Transplant trial
Researchers at King's College London, the Royal Free Hospital and City University believe they can use telemedicine to save thousands of pounds on liver transplants. When a donor organ becomes...
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Long-awaited regime threatens to cramp change
To judge from the long delay, decisions on the control of degree-awarding powers in universities and colleges have not been easy to make. A pity, then, that after so long the outcome should be so...
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Market success relies on academic freedom
Academic freedom is an uncomfortable concept constantly under threat. Two such threats are reported in this issue of The THES. One (Whistleblowers, page 6) raises the question of whether the Public...
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Masters in the business of a truly global outlook
The best business education will have to be multicultural and transnational, predicts Bernard Ramanantsoa The "in" word to describe management education seems to be "global". Taking a cue from this...
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Women beat men to the bar in survey
Wanted: men willing to earn up to Pounds 50 for taking part in an alcohol experiment. Sussex University researcher Anne Jackson is nearing the end of a one-year project aimed at studying the effects...
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Why I ...believe the use of electroshock therapy on children is unconscionable
Steve Baldwin Professor of psychology, Teeside University Most people do not know that children as young as three have been given electro-shock treatment, sometimes without parental consent. The most...
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No shame in lucidity
Students of all subjects should be offered creative writing modules to learn how to write clearly, says Paul Magrs When I teach creative writing in universities it is to students of English...
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How do they spend our rent?
The Cambridge rent row highlights the lack of accountability and secrecy of the colleges, says Eleanor O'Keeffe The angry chants of the thousand or so student demonstrators at Saturday's rally in...
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Bath loses research cash as Warwick poaches staff
The University of Warwick's business school has poached seven top researchers from Bath University, and in doing so has prevented Bath from claiming credit for any work completed by the team - headed...
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RAE faces axe in DTI review
The research assessment exercise could be scrapped because it is failing to provide "bang for bucks". The Department for Trade and Industry, which is looking at the RAE under its plans to introduce a...
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Sporting replays
We applaud the article on student sport but would wish to correct the impression that sports scholarships at Loughborough University are awarded only to students in sports-related programmes. Many of...
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Spending on research under the spotlight
* Spending on research across government departments will come under the spotlight later this year as part of an inquiry by the House of Commons select committee on science and technology. The...
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First lifelong learning research centre opens
* Glasgow Caledonian and Stirling universities this week launched Scotland's first research centre into lifelong learning, backed by more than Pounds 400,000 from the Scottish Higher Education...
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Antiquities looters use weapons of war
Looters regularly use explosives, grenades and rocket-launchers to steal treasures and frighten local populations, a conference on illegal trade in antiquities heard this week. Archaeologists from...
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Union drive for race equality on campus
n Lecturers' union Natfhe stepped up its campaign for ethnic minority recruitment targets this week as the Policy Studies Institute published its final report into race discrimination in higher...