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Quality of UK research assessed

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Research Assessment Exercise results will shape scientists' careers and universities' funding.

The results of the United Kingdom's principle audit of research quality shows that more than half of the work submitted for review by the nation's universities is up to 'world class' standards.

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Nature will publish a full analysis of the RAE results in its 1 January 2009 edition.

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