This fight is personal
Having seen Aids claim family members, Paula Munderi applied her medical skills to fight the disease. Becky McCall found her working on a clinical trial that offers a lifeline to devastated...
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Foreign intrigue
'It's great to focus on work and have time for life' Is a stint abroad a good career move? Becky McCall looks at the experiences of three researchers - one who went to Africa and stayed, one who has...
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Target woman
Tuberculosis is no long-gone scourge but a deadly modern-day disease that is increasingly resistant to treatment. Anna Fazackerley meets a woman seeking new ways to attack the bacterium that causes...
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To catch a killer on the wing
Malaria plagues The Gambia, especially in the rainy season. Becky McCall visits scientists at the front line of immunological and genetic efforts to halt the disease and the misery it causes It is...
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Here for the cheer
When it comes to a career in science, there is no consensus on how best to begin, but Laura Barnett and Hanna Hindstrom discover that many big-name researchers agree that fun - intellectual and...
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Right-to-die advocate keen to lead ethics discourse
Bristol University Medical School has embraced one of the toughest dilemmas faced by doctors with the appointment of a professor of ethics who supports a patient's right to choose to die. Euthanasia...
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UK plan to cut EU budget dashes hope of research cash
The UK Government will propose slashing the planned budget of the European Union's forthcoming Seventh Framework Programme, which universities had hoped would provide €70 million (£47.5 million) in...
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Tories coy over rethink on fees
'Co-payment' system is likely to remain, reports Paul Hill from the party conference A Conservative U-turn on tuition fees and the expansion of higher education looks likely despite the wrangling...
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Academic urges party to drop opposition to top-ups
If any political party should have supported university top-up fees, it should have been the Conservatives, says an academic who advised both the Thatcher and Major governments. Patrick Minford of...
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'Clarify scientific advice to reassure public'
Politicians and scientists need to be more open about the limits of the Government's scientific advice if scare stories about new technologies, foods and therapies are to be avoided in future, Andrew...
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UK brain drain myth exposed
British higher education enjoys a substantial "brain gain" in a global academic market that is increasingly dominated by young researchers, a report has concluded. The Higher Education Policy...
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British pair bask in peers' acclaim
Martin Ince on the best in science and technology The UK is still home to the world's top scientists, according to our poll of their peers around the world. Scientists asked to name the best...
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Positions of power: World university rankings 2005
This is the second year of The Times Higher 's World University Rankings. We will publish all the results this month. But before we print the full rankings of the world's top 200 universities, we...
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Oxbridge is patently successful
Oxford and Cambridge universities are medieval institutions that show every sign of making it big in the 21st century. Oxford claims to have 3,000 staff, most of whom are active in research, and 3,...
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Industrial labs held in high regard
Anyone working in a university must occasionally dream of all the research he or she might do were it not for the students. These tables show how productive the world's top industrial and government...