Ways and Mensa to get ahead

Warwick University is making a bid to recruit students with 바카라사이트 highest IQ by collaborating with Mensa on a series of short degree-accredited courses.

Mensa, 바카라사이트 society for people with high IQs which celebrates its 50th anniversary next year, has devised eight "enabling courses" which will run from October. Students who successfully complete 바카라사이트 courses - which constitute part of Warwick's open studies programme - will satisfy requirements for entry into university.

Leading Mensans have been signed up as course tutors, including IBM director Chris Frost, scientist Jack Cohen, and Adam Smith Institute president Madsen Pirie. The courses, which cost between Pounds 75 and Pounds 112, include "Attitude", "Effective speaking", "The fundamentals of success" and "Creative writing".

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Madsen Pirie, 바카라사이트 think tank supremo who lists Mensa as one of his recreations in his Who's Who entry, has prepared a course entitled "Thinking". Delivered by distance learning, it proposes to test 바카라사이트 brain cells of every untutored Mensan by covering Newtonian thinking, Euclidean geometry, and Popper's account of scientific method. There are more than 40,000 members of 바카라사이트 society, each with an IQ higher than 147. An IQ of 150 is statistically considered that of a genius.

Sir Clive Sinclair, chairman of British Mensa, said 바카라사이트 courses are "바카라사이트 ideal channel for Mensa's bank of talent and creative energy".

Anticipating an influx of geniuses on to Warwick's part-time degree courses, John Moorhouse, Warwick's short courses officer, said: "These new programmes will provide a stimulus for people who may previously have felt excluded."