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  1. Strictly Gaia

    I would like to thank John Gilbert (Letters, 15 August) for his kind words about my book On Gaia (reviewed by Jon Turney, 8 August). However, I would like to clarify that I do not make a “category...

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  2. Altruistic contributions

    Tabulating the place of UK universities in terms of their contribution to industry (“Korean kudos (UK also-rans)”, 15 August) presents only a partial view of the external role of the university...

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  3. Slow food for thought

    Gary Thomas (“Have to admit it’s getting better, a little better all the time”, 15 August), as befits a professor of education, believes that with reference to intelligence “our abilities are getting...

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  4. Right combination

    As much as I can see why many people would think that overturning the Oxbridge rule of combination would make the applications process “fairer” (“Competition questions over rule that restricts...

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  5. No commodification

    The article “‘Political experiment’ must not reduce education to a commodity” (15 August) informs us that “the UK’s pool of higher education experts…has arguably taken a turn to the right”. It then...

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  6. Profile-raising

    The very useful perspectives reported in the feature “Putting women in the frame” (22 August) nonetheless require clarification on two points. First, although some external funding bodies have chosen...

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  7. The point of NSS is points

    It is hardly surprising that institutions use gaming strategies to try to bolster their scores on the National Student Survey (“Hold bad news about grades until after NSS”, 15 August). This has been...

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  8. UK still suffers trips of the tongues

    Your editorial “A timely look under the bonnet” (22 August) is right to draw attention to the issue of language degrees, but one of the figures was inaccurate. As of 23 August, the number of students...

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  9. Grant winners - 29 August 2013

    Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: David SaadInstitution: Aston UniversityValue: £155,624Islands of equilibrium in a non-equilibrium worldAward winner: James...

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  10. Odds and quads - 29 August 2013

    Conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-74), originally from what is now Thailand, toured the world in a “human circus” and became so famous that the term “Siamese twins” is still current

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