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  1. No room for thought 3

    You report that there are plans to phase out or replace some private studies with open-plan offices. Unfortunately, building layouts do not alter social reality. The Dr Piercemuller factor will still...

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  2. Intellectual ancestors

    The local elections once again confirmed the growing local presence of the British National Party. Having spent the past year interviewing BNP activists, local and regional organisers, and national...

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  3. Make it count

    The advice given to those want-ing to write a bestseller (May 5) to "avoid titles with three nouns such as Teaching Maths to Pupils with Special Needs in Secondary Schools , which appeal only to...

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  4. Exercise that intellect 1

    Alan Ryan (Opinion, April 28) thinks, rightly, that IQ is pseudo-scientific junk, but is moved to say so only by the chance it gives him to attack the people on the receiving end of it. If it is junk...

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  5. Exercise that intellect 2

    If Alan Ryan wants universities to "nourish the dissenter...", he should go not to John Stuart Mill, but to the critical hermeneutics and ecologism explaining closed minds and the causes of our woes...

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  6. Exercise that intellect 3

    The answer to George MacDonald Ross's letter about complaints thatstandards have been lowered (May 5) is: "damn braces, bless relaxes". We should not relax. Alan Ryan Warden New College Oxford

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  7. Psychological warfare

    The report that De Montfort University is contemplating withdrawing from accreditation by the British Psychological Society ("Course loses quality stamp", April 28) should come as good news to those...

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  8. First blocks of a customised campus

    A personalised service works wonders for Lego, but will the same tactic benefit students? asks Jessica Shepherd Bosses at Lego had a brainwave last September. Why not continue to mass produce the...

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  11. It hasn't yet sunk in, but hippy is no longer chic

    Why don't creative writing courses engage with the avant-garde 'naked' form of English today, asks Sara Wajid Globalisation and the internet are radically altering English, according to David Crystal...

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  12. Eclectic mix on the rocks

    Ice Blink: An Antarctic Essay was published by Book Works in collaboration with The Arts Catalyst, £13.50 In Ice Blink: An Antarctic Essay , published last month, Simon Faithfull mixes Palm Pilot...

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  13. Tracker of talent with 200,000 in her sights

    Deborah Eyre is compiling a register of the most able children, an initiative that she says promotes equality, not elitism. Claire Sanders meets her Tucked away on Warwick University's modern campus...

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