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  1. Enormous greedy babies

    Spoon-fed students won't fend for themselves at university, says Tim Birkhead

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  2. Off Piste: Fools! I will destroy you all!

    Scientists in popular culture are inevitably mad, bad and dangerously keen on bubbling vials of ghastly liquids. Should this bother us? Yes, John Gilbey cackles fiendishly

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  3. Leader: Bottom line: it's worth it

    We can't allow rivalries to derail the effort to make research sustainable by getting funders to pay full economic costs

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  4. Frank Gould, 1937-2008

    Frank Gould, the former vice-chancellor of the University of East London who saw the institution through both good times and bad, has died after a long battle with cancer.Professor Gould, who led the...

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  6. Good God, there is more to faith than IQ 1

    Richard Lynn has found that fewer academics believe in God than does the general population ("High IQ turns academics into atheists", 12 June). I would expect those with higher IQs to have developed...

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  7. Good God, there is more to faith than IQ 2

    To suggest that low belief in religion is due simply to high intelligence is to oversimplify a complex causation that includes, as all behaviour does, inherited and environmental factors. Among the...

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  8. Good God, there is more to faith than IQ 3

    Does IQ explain academics' lack of belief?: does presumption of an affirmative answer suggest lack of academic rigour?Gavin Wort, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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  9. Board games

    The articles by Lee Harvey and Higher Education Academy chief executive Paul Ramsden (Opinion, 12 June) are contrasting and instructive.Ramsden persists in claiming that the new "academic council"...

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  10. Freedom still reigns

    I was interested in your article "The Nottingham Two and the War on Terror: which of us will be next?" (5 June) but surprised by the interpretation of events that was offered.Inevitably, any arrests...

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  11. Working in tandem

    Yes GuildHE and Million+ do differ ("Pride comes before the fallout", 12 June), but we think in common about unlocking talent and giving chances.Million+ is a university think-tank and rightly keeps...

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  12. No martyrdom for me

    Readers may be puzzled why my resignation from the Nottingham University and College Union committee was newsworthy, since local officers' departures don't usually garner national attention (Campus...

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  13. A seconds thought

    You report my conversation with The Sunday Times regarding my sense, which is backed by that newspaper's statistical analysis, that the 2:2 is becoming an endangered species ("The week in higher...

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  14. Lapping up Tara's wit

    As a Laurie Taylor fan, I was pleased that you have given him space on your inside pages. Tara Brabazon, professor of media studies ("It's all pants", 12 June, see related article), is a superb...

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  15. Effective medicine

    It is not the case that "research in some areas of medicine, such as dermatology, rheumatology and gynaecology - which rarely appear in top journals - will disappear from Imperial (College London...

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