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Institutions that fail to hit submission targets stand to lose funding

Calling time on the long PhD

Students used to get as long as they needed to complete their PhDs. But now universities are imposing submission targets. Is this the end for the next generation of original thinkers?
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Armed forces personnel go from the firing line to the hiring line

Business graduates face many problems but the destruction by rocket of the office is not usually among them. Group Captain Dean Andrew, aged 41, takes such occupational hazards in his stride, as he gets on with his current job of making Basra airport fit to hand back to the Iraqi people.



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