Instead, research that company and the professionals who work there, and reach out to someone at the company before you apply for the job, letting them know you admire what they do and would love their advice.

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The research was carried out by Dr Helen Haste, Kevin Rice, and Yiannis Zacharious, who presented their work on Tuesday at the British Psychological Society's conference at the Institute of Education.

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Ofqual's research found many schools used the marks pupils received in their first exams and the January grade boundaries to work out what score a pupil would need in their controlled assessment to get a certain grade and marked it accordingly.

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It is already a gateway to up-to-the-minute information on where all our museums are to be found, what special attractions they offer and how they can support work in schools - serious research or simply visits as part of a day out.

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And even within basic research, only 230 researchers focus on far-out stuff, while 930 others work on down-to-earth projects that could yield products in five years.

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The charity started to work with dogs, and they can now pick out cancer samples from control samples, but research has been mainly limited to bladder and prostate cancer.

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Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, of the Medical Research Council's National Institute For Medical Research, said the work was exciting, but work was required to end the reliance on viruses, and to tease out why two different techniques produced similar results.

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