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Steve Fuller urges us to judge the continued viability of proposals from the Robbins report in terms of the best exploitation of ¡°human capital - or talent¡± (¡°Intellectual fruit of neoliberal seedbed¡±, Letters, 24 October). For?talent, why not use the concept of intelligence, which is at least measurable?

The idea of supporting ¡°non-university education that is sensitive to other forms of talent¡± could be strengthened by employing Howard Gardner¡¯s notion of ¡°multiple intelligences¡±. This would satisfy those educationalists who are fearful of g, the well-established general factor of intelligence.

R.?E. Rawles
Honorary research fellow in psychology
University College London