Who'll pay to play God?
Anthropologist Paul Rabinow spent much of 1994 observing French genetic scientists in their doomed attempt to strike a deal with a US biotech laboratory. Stalling points included ownership,...
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A day of total luna-see
The two minutes next Wednesday when the sun istotally obscured by the moon will be watched by scientists worldwide. But this could be the first eclipse that teaches us nothing new about the sun. John...
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Shadows of days gone by
A day of total luna-see: Of all the thousands of eclipses studied by scientists, the most important was the eclipse of 1919, writes Simon Singh. It provided clinching evidence in favour of one of the...
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What are the facts behind the super fictions?
Are superfictions art or are their creators just fooling themselves? Peter Hill speaks for the defence. The storm that has been raging in the teacups of British newspapers about the self-proclaimed "...
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Building cosmic visions
Charles Jencks believes that a new architecture is emerging, one based at the cutting edge of chaos theory. John Kelleher reports. The new Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is casting long shadows in the...
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Higher Channels
John Davies puts on his viewing glasses (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the Week TV programmes on major European philosophers are about as common as total eclipses, so as well as scanning the...
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Washington
The National Endowment for the Humanities is to award up to $3.24 million for 38 graduate study programmes at historically black colleges and universities.
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Bangkok
A biology lecturer at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University is marketing his discovery of a "herbal viagra" despite warnings that it could be toxic. The drugs are developed from a Thai forest plant. It...
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Beijing
China has raised the number of students admitted to universities and colleges to 1.56 million this year, 33,100 more than the number announced in January. Higher education admissions will be 44 per...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES...MP Edward Davey opposed dropping the Anglo-Saxons from the A-level history syllabus. By Rosamond McKitterick, Professor of early medieval European history and professor-elect...
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Hardship loans get rethink
The government is reviewing hardship loans and access funds following concerns that the system does not meet the needs of mature students. It has set up a team of civil servants and academics to...
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Research top of political agenda
PM Howard puts knowledge economy centre stage in green paper. University research and research training are issues flying high on Australia's political agenda. More than a decade after the last...
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Quids in or just out of pocket?
As the first students to pay fees end their first year, do they feel they are getting value for money? Alan Thomson reports If higher education courses have become commodities, then undergraduates...
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Sources of research funding
This week this section lists funds available for Australian research collaboration. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT...
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Fee debtors to be kicked out
Thousands of students owing millions of pounds in unpaid tuition fees could face expulsion this autumn, The THES has learned. At least one university is owed more than Pounds 1 million, while others...