HEALTH. Although the mayor will not have direct responsibility for the new NHS London region, the King's Fund, the influential health-policy charity, has been lobbying to ensure the responsibility of...
Are Tony Blair's efforts to remodel the PM's role politically sound, or is he, as some have suggested, falling victim to Bonapartism? Dennis Kavanagh reports. Left-wing Labour MP Tony Benn tabled a...
The success rate of genetic testing is poor, according to James Le Fanu. The promise was huge. All sorts of genetic disorders would be eliminated once we could pinpoint the genes involved, test a...
Many believe that genetic research offers a health utopia, but after the death of a patient on a gene therapy trial and the discovery of thousands more human genes, doubts have started to emerge....
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Manufacturers of washing-up liquid are helping to fund a Centre for Computational Science at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.Among other things, the centre will use advanced...
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Boel Flodgren, rector of the University of Lund, is heading Sweden's inquiry into the social and ethnic balance of students and staff in higher education. She is also looking at how universities can...
A special plane bearing United Nations colours ferried question papers for would-be students at the University of Kinshasa from a rebel-held enclave in the eastern Congo for marking in the city under...
A great Leonid display comes but once every 33 years, lighting up the lives of amateur astronomers everywhere This week's Leonid meteor shower was one of the most eagerly awaited astronomical events...
The University of Northumbria has welcomed a ruling from the European Court of Justice that has backed one of its post- graduates in her fight to have her application for a post in Madrid's Prado art...
PARIS The THES reports on two conferences with one agenda - global learning A task force set up by Unesco and the World Bank to map the future of the university sector in the developing world will...
DURBAN The THES reports on two conferences with one agenda - global learning More than a dozen Commonwealth education and training organisations pledged to work together to place education at the...
Male students from regions with high unemployment are more likely to drop out of university before finishing their courses than those from more affluent areas, according to new research. The findings...
The mass expansion of higher education in Scotland has benefited the middle classes much more than those from poorer backgrounds, according to a survey of Scottish school-leavers. Those whose fathers...