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  1. For-profits, student losses

    Alan Ryan on an American battle that deserves the UK’s attention

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  2. The well-being of nations

    Andrew Oswald considers recent moves in economics, famously the most dismal of sciences, to take the happiness and psychological health of the population as seriously as a country's GDP

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  4. No bloom for Chopin

    Rather late in the day, I have caught up with Tim Birkhead's charming piece on bullfinches ("Tweet sensations", 21 April).The German forestry workers of the 1800s would have been familiar (as are...

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  5. A right royal obscenity

    Congratulations to Felipe Fernández-Armesto ("Insane in the membrane", 12 May) for capturing perfectly the insanity and the obscenity that was the royal wedding.Howard Moss, Swansea

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  6. 'Big Society' a small part of our anxieties

    Rick Rylance's reassurance that the Arts and Humanities Research Council's interest in the "Big Society" is confined to "informed and appropriately critical investigation" is welcome ("Unsound...

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  7. Establishment fall guy

    Those who were colleagues when Mike Fitzgerald was my deputy at Coventry Polytechnic may be surprised at my writing in his support ("Back from the brink", 12 May). However, your account of the...

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  8. Keep private pirates at bay (1 of 2)

    Matt Robb tells us that with the new tuition fees regime, higher education in England and Wales will become "Treasure Island" to for-profit firms ("Here be treasure, but sector unprepared for private...

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  9. Keep private pirates at bay (2 of 2)

    Thank you for publishing Matt Robb's article urging universities to prepare for greater competition from the for-profit sector. Nothing else that I have read so succinctly encapsulates the utter...

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  10. Baser instincts slaked, too

    While I applaud the sentiments expressed at The Value of Arts and Humanities in the 21st Century forum ("More than just a Book at Bedtime", 12 May), I would add that the evidence for the value of an...

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  11. Raw data dangers (1 of 2)

    I read with interest the recent article by Darrel Ince, "Systems failure" (5 May). Unfortunately, I do not think such problems as those he discusses are uncommon with new analyses, but it is rare...

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  12. Raw data dangers (2 of 2)

    Your article "To get to the truth, open up" (Leader, 5 May) seems to reflect society's preconceived ideas about science and scientists, rather than the actualities of scientific research. Scientists...

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  13. Funding - how predictable

    Bravo, Baroness! Susan Greenfield is right that risk aversion in funding conflicts with "originality and independence of thought" ("Mighty oaks and little acorns", 12 May).To a less "distinguished"...

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  14. Revealing documents

    "'We are seeing an increase in the number of women taking the GMAT, driven mainly by Chinese women'" runs the caption to the picture accompanying your article "An upturn in the downturn for MBA...

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  15. Shareholding academy

    In the face of the current trend towards privatisation, should the academic and administrative staff of our universities be encouraged to buy their institutions in order to place their destinies in...

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