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Imperial rises in student satisfaction table

Shooting up the table, but still only coming in at 41. Workload highlighted as major problem

Imperial College London have placed 41 in the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey. This is up from a position of 71 last year. University of East Anglia came top of the table, with Oxford in second and Sheffield in third.

The area that Imperial seemed to stand out most in was the “Fair Workload” category. Imperial came bottom of the table for this category.

The table, which is now in its eighth year, was produced using responses from students who were polled between September 2011 and September 2012. The table takes into account 21 aspects of university life. These parameters range from the academic side of life to the social.

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This Week In Science: what if we could experiment on live human brains?

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This Week In Science: what if we could experiment on live human brains?

We can’t, obviously: the ethical concerns place this firmly in dystopian science fiction territory. Yet, the Yale spinout startup Bexorg is offering something very close. The team created a proprietary system which takes brains removed from deceased people who choose to donate their bodies to science and connect them

By Hanna Irzyk