steve Farrar...
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Different stances in law
THES reporters look at global developments in stem-cell research and legislation. More than 60 different human embryonic stem-cell lines have been developed from excess embryos created for in vitro...
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UK fair sparks melee in India
Indian enthusiasm for British higher education appears to be at fever pitch. Police were called in to control crowds at this month's education fairs. Security guards at a fair in Chennai (formerly...
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A fight for equal love rights
Partnership rights for gay couples are basic human rights, and religious doctrines should be irrelevant when devising secular laws enshrining them, argues Robert Wintemute. At first glance, some...
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Foreign fields provide an uninspiring look into private future
Pedro Teixeira and Alberto Amaral examine the rise of private provision in education overseas. With the rapid expansion of higher education in recent decades it seemed to make sense to increase the...
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Kmart gets its hands on US national treasures
Oprah Winfrey? Martha Stewart? Stephen Phillips explains how a $38 million gift to the Smithsonian sparked a storm over donations. Businesswoman Catherine Reynolds's decision last month to back out...
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Laugh all the way to left bank
A tiny flat in Cambridge will set you back £130,000 while a Parisian pied-a-terre could be yours for £39,000 - so what are you waiting for? asks Jennifer Wallace. A square in Montmartre. Wicker cafe...
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Where Jack the Ripper gets to rub shoulders with Lord Lucan's nanny
The New DNB still has the good, the bad and the ugly, but women and crime victims are better represented than before, says Huw Richards. Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, Florence Maybrick, Neville Heath,...
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Tuned in to vibes of the global tribes
Ethnomusicologists are looking to the future as much as to the past in exploring diverse musical traditions, says Michael Church. Cometh the hour, cometh the man: the fact that we know so much about...