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  1. Sell excellence overseas, not mass mediocrity

    Fewer overseas students are opting to study in Britain just when the government has set targets for increased numbers. Some fall in recruitment from Southeast Asia was to be expected because of the...

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  2. 'The university' is dead, long live the university

    The old notion of the university is gone. Its reinvention, says Ronald Barnett, brings new responsibilities Today, the university lives with multiple callings. The injunctions multiply: high-quality...

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  3. Fly will steal the show

    Steve Farrar looks at research sure to grab the limelight at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting next week. The tiny brown fruit fly is seldom welcomed, often ignored....

  4. Search for Aids vaccine turns to brothels

    A microbiologist thinks that a group of Kenyan prostitutes could hold the key to defeating Aids. Philip Fine reports. A mysterious resistance to HIV by a group of Kenyan prostitutes has provided the...

  5. Gamma burst gang of four

    A remarkable cosmic phenomenon that has baffled astronomers may provide fresh evidence of the universe's most violent accident - the collision of two neutron stars. Scientists from the Institute for...

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  6. Redcoats were a fearsome force

    History has done the redcoats a disservice. New research is sweeping away the outdated image of the British soldier who fought in colonial America as a poorly motivated mercenary handicapped by...

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  7. Cutting edge

    Greenpeace research into PVC toys that leach harmful chemicals into children's mouths has led to a European product ban. On December 9 1999 the European Commission adopted its first emergency product...

  8. Cash crisis in universities

    Latest projections show the higher education sector on the brink of deficit, prompting universities to turn to the financial markets for cash. Revised forecasts from the Higher Education Funding...

    #News

  9. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work about underworld life written by a prime novelist: " 'Get away from here you dirty swine,'she...

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