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  1. Lib-Dems plan rethink on fees policy

    Top-up tuition fees and grants are on the Liberal Democrats' agenda for radical reform of their higher education policy. The Liberal Democrats are setting up a working group to assess whether the...

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  2. Women attack ILT red tape and sexism

    Female members of the Association of University Teachers have called for a union ballot to consider rejecting the Institute for Learning and Teaching. The annual meeting of the AUT women's committee...

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  3. Glimmer of hope

    Using viruses to transport new genes into the brain may one day offer relief to sufferers of neurological disorders. Geoff Watts reports Intent on finding a better way to treat Parkinson's disease,...

  4. Desert roamed during Ice Age

    Scientists have tracked the shifting sands of the Kalahari through 180,000 years of history to gain an unprecedented glimpse at how climate shifts have affected the evolution of a desert. Research by...

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  5. Farming threat to UK wetlands

    The wholesale destruction of the United Kingdom's estuary wetlands has raised the prospect of harmful algal blooms one day forming off the east coast. Vast amounts of nitrates and phosphates used in...

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  6. Birds eat birds as fish runs out

    An aggressive elite of great skuas is increasingly ditching a diet of fish in favour of eating other seabirds. The dietary switch among a super-fit minority of the species is being blamed for a fall...

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  7. Cutting edge

    Do universities own copyright in materials produced by academics? This seemingly simple question opens a can of worms The law is explicit: normally, the owner of the copyright in some work is the...

  8. When are retired academics not...?

    ...when they continue to work part-time. Barbara Tizard unveils the results of a detailed survey of what becomes of lecturers and professors Academics, like the rest of the population, are living...

  11. Stone and star gazing

    Great Stone Circles - Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland

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