Correct English

I write to correct a factual error in Claire Sanders' article, "Funders act on English report" (THES, June 16). The English Association, although it has a large individual membership in schools and universities, is not "the main body representing English in universities"; the representative body is the Council for College and University English. The council is preparing a detailed report on the Teaching Quality Assessment exercise for English, based on a questionnaire to departments concerned, to be released this summer, and which we hope will provide a measured contribution to the debate.

David Punter

Chair, CCUE