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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>This newsletter includes:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>- Latest news
from the Research Councils on Roberts' Review</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>funding for skills training. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>- News on
national policies developments including the revised</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>QAA Code of Practice for postgraduate research programmes and UKGRAD</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Scottish Good Practice Workshop</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>- Details of the
2005 programme of GRADschool courses, a</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
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available from the British Library, the British</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
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