King's College London (KQC) newsletter
CVCP RESPO DS TO THE "PERSISTENT A D PERNICIIOUS SAPPING OFTHEVITALITY OF THE SYSTEM" The CVCP re ponse to the Go emment' Green Paper et out the ca e for a trong and forward-looking university y tern in 'The Future of the Univer itie " publi hed on January 23 1986.
Mr Mauril:e Shock, hairman of the C P aid "When the Go ernment embarked on its programme of cuts in 19 I we aid that it was profoundly misguided, that it wa a mi take to sacrifice tho e thing which Britain i really good at and to prejudice our future supply of highly skilled and educated people. We said then it was 'a kind of madness for the Government to be planning a destructive onslaught on the universities'. Five years later our view has not changed, but the gravity of our ituation most certainly has." ''The Government a ks for more and more, but think it can provide less and less without adulterating the quality of what is produced. Universities undoubtedly represent value for money as an investment in the country's future and in that of our children and grandchildren. Certainly for the money spent on them the universities of thi country are of a quality which can be matched only with difficulty anywhere in the world."
nal skill' which higher education provides. I in natIOnal mtere t that the number of home students in the univer itie hould be maintained. ThiS 1~ a mode t enough obJcctive and it is feaSible.
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Student Award There must be an awards cheme which will encourage ,tudents to enter higher education, is chcap and imple to adminiter and will guarantee an adequate level of finance for their academic tudy. Student Union There is strong upport for student union and the framework they provide for selteducation through the intellectual, sporting, political and recreational activities that complement academic pursuits. School Curriculum The CVCP strongly supports reform of the sixth form curriculum and welcomes the start being made with AS levels. It accepts that chools must continue to provide an educational base for all children.
The main point of the Paper are as follows:
Academic Standard Universities are confident that their academic tandards are equal to the highest in the world but they al 0 accept that their procedures for maintaining and monitoring those standards should be made more public.
Student umbers Present policie are calculated to reduce the output of graduates by about 14% by the la te 1990s. Compared with its maJ or economic competitors the UK has a smaller proportion of its work force with first degrees.
Research niversities carry ou t most of the country's fundamental re earch and are increa ingly involved in its application. This research is of the greatest importance to the nation and the universities have pursued it over the years with distinction.
The economic and social recovery of the country should not be impeded by a lack of people with the intellectual and perso-
Copies of the full document can be consulted in the Main Library on each site, or in the Information Office on the Strand.
Cooking in Zanskar - a photograph from a student's trip to the Himalayas. Report and picture on page three. A no AL MARCH 12
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Have you thought of giving up smoking or are you a 'side-stream' smoker wishing your colleague would break the habit? Look out for the leaflets, posters and badges around the college on March 12. ow may not be your moment to give up smoking, but try to cut down and plan to give up at the end of the summer term. Most of us leave the pollution of London for a week or more for a well earned break, o leave your cigarettes in the smog this summer and return without them for the new academic year in October 1986. Let's aim to make King's the first nosmoking college in Britain. Any offers of help or suggestions for National No-Smoking Day March 12 would be much appreciated. Sister Harrison, Medical Centre, Chelsea Campus
TRODUCING THE KING'S COLLEGE CAREERS ADVISERS This academic year the University Career Advisory Service introduced a new team of Careers Advisers to King's with the aim of co-ordinating the service it pro ides at Chel ea, Kensington and Strand, and of actively promoting the employment of King's graduates througlDut the public and private sector. Dr eil Harris - the senior career advi er a graduate in Physics who joined the Career Advisory Service after a career in industrial and academic research in metallurgy and material science, came to King's after eight in charge of the Careers Service at Imperial College. In addition to his work as a careers adviser Neil writes extensively about many aspects of graduate employment. Mrs Anne Avant recently returned to careers advisory work after a spell at Senate House where she was the University Redeployment Advi er. A graduate in Philosophy, her early career was in educationa psychology research in the USA and personnel management in industry. Anne has worked in the careers advisory service at L.S.E., Queen Mary College and University College. ow she is advising students at the Strand site and also at Westfield College. Miss Dinah Langley graduated in Law and her wide ranging career includes a stint recruiting for local government, as an as istant in the legal department of the British Standards Institution, librarian and helping to run an international magazine. She first became involved in careers advisory work when she joined the l.L.E.A. Careers Service. Currently advising students at the Strand office of the Careers Service, she also has experience of careers work in many other University of London colleges. Mr Derek Mortimer, a graduate in Electrical Engineering started his career as an engineer in the aircraft indu try. Later he became Training Manager and Man power Adviser to British Airways, and then worked for the Institution of Electrical Engineers giving advice on career development and continuing education to their members. Derek is currently advising students at the Kensington and Chelsea site. Dr Sue Dirmikis needs no introduction to King's College. After graduating in Mathematics and Chemistry in her native ew Zealand and spending some time as a teacher, she came to King's to research for her Ph.D. in Biochemistry. Sue then spent six years doing research into thyroid disease at Sheffield University before returning to become a careers adviser at Queen Elizabeth College eight years ago. Since then she has worked as careers
adviser at both Kensington and Strand a well a gaining considerable experience in the career advi ory ervice of many other college of the niver ity. Dr Harris comment on job prospects for graduates in this edition.
EMBERSHIP OF CO MITTEES - 1985/86 STUDE T AFFAIRS A D WELFARE COMMITTEE The Dean (Chairman) Sub-Deans of Faculties 2 members appointed by the Academic Board Or CC lsoz Or W A Ross The General Secretary of the Union of Students 6 members nominated by the Union of Students To be nominated A representative of the Wardens and Senior Academic Residents in Halls Professor S G Hall The Senior Tutors Or A Marsh (Kensington) Or S L Hart (Chelsea) In attendance Accommodation Officer Student Advisers Committee Secretary Deputy Registrar
AMENITIES COMMITTEE Professor H Baum (Chairman) Members appointed by the Council Or M J Laird Or R C Poller DrW A Ros Or J E ichola Professor H J V Tyrrell Professor P B Gahan Mr J V MuiI The Dean of the College One staff member and one student member nominated by the Joint Sports Ground Committee Or C Wilkinson To be nominated One member nominated by the Rogate Management Committee To be nominated The Chairman, and one student nominated by each Local Amenities Group, such
Groups to be established at each of the 3 Campus sites To be nominated One staff member and one student member nominated by the Bars SubCommittee To be nominated The Chairman, one Hall Manager and 2 students nominated by the Residences Sub-Committee To be nominated 2 members nominated by the Union of Students To be nominated In attendance Finance Officer Site Administrator (Chelsea) Site Administrator (Kensington) Secretary College Secretary Committee Officer Senior Assistant Secretary (Mr G T Hughes)
BUILDINGS COMMITTEE The Vice-Principal (Chairman) 4 members appointed by the Council Profes or P F Stott Dr R H Bassett Professor P J Black Or C F Thurston 4 members appointed by the Academic Board Or R G Price Professor 0 Ganderton Professor M J H Smith Or GB WayweU The General Secretary of the Union of Students Secretary Finance Officer Estates Officer By invitation Mr M F Sumner, Westfield College Mr A Streek, West field College Students' nion Committee Officer A sistant Secretary (Mr P J Gilbert)
SAFETY POLICY COMMITTEE Profes or H J V Tyrrell (Chairman) 6 members appointed by the Council Or E C Lightowlers Or J M Wriggjesworth Or A Gibson Professor 0 Ganderton Miss E Mc ally Mr KG Eley
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M RK B ILEY PPE L PROGRESS REPORT In the 1anuary i sue of Comment Ioutlined the effect of multiple sclerosi on Mark Bailey. a techOlcian 10 King' College Pharmacy Department who, at the age of 2 will be forced to give up his career. In the article I uggested that a financial appeal to help Mark begin the new difficult chapter 10 hI ragile life would glve him material and psychological comfort. My inference that the c.ollection for Mark would demonstrate a sen e of community in the newly merged college has clearly struck a chord. Comments I have received have emphasi ed what I can best ummarise a a rich vein of fellow hip which existed at King's, Queen EUlabeth and helsea Colleges and that we wish this goodwill to be incorporated into our current way of life. The response in the two week since my article has given me the impression that Mark ha become under the care of an enlarged famI.1y. Daily I have been touched by the genero ily of individual donations and the warrrth of the letters which have been sent so far. Over ÂŁ. 50 has been collected. I have spoken to Mark about his immediate needs. It is dear that he misse his freedom of movement mo t of all. I have therefore set a target of 14 5 which will pay for an electric wheelchair. One way or another I expect that we shall rea(;h that target and that in so doing King's 'ollege London (KQC) will be the ri(;her for it. I intend to close the appeal for individual donations at the end of March. fle.ase contribute to the Mark Bailey ppeal, c/o Ken Bromfield, Biochemistry Department, Biochemistry Department. Cheques hould be made payable to King' College London. Thank you Ken BromField
'Where d 'you catch the number 66 to Zanskar?' 'Where's Zanskar?' ven t the height of the Raj, British artograph r were unable [Q penetr te to thlS mo t 1 olated of mountam kmgdoms, nor even to name it corre tly. Many atla e and maps till all it Zaskar: but as we trekked to the highe t InhabIted vaUe 10 the world, we reall ed that we were travelling beyond the boundaries of over a millenium of world history, to a land laid bare by sun and now. Several year ago the BBC made a do umentary about this Shangri-La in Western Ladakh, impenetrable except over mountain range which wall it in on all sides or along It torrent's frozen cour e during winter. A cUm b to even teen thousand feet was needed to get there, which seemed a little more than our normal ugu t stroll along the pier at Southend. And so it proved to be. Our jumping-off point was Snnagar, and in the sultry evening we Jumped of our house-boat into the dark, cool, green lake, assured by our host of' 0 problem'. 0thing is con idered a problem in India, lea t of which is the open ewer in which we swam. A one wise local doctor put it, 'Goodness gracious, it kills us poor Indians ... : I don't know what it gets up to in the English belly. ' Srinagar 'Seven-8tep' aside, three climbers, one guide and three pony-boys drove a hundred miles east, ever c10 er to the Great Himalayan Range which we had come to conquer. In keeping with Ka hmir! tradition, we had a bowl of tea before we "et off, which for the gourmet is a mixture of boiled 'green' tea and butter, not to mention alt, bicarbonate and a lot of sugar. It was enough to get anyone going! By the end of the fir t day we had climbed over four thousand feet and camped at thirteen thousand feet c10 e to the top of the Pas. . the un dipped into the layer of du t which had ri en above the vast Indian plains behind us, the mountains reflected its aura of red, which somehow penetrated beyond the imagination into the very depth of the soul. Suddenly we were pre ented with our first medical problem. Hassan, the chief pony-boy. came to us, forearms covered with a horrible rash. After a lot of que tion , it was discovered that Hassan's diet was limited to polished rice and goat meat, and it was concluded that the cause of the disorder wa vitamin deficiency. One look
at hi gums ... and treatment started. A t the summit of the first pass, sheltering from the hail beneath a rock, we not only found the rare blue Himalayan poppy. but al 0 the ominous portent of a past expedition, a pile of hominoid ... or were they Yeti ... bones? t this point, our great Indian guide, a Tensing-like figure, came to us, complaining both of gastric fever and other 'complications', including hypertension (180/150): we both thought he too would drop dead soon unless he received treatment. However, in keeping with Indian cliches, we both insisted that there was' 0 problem " and after a brief halt we started up the Wardwan Valley, deeper into the Himalayas. The la t village we reached was Inshin, before our assault on Nun-Kun, a twenty-four thousander, lording over Zan kar. Here we met the local doctor, to whom we off-loaded some of our exce tablets which we had so providently packed. On taking a stroll around the village, we were impressed by the existence of a local convenience but horrified. not only by its tate of repair, but also by it position: at the top of the village striding the water supply. It later transpired that the village wa plagued by amoebic dyssentry, with forty-two ca es alone that year to date, and it uddenly began to dawn on us that many of India' problems did not stem primarily from a lack of medical care, but rather from a hypocritical lack of primary health care, some, of the most basic 'sanitary' kind. The disadvantage of having treated Hassan so successfully was that the mountains soon echoed with reports of 'Dr Living-
stone's great medical powers'. Camp was soon swamped with mountain herdsmen crying out for the attention of the 'Sahib " including many with cateracts and severe disformities which really needed urgent surgical attention. Soon our own supply of antibiotics and ga tro-intestinal tablets had all but gone. Eventually we reached the base of the vast Bobang Glacier over which we had to pa s, and pitched our tent in the hope of better weather. At dawn we saw, and beheld, a black horse and it rider cro ing the wift flowing torrent at the base of the glacier. He rode alone with a bag on his back carefully balanced in his hand: perhaps it was some fresh goat meat for sale. He entered our camp, dismounted, and cautiously opened his bag. We leant down to look, and there was an infant very ill with mumps. All we had was a dwindling store of antibiotics, and we got out our last course of tablets. We then communicated to the father that although a continuous course for at least a week might prevent a secondary infection, warmth, food and drink were the best medicine. As quietly as he had come, he left us and an old hepherd uddenly appeared in his place, who offered to guide u up the glacier between the treacherous crevasses. Grateful for his help we reached the top of the pass, and took our first glimpse of the frozen twin peaks of un-Kun. The old hepherd had now left us, and our guide had no idea which way to go. The weather rapidly closed in and it began to snow. We started climbing Bobang before it wa realised we had lost our way, and after an hour of panic from our guide, we ended up in glorioLls rout down towards Zanskar. At mneteen thousand feet, concentration on anything is impos ible, and only one thmg seems to be important: survival.
Thu we reached Zanskar, a land Without trees, where the yak is man's only means of urvival. He eats it as meat wears Its kins as clothes, and uses its droppings as fuel to keep alive in a land both of intense I radiation in the summer, and indescribable cold in the winter, when temperatures fall below -40 C. At the foot of un-Kun, we came across a road, and along that road we caught a bus: yes, they do have a bus of a kind, if not the number 66, to Zanskar. And it was by this route that we left for Leh ... and civilization: what a come-down! Charles Ashworth BSc Pharmacology (1 st year)
LEUKAEMIA RESEARCH AT THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DE TISTRY How and why the disease of Leukaemia develops i still not fully understood by do tor today. However, thanks to a research grant from the Cancer Research Campaign of ÂŁ49,441, research at the School of Medicine and Dentistry by Dr Farzin Farzaneh of the Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine, Dept of Obstetrics and Gynaecology may be leading to a much greater comprehension of this form of cancer. It i known that in certain types of leukaemic cells, maintained in the laboratory, it i possible to partially overcome the leukaemic state by exposing the cells to appropriate drugs. However, the way in which the drugs change this state is not really known. Dr Farzanch has isolated from the drug re pan ive cells, a number of mutants unable to re pond to the drugs. D A fragment which have been separated from normal cells are now being introduced into the mutant cells. Thus a small number of the mutants will acquire a normal copy of the gene in which they were defective and therefore become responsive to the drug. A cheme ha been developed for the identification and propagation of the e cells. Dr Farzaneh anticipates that they will then be able to Identify and isolate the gene or genes who e function is required for the reversal of the leukaemic tate in these cell. The Identification of uch a gene will make a major contribution to the understanding of leukaemia and improve the eventual prospect of therapy for this disease.
OUR VISITOR CO TI UES The Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr Robert Runcie ha graciously accepted the Council's invitation to continue as Visitor for a further term of office.
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THE FIRST COLLEGE MAY BALL Have many of you felt a little disappointed by the lack of any major Ball in the College calendar? Well you are not alone! We thought it was about time that an official College Ball was initiated and what better time to start a tradition than this year - the first full year of the new College. The Ball is to be held on Saturday 3rd May at the Savoy Hotel and promises to be a unique evening. The tickets are open to all mem bers of the College and we hope it will provide an opportunity for staff and students from all campuses to mix in a pleasant and relaxed atmosphere. Obviously a major consideration is cost! We felt that as the first Ball of its kind, it should be an event befitting the tradition of the old colleges. It may seem, at
first, that £55 a double ticket is expensive, but if you think about it, the Ball does offer:
GRADUATE JOB PROSPECTS BRIGHTE J ob vacancies for graduate are 4 per cent
higher this year than last, according to the annual urvey of the As ociation of Graduate Career Advisory Services. More employer are looking for graduates and, with output from universities down this year, the total pool of graduates looking for Jobs will, in 1986, for the first time be no bigger than in the previous year. Commenting on the survey, Or eil Harris, Head of the areers Advisory Service at King's said, 'This should be a good year for our students seeking employment. While opportunities in manufacturing ind ustry are sligh lly lower, th ose in the service sector - particularly finance are higher. Civil Service recruitment is stable at around 3500 graduate of all disciplines, H.M. Forces and the Police are recruiting strongly. Soon there will be a desperate shortage of teachers - not just in Physics and Mathematics. Vacancies in Account:· ing and Software are booming and those in retailing are at a high leve!.' The survey doe stress, however, that graduate still need to be f1exible in their approach to job-hunting. Recruitment i still very competitive and there are serious employment problems in many parts of the cou n try.
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Tickets are available from the Principal's Secretary, Strand Campus and from the Site Secretaries on Kensington and Chel ea campuses. We would very much like to see the Ball become an annual event - but this depends very much on the support this event
GOOD WISHES FROM THE CARDI AL One of the features of King's is the way the ha plains of different Christian denominations work so closely together. A dramatic expression of this ecumenical spirit was in evidence at the farewell ervice for Myles Tempany. A Roman Catholic Mass was celebrated in the Colleg Chapel, at which the Dean preached and at which everyone was made to feel totally at home. Even Cardinal Hume was present in spirit. He wrote to the Dean of the ollege asking him 'to express my admiration and gratitude to Myles Tempany for his 40 years service to King's College.'
LECTURES. MEETINGS AND SEMINARS
POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR IN GUAGE A D MODERN GREEK L LITERATURE
A PUBLIC LECTURE IN THE DEPARTME T OF SP ISH
THE CHELSEA LECTURE
Tuesday II March ATI E HISTORIES OF THE EW WORLD Professor Gordon Brotherston, Univer ity of Essex S.30pm, Room IB23, Strand Campus
Tuesday 18 March SCIE CE IS OT E OUGH Sir Monty Finniston, F.Eng., FRS S.OOpm, Main Lecture Theatre, Hud on Building, 552 King s Road, Chelsea campus This is the first of the annual site lectures.
A PUBLIC LECTURE IN THE DEPART MENT OF PORTUGUESE Thursday 13 March THE I TRUSIO OF ROMA TICISM: E~a de Queir6s and Machado de Assis by Alberto de Lacerda, Professor of Poetics, Boston University S.30pm, Room 3BOI, Strand Campus
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Tuesday 2S February MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPME T I THE VIS UAL SYSTEM Professor C Blakemore, University of Oxford S.30pm, The New Theatre, &rand campus
Monday 24 February THE BYZ TI E GODFATHER: Spiritual Ties of Kinship by Ruth Macride, niversity of St Andrews and Queen's University of Belfa Monday 3 March XORKIA: Spells in Greece and their Relation to Orthodoxy by Charle Stewart, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Monday 10 March CA VAFY A 0 HOMER by John Smart, University of Leeds All meetings take place in the Burrows Library, Strand Campus at S.OOpm and are open to all mem ber of the niversity of London and others by invitation or by arrangement with the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.
DEPT OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIE CE SEMINARS A PUBLIC LECTURE I THE DEPART-ME T OF PALAEOGRAPHY Friday 14 March THE ROMA ESQUE MA US RIPT AS OBJECT: Observations and R?ÂŁIections on Binding Structure Michael Gullick, The Red Gull Press S.30pm, Room 3B20, Strand Campus
A PUBLIC LECTURE IN THE F ACULTY OF THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES Tuesday I 1 March WHAT 0 EARTH IS THE CHURCH FOR: Institution, Event or Eschaton? Mr J M Todd, Visiting Professor, Riculty of Theology and Religious Studies. 4.30pm, Room IB22, Strand Campus
Wednesday 19 February DO SETS A 0 MBERS EXIST I PHYSICAL WORLD? Or 0 A Gillies, King's
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Wednesday 26 February THE AGGREGATIO PROBLEM Professor C W Kilmister, King's Wednesday S March GERGO E AND SOME OTHER PEOPLE ON IMPLICIT DEFINITIO Or W Hodges, Queen Mary College Wednesday 12 March EXPLANATIO I COMPUTATIO AL PSYCHOLOGY: Level I.5 Professor C Peacocke, King's
Tue day 2S February THEATRE CO VE TIO SAD THE POETICS OF OLD COMEDY. An Introduction Professor G M Sifakis S.30pm, G6, Institute of Classical Studies, 31 - 34 Gordon Square, London WCI Seminar at the Institute of Classical Studies Tuesday 10 March TOWARDS A MODER POETICS OF OLD COMEDY Professor GM Sifakis 4.30pm, Room 612, Institute of Classical Studies, 31 34 Gordon Square, London WCl
Tuesday 4 March CO CEPTUAL COMPUTI G: Using PRO LOG a a Medium for Teaching Humanities Students about Computers and the Mind Or S teve Torrance, Visiting Lecturer, Cognitive Studies Programme, University of Sussex 6.00pm, Room GOS, Strand Campus Friday/Sunday 21/23 March CO FERE CE 0 HISTORY A 0 COMPUTING Westfield College Further information from Or P R Denley, West field College
2.1Spm, Room 1B06, Strand Campus
THE ROYAL SOCIETY PUBLIC LECTURE AT THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
SEMINAR IN HUMANITIES COMPUTING
Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 F~:bruary QUA TITIVE ASPECTS OF THE ECOLOGY OF BIOLOGICAL I VASIO S Organised by Sir Hans Kornberg, fiRS and Profes or M H Williamson Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 March THE JET PROJECT A 0 THE PROSPECT FOR CONTROLLED UCLEAR FUSIO Organised by Or R S Pease, FRS, Or PH Rebut and Dr R J Bickerton 6 Carlton House Terrace, London SWl Registration is required for both these meetings. Programmes, registration forms and other information on all meetings in the Society's programme are available from Miss CA Johnson at the above address. Tel: 018395561 ext 278/277.
Tho e interested in receiving regular detail of the activities of the Seminar in Humanities Computing should write to Professor RA Wisbey, Dept of German, Strand Campus or to Mr Francois Crompton-Roberts Computer nit, Westfield College.
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR MARITIME HISTORY "I'ueBday 4 March A BRIEF ACCOU T OF THE EXPA SIO OF THE JAPA ESE SHIPPI G I DUSTRY Or P Davies, University of Liverpool S.OOpm, History Dept, Strand Campus Light refreshments will be served. It would be helpful to the organisers if those intended to come, would give their names to Mr David Procter, ational Maritime Museum - 01 858 4422.
1b.e Labour Party and the Universities In the econd of a new eries of intervtew with national figure in the field of higher education, Mr Giles Radice, the Labour. Party poke man on education, deals with que tions raised in a recent inteniev.' by Ray Footman, Director of Information & PR ervtce at the Cnh'ersity of Edinburgh tlCXJbwry to c pe v.,rh chan eof mandator. awards and aI 0 higher education and expand to look at the tra\ el grant arir Keith)o eph has de crimdu tnal technological and It I want the upport of laI-and unle we ha\e a ran emen Th are the three bed the cornerstone of the people m higher edu atlon for Gm:ernment' current polar \\ hile I've gOt me _m· decent uppl} of graduate we our plans and for our polICle icy on universitie as being hall be In reat trouble m thl path\' with the:\l..' po illon that' the first thing e ondly to maintain and where po countn and what Ir Kellh on remonng parental contnhowever. I think we do need butl n I cannot pretend thal It ible improve quality, with eem io be propo 109 in the to raise rhe profile of hIgher Green Paper i I believe a re, a light hift in emphasis would be a major pnority or education generally I think towards dence, engineerClpe for nauonal declIne that I \"ould be able to argue people in higher education have that It hould be a mal I' pri 1" ing and technology all ~ith not been ve~' good at eUmg in a demographic decline In a recent peech ~eil KinIry them elve, explaining .....h} among t the traditional higher education i nece . nock ignalled his intention Given that, and that there ~. and so important I think entry age group for univerto 'restore level funding' to will inevitably be a clash in sitie . the Re earch Councils and they need a bit of help in doing demands upon re ource , 0, Univer itie . It was not altodo you see any role whatCould I tart by aying what I gether dear to me at that time oever for some sort of parthink ought to happen, ir Kelth what was meant by level funDo you have any pecific tial loan system. particularly Jo eph i trying to u e the fact ding. Are we talking about items in mind there? , , , for students not in a position of a decline in the number of the po ition before the volI think there is a lightly VICIOUS to get the money which I \'ear old a an excu e for ume cuts in 1980, level funcircle f< I' them because there should come to them under cutting back on finance going ding as it exists now or how are many people v.no believe the parental contribution to unh'ersities and pol~technics it will be at the time of the tem that our higher education element?,. , I think that is ab olute non, next election when presumi onh' for an elite and there, Of cour e there i a bank loan sen e and i a ve~ tupid ably the base line will have fore do not ee the nece i~ .' tern already operating and strategy ~1~ strategy would be gone down by perhap anfor it There I n't the political no d ubt that will go on, but I an entirelv different one and it other IO'\-? upport for it that there I , ay don't ee am' likelihood of the would u the g Iden oppor, That' what's. appallmg about for the primary and e ond~ introduction of any wrt of partunity pro\lded by the declin, the Conservath'e cut m mr tern and I think you start off tial loan y tern when there i!o commg Labour Governme'nt IS 109 number of I ~ ear old to with a major difficul~·-that's a Labour Government. because expand acc 10 higher educa, gomg to be faced with an extra· why I think Y u need to ha\'e there are a number of objec· tion and 10 provide opportuniordinarii,' difficult iruation be' a po ition whJCh i more e ' tions as you know to a loan '~. Ik~ for Iho~e who had mis ed au~e, a.~ you rightl~ pointed pan ioni t and le narrow tern. These are to do v.ith v.-ne, out first time and to expand con, out. it I a que tion of hanng haVing aid that. what I very ther thi would in fa t stop, or cuI for a number of years---<:ut, tinued education Those would often feel about higher educa· act as a di incentive 10, people CUI and cut again, Our taning tion, i that higher educationbe my priori tie , Of course. I going on to higher education want to preserve standards and, point in di cu ing re ource ali ts--e pecially in tho e un iand with the heer co t of the i what kind of higher educa, if nece ary. impro\'e them, , , , versitie which believe the.... thing, which has actually tOption pro\'i ion do we want to Quite hone tly I find the GO\" may not be in any great dilliped thi pre ent Governmenl ee in the future, In our judge, ernment's policy extremely cuities-- lightly tend to take from going ahead with a loan ment this means repairing the depres ing, I know people in for granted their role in socie~' sy tern, There are a lot of imdamage inflicted by this Gov· higher education do and I think and that people lhink they are practicalitie in it and argu, ernment' cuts, but it also means we will be mis ing a great opuseful and don't argue the case, ments against it and I think it that we will want to have the portunity if we do not take ad, The fact i that now their very is \'e~' unlikely that it will ever re ource to moth'ate and re\'antage of the falling number of existence is under threat and come back on the agenda, ward those coUege making the 18 year old to expand acce s they need to come out of their Can I refer to your own rekind of changes--widening ac· \'ery con iderablr. corner, together, and that doe cent speech about HELPce and expanding continuing mean that the Edinburghs have Higher Education for the edu ation-we think are de ir' What sort of criteria do you got to help the Brunei , They Labour Party. Would you able It is important that the have in mind when you talk need to come out of the corner characterise this basically as higher education communit}' about expanding acce for together lighting for higher edu, a Labour Party attempt to under tand that it will be 18 year olds, the traditional cation as a whole, It has been galvanise electoral upport ea ier for a Labour ecretarv very easy in the past, frankly, age group of univer ity enamongst the academic and of .tate to make the ca e fo'r trants? for any ecretary of tate to tudent community or as a higher edu ation to receive I think that the criteria I would divide and rule, becau e I can Labour Party attempt to focus use i the abilit\, to benefit more rcsourc if th changes ju t almo t imagine the con· the minds of the electorate are introduced, vel' ation that ometime go from higher education; the e more exactly on the importon , . , "Oh well, we're going were the criteria which, as \'ou ance of higher education? know, were put fOlv,ard by 'the o you would regard that in to be alright, we don't need to Both, In rhis world one doe so far as it i a commitment bother about tho e other uni, L'GC and :" B in their joint not alway have one objective, not to let the base line level document They pointed out vel' itie who aren't any good one ve~' often has twO objeclip further and hopefully anyway" . , . that kind of stuff that the A le\'el re ult were tive and in this case we do to re tore part of it? not nece sarily the he t pre, There is too much of that in have rwo objecrives, I mean Ye higher education and [ think dictor of performance in higher we are in bu ine s, we are not in the end if you per i t in it. it education I am ure that i in a debating sociery, we are in Thank you. Can I turn to will lead to a di aster for you right Of cour e. typically. the business to get political supanother area of funding that , , , I think it i pretty amazing GO\'ernment qualify the ability port and we won't be able to affects higher education? there isn't a higher education to benefit criteria so hea\'ily as do things unless we get some That' on the student grant to almost make them almo t lobby, I think it'S perhaps indi· support and I want support system, .. cative of the ituation we have meaninglcs~, If we are con· from higher education for the , , , I think our major Immt'di· at the moment is that you are <:erned to have a properl)' edu· Labour Party. They've Increas· atl' priority Is to try and restore actually eparate-lhat there catcd nation, we need to in· ingly rejected the policie of the Ie\ cl of ~tudent grant. The Isn't an overall organisation erea~e vcI) ~uh'lantjall} the this Government and I \-vant 10 \'alue of ~llldent grant~ ~Iippt:d that repre ent~ both polytechnumher of graduatt:~. hecau,e show that we belic\'e in the hack, if \ ou 'ee what I said m nics and universitie~ Quite gradL1atc~ prm'ide an es~entlal Importance of higher educa· the TIIE.~ re<.entl\', vou will ~ce ha,h for our pro~peritr as a amazing and it i again easy in tion. that we've got realistic that i~ m} major 'preoccupation my view for any politician to nation -n,t:\ ha\ C the skill~. the and coherent plans to improve and to extend tht: co\'erage intelligellc~, the ahilit}, Ihe divide you.
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'ithin Labour Party policy d there remain a notional distinction between the roles of the univer ity ector and the polytechnic one--or in cotland, central institution ".? I think unh'ersities are likelv to concemrate more on re e~rch than polytechnic but I ha\'e een ome good re~earch done 10 polytechnic, 0 I think one houldn't ignore the comribu· tion on that pOint of polytech· ni .. I have to av that I believe that the polytechnic ha\'e a trong case when they argue for a common unit of resource for teaching purpose , and I think that universities will have to come IQ term with that. I am not thinking in terms of levelling down the basic grant but I do believe that the poly· technic have a trong case. ou would eem to support therefore the moves . . . to define more exactly what the notional aJlocation are to research in the universities? e , I do. I think universities on't be able for much longer to hide behind a general son of confusion over what the fa tS really are. noticed in your recent peech you had a few harsh things to say about the Uniersity Grants Conunittee. If you were quoted correctly I think you described them as "incompetent, sec:-etive, not properly re rt.. entive and that they nt: ded to be completely recast" ... . . I am not sure whether lac· n.ally used the word 'incompe· tem', but all the other adjectives '>.'ould tand I think they are an inaj:''1ropriate body frankly and they have an inappropriate way of going about things for the kind of ituation we are now in and I have to ay that the ucce of the 1 AB ~'av of doing things and its uperior. it\' vis·a·vis the UGC I think, is perhaps a le son for u all and I wam to 'ee the l'GC being very much more like the AB in it. rep re entative capacity and also econdly in the more open way in which it operate, . The line from the GC has I think, in the past been that if they have to make deciions on a basis of quality judgements a purely representative assembly or gathering can sometime make this more difficult? I'\'e heard what they ay but I think perhaps the n~ost' telling condemnation of the l'GC is the way they operated the 1981 cut . They \eemed to be
highl} biased against cenain technologically·oriented uni· versitie-. Tho"e I know were nor strongly represented on the l'GC. In what sen e would you
like to ee the UGC more accountable therefore, and accountable to whom? Well. I think it has got to be more accountable in the "en e of being more open. People ought to know why they are doing things. It i. no good hid· ing behind secrecy; you can't do things like that any longer when talking about public money. It's not their money. it's public money and people wam to see the criteria on which it is allocated. ~ accountable in the sen e of being more open; accountable al 0 in the sense of being more repre· entative, not JUSl of the uni· versities but of lhe intere ts in higher education. Can I turn to academic salaries? I have to declare a personal interest on this one. My wife is a university lecturer.
Putting that totally on one side, what is the Labour Party thinking on the current dispute and, in particular, the concerns that are emerging about whether we are approaching another braindrain situation? Well, as you know on the teachers front we are in fa\'our of an inquif)'. It does seem lO me that the inquif)1 idea may have some relevance too when we are looking at the university side. There i. no doubt that university lecturers have dropped behind and they are even dropping now behind lecturers in polytechnics in their field. The way thing have gone, I think there is a very sound case for an inquif)', which I think is al 0 supported by the Vice· hancellors. Do you think there are elements in the present situation which might lead some people to conclude that a differential salary rate for different categories of academic staff is more appropriate, , .? No, I don't want to enter that contrO\'er y. I think there are trong arguments for continu· ing the present po ition and I don't believe that that' going to be the way forward. \'('e have to tackle the general problem of the fact that universit\· lecturers are falling behind and we can't think we are going to get away with the expen e hy paying ome people more and
forgelling about other lecturers.
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. . . Would you envi age a Labour administration continuing the pre ent government commitment that if an in titution i succe ful in rai ing private money at the margin, then it will not be di advantaged in any hare-out of public funds? Yes. I am not against in"titu· tion gelling money from industf)' and private fund~ a.." long as thi is not an excuse for CUlling back public fund· ing to higher education. a." it seems to be under the pre~el1t administration. I think ine\'itably there are limitation~ on that approach--<.lepending on industry and lhe private -ector -and there are po sibk ruUlgers in it as well, if it goes too far. I think you will recall it was
a Labour ecretary of tate who first introduced the concept of differential fees for overseas tudents ... What line do you envisage the Labour Party taking if they come to office? \X' e need to ha \'C a fre'h look at this whole question of overseas students and what I would like to do is to have a \'en' quick enquLf)' into i!. I am concern<.:d about the situation to· day, about the pOSSibility that we are losing contacts, vef)' imponant contacts in overseas countries by our policy of discriminating apparently against oversea..~ students. On the other hand, clearly we don't have unlimited funds M) the kind of thing I am looking for is a much more generous scholar· ship system which is directed at certain coumries and certain type of students '.vhich would assist the Third World and also be of use to thi country. So that would be an individual need-ba ed sy tern rather than a thorough change in pre ent arrangements? It might be a combination of the two. The Government has igoalled its intention to modify tenure through legislation, though the exact form of legislation is not yet clear, Does the Labour Party accept there i any case for the modification of the pre ent tenure arrangements--which of course vary sub tantially between different universities---<>r not? No. I mean we wouldn't seek to change the basis of the tenure: we've no intention of doing thar.
And you don't think there i' a need for 'performance indicators' or whatever you care to call them, in relation to academic staff performance. I want univer~it\ lecturers and pol} teLhnic lecturer" to be ef· fecti\'e teacher" and I thmk there ma,· well he a case for induction' cour"e" and aho re· fre\her cour"e" in teach 109 technique. I think teaching i~ a very difficult thing which you need experience, expeni~e and ad\'ice in. So I think there may be a c<u e for tha!. Can this country, given the confines of the future economy even within a fairly optimistic reading, afford to invest in basic re earch across a1l the disciplines ... ? There may be "ome case for '>l:'lecthit}', but the general point ahout research i." can we afford not to invest in research, if I could turn the que tion back to you. This i a general argu· ment, i."n't it, about higher edu· cation? Can we afford not to? And I have to say both about research and about higher edu· cation as a whole, it does seem that higher education is very, very imponam for the future economic well·being of the country, and if we start to get into the argument that we can't afford it, then it i~ a sort of self· defeating argument, because if we cut back there we destroy the seedcorn. I think that ap. plie to research as it applie~ 10 higher education ;L~ a whole. In closing can I look back again to the interview that Neil Kinnock gave me three years ago , . , Hi judgement then was that if he had to define a single priority it was the needs of the 16-19 year old age group, There wiU be some in universities who will be a little sceptical about promises in advance of office. Would you still define that as the top priority? Certainly that i. one of the top prioritie~. If I gave my four priorities, the first is to expand nursef)' education. the econd is to tf)' and put .,ome more resources into primary and secondan' education to reduce cl asse , and improve qualit~; the third i the 16- 19 group a.." 'eil Kinnock ha." '>aid, and what he is thinking particularly about are things like educalion maintenance allowancc~. and the fourth is to ensure that our higher education "y"tem i., able to expand access and concentrate on continuing education in the way that I have outlined.
l11is anicle. which incorporates an edited \'er ion of a recent imervie\.... with .\Ir Radice \va~
fir"t published for the l'niver.,ity of Edinburgh Bulletin December 19H5
FOOD SClE CE SEMINARS Wednesday 26 February MILLI G U DER THE MICROSCOPE Mr A D Evers, Flour Milling and Baking Research Association Wednesday 12 March FOOD UTRITIO BEFORE AGRICULTURE - THE ROLE OF ARCHAEOLOGY Dr G C HilIman, Institute of Archaeology London 5.30pm, Food Science Lecture Theatre, Kensington Campus Enq uiries to: Dr J G Vaughan, Department of Food and Nutritional Science, Food Scienc Section, Ken ington Campus
THEORETICAL BIOLOGY SEMINARS Friday 28 February SOLITON-LIKE EXCITATIO SIN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: Their Role in Energy/Information Transfer Dr E Balanowski 4.30pm, Room 423, Strand Campus Friday 14 March REACTIO S I VERY SMALL COMPARTME TS Dr J Wrigglesworth 4.30pm, Room C22, Kensington Campus Friday 2 May VASCULA R TISS UE INITIATIO IN PLA T EMBRYOS A D ITS RELATIONSHIP TO FORM Professor P 'B Gahan 4.30pm, Room C22, Kensington Campus Seminars on the Kensington Campus are followed by informal discussions in the Senior Common Room Bar to which everyone is welcome. If you wish to present a seminar in this series or have comments to make about it, please contact Dr M Bazirj Microbiology Department, Kensington Campus.
SOUTH LONDO RECOMBl A TS: CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY GROUP Tuesday 4 March THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE RAS 0 COGE E Dr Chris Marshall, Institute of Cancer Research 4.30pm, Dental School Lecture Theatre, King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry The South London Recombinants are a Cell and Molecular Biology Group which
came into existance in 1985 with the
aim of providing a forum for scientific discussions amongst the cell and molecular biologists working at King's College Hospital, King's College School of Medicine, the Rayne Institute, the Institute of Psychiatry, the Maudsley Hospital and King's College Laboratories at Half Moon Lane. Anyone wishing any further information regarding the group hould contact Dr Farzin Farzaneh at Denmark Hill. Tel: 2746222 ext 2517/2908
CE TRE OF MEDICAL LAW A D ETHICS LE T TERM LECTURES Monday 3 March THE LIMITS OF THE LAW I REG LATI G MEDICI E The Rt Hon Lord Scarman, OBE Monday 10 March WOME A D MEDICI E Dr Wendy Savage, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologst, The London Hospital Medical School 1.05 - 2.15pm, Room 3820, Strand campu
JOlNT CHRISTlAN FORUM Tuesday 25 February DO WOME PRAY DIFFERE TLY J anet Morley Tuesday 4 March A METHODIST VI W OF SPIRITUALITY Reverend John Newton Tuesday 11 March PRAYER A D THE USE OF leO S Metropo1itan Anthony of Sourozh Tuesday 18 March SPIRITUAL SWOP-SHOP 1.l0pm, Room 6c Strand eampus
SE IOR COMMO ROOM ANNUAL GE ERAL MEETING The Annual General Meeting of the Senior Common Room will be held at 1.30 pm on Thursday 27 February 1986 in the Upper Common Room. lan Harris Chairman
THE MAXWELL SOCIETY Monday 24 February A I TRODUCTIO TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS by Professor M L G Redhead, King's College London (KQC) Monday 3 March LIFE WITHOUT GRA VITY by Professor Heinz Wolff, Brunei University Monday 10 March RED SHIFT OR RED HERRING? by lain icolson, Hatfield Polytechnic Monday 17 March NEUTRON PHYSICS by Dr C Wilkinson, King's College London (KQC) Lectures will be given in Room 2C, Strand Campus, from 2.00 - 3.00pm.
25 YEARS IN BIOPHYSICS / n October 1960 it was announced in , ature' that a new society, The British Biophysical Society, was to be formed, It inaugural meeting was held at King's College in December 1960. The main subjects were muscular contraction and the structure of ribonucleic acid. Professor J T Randall then Wheatstone Professor of Physics at King's was chairman of the subcommittee that organised it. It was Professor Randall who later started the Department of Biophy ic at King's and recruited Jean Hanson, the eminent muscle scientist to it. Ever since, the subject of muscular contraction has been an area of strength in the Department. To mark the 25 th Anniversary of the Biophysical Society the Christmas meeting was again held at King s at the Strand Campus on December /2 and 13 1985; its subject naturally was muscular contraction Approximately 120 people attended the meeting, mostly British biophysicists but with some European colleagues. The speakers came from Britain, urope and orth America and were leaders in the field. The meeting started with two review lectures which served to show how the field has developed over the last twenty-five years. Then, the main proteins had been identified but their structural organisation was unknown. ow as later speakers demonstrated, the challenge is to look at fine detail of these structures using x-ray crystallography. The second day was devoted to the protein-protein interaction which leads to muscle contraction, the so-called cro sbridge mechanism. The peakers de cri bed results from a whole battery of biophysica techniques which have been brought to bear on the problem, such as electron pin resonance, nuclear magnetic r~sonance and x-ray diffraction. Very substantial advances have been made over the last 2S years but still details of the force generating process remain elusive. On the Thursday evening the 2S th Anniversary dinner was held in the Riverside Room for both conferees and member of
the British Biophysi aI Society. Many 0 tho e there had been or are a 0 lated with th College. The gu t peaker, Dr Gerald ElLiot, from the Open ni er it> was a graduat rud nt at King's 1.11 the early 1960' and treated u to an amu l.I1g account of his own 25 year 1.11 Bioph>
SIC DEPARTME
CO CERTS
Tuesda I February ORCH STR L CO 'CERT 1.10pm, The Great Hall, Strand Campus Tuesday 11 March D PARTME TAL 20TH CE T RY CO CERT 3.30pm, The Great Hall, Strand Campus Admis ion Free. All members of the College are invited to attend. 5.00pm, Room 301, Music Department, Strand Campus
INSTITUTE OF ADVA CED MUSICAL STUDIES COLLOQUIA Wednesday 19 February TIME A D M SIC Dr lonathan Kramer, Univer ity of Cincinnati College of Music: Research ociate of Kl.I1g· College Wednesday 26 February MUSIC BRIDGI G DIVIDED RELIGIO S: The Motet in Seventeenth Century Holland Professor Frits oske Wednesday 5 March A ALYSIS AS MUSICOLOGY: The Theorists' Concept of History Professor Arnold Whittall, King's
LUNCHTIME MUSIC AT CHELSEA Monday 3 March PIA 0 RECITAL Pianist from Trinity College Programme to be announced Monday 10 March PIA 0 RECITAL Elena Riu Programme to be announced 1.20pm, Lightfoot Hall, Chelsea Campus Admission Free
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In order to h Ip tudents improve their tudy ill and prepare for end of year exam ,In luding Final, the tudent oun ellors hav arranged two lunch time study exam kills eminars to be held on each campus during the fir t t..... o week in March. The programme is a follow -
Wednesday 5th and 12th March In Room 6C, Main Building, Strand Campu Thursdays 6th and 13th March Biochemi try Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Atkins Building.• via Main Entrance Fridays 7th and 14th March In Room 201 Main Building, Manresa Road, Chelsea Campus
Each seminar will take place from I. 10pm2.00pm. The following staff have kindly agreed to take part:- Dr Venetia France, Mr Bob FafTer, Mr Ray Holland, Dr Peter Butterworth, nn Conlon and Celia elson and will cover su h areas a :Procedure and Conduct of Examinations Effective Methods of ReviSIon Tackling the Examination Paper Techniqu es of Answering Essay Questions In addition, at the first session on each campus a &gistry representative closely involved with examinations will give guidance on exam procedure and will answer questions. The-se seminars are intended to provide students with a practical, realistic approach to studying and the taking of exams - all are welcome.
GERMA
ednesday 19 March 1 _. _'e troy, E1SE,\ lUX
WEEK
The German Department, in conjunction with the German Emba sy, the German cademic Exchange Service and the Goethe In titu te, is organising the fifth Students' German Drama Week, to be held in the ew Theatre, Sti'nd'ld Campus from March 17 - 20 19S6.
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Thursday 20 March F Durrenmatt, D£R BESr..:CH DI:.R A LTE,' DAJfE
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11 play begin at 7.00pm. Ticket £ I. 5 for one performance, £ I .50 each for two or three performances, £4.00 for the whole week - a ailable from Student' German Drama Week, Department of German, Strand Campus. Plea e enclose s.a.e. and cheque or P.o. (cro ed and made payable to Students' German Drama Week). Po tal Booking will run from Monday 1anuary 13 to Friday March 7. Information may be obtained from ext S2115 and S21 13 or mes age left at ext S_124, but bookIngs will not be secure until confirmed by po 1. ny tickets remaining unsold after March 9 may be reserved by telephone.
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SOCIETY PL Y
DER ZERBRO HE Heinrich von Kleist
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7.30pm, The ew Theatre, Stand Campus Wed 19, Thurs 20 and Fri 21 February Tickets £ 1.50 from the Secretary of the German Society, Department of German, Strand Campu . Please enclose a s.a.e. and cheque or P.O. (crossed and made payable to King's College London German Society). Tickets may be reserved by telephone from February 12 telext S2113,S2115,S2124.
FILMSOC Monday 24 February Fawlty Towcr Risky Bu ines in The ew Theatrc, Strand Campus Thursday 27 February LOST HORIZO THE PRISO R OF ZE DA in Room 3B20, Strand Campus
The following plays, performed in Gcrman, will be prescnted:
Monday 3 March OF MICE A D ME in The ew Theatre, Strand Campus
and
Monday 17 March G Buchner, LHONCH UND LJ:.NA ( niversity of Reading)
SA ITRI by Gustav Hol t 7.45pl11, The New Theatre, Strand Campus Ticket :£3.50 (conce sions £2.50) from Frank, Mu ic Department or at door.
Thursday 6 March BROADWA Y DA Y ROSE in Room 3B20 Strand Campu
Tuesday 18 March 1 W von Goethe, UR FA UST ( niversity College, Cardiff)
Monday 10 March THE DRESS R in The ew Theatre, Strand Campu
KING'S COLLEGE OPERA Thursday 6, Friday 7 March RIDERS TO THE SEA by Ralph Vaughan WiIJiam
Thursday I3 March
STAFF NEWS
BLOOD SIMPLE Venue to be announced
Monday 17 March A MA FOR ALL SE SO S in Room 3B20, Strand ampu
THE GREEK OVEL AD 1 - 1985 An International Symposium at King's College London (KQC) From Monday 24 - Wednesday 26 March the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies will be holding a symposium on the Greek ovel ADl - 1985. The symposium aims to provide, for tre first time in this country, a forum for discussion of Modern Greek literature in its historical and comparative context. With Greece now a full member of the European Community and Modern Greek one of its official languages, there is an obvious need for wider understanding of Greek culture and the achievements of its literature. The co t of registration for the full sympo ium will be £5.00 (£2.50 for members and recent graduates of the College and for all students); otherwise a daily rate of £2.00 (£ 1.00 for students etc) will apply. I neluded in the cost of registration will be morning coffee and afternoon tea and a Reception on Monday 24 March. Anyone interested obtaining further details, including a full programme of the lectures 6hould contact Dr R M Beaton, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Strand Campus.
THE GREEK NOVEL AD 1-1985
the Strand Mr J V Muir
OBIT
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JOHN MARTIN COCKI G 1914 - 1986
The sadness felt by the Department of French at the news of the death of John Cocking will be shared by many who knew him during his long career at King's. John Martin Cocking came to King's College as a student in 1932 and returned as an Assistant Lecturer in 1939· he was appointed to a Lectureship in 1946 after war service in the Intelligence Corps, and to the Chair in French Language and Literature in 1952. He hec;ame a Fellow of the College in 1965 and held the Chair with distinction until he retired in 1975, when he became Emeritus Professor. His contributions to scholarship in the field of modern French literature and criticism all show his distincively philosophical turn of mind, and his skill in UnT avelling the complex patterns of thought and imagery in which modern writers have ~pres~d their ideas; his book on Proust remains a model of its kind. John Cocking was a man of absolute integrity and his resolute adherence to principle made him a respected chairman of College and University committees, and a colleague on whom one could depend for firm decision and unswerving action. He cared enormously for the maintenance of intellectual standards, and students who initially found him formidable learned to respect and admire him. His colleagues in the Department of French hope to be able to edit and prepare for publication the book on which he was working at the time of his death, a history of the concept of the imagination of which a glimpse was afforded in the public lecture which he gave at King's in February 1983. It would be the best memorial one could devise for a man who loved literature and ideas.
ampus as follows: - Room lAC, Chesham
Ms B G Donmall - Room lAA, Chesham Mrs Sonia Rouve - Room lAB, Chesham This room will also be a ba e for visiting staff. The above can be reached on extension S27 3 and S2784. Please ote The telephone number for Mrs Crosland, Hall Manager, Halliday Hall is 673 2032 and not as stated in the Internal Telephone Directory.
ACTING HEAD Professor R E Clements will be Acting Head of the Department of Biblical Studies until September 30 1986, following leave of ab ence granted to Professor G Stanton.
LI BRARY NEWS LIBRARY SPACE CRITICAL Both the Council and Academic Board have recently received a report from the Librarian which highlights an acute accommodation problem for library services on the Strand site. The Library, along with all other departments, has had many problems to face in past months but accommodation is now worryingly pressing. 'Even allowing for the College's grave accommodation difficulties at the Strand, the state of the Library there now is such as to interfere with the academic weal of the College'. The Buildings Committee have been alerted to the urgency of this and the Council and Academic Board have indicated their full appreciation of the difficulties the library now faces.
An International Symposium
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ADDRESS A D TELEPHO E LTERATIO S Please note the following changes of address and telephone extension:
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Mr G T Hughes, Senior As istant Secretary is now in Room 217, orfolk Building, Strand ampus. Extension S2377 Dr C Sinnott, Project Consultant (Space Development) is in Room 10, Finance Department, 33 Surrey Street, Strnad Campus. Extension S279 I
Monday 24-Wednesday 26 March 1986 KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (KQC)
Professor C B Cox, Department of Biology is now based at the Kensington Campus and can be contacted there on extension K301. The following staff of the Centre for Educational Studies now have offices on
GOLDSMITHS' LIBRARY APPEAL Gold mith ' College has launched an appeal to raise£lm as its contribution to the co t of a new Library building. The Department of Education and Science ha agreed to a capital project to finance a new building to replace the present cramped premi es on condition that the College raises approximately one third of the total cost of building <I1d conversion works. Some £335,000 has already been secured in donations from charitable foundations and the sale of some College properties. The new Library building will provide accommodation for 200,000 volumes on open access.
GHOURS STER STR DC MP S (836 5454 ext 2140) Monda}i to Friday, ex ept _7 Mar h I April hen the whole College i closed and the date specified below. On 26 Mar h all re ding rooms 10 eat 1545. Strand Levels I & 4
0930 - I 45
Strand Levels 2 & 3
0930 - 1230, 1330 - 1630
Strand Level 5
1330 - 1630
Embankment Library 0930 - 1630 Music 1230 - 1630 Old Library 19 - 26 March 2 - 4 pril 7 - II April 14- 22 April
0930- 1745 0930 - 1745 closed 0930 - 1745
Laws Library 19 - 26 March 2 pril 3 - 4 April 7 - 22 April
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NEWS ROUND-UP OVERSEAS RESEARCH STUDE TS AWARDS 1986
E S FROM THE DE'S OFFICE ~fembers of taff mtght not know that after ea h degree awardmg ceremony there I a service held either in We min ter bbey bbey, We tmm ter Cathedral or St Paul's Cathedral. The e are ully ecumenical occasions organised for the new graduate, their families, friends and teacher. The next Presentation Day ervi e is on Mar h 12 at 6 pm in Westmin ter Cathedral. The preacher will be Metropolitan Anthony Bloom.
The end of term Eucharist is at 12 noon on Wednesday 19 March. The Dean of the College will be preaching. On Sunday evenings during Lent the Dean of the College will be doing a serie of programmes on Radio 4 on C S Lewis. During the week beginning 16 February he will be doing a series of late night readings on Thames Television from Seasons of the Spuit (edited by him, Kallistos Ware and George Every).
The book is a useful guide to the wide range of re e rch projects a(;ro s the social scien e that are upported by the Coun iI. 1t li ts resear h proJe t in the fields of e onomi affair, edu allon and human development, environment and planning, government and law, indu try and employment and ocial affair . The purpose of the book is mainly to a ist the re earch community but it IS also to make the work funded by the ESRC known and available to administrators, manager, users of research and, not least, the general public.
Research Supported by the Economic and Social Research Council 1985 is available to order from School Government Publishing Company, Darby Hou e Bletchingley Road, Mer tham, Redhill RHl 3D . Price ÂŁ 7.00 plus handling charge).
KG'S COLLEGE HEALTH SERVICE From 17 February 1986 the College Medical Officer, Or Bavetta and partners will be holding surgeries on all three campu es STRA D CAMPUS Medical Centre, 3rd Floor Macadam Building Surgerie on Monday, Wednesday and Friday Appointments from Sister O'Neill. Tel: 836 5454 ext 2613/5 KE SINGTON CAMPUS Medical Centre, next to Registry Huts Surgeries on Tuesday and Thursday 1.30 - 3.00pm Appointments from Angela Ivor-Jone Tel: 937 5411 ext419 CHELSEA CAMPUS Medical Centre, Room 120, Lightfoot Hall, Manresa Road Surgeries on Tue day and Thur day 11.00am - 1.00pm Appointments from Sister Harrison Tel: 351 2488 ext 2300 or 3520168
Some 800 m;w ORS Awards will be offered on a competitive basis to overseas postgraduate students of outstanding merit and research potential. Each award will cover the difference between the tuition fee for home postgraduate student and the 'full-cost' fee chargeable to an over eas postgraduate student. Awardholders will be overseas graduate students, who, in the Session 1986-87 are commencing full-time study, as registered re earch students for a higher degree or are already undertaking such a course and do not have an ORS Award. They must be liable to pay tuition fees at the 'full-cost' rate for overseas students.
RESEARCH SUPPORTED BY THE ESRC 1985
Further details and application forms are available from the Admissions Office.
The Economic and Social Research Council's annual register of research has
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recently been published. listing all rese rch in the ocial cien e funded by ES RC and in progre s t 31 ~far h 19 5. on the re ommendation of its Standmg Committees. loin luded are project begun in earlier year and ompleted in 19 4- 5.
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doctor close to your London (term-time) address. Information about G Ps is available from Sisters 0' eill and Harrison, local libraries and chemists.
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In recent time the introduction of the Data Protection Act and its implications for the College have featured as agenda item for both the Standing Committee and the Academic Board. Simultaneou Jy, the Academic Council of the niversity considered the issue, particularly in respect of the release of examination marks. Hitherto it had been the policy of the Academic Council that examination marks were confi dential and should not be released to students. This approach run con trary to the conditions of the Data Protection Act and a new policy wa formulated. The Data Protection Act is only concerned with information held on computer files for computer read also word processor, microcomputer, personal computer and so on. However, the Academic Council took the view that all examination mark, irre pective of whether they were held on a computer file, hould be relea ed to students. This information would be automatically ent to the tudent rather than supplied on reque 1. It wa uggested by the Academic Council that a 'general factor' be introduced which could be used by Examiner at their di cretion in order to compensate for variation in assessment. The Academic Council sought the view of School, Boards of Studies and Academic Advisory Boards. Within the College the views of the Chairmen of the College-based Boards of Examiners and Faculties were requested and their views were collated and presented to the Academic Board.
I In responding to the Academic Council the following point were raised: - the propo als of the Academic Council attracted minority support - of the majority who did not upport the proposals there was a number who would support the relea e of examination marks on request - that if examination marks are released they should only be the final mark for each cour e, no greater details should be given - there wa general opposition to the introduction of the 'general factor' although one faculty thought it might be useful for determining honours classifications - the concern over the way in which the release of post-graduate marks might be released Under the provisions of the Act the computerised data held within the College has to be registered with the Data Protection Registrar. In preparing the College's submission, Alistair Pettigrew, the Deputy Academic Registrar, is concentrating upon student-based data whilst Peter Gilbert, Assistant Secretary (General) has been designated as the College's Data Protection Officer.
SE ATE OPE S ITS DOORS College Information Officers were welcomed to the February meeting of the University Senate. The Vice-Chancellor hopes to increa e communication of Senate proceedings and Information Officers have been invited in on a trial basis for the remainder of the session. Other than a presentation from icola Ros i, President of ULU, highlighting the serious difficulties students face following government action on housing and welfare benefits along ide a mere rise in grant of 2%, the business of the meeting consisted of formal presentation of committee reports and an oral statement by the ViceChancellor. Lord Flowers drew particular attention to the problems facing students. A JPC Working Group on Student Accommodation, chaired by Professor Dorothy Wedderburn, produced an interim report calling for a radical review of student grants for 19 6/87. This had been completed before government plans had been announced and the JPC had asked the Group to take these new factors into account in preparing their final report: a report which should help the University make stronger and more effective representations to Government on this vital matter. In presenting to Senate the JPC's 'crisp' response to the Green Paper, Lord Flowers also made mention of the CVCP's 'Future of the Universities' response, other university responses, the UGC's response and other supportive documents such as that of the CBI. Although vital, these responses were clearly not enough by themselves and he urged universities to continue to
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energetically press their case, collectively and individually, by all means possible. He thanked all tho e involved in the "extremely exacting, arduou and timecon uming task" of preparing the individual and federal responses to the UGC on Planning' for the Late 1980s'. The e had all been duly submitted. In a reference to J arratt, he stated the hope that school were making good progress with their review and improvements as it was important to demonstrate to the Government and to the public at large the effective way in which the University carries out its business. The UGC have asked universities to report initiatives by this autumn. Ending on a note of good news, Lord Flowers expres ed warm appreciation to the British Academy for their upport of the humanities and social sciences, demonstrated in their recent announcement of 25 non-renewable Fellow hips tenable for three years, in each nf the three academic year 1986/9. These are intended to help ou tstanding young scholars develop their research and obtain formal teaching experience. Schools have been invited to comment on the detailed implementation of the scheme, directly to the Academy. Senate had particular rea on to be appreciative of the British Academy initiative as it had been motivated by the BA President, previous Vice-Chancellor of the Universi ty.
the collaborating firm in the Co-operative Awards in Science and Engineering (CASE) scheme by £300. The new higher rate will apply to projects submitted after 31 January 1986 and to any project carried forward. The precise level of next year's minimum contribution will depend on the level of inflation and will be announced later. In order to make it easier for CASE re earch tudentships to be taken up the clo ing date for the nomination of tudents to work on approved CASE projects has now been abolished. Students may now be nominated for any approved award as long as it remains available for take-up.
INTERIM ARRANGEME TS FOR REPORTING ACCIDENTS A ollege working party is currently considering this matter and, until the working party reports, the following arrangements will apply. All accidents must be reported to: The Personnel Office Mrs A Phillips Room 215 orfolk Building Strand Campus It is the responsibility of anybody involved in an accident to report it, whether or not
HARTLEY WORKING PARTY STILL TO FINALLY REPORT The Hartley Working Party discussing the future of Pharmacy and Nursing Studies has presented an incomplete report to the University Joint Planning Committee. This· Report recommended that Nursing Studies be retained within KQC but that Pharmacy should be transferred. The reasons put forward to support the latter appear luke-warm somewhat insubstantiated by intellectually convincing argument and could show a certain lack of resolve on behalf of the Working Party. This impression is strengthened by the inclusion of a 5 th recommendation which says if the foregoing recommendations were unacceptable the University may wish to indicate to the UG that there is no use for the Tooting space. A final, complete Report is now expected very soon and should be widely circulated. I t will be presented to the Joint Planning Committee in March, as will the response to it from King's and from St Goorge's.
SERC COOPERATIVE AWARDS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING The Science and 'Engineering Research Council has decided to increase the present level of minimum contribution by
they receive treatment from a first aider or attend a medical centre. For a serious injury any person can report the accident. This information is required periodically by the College insurers, and Government regulation require notification to the Factory Inspectorate of certain types of injuries and dangerous occurences. Accident report forms will shortly be standardised and will be kept on all campuses by Departmental Secretaries and in the first aid boxes. Until these are available reports may be submitted by using exi ting forms (if any) or forwarding a written account, or telephoning or visiting the Personnel Office. Peter Saunders First Aid Officer Strand Campus
ACCOMMODATION WANTED American academic from Austin, Texas, who will be Visiting Professor at the College, requires accommodation for the summer term. PreferablY small flat within easy reach of Strand Campus, up to £ I 00 per week. If you can help, please contact Dr William Rowe, Spanish Department, Strand Campus.
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ESPRIT. the European Strateg.ac Re ear h Programme In Inform tlOn Technology, wa 11Iltlated in 19 ~ a a re ponse to the u e fulln ormation Technology re earch program me 111 Japan and the U.S. S11Ice 19 . I 3 project ha e been elected for funding, involving.4 in titutJon throughout the ommunity, I 5 of which re univer !tie or re earch in titu te . The u ce of the organ~ation ha been ummed up by one company . "Be ore SPRIT we looked to the V.S. for partner now we have dIScovered the technologi~al apabilitie of Europe, and look to urope." ESPRIT upport research on pre-competetlve te hnology and is open to partIcIpant alreadye tablished in the European Community, wIth a partner in another . . country. This ensures that the involvement of indu try and the transfer of technology cross at least one natIOnal frontier. The Commi ion is able to put potentlal partner in contact with each other, if required. While there have been ome adminIstrative delays affecting contracts and payments which have caused concern to academic institutions, the consen u eems to be that ESPRIT has been succe sful in promoting trans-European cooperation between industry, universities and research institute. A report by the Commis ion has recommended that in future ESPRIT's emphasis should lie within three main areas of activity: micro-electronics, software and applications, while about ten per cent of the total funding could be used for more imaginative projects, possibly to be undertaken by academic institutions.
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T POSTS TO BE FILLED The Planning and Resourc.;es Committee have agreed to fill the f0110wing po ts: IX Chair, in Law, Chemistry. Pharmacy, ur ing Studies, the Frederick Denison Maueice Chair in Moral and SOCIal Theology and a new Chair In Genetic; two le ture hip ID ducation and a lectureshIp 111 English, made vacant by Mr Proudfoot's appointment to the Chair in English. Other bidf/ submitted are till under conideration but the Committee felt it important to fill tho e directly in line with the Academic Plan.
EAS The EducatIOnal Advl ory Service for Adults ha published a guide for individual and organisations involved in providing educatlOnal information and advice to adults in the south-east. The guide i available from: The Open Univer ity South East Region Wyvern House 230/232 London Road East Grinstead Sussex RH I 9 I LA
CIVIL E GINEERI G TALKS CO TINUE An interim report from Professor Sutherland and Sir J ames Menter concludes that there is little common ground between the King's and Queen Mary College Departments. Their advice to the University, that they do not see a way ahead for any advantageous collaboration, is upported by the external advisers involved in the discussions. Queen Mary College is continuing to consider the issues and we are now in discussion with University Coll~ge, looking into the points of contact which may exist here. This discussion could be the basis of a further report to the niversity.
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