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  1. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a science-fiction writer who called his work "logical fantasy": "When I was quite small I would...

    #Books

  4. Laurie Taylor column

    Lapping speaking It's Maureen. Sorry to bother you when you're only in mid-seminar but I've got the BBC on the line. Someone called Julian wanting to know about your availability for a television...

    #Laurie

  5. Leader: Support, not ambition, is key to participation

    The findings of this week's MORI survey of young people's university ambitions deserves to change practices and policies. The survey shows that evangelising summer schools and outreach missions,...

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    #Opinion

  7. Conscious of class 1

    So lack of "social skills" in working-class people causes the earnings gap ("'Unwashed' must brush up on their social skills", THES , May 17). What price social mobility? The more who have degrees,...

    #Letters

  8. Conscious of class 2

    You report the conclusions of a report for the Council for Industry and Higher Education on the impact of social class on the financial returns of different degrees. The council believes that...

    #Letters

  9. Time to face facts

    Margaret Hodge's views at the Association of University Teachers conference reflect government policy ("'Callous' Hodge is berated by union", THES , May 17). For years, universities have faced...

    #Letters

  10. 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...

    #Letters

  11. 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...

    #Letters

  12. 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...

    #Letters

  13. 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...

    #Letters

  14. 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",...

    #Letters

  15. 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

    #Letters