Britain's elite universities are mysterious institutions, never more so than when it comes to the finances of Oxford and Cambridge universities and their constituent colleges. But this week's Oxford...
Sally Hunt is to be congratulated on winning the election for one of the most important jobs in British higher education. An effective general secretary for the Association of University Teachers is...
So-called "scientific creationism" is not science ("Creationists bid for status on campus", THES , March 22). It is simply a Christian apologetic for reading the first few chapters of Genesis...
Your front page and leader ("Time for government to curb creationist call", THES , March 22) assume that "science" alone has to make its case against the claims of creationists. Philosophers and...
In a week when the Quality Assurance Agency inspection format is announced and the joint negotiating committee for higher education staff reports encouraging progress, a curriculum issue forces its...
I was disappointed to see that your leader featured the obligatory sideswipe at postmodernism. Postmodernist scholars, who differ in method and political commitment, have become the bogeyman of...
The THES insists that schools should not get funding if they do not "teach modern science". This assumes that teaching creationism will harm science and produce bad citizens. We need empirical...
Sir Isaac Newton's Christian view of science is still well worth defending on the 5th anniversary of his death (Diary, THES , March 22). The traditional Christian view of science was mainly...
If creationism is to be taught alongside evolution, will the account be that the world arose from the union of a male and female deity, or from a conflict between two generations of gods, or from the...
In a multi-faith society, it is surprising that creationism is assumed by your paper to be solely a Christian philosophy. Despite some sharing of creation theories among Judaism, Christianity and...
Your report last week ("UUK warns of cut to core", THES , March 22) says that universities will see their core teaching funds cut next year. The increase for inflation that we apply to core funds is...
Encouraging academics to apply their intellect beyond discipline research to their teaching is much more than "learning new tricks" as your headline implies ("You can teach an old don new tricks",...
Professor Lapping's experience of peer observation of teaching (Laurie Taylor THES , March 22) invites sympathy. In Poppleton's exercise, however, Derek abuses the process. Such "feedback" is counter...
Mark Griffiths (Letters, THES , March 22) finds fault with our citation count (Letters, THES , March 1). He is wrong in the detail but we did have trouble with initials. All the more extraordinary...
Loud cheers for Universities UK's apparent acceptance ("Access myths refuted", THES , March 22) that "better-off students profit by taking out interest-free student loans". Interest subsidies do not...