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  1. Poor intelligence 5

    It is interesting that James Tooley's romantic and yet scurrilous educational policy publications should receive so much attention in the quality press. His notions of women's education reveal...

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  2. End ego politics

    Recently I saw a poster advertising a protest against Israel by the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign. Among the organisations calling for this protest was Natfhe, and among the speakers was Paul...

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  3. Poor intelligence 4

    James Tooley has taken the fictional character of Bridget Jones as a realistic example of how modern women think. Independent women, who realise they have more to offer than staying at home playing...

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  4. Poor intelligence 1

    Here we go again in the IQ debate: claim and counterclaim; much heat, little light ("Professor under fire for racist views", THES , May 17). Those interested in this debate should read the findings...

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  5. Poor intelligence 3

    Why is it that Geoffrey Sampson of the University of Sussex is under pressure to resign for publishing an article stating "there's nothing wrong with racism" and claiming that racism is "natural",...

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  6. Poor intelligence 2

    Would not the most appropriate reward for Geoffrey Sampson's contribution to scientific and cultural debates be promotion from a chair to a high chair? Malcolm Hardman University of Warwick

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  7. The borders of absurdity and fear

    The EU's ambivalent immigration policy is driven by national insecurity and concern for the welfare state, which the far right exploits, says Andrew Geddes. There are two immigration Europes. One...

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  8. Making it in a mass market

    Critics have called it a 'McUniversity', but Phoenix University, founded by John Sperling (right) could be the most significant provider of mass-education in the world. Stephen Phillips reports....

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  9. We're still skipping (working) class

    In the last in our Pushing 50 series, Alison Wolf suggests that attempts to widen participation in higher education need to focus on schoolchildren long before they embark on A-level study. In 1963,...

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  10. How the mouth took speech away from busy hands

    Did our language evolve from hand gestures, and did we talk our fellow hominids to death? Michael Corballis looks at the evidence. It seems natural to suppose, as Charles Darwin did, that human...

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  11. The cost of losing too many tongues

    Each language is a new map of the world, and our knowledge of the world shrinks when a language dies, writes Andrew Dalby. "Once upon a time," according to the biblical story of Babel, "all the world...

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  12. Silent letters from the past

    Despite some high-profile success stories, deciphering ancient scripts is a long and arduous process in which even the most advanced technology is of only limited use. Andrew Robinson reports. Fifty...

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  13. A tale of a language lost and then found

    A South African land claim led to a search for a native tongue not heard for 30 years. Chris Bunting picks up the trail. In 1974, the N|u language was declared extinct. It was the last of the ancient...

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  14. Learning for life

    The article on the appointment of Bob Galliers of the London School of Economics at Bentley College near Boston ("US college aims for UK overhaul", THES , May 17) suggests Bentley will "distinguish...

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  15. Gender stereotyping

    Pleased as I am with the publication of my article ("Nurses reach sisters online", WEM supplement, THES , May 17), I was disappointed by the gender stereotyping of the headline. Has your headline...

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