Roberts calls for science rethink
A big increase in funding for academic researchers is essential to keep UK science competitive, an influential report for chancellor Gordon Brown will say. More permanent university research...
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Findings: Trade in the tax advantage?
The days of builders offering a lower quote for cash could be numbered if Customs and Excise take on board research from Exeter University, writes Caroline Davis. People object to being "unpaid tax...
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Manchester universities enter alliance to take on US giants
In the largest restructuring in British higher education, Manchester University and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology have announced plans to merge. Staff and students...
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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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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel set in a leper colony: "The cabin passenger wrote in his diary a parody of Descartes: 'I feel...
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A text in which robots run riot
Mechatronics and the Design of Intelligent Machines and Systems
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States of advanced excitement
Materials Modification by Electronic Excitation