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Nature 391, 729 (19 February 1998) | doi:10.1038/35705

Open Innovation Challenges

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A degree of success for MRes courses

Ehsan Masood

A controversial one-year postgraduate degree designed to train students in research skills has been been praised by students, universities and research councils in the United Kingdom, defying widespread scepticism that the course would fail to take off.The idea of a 'research master's' degree (MRes) received a lukewarm response when suggested by the former Conservative government in its white paper on science and technology policy in 1993.