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  1. Plausible reasons to be fearful 2

    I would like to take issue with your suggestion that the trial of the SAT that we funded found "too little variation between successful candidates at A level and in SATs" to justify its adoption (...

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  2. Plausible reasons to be fearful 3

    According to Ron McLone of Ucles, the only plausible interpretation of a picture of a cone, cylinder, sphere and a TV is that, "television has become fundamental". If you don't think that, then you...

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  3. Plausible reasons to be fearful 4

    I can do arithmetic. On a good day I can even do sentences. I am baffled by plausible reasoning. Would someone care to enlighten me? Your explanation should be sufficiently simple that even a humble...

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  4. Costly free speech 1

    I don't demur at Alison Wolf's defence of free speech but I'd add two things (Opinion, April 15). The first is that in a country that decided that Negroes were biologically intended for slavery, and...

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  5. Costly free speech 2

    I think Alison Wolf is being a little disingenuous if she expects us to believe that remarks made at a conference by the head of the world's richest and most influential university should be compared...

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  6. Not-long commitment

    The Leeds University advert for a head for a new Lifelong Learning Centre must surely be a belated April Fool's joke (Classified, April 8). It refers to "a strong commitment to lifelong learning and...

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  7. Not current currency

    It's encouraging to read that our long-abandoned unit of currency, the shilling, lives on in Israel ("Israel agrees on £38m of funds and new institution", April 15). It's even more encouraging to see...

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  8. Economists in the mix

    There is some truth in Nick Pearce's complaint about social scientists' reluctance to get involved in public policy-making ("Mix in with mandarins", April 15), but I'm not sure it applies to...

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  9. Written in the stars?

    Steve Cushion is spot-on when he points out that life is far from normal at London Metropolitan University, contrary to the assertion of vice-chancellor Brian Roper (Letters, April 15). What staff...

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  10. Case of costs

    It would be strange if, as Steven Schwartz claims (Letters, April 15), the Employment Appeal Tribunal had awarded costs to Brunel University in the Gurdish Webster case, since it found in favour of...

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  11. Universally strange

    Cosmologists face a daunting task in selecting one out of the possible 10¹ºº different flavours of string theory to apply to our universe (Joseph Silk's review of Parallel Worlds , Books, April 15)....

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  12. Alienated theory

    In his otherwise excellent article describing the work of Fred Hoyle (Features, April 15), Simon Mitton ignores the late astronomer's remarkable contribution to our understanding of the origin of...

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  13. Single and strong

    We Association of University Teachers' activists wish to state our personal support for the proposed amalgamation of AUT and Natfhe. Last year, members of both unions mandated their executives to...

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  14. Role-playing

    Keith Flett asks if June Purvis is the enthusiastic cheerleader for Tony Blair (Letters, April 15). Could this be the same Flett who is press officer for the Socialist Workers Party? Norman Price...

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  15. Spot the endangered species...

    ...here's a hint: it has just two legs and is often found looking down a microscope at a specimen. Geoff Watts investigates the catastrophic population crash of the British beetle taxonomist There's...

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