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  1. Poll positioning

    Kissing babies may have been an effective way of winning votes in the past, but today's politicians rely on techniques that are rather more sophisticated, according to researchers at Lancaster...

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  2. Scientists examine North Atlantic 'sink'

    Scientists from Plymouth and Southampton are among a group meeting in Bremen to decide how global warming is affecting the North Atlantic. They will examine ten years of data on oceanic levels of...

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  3. An audience with the stones

    The fossil record has much to teach modern-day geneticists about structural development, says palaeontologist Geoff Watts. Fossils and genes are icons from the opposite ends of the biological...

  4. Cutting edge

    The study of chromosomal abnormalities is broadening our understanding of the human brain and child development. One of the challenges confronting those with an interest in child development and...

  5. Tailored training sought

    Swedish body calls for a broader training of researchers to meet the needs of graduate students and business. Michael de Laine reports. The Association of Swedish Higher Education (SUHF), which...

  6. The gift that keeps giving

    Universities and students have benefited equally from the Carnegie Trust for nearly100 years. Olga Wojtas reports on plans to bring guest professors to its centenary celebrations. In 1901,...

  7. Scottish grants oil the wheels of change

    Support for the offshore oil and gas industry, modern language learning and the technology of thin film coatings are among 17 projects backed by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council to help...

  8. Oxford to introduce part-time degrees

    Oxford University is planning to establish a part-time degree for mature students as part of a raft of sweeping reforms aimed at addressing its access problems. Female students and pupils from...

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  9. SA universities face up to HIV/Aids

    A saliva test of 800 students at one of South Africa's top historically black universities found that 25 per cent were HIV positive. Confirmation at the University of Durban-Westville that the nation...

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  10. Prompt loan cheque promise in jeopardy

    Education secretary David Blunkett's promise that every student will have a loan cheque on the first day of the new university term is in jeopardy, it emerged this week. Members of a working party...

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  11. Archbishop Desmond Tutu

    (Photograph) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu arrives at the University of Hull. He was greeted by a South African student, Simangele Sekgobela (left) and her mother, Josephine. The archbishop was in Hull...

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  14. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a meticulous analyst of man's inhumanity to man: " I was captured by the Fascist Militia on 13 December...

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