Good God, there is more to faith than IQ 1
Richard Lynn has found that fewer academics believe in God than does the general population ("High IQ turns academics into atheists", 12 June). I would expect those with higher IQs to have developed...
Richard Lynn has found that fewer academics believe in God than does the general population ("High IQ turns academics into atheists", 12 June). I would expect those with higher IQs to have developed...
To suggest that low belief in religion is due simply to high intelligence is to oversimplify a complex causation that includes, as all behaviour does, inherited and environmental factors. Among the...
Does IQ explain academics' lack of belief?: does presumption of an affirmative answer suggest lack of academic rigour?Gavin Wort, Newcastle upon Tyne.
The articles by Lee Harvey and Higher Education Academy chief executive Paul Ramsden (Opinion, 12 June) are contrasting and instructive.Ramsden persists in claiming that the new "academic council"...
I was interested in your article "The Nottingham Two and the War on Terror: which of us will be next?" (5 June) but surprised by the interpretation of events that was offered.Inevitably, any arrests...
Yes GuildHE and Million+ do differ ("Pride comes before the fallout", 12 June), but we think in common about unlocking talent and giving chances.Million+ is a university think-tank and rightly keeps...
Readers may be puzzled why my resignation from the Nottingham University and College Union committee was newsworthy, since local officers' departures don't usually garner national attention (Campus...
You report my conversation with The Sunday Times regarding my sense, which is backed by that newspaper's statistical analysis, that the 2:2 is becoming an endangered species ("The week in higher...
As a Laurie Taylor fan, I was pleased that you have given him space on your inside pages. Tara Brabazon, professor of media studies ("It's all pants", 12 June, see related article), is a superb...
It is not the case that "research in some areas of medicine, such as dermatology, rheumatology and gynaecology - which rarely appear in top journals - will disappear from Imperial (College London...

A move to put research on a sustainable footing was keenly embraced by all sides, but disagreements over implementation are hindering progress. Zoe Corbyn reports
It's time American academics engaged in public debate about the legacy of the past century and tried to help heal the rift between the Old and the New Worlds, historian Tony Judt tells Matthew...

Storm in a test tube - Everyone wants sustainable research, but tensions are simmering over where the money goes

Athenian art lauding men's sexual relations with beardless youth still unsettles, says Simon Goldhill
A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair. By Stephen Wall. Oxford University Press 240pp, £20.00. ISBN 9780199284559. Published 24 April 2008If ever there was an insider's...