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  1. News in brief - 28 March 2013

    Widening accessExtended pathways to lawA programme to help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to become lawyers is being extended thanks to a £1.2 million grant from a charitable foundation...

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  3. Odds and quads - 28 March 2013

    These are just two of the plant samples, now held by the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University in Sweden, that Carl Peter Thunberg brought back from his pioneering expedition to Japan in 1775.

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  4. Campus round-up - 28 March 2013

    Source: Dominic StaffordShrinking resourceAbout half of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grassland has been lost in a decade, university research suggests. According to scientists at the University of...

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  6. Mexico faces some primary problems

    A powerful union, weak teaching and outmoded curricula are hampering progress. Matt Krupnick reports from Oaxaca

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  7. Grant winners - 28 March 2013

    The Wellcome TrustInvestigators in Medical HumanitiesThese awards range from about £500,000 to just over £1 million for up to five yearsAward winner: Steven SturdyInstitution: University of...

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  9. Appointments - 28 March 2013

    University of LeedsPaul Stewart“I had a tear in my eye,” said the new dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds of the moment he learned of his appointment, which will take him back...

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  10. Public good, public service

    The public-private balance of funding sources needs to be adjusted to protect the public interest, says Roger Brown

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  11. Political lottery

    Alan Ryan considers a new method of governance

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