Shennan, talking to Radio 4's Feedback in September, said Melodies For You had been axed because of the "cost of the programme, the attractiveness of the slot and the way the audience is going".
Another major difference with more traditional PhDs, and part of the programme's attractiveness, has to be its funding.
Although such a programme reflects the economic attractiveness of diagnosing breast cancer at an earlier stage, many developing countries may not be able to meet its total costs (including the required infrastructure, logistics, and expertise).
Higher academic institutions are searching for appropriate strategies in competences-based education, which will increase the global attractiveness of their academic programmes and courses for continuous professional development.
The ratio of potential to de facto applicants will depend on the knowledge of the programme among eligible people, as well as the attractiveness of the programme conditions.
The coupling of the training components described in Table 2 is efficient (they require the same basic information on the adolescents) and combines the attractiveness of a short-term gain (training programme) with the uncertainty of a long-term benefit (recidivism predictors).
Much of the city's investment attractiveness owes to its reputation in Asia, where its ambassadors programme has boosted expatriate investment connections and reached out much more successfully to Chinese, Japanese and Malaysian commodities firms.
This in turn means that some universities will want to invest in building or refurbishment programmes or fund new teaching posts, in order to enhance their attractiveness to potential students.
At the same time it is necessary to improve both the attractiveness of engineering to prospective students and retention in engineering programmes.
Moreover, these experiments can neither compare with the attractiveness of the new urban architectures of great urban regeneration programmes, nor deal with the intricacies of the regeneration process of many decaying suburban or smaller settlements.
