Yes, it's OK to clone
Bioethicist John Harris has a question for those wrestling with the morality of human cloning - why not? Harriet Swain reports. Many people will be extremely happy there is only one John Harris....
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Seed plants an idea
Within a week of physicist Richard Seed publicising his plans to clone humans for infertile couples, President Bill Clinton, the US Congress and French President Jacques Chirac were calling for a ban...
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A colonial spectre amid the groves
The profusion of white academics in development studies who cannot speak the languages of the societies they research is nothing but institutionalised racism, argues Suranjit K. Saha. This is a plea...
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Parables and the pursuit of everyday meaning
Bestselling academic Umberto Eco tells Domenico Pacitti why he thinks contemporary philosophy lacks common sense, and what Kant would have made of a platypus. The Italian philosopher and novelist...
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Adam Gearey
Adam Gearey explains how postmodernism has enabled him to marry law and literature in his doctoral research at the University of Kent. When I came to London to begin my PhD at Birkbeck College, I...
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Fed up with the Feds
Why has the US public lost faith in government? If anyone should know it is political scientist and friend of premiers, Joseph Nye. He talks to Huw Richards. Bob Dole did not get to be president in...
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Justice with a differance
In the second of our series in which leading academics and their postgraduates describe how theoretical methods derived from French philosophy have transformed their subject, Costas Douzinas revels...
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Strathclyde puts Pounds 0.5m into teaching methods
Strathclyde University has invested Pounds 500,000 in a scheme to develop new teaching and learning methods.
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OU law degree notches up over 900 students
THE OPEN University's first law degree course has attracted more than 900 students. Launched last year in collaboration with the College of Law, it is now Britain's largest undergraduate law degree...
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Sources for research funding in 1998
Each month this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk. EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www2.echo.lu IT(esprit) Contact:...
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Cambridge out to attract more ethnic minorities
Cambridge University has published a special prospectus aimed at encouraging more black and Asian teenagers to apply.
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New graduate school for Staffs
Staffordshire University opened a new graduate school this week to coordinate all postgraduate education and research.
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Brain power
(Photograph) - Brain power: the first issue of The THES's new Research section, out this week, starts with biomedicine, the biggest research sector, which is now being transformed by new technology...
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Cranfield set for one-off teaching funding cut
Cranfield University faces a one-off 5 per cent reduction in its Pounds 10.5 million funding for teaching after a funding council study of specialist institutions.
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Food Standards Agency plans dished up
The government this week unveiled its long-awaited plans for the Food Standards Agency. The white paper, initially expected in October or November last year, is expected to give the new agency a key...