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  1. Letter: Let's be clear about creationism 2

    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...

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  2. Letter: Let's be clear about creationism 3

    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...

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  3. Letter: Let's be clear about creationism 4

    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...

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  4. Letter: Let's be clear about creationism 5

    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...

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  5. Letter: Let's be clear about creationism 6

    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...

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  6. Letter: Let's be clear about creationism

    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...

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  7. Letter: Let's be clear about creationism 8

    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...

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  8. Letter: Facts on figures 1

    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...

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  9. Letter: Facts on figures 2

    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",...

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  10. Letter: Facts on figures 3

    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...

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  11. Letter: Citation revelation

    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...

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  12. Letter: Subsidies don't work 1

    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...

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  13. Letter: Subsidies don't work 2

    The government justifies loans on the grounds that students, over their lives, are likely to earn more than enough to repay it. As the proportion of young people entering higher education nears 50...

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  14. Letter: Middlesex job truth

    Marie Owens's claim that 90 posts have been lost "mostly through not filling vacancies" is incorrect (Letters, THES , March 22). Since June, there have been 43 voluntary redundancies, two involving...

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  15. Letter: Stress buster

    I am surprised that the University of Dundee is moving to a two-semester model with assessment at the end of each period (For the record, THES , March 22). Staff at the University of Huddersfield are...

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