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the College ewsletter

Jckler In titute at the \tedical choolPrince Royal open

Her Royal IIighne The Princess Royal. Chancellor of the L;niversity of London,

is pictured dunng her VI It to the ackler In mute of Pulmonary Pharmacology

which she opened on 'eptember. Based In the Department of Thoracic

\ledicine at the Y1edlcal 'choo!. the Institute will be the focus of man new and

eXciting projects Into the causes and treatment of asthma.The work of the ackler Instltute will place particular emphasis on links between

basIc and clinical science which have grown out of collaboration between thecliniCians In adult mediCine and paediatnc mediCine at the hospital, and basIc

cientists in the pharmacology laboratories at the Chelsea Campus.

PiclUred willl HRilore (lejllo nglll) Dr Clive Page (Reader in Pllarmacology), Dr Mortimer

Saciler (beneJOCiOrl and Dr John Cosullo (flead o/llIe Departmenl 0/ TlzoratX Medicine).

fn eIon

Tlu Pnnapal wnUS:

1111

he world of higher education

I changing with bewildenng

~peed. For King's to be

succe sful in thl increasingly competitive

world, we need to have a clear. agreed

sense of purpose. With this in mind. I

asked the College Committee in Apnl to

consider a draft mission statement It is

difficult to convey the challengeinvolved In reducing the essence of

King's and its a plration to a Imple

statement which is distinctive but not

c1iche-ndden. The final statement.

which was agreed b the ollege

Council In July, IS the product 0 eight

rounds of dl cu slon and redrafting.

his tatement. which IS reproduced

on page 3. reaffirms both the ollege'

commitment to the pursuit of excellence

by setting measurable targets for

achievement by the turn of the century

and to the maintenance of the upportlve

community Splflt which distingUishes

King's, We have Significantly improved

our research standing in recent years.and I firmly believe that the goals we

have set ourselves are achievable. I

relish the challenge of working With you

to realise them.

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page 2

n the,e

The following are a Just a few of the

appearances In the media b staff over

the ummer.

Three Kin's staff were featured In a

number of wme-up of the British

Association for the Advancement of

Science's Annual Conference. Professor

Peur Jmntr, Head 0/the Dtpartmmt 0/Pharmacology, was commenting on the

new research Into brain disease which

involves transplanting nerve cells from a

rat's guts into its brains. He described

the findings as 'very eXCiting' especIally

as the foetal technique has been over­

hyped and produced false hope.

Proftssor Bob HideT', Head 0/the Division

0/ Health Scimas, told the conference of

his research team' work on drugs which

had been shown to kill the malaria

parasite in rats which worked by

mopping up Iron atoms which the

parasite needs to urvive. Proftssor John

Taylor, Professor 0/Mathematics, spoke onhis work on modelling the part of the

brain which is involved in consciousness.

He believes that the first glimmer of

consciousness has been produced in a

computer designed to reproduce this

part of the brain.

The number of pupils obtaining higher

grades in GCSE exams and the

subseq uent debate over whether they

reflected rising quality or lower

standards was the ubject of an article in

The Financial Tirrus. Mr Dylan Wi/iam,

Ltcturtrin Educotion, commencing on

the standards, pointed out that passes at

A to C in mathematics stood at 46.6 per

cenL but for English were 57.3 per cent.

'All this means is that wc've historically

set an easier threshold for English than

for mathematics.'

Dr Amala Raman, LeClurer In

Pharmacogno ,was interviewed b.

David Bellamy for his television

programme Blooming Btllamy. The series

covered the wealth of medicinal plants

found in Great Britain and concluded

with features on traditional Chinese

medicine and Ayurveda. Or Ramandiscussed the potential for discovering

new drug compounds from plants usedin traditional systems of medicine.

Dr L nn Frastr, Rtackr in D/!'Ullopmmtal

Blolortj, wa on The London Programme

diSCUS Ing the feasibility of sperm

selectIOn enabling couples to determine

he ex of their child and whether the

methods u ed b the London Gender

Clinic were Viable.

The expansion of new religion In

Eastern Europe and Rus ia and the role

of religions (old and new) in the

reconstruction process in these terntories

was the subject of a programme

produced by the Bulgarian Section of

the World Service In which Dr Pettr

Clarke, Stnior Ltcturer in the Sociology 0/Rtligion, took part.

Professor Keith Ewing, Professor 0/ Public

Law. appeared in several papers.

including The Sunday Tirrus and The

Guordian following his ubmission of

evidence to the House of CommonHome Affairs Committee on the I sue of

funding for political parties. He pOinted

out that political parties performimportant public functions - thus their

sources of income are legitimate matters

of public interest and concern. (Who saw

his piece earlier in the year on the

sport'S pages of The Indtpmdmt when he

wrote a nostalgic piece on football for

the Fan' Eye View column?!)

Dr Keith Hoggart, Senior Ltcturer in

Geograplry, featured in an article in The

Times concerning an upturn in the trend

for the British to buy property in France.

According to his research, it is mainly

the middle class who are becoming

di illusioned with Britain and leaving to

li~c In France.

In June he World ervice carried a Wide

range of programmes devoted to 'The

Third Age'. Three members of the

College, Professor Robert Wheal, Visiting

Smior Researclz Fellow, The Age Concern

Institute o/Gerontology, Dr Alan Bittlu,

Readtr in Anatomy and Human Biology

and Dr Alan Hipkiss, Stnior ucturtr in tlze

:'>folecular Biology and Bioplrysics Group,

were interviewed for two editions of the

science programme DiscovlfJ about the

causes and effects of ageing.

Torry Thorne, Director 0/the English

Longuage Unit, took part in Radio 4's

Opm Mind programme discussing

political correctness.

Removal for incapacity onmedical grounds

The College has power to terminate the

employment of a member of academiC

taif for reasons of phv ical or mental

health. When the member doe not

accept the view of the College that hIS

or her appolOtment should be

termlOated the Principal refers the

matter to a board With a medlcall

qualified chairman to review all the

eVIdence and to make a

recommendation.

arters affecting individualsdiscipline, dismissal and removal

from office

PrOVISion made or sclpllOe and for

ISrru al "or good cause in the e\'ent of

con\>lc Ion "or an 0 fence. conduc

IOcompatlble .,., Ith the dutIes of office.

"allure to perform duties or phySIcal or

mentallOcapaclty

flOor dlsclphnary matter are to be

ealt 'WIth b 'oral or 'WTltlen v,amlO at

epartmentallevel. .\ senou

diSCiplinary matter I con Idered IOltlall

b. the Pnnclpal who deCide whether to

eal With It himself or whether to report

It to a rnbunal appolOted by the

Council.

AppealsProvIsion IS made or the hearing of

appeals again t dismissal for redundancy

or good cause, dlsclphnary measures or

dlsmls~al on medical grounds. The

person appolOted to hear appeals mu t

either hold JudiCial office or be a

barnster or soliCitor of at least 10 years

tandlOg. The person appointed may Sit

alone or With a lay member of Council

and a member of the academic taff

nomlOated by the AcademiC Board.

Grievance procedureThe aim is to ettle or redress IndiVidual

gnevance promptly, falrl and If

pOSSible Within the hoolor

Department. If a gnevance cannot be

resolved IOformally the Council will

appolOt a Gnevance Committee to

conSider the matter.

conllnUld on pagl 4

II

nder the Education Reform

-\ct 1 Parhament

established a body of

Cnl\>erslry Comml lOner With po'Wer

o amend the statutes of unl er Itle 10

relation to redundanc and dismissal of

academiC stalT The College was

allowed to comment on Its draft tatute

but the final decl Ion re ted with the

CommiSSioners.

he Order 10 ouncll creating the

new tatute was made on 31 \1arch

1 93 and now form part of the Statutes

of the College. I t applies to:

(a) Profes ors. Readers, Senior

Lecturers and Lecturers

(b) The Dean and the Chaplain

(c) Research Fellows. Research

A sistants and other staff holdlOg

academiC related posts being posts

recognised b the Council for the

purpose of the tatute.

(d) The PrinCIpal to the extent and 10

the manner set out 10 an annex to

the tatute.

Society

TheColee.o:capltali 10 onl

position. Vvll brin 10 'ormed 10 ence

to bear on nat onal and 10 ernatlOnal

eCISlon· ers. It 'WIll also meet Its

obhgatlons 0 s let) \ un erta 10

nO dl emlOatln the re ul~ o·

researcn. no b . produclO alance and

'Well-educateo graduate .

The tatute covers the follo'Wlng malO

areas:

Redundancy

Redundancy relates to a po t rather than

to the holder of a post. I t can apply to

any post created after 20 March 19 7 or

to a POSt the current holder of whIch wa

appolOted aiter that date. DeCISions on

the need for redundancy are taken by

the ouncll which IS required to appoint

a Redundancy Comrruttee to recommend

the selection of posts or redundancy.

StaffThe ollege will contlOue to appoint

outstandlOg academiC and uppOrt stalf.

ralOlOg and sta f development

programme Will help all staff to reach

their full potential. COntlOUOU

programme of improvement of all

College faClhtles will underplO research

of the highest standard.

KlOg s College London I oedl ted to

the ad\>ancement 0 no led e.

learnlO and under tandlOg 10 the

service of oclery.

ince it ·oundallon 10 1 Z. In

ha come to occupy a leadlO posItion III

higher educallon 10 the C K and to eOjo)

a ~orld Ide reputation for teachlOg and

re earch.The College's objective IS to build on

thIS reputation and, by the start 0 the

new century, to ha e all Its research and

teach 109 activities judged excellent by

peer review. King's, 10 line With Its

oundlOg prlOclples. will COntlOue to

fo ter the highest ethical tandard 10 a

compassIOnate communlry.

This all-embraclOg pur Ult of

excellence will touch every part of the

College and Its constituencies:

StudentsKing's will contlOue to encourage

apphcatlons from student of all

backgrounds, selecting only on grounds

of academic merit and potenllal.

tudents will study in a research

environment which values scholarly

enquiry and IOdependence of thought,

and will enjoy high level of taff

contact, free and open di cusslon. and

fleXible course structures. All students

will be encouraged to follow an

additional course. the oClateshlp of

King's College, which further challenge

them to think y tematlcall. about their

values and beliefs.

ContInuedfi m p gl J

LondonThe ollege's locatIon 10 the heart of

the capital Clry bnng special advantages

and responsibilities. King' will utilise

Its location to promote the exchange of

ideas and skills with government. the

buslnes community, the profeSSIOns,

the arts and the world of education.

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Monitoring and evaluation

tudent progress will be monitored as a

natural part of our asses ment procedures.

uccess will necessarily be measured by

both the success rate and the level of

competence and confidence of the

students completing the course. ome

time in the project is allocated forinterviews to provide qualitative as well

as q uamitative data.

u

Barry Blakeley

Centre for Educational tudies

The above is only a summary of the new

Academic taff Statute. A copy of the

full Statute can be obtained from Peter

Gilbert, Assistant Secretary, Room 213.Main Building, trand, ext 2667.

Professors, Readers andRecognised Teachers

Professors and Readers though formall

appOinted by the lniversity a,e

governed by the College's Statute.

However, in the case of Professors and

Readers the Tribunal for the hearing of

disciplinary matters i extended by the

addition of two members nominated by

the lniversity. The Universiry also has

power under its own Statutes to

Withdraw the status of Professor, Readeror Recognised Teacher from any

member of academic staff found guilry

under the disciplinary procedure.

Conltnuedfrom page 3

Future developments

\\'e recognise the difficulties of such

wor and that the project can make onl

a small contributIOn to pOSSible

solution. We hope that the work done... ill form the basis of a longer term and

larger project and will seek funding for

uch work making use of our finding.

. leg Maguire and I are co-ordinating

the work and will be happy to upply

further Information.

re(.A u1 t

Cultural issues

\\'e were conscIous of both cross­

curricular and subject specific

considerations relating to students'

cultural background which can make for

difficulties when working In British

schools. The school ethos may be quitealien to that oi the student's own

community and our objectives for this

area are to develop students' self­

confidence in their roles in the chool

community and their own ethnic

community. Additional tutoring and

seminar suPPOrt will aim to provide a

forum for raising these problems (which

can in itself be a difficulty), improving

;l\vareness and for providing practicaltructures and adVice on the issue. This

will be followed by specific support in

chools.

Communication skills

We proposed an Induction cour e In

early September in which concentrated

langua e and communication work

would be tailored to the partlcu lar

problems of ethnic mlnoriry tudents.

This will be followed up by tutorial

support throughout the year, closely

linked to relevant contexts In the cour e

and students' experience and

development. The follow-up work will

aim to involve closely educationprofessionals (Inspectors, advi ors,

teachers with special responsibility and

education welfare workers) who have

great experience of ethnic minortty and

communication work in the schools

where our students carry out their school

practice.

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tlmmunlupport r

uring the summer, under the

title pecial I nitiatives to

Encourage Widening

ParticipatIOn, the HEFCE invited

proposals for funding for 1993-94 in twO

areas: improving access to higher

education for students with pecial

needs, and increasing the participation

of students from ethnic minorities In

teacher education. The Centre for

Educational tudies was successful with

its bid in the second category and

received £12,740 to support peclal

initiatives during the year.

King's has been involved In the

preparation and further professional

development of teachers in London for

over 100 years. The Centre or

Educational Studies within the School

of Education has particular expertise in

the challenges of inner ciry school and

runs a Masters in Urban Education

which includes a particular focus on

both pupils and teachers with ethnic

minority backgrounds. The majoriry of

our PGCE students, many of whom are

mature students, take up posts in innerLondon schools which have a broad

ethnic mix, having carried out their

teaching practice in such schools.

We attract a large number of

applications from ethnic minorities

students for our initial training courses

(24% for the 1992-93 PGCE course).

However, it was clear from our figures

that while we do not have a particular

problem in attracting applications from

ethnic minoriry students their entry and

subsequent uccess rates could be

improved.

Our proposal focused on the areas ofcommunication skills and cultural issues,

initially with the one-year PGCE

students but we will combine this with a

careful monitoring of students on our

undergraduate course (with whom we

have a much longer period of time) to

identify the particular areas of difficulty

and stress that are experienced. and to

provide appropriate support as part of

the programme.

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rhe alms of the company, which ha

"on pump-priming financial support

from the Department of Trade and

Indu try, are:

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\I1anaglng Dlrecror, cxt 3322

"rI ,n 1l h r. r;

Financial .\ccountant, ext 32

~"ljnuo Cunnlngh m

Contract> Officer, exr 3323.

contributIOn per partl ipam IS 13 000

I-:.CL). Pre-normatlve research IS

partl ularly Important, as EC Icglslation

ro cope \\ Ith cro -border problems such

as safety, health protection and

environmental safeguard rcqulre a

common SOCial baSIS, and the breakdown

of trade barrier is conditional upon the

development of uniform technical

standards, many of wh Ich require

additional re earch In their own right.

Wc are particularly fortunate ro have

John Thornes' experience in winning

EC funding availahle ro u : he is

curremly the Project Co-ordinator of the

:vt E DALL '(\IIediterranean

Dc ertificatlon and Land Cse)

Envlronmem Programme.

trengthening the ollege' link

\\Ith ommerClalorganisation will al 0

be a key activity for KCL 'nterpn e .

.\Imost half of our research Income

comes from Industrial, publJc sccror and

oversea clicm .. 'everthele ,we need

ro put more effort Inro the ucee sful

transfer of our ideas and technologie

Into the wealth- creating e tor. Judging

by my expenence in the fir t two

month in the job, during which over 10

reque ts for upport on patenting and

commercialisation of developments

have been received, King's has a lot ro

conttnued on page 6

negotiation, e peclally" Ith regard

ro priCing, Intelle lUal property and

liability matter.

pro Idlng a vehl le to mitigate or

aVOid potential tax liabilities

re ulting from contract research and

other trading actl Itle .

•

7ht KCL Enlerpnses le m (/eft 10 nghi) SIi!'l. Robinson, Robrn MurrOj, fako/m Sims.Jt/rem) ....1 son, ~ifonzc Cunmngh m, John Tlromes nd Me n M h r. rj (Pmjesso Colm

Rob. 15 ndAnn Shtpti;n ftl < t bunIfrom th~ pltot aph)

I am delighted to he jOining a College

that is 0 well known for the excellence

and diverSity 0 ItS academic pursuits.

Ihere I an increasing need for

universities al 0 ro become more

commerciall oriented, and It is my aim

to achieve a high level of recognition for

KCL Emerpri es Ltd a the busine

arm of King' . I am already convinced

that there arc great opportunitie for

suPPOrting the tran er of Idea and

research outcomes from the College to

benefit the health and "ealth of ociery.

En unng the availability of ufficlent

unds for re eareh at King' will have a

high prionty. J\ number of Inltlati e

have been planned \\ ith the hool

liai on officer, including 'open-house'

group to increase awarene of the

variou funding ource. and hare be t

practices to increa e our ucce s rate.

Thc European omml sion will be a

particular target area. since such funding

offer the opportu nity to collaborate

with re earcher in the re t of Europe in

sub tantial programmes (the average E

promoting the ollege' Intellectual

as et In the marketplace through

collaborative re eareh, technology

tran fer and licensing;

applying profes ional managemem

practices to all research contract

/lh tilt! ppolnlm~nl of

.1f ng Dt alor -

D .# kolm tm

(sa pog~ 6J - KCL Enlnpn"u LI lj 0

full) si ifftd Fltrt D ims d~v:nlxs Ihe

It m ndho he sas rrenl nfUlure di!IJdopmenls In Ihe Comp n).

Ilowe er, we al 0 have a liaison

officer in each chool, charged with

developing close links between the

company and the academic communlt

These arc:

EdlKolion

Dr Robin Murray, ext 3090

I Iumanilits

Prof John Thorne ,ext 2571

l.ow

Prof Adrian 'hipwright, ext 2279

l.ift Sciences

Dr Jerem :vtason, ext 4421

Physical Sciencts and F.n necnng

Or teven Robin on, ext 2004

M dt ne nd f) IIJI

Profe or Colin Robert ,

1I

KCL Emerpnse no" ha a complete

tcam and we are read ro upporr the

academic community of the College In

i re earch endeavour. I and the

central team will be moving to Cornwall

Ilou e horrly, \\hen the telephone

exten Ion li ted belo" "ill becomeoperative:

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Address

Propo er's name

High chool in BarneL [n J992, the

scnool was top of the unday Times

league table of A level results in state

school. T 0 prominent figures In the

media limelight who graduated from

King' are ue Carpenter. whose :viA in

English led her to present major news

programmes for [Th until ~ovember

1992. and Kathryn Flett. who progressed

from being features editor on the style

maaazine. The Face, to becoming editor

of the men's style magazine, Arma.

There is an opportunity to nominate

pOSSible cand idates for the 1994 Bm ofBn'tish books, although, of cour e.

nomination will not guarantee inclu ion.If you wish to nominate a colleague,

please complete and return the form

below to the Press and PublicationsOffice by Wednesday 6 October 1993.

The categorle for nominations

include:

Environmentalists

Nutritionists

Business

Physicists

Lawyers

Educationalists

You may wish to include a new

category, if necessary.

Address

Nomination Form[ would like to nominate the following

person for inclusion in the Best of

British Guides 1994:

lame

he first edition of a new serie

of. earbook entitled Best ofBntISlz Mm and Best ofBnllSh

Womm, b L 'Ie Publication, feature a

number of King's staff and alumnl.

King's nutritionists are particularly

well represented and those mentioned

include Or Catherine Geissler. Head of

the Department of:"utrition and

Dietetics, Or Tom anders. Reader in

:-':utrition and Dr Roger Whitehead

CBE. who is currently a visiting

professor. uuition alumni include Or

John Cummings, a specialist in

gastroenterology, usan Fairweather­

Tait- who in 1991 wa elected to the

merican iery of Clinical i':uuitionand Elsie Widdowson who is the

Honorary Pres dent of the British

~utrition Foundation. Other categories

feature King' personages such as

Professor tewart utherland, former

Principal and current Vice-Chancellor of

the Cniversitv of London. and Sir

Hermann Bondi. Emeritus Professor of

Mathematics.

Several notable King's alumni were

also mentioned in this serie ; Oena

Coleman, who gained her PhD on

Science EducaJion in Victorian Times. IS

now deputy head teacher at Hasmonean

industry. Again. KCL Enterprises IS

fortunate in that all of the' hoolliaison

officer have experience of working with

industry and mo t have spent part of

their careers in the commercial or

government sectors.

KCL Enterprises IS very much open

for business: whether it is gUIdance

with research grant/contract application ;

advice on patenting, copyright or

registered designs, or negotiating

exploitation routes with third parties. we

are here to help. Please contact our

School liaison officer or a member of the

cenual team at an early stage to a SiSt

you with your plans.

[)r . 1alcolnn Inn

rims, who has been

appointed the new :vIanaglngDirector of KCL Enterprises

Ltd, joined King's in July from BPResearch where he was Head of

Chemicals and Catalysis. with experience

in technology transfer, new bu Iness

generation, licensing and management

of change.

Or Sims graduated from Queen :vIary

College London in 1967 with a first class

degree in Chemistry. His PhD in

Physical Chemistry three years later was

also from the University of London. In

1970 he joined BP and held positions

including: Manager, Physical Sciences ­BP Research; R & 0 Planning Manager- BP Group, and General Manager,[nnovation Centre - BP Ventures.

He attended the Sloan School of

Management, Massachusetts In titute of

Technology and gained a Masters

degree in the :vIanagement of

Technology in 1987. He has lectured at

Brunei Cniverslty and Q:vI and IS the

author of a number of scientific

publications and patents. He was

awarded the Fellowship of the Ro al

ociety of Chemistry in 1985.

TeI (Home) TcI (Home)

Tel (Work) Tel (Work)

Occupation Occupation

Category of~omination Signature

Reason for nomination

From Sclzwobisclus Togbloll, of Saturday

I7 July 1993

trIO a alO t the bac cloth of old

Ca orld e buildlO s or notion of tea­

partle 10 ront 0 a IC enng fire hat

entice German tuden acros the

Channel' 'Of course not. 'Patrlc

Flea er. law t dent on an exchan e

:'rom Heldelberg. 'The wa of tudlO

I~ ollTerent here. The lecturer now

~ou 10 I Iduallv, roup are smaller. and

onere you learn more too.' Accord 10

to Statl tiCS. Bntlsh lecturers are

respon Ible or 11.7 tudents each. and

that s a reat deal fewer than 10

German . ''''''hen we meet our tutor.

once a wee . there's on Iy three 0 us 10

the group,' Fledler stresses.

Glna Wenze!. from GipplOgen [near

tuttg;artl, IS In her second year at KlOg's

College London. tud. 109 German and

History. Apart from the small-group

teach 109, she regard ano.ther aspect of

her study 10 BritalO as Important. 'It

loo s better 10 your CV If you've studied

abroad. And If you've studied German

and I IIStory there ha to be some piu ­

factor. like tud abroad, If you want to

find a ood job later.'

Bfltta Baron. director of the London

office of the German AcademiC

Exchange rvlce (DAAD) sees above

all In that latter argument an explanation

for the success of the EC-funded

Erasmus programme. Out of a total of

11.500 reCipients of Erasmus grants.

3.500 pent a year in Great Britain in

1992 alone.

Katharina Ledersteger from Berlin.tudylng architecture at Cniverslty

College London. sees et another

positive aspect: 'You can really

concentrate on our tudies here. For

one thlOg, you don't have to worry

yourself Sick about accommodation

dUring the term.' For e en in expensi e

London students are guaranteed-for the

first year at lea t-accommodatlon 10 a

hall of reSidence.

The number of students who come to

the CK for a complete degree course IS

also vlslbl growlOg. A Ms Baron

observes, 'German students are fleemg

from the anonymity of the German

mas -universities.' In her view the

German government is encouraging thiS

trend. 'It's cheaper of cour e to export

the excess students than to create new

acilities in one's own country.'

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'British universities offer individualsupervision - Successful exchangeprogramme'

prize. In recent vears. Kin'" tudents

have also achieved mootlng success on

he world Sta e b" '" 10 OIng the

Commonwealth. loot 10 . 'ew Zealand

(I 0) and the Jessup International Law

\Iloot In WashlOgton DC (I 92). In lew

of these periorrnances. K109' can

Justifiably claim to be the country'

outstanding mootlng unrverslry.

Thile the politiCians on the

InternatIOnal stage squabble

about how far European

union IS to go, British univerSitieS are

selling ever more and ever faster an

example 0 internatIOnal partnership: in

the current academiC ear ,000 German

students have registered at British

univerSitieS alongSide students from

many other countries.

That' tWice as many a only three

year ago. Is It the Images of puntlng-

In s hool of Law tarred In

the first round of quality

asse ments b, the HEFCE,

whose results were announced In Jul

Of29 unl erslty departments

conSidered by the assessors. King's

hool of Law was one of six judged to

be excellent. ubmlsslons made b the

hool to the HEFCE covered the

prinCiples of education follo"'ed.

tudent suPPOrt mechanisms, examples

of student e say. examination scnpts

and student assessments of leachers.

Assessors VI Ited the chool for three

day In Apnl and saw teachers In actIOn

as well as diSCUSSing With tudents.

former tudents and their employer

their impre slons of the quality of

education prOVided by the choo!.

The as essment team revealed that

the were extremely Impre ed With the

quality of education In Law offered at

King's. Particularly praised was the

attractive range of the chool'

curriculum. the use of relevant and up­

to-date research in teaching, the

commitment of staff to tudents, and the

upport received by students dUring

their time at the College.

pecial mention was also made of the

high quality of the tudents met by the

assessors. and the employers' view that

students In the School receive a well-

tructured education from very well,

qualified and enthusiastiC staff.

Ing's has once again emerged

rom the Observer

. 'ational ~lootlng

Competition. Graeme Keen and tuart

Armstrong represented the Law School

in the final of the Competition, held In

July of this year in the presence ofl lis

Ilonour Judge Alan Taylor, and gave an

accomplished mooting performance to

gain the judge's verdict and win the

coveted Observer Mace. This is the

second time in five years that King's has

won the country's premier mooting

p ge i

ece tOnel.ilslHhtteHo e- ne\\ pr du [ton t Kin

Katharine Worth

Professor Emeritus, Co-director Text

and Performance MA

\o..l\(iS (0111(.1 LO\\)O'

in King's Theatre on the final day to see

the performance and chat afterwardsWith students and staff. He felt that the

text had been communicated with

Impressive understanding and skill

One upshotofthis valuable

experience was the decision by the

tudents who initiated the workshop to

et up a company, known so far as

'.-\cross the Water.' to present Irish plays

in London and English plays in Ireland.

It is hoped King's will provide one of

the venues for the touring circuits now

being planned and that the companywill maintain a creative connection with

King's and the MA Text and

Performance course. Enquiries, adVice

and contributions of any kind should be

addressed to: Marie Kelly, (9A tock

Orchard Crescent, London 79SL.

David Byrne of the Abbey Theatre,

Dublin, the dIrector responsible for the

first performances of almost all Bolger's

plays. The \IA Text and Performance

course (taught in association with

RADA) attracts many students with

professional theatrical experience. and a

remarkably hIgh level of thearrical

effectiveness was achieved in the finaldemonstration la performance with

scnpts) of this major play (not yet seen

in London) by one of the leadingcontemporary Irish playwrights. The

excitement of the event was intenSified

\\ hen Dermot Bolger himself joined u

ing's Theatre was the venue for

a recent week-long workshop

for students on the MA Text

and Performance course, on Dermot

Bolger's play Ont LaSI Whiu Horrt.

The workshop gained its special

significance from being directed b.

Dumol Bolgtr (It/I) and Douid Byrrlt al

tilt ffJlorksltop. Pltolo by Julit BIe/ra.

pa e

IOn

Valerle OavlesDirector, Continuing Education Unit

A eries of lectures was held in

mid-June by the Centre of

Con truction Law and

~fanagementon the theme of American

construction law, the main speaker

being Professor Justin Sweet, Boalt

Professor of Law at Berkeley, California.

The Chairmen were Professor I "Duncan Wallace QC, Sir Phillip Otton,

Jud e of the High Court, London and

Professor John ffQC, the Director ofthe Centre. The series featured a

number of eminent speakers and about

100 delegates attended on each even ing.

/\. reception was held for Professor

weet on 16 June, which the Principal,

Professor Lucas, attended.

e would be grateful If ou

will ou please ensure that

all the Continuing

EducatIOn Record for

3 reach the Contlnulng Education

L nit as soon as poSSible. and certalnl

no later than Frlda 15 October.

If you ran a hort course, or an

non-degree course, or a conference,prOVIded there was an attendance fee

the odds are it should be included in theContinuing Education Records. If indoubt contact the Continuing Education

C nit on ext 3055.

These Records are not only reqUired

for the Cniversity tatistical Records,

they also form the basis of response to

the HEFCE monitoring of Continuing

Education. If we do not want to sell

ourselves hort we must make them as

comprehensive as pos Ible.

1·II:.LD

The Fou ndation for InternationalEvironmental Law and Development(FI ELD) is leaving King's this

September and will be going to theSchool of Oriental and African Studies.

Ph

Best presentation awardJanine Bra "er, a PhD tudent In heDepartment 0 - Pharmacy. won an award

or be t presentatIon at the annual

meeting oi he Cnited In dom

Ass latlOn 0 - Pharmaceutical lentlSts

(L aps) hel at Exeter Cnlversl .'

Her comolned oral/po ter

presentation as entitled RLdox pOlmllaJ

a factor Influmang azo-r~duC/lon andhe co-authored the work With Professor

C MarnotL Or G MartIn and OrBloomfield. The stud IS part of thedrug delivery research programme,

which is currently in estlgatlng the

means by wnlch tnggered release of

orally administered dru s In the large

intestine can be achieved.

Janlne received 100 In prize mone

and free regIstration for next year's

CKaps conference to be held at

Leicester Cn1verslty.

When is a herb not a herb?Innovations often come eastwards across

the AtlantiC but In July Or PeterHoughton and Or Amala Raman, the

pharmacognosy staff of the Pharmacy

Department at :'v1anresa Road, ran a

course which IS not available in the

CSA. In response to the increasing

demand from the public for plant­

derived medicines and at the request of

the British Herbal :'v1edlcine Association

the course was devised to look at the

ways In whIch medicinal plants can be

evaluated prior to being used as

medicines In conventional or

complimentary treatments. EC

le Islation IS being Introduced to set thecntena for good quality material and

therefore many manufacturers and

suppliers are seeking training In the

quality testing technique.

The course was practlcall based and

conSIdered the methods available to

measure the amount of actIve

constItuents. level of purity and

Identification of a substance. The

feedback from the course was very

pOSitive and we envisage re-staging It inthe iuture.

ring the ummer heDepartment 01- ElectrOnic

and Electrical En Ineenn

.... ere represented at two hi hi

prestlglOu exhibitions. held b. the

Ro. al le and the Ro al Academv o·

En Ineerln ,re pectl eI .Or Jeremy Everard and. Ir \1lchael

Page-Jones were selected by the Ro 'al

oClety to exhibit at Its annual Set:lIFronturs In tuna exhibition which IS

held to demonstrate recent advance Inba IC research and is part of Its

programme to raise public

understanding and awarenes of science

and technology. Their exhibit. All·

()p/lCOI 'Ildus for communI£l1ll0n and

compullng S)sums, presented a new method

of WItChing which IS entirel Optical.

Professor Alan Rogers. Or Ince

Ilandere , 'vir Ikan Cokgor and ~1r AlanKent were inVited to attend the Royal

.\cadem ot Englneenng's 1 3 SOiree

ExhIbition With the theme of Tluconlnbullon ofunrveml'j mgrnunng

r~s~ardr 10 InduslnaJ succ~s. Their dl play,

OpluaJ-fibr~ smsorJ for 1Iz~ d,slnbuled

mmsuronml ofSlrarn, complete With a

model railway engine running along a

track (sa pholograph belOfIlJ), demonstrated

the sensing of POSitions of vehicles

moving along tracks and also the sensing

of fixed disturbance causing sues on

the optical fibre.

Dr Vinu Hand"~i In fronl ofIh~ King's display alllz~

Roal Acodmry of Engrnuring a/ribi/ion--.....,.---....

page

women who hold thiS prestigiou

fellow hip. Thi brings the number of

FBAs In the College to ten: eight in

Humanitie and two in Law.

Jlead. of hool

h nge In L \\

he Open University has

conferred the Honorary

Degree of Doctor of the Open

University upon Professor J 0 Smith.

Department of Dental Radiology.

Professor A J Bellingham has been

elected President of the Royal College

of Pathologists with effect from 17

;-":ovember 1993.

onour were conferred upon

two member of the College

in the Queen's Birthda

Honours Li t: Or Roger Williams.

Director of the Instltute of Liver

tudles, wa awarded a CBE; and

Proiessor Albinia De La \t1are, Professor

of Palaeography. was awarded a CBE.

rofessor Barry Ife has been

appointed by Council for a

further term as Head of the

hool of Humanities, from I August

1993 until 31 July 1997. Professor

\largaret Brown has been appointed for

a iurther term as Head of the chool of

Education until 31 July 19%, and

Proiesor lan Kennedy will return from

his sabbatical as Head of the School of

Law. al 0 until 1996.

. ledlcmc nd Dentl tl"\

honour

T here have been several

changes in executive posts

within the School, which are

as iollows: Ms Eva Lomnicka, Associate

Head (Academic Affairs); Mr Mark

Lunney. Associate J-Iead (Student

Admissions and Affairs) and Sub-Dean;

Proiessor David Hayton, Associate Head

(Finance); Or Peter Oliver, Deputy

Associate Head (Student Welfare);

\t1r Harry Rajak, Director of

Po tgraduate tudles.

.( lie e1emb r hIpouncil

hree member of the Council

- . Ir John right. Dame

Josephlne Barnes and ir

Thomas Bingham - retIred at the end 0

the last session. The three new

members who have been appointed are

Dame Elizabeth Butler- loss (Rt Hon

Lord Justice Butler- 10 s OBE, Lord

Justice of Appeal. who became a

Presentation Fellow of the College in

1991); \1 rs Joan Olivier, Head mistress

of Lady \1argaret School. Fulham

(nominated bv the College Visitor) and

\11 r Hayden Phillips cn, Permanent

Secretary at the Department of 1"ational

Heritage since 1992. Professor John

Thornes, Head of the Department of

Geography, is the new profe sorial

representative on Council (in succession

to Professor McGregor); Or Jcremy

\llason of Life iences is the non­

proiessorial representative (in succession

to Or Hoult), and \1r Bill Causon of

KCS\t1D and \lr \1alcolm 0 mundson

of Physiology are the non-teaching

representatives (succeeding Derek Law

and Christine aunders).

. lcmbcr hip of.ouneil Committee

•e\\ F HO'\ ot theBri i h \cadem

T he membership of the

committees of the Council has

been changed slightly to give

more recognition to School

constituencies and to provide some

cross-membership with the College

Committee. This give rise to some

changes in the membership of the

taffing Policy ommittee, the E tates

Strategy Committee and the Amenities

Committee. Full details are available

from the ecretarial. It was suggested

that there should be a student

representative on the College

Committee. and this suggestion is to be

discussed by the College Committee.

K ing's gained three new Fellows

of the British Academy in July.

Professor Andrew Ashworth in

Law. Professor Tony Guest in Law. and

Professor Reinhard Strohm in \t1 usic

\\ere elected to join the 540 men and 41

e

pa e I

e\ Deanappointed

he College Council has

approved the appointment of

the Revd Or Richard Alan

Burridge as Dean of King's from 1

September 1994. Until then Professor

Leslie Houlden ofthe Department of

Theology will be Acting Dean.

Or Burridge is currently at the

niversity of Exeter where he is Lazenby

Chaplain and part-time Lecturer in the

Departments ofTheology, and of Classics

and Ancient History. He is 38, married

with two daughters and gained a first

class honours degree in Literae

Humaniores at University College,

Oxford in 1977 followed by a PGCE at

the University of Nottingham in 1978.

He was Classics Master and House

Tutor at Sevenoaks chool from 1978 to

1982, and then returned to Nottingham

to undertake ordination training at St

John's College, followed by the post of

curate at St Peter and St Paul, Bromley

Parish Church, from 1985 to 1987. In the

mean time he undertook a PhD with the

University of ottingham, and his thesis,

COSfXis, Cef,"and Croet:O-Romon Biogroplry,was completed in 1989. He moved to

the University of Exeter in 1987.

Or Burridge has published several

books and papers, and has written and

lectured extensively on subjects ranging

from youth culture and pop music, to

the ethical considerations of sex therapy,

and the literary character of the Gospels.

A new book, Four Gospels, One Jesus?

is due to be published by SPCK in 1994.

The role of the Dean of King's is to

ensure that the religious purposes of the

College are effectively maintained and

carried out; to take overall responsibility

for the services in the College Chapel; to

advise and guide those students

intending to seek ordination; to organise

the Association of King's College CAKe)

course, and to carry out a general

pastoral function.

ervice Fellow

Brigadier G Y1esservy-Whiting,

Military Adviser to Lord Owen,

will be joining the Centre for

Defence tudies on a service fellowship

for the Autumn term. He will be

working on a project writing up his ideas

regarding the political approach to

peace-keeping and peace-making

operations, following his experience in

Lord Owen's personal office during the

last 15 months of the crisi in former

Yugoslavia

Ilead ot In ormatlon er\'lceand rem

Derek Law, previousl

the College Librarian, has

been appointed Head of

Information Services and Systems. He

took up his new post on 1 uguSL In his

new capacity he is responsible to the

Principal for the planning, development

and management of information services

and systems including the Library and

computing and educational technology

services, and for integrating the

academic service resources of the

College in ways which enhance the

quality and effectiveness of teaching,

learning and research by co-ordinating

and providing effective storage,

retrieval. analvsis and delivery of

information. He will be a member of

the College Committee and the heads of

the Library and Computing services will

be responsible to him

Derek Law was born in Arbroath and

was educated at the universities of

Glasgow and Strathclyde, taking his first

degree in Y1ediaeval History. He

worked in the universities of Glasgow,

Edinburgh and St Andrew's and in the

Erskine Y1edical Library before coming

to King's as Librarian-designate just

before the KQC merger.

He has been involved in information

technology for over 20 years and was

Director of Library Automation in

Edinburgh. He was a member of the

King's Computer Board and is now a

member of its successor, the JointInformation Systems Committee, whose

Information Systems Sub-committee he

chairs.

He holds or has held a number of

research grants from bodies as varied as

the Spanish Ministry of Education and

the European Commis ion, all in the

general area of networked in formation.

He lectures regularly in the UK and

abroad and has written over 50 articles

and book-<:hapters. He was involved in

drafting the Telematics Chapter of the

4th Framework Programme for the

European Commission and won the

1993 Cyril Barnard Prize for Medical

Informatics, recognising the year's

greatest contribution to medical

librananship.

He is much involved in national

policy-making: he is a member of the

Follett Review of Higher Education

Libraries, of the E RC Research

Resources Board and of the Royal

Society's Scientific Information

Committee. He chairs the teering

Committee of the UK Office for Library

~etworkingand the Executive

Committee of the Library Association.

He is married with two daughters, and

describes himself 'in real life' as a naval

historian and bibliographer. He is

Secretary of the Society of Tautical

Research.

ward for Denys Brun den

embers of the College and

the Department of

Geography will be

delighted to learn that Professor Denys

Brunsden has been awarded the

prestigious 0 L Linton Award of the

British Geomorphical Research Group.

This award has special associations with

King's College since Linton worked

with Professor S W Wooldridge, a

former Head of Geography, on the

structure, surface and drainage of south

east England.

This award is made to Denys

Brunsden for outstanding service to the

discipline of geomorphology as a writer,

teacher and advocate for the discipline.

His excellent research on landslides has

eamed him a worldwide reputation, but

his work in promoting the discipline

through contacts with other professions,

through the Geographical Association

and ational Curriculum Committees

and. above all, through the International

Association of Geomorphologists has

assisted all his colleagues.

. taster hip for King' alumnu

Professor Lord Plant of Highfield,

a King's alumnus and currently

Professor of Politics at the

University of Southampton and a

working peer representing the Labour

Party in the House of Lords, has been

pre-elected to the mastership of St

Catherine's College Oxford. He will

assume office in September 1994.

page I1

Sadie Halldie HalUfar le t) ho retired at the

end of Jul after some Z6 ears .... Ith the

Colle e Catenng Department IS hown

here With Pnncess nne at an earher

e em In the ear. he has written the

follOWing than ou letter:

I ~u/d l/ielo say a very btg thanK 010 10

ltIeryOnl lll'';o come 10 my farllll'dl party In

I';e Counal Room 01 tJu md ofJuly and

made i/ such a memorabk and ';appy

oaasion. II rIlJas lovely 10 Sll so marry

frimdJ. I was particularly louded 10

recm.Je Iou of kllers and cords from pasl

membtn ofslaff&'';0 f!lJeren '/ able /0 be

there on tJu day, including I';rll former

Prinapals.

Thank you all very much.

Sadu Ha I (In /Ile mIddle)

Sheila Ford

hella Ford, Departmental Secretary of

Byzantine and Yiodern Greek tudles, IS

pictured at her leaving party back In

July. Sheilajoined the College In 19 1as a secretary in the Department of

Geology and when It closed she moved

to Byzantine and Yiodern Greek.

During her time at King's shesuccessfully completed her Open

niverslty course. gaming an honours

degree m History and Literature. We

wish her all the very best.Slutla ford Jlrle 11annglon

Mike HarringtonMike Harrington left King's in July thiS

year after 28 years. He joined the

Department of Mechanical Englneenng

as a workshop techniCian and rose to

become uperintendent. He wasactively involved In College life.

working hard on behalf of others In hiS

unIOn, \11 F, on matters of health and

safety, and serving on the committee of

the College oclal Club. We WI h him a

very long and happy retirement.

Cannon Reggie AskewThe Dean, Cannon Reggie Askew,

retired at the end of the last sessIOn after

five years in the College. He is hown

here receiving gifts from the

Chaplaincy, staff and students at a party

on 2 July.

p e 12

ne DltJn's rlllremml party

Jor

eembryo. Thi protein has been

implicated in the important proces of

me oderm formation during earl

embr ogene i and its function will be

analy ed b. molecular biological and

genetic method u ing the zebrafi h

embryo.

The third award, for $530,000, has

already been running for a year and

involves the laboratory of Or Michele

Peck ham, a Royal ociet fellow at the

Randall Institute working in

collaboration with group in Bri tol,

I Ieidelburg and :"aple . The intere t of

thi team i to elucidate the function of

two very large proteins, titin and

nebulin, which are found in pecific

place in mu cle cell. C ing a

multidi ciplinary approach they hope to

analy e the tructUre and function of

these proteil1s wh ich appear to pia

crucial role in the way mu cle cell

contract and generate movement.

The ueces of the e application

very encouraging - not only from the

financial point of view but, more

importantl . because they indicate that

the cience being done i

intcrnationally competitive.

Profes or i\'igel Ilolder

Director, Devclopmental Biology

Re carch Centre

T he DI3RCha been

cstablished as a re earch

centre of excellence under the

EC Capital and Iluman Mobility

programmc. The award, which i

extremely competitive, adds the centre

to a li t of laboratories in the EC

con idered to be primary centre of

excellence for the training of graduate

students, postdoctoral fellows and

visiting enior scientists. The EC has

made available to the centre a

ub tantial grant to enable fellowships

and exchange of EC based scientists to

be e ·tablished.

e e

I hrc I1 urn n I ron IC

for thc} nd 11 In itu >

he Human Frontier ienee

Programme i a recentl

e tablished international

organi ation which award competiti e

grants in the area of biomedical cience.

Most of the money emanates from Japan

but there are minor contributions from

other countrie including Britain,

France. Germany and the S . The

programme fund po tdoctoral

fellow hip and major award for

collaborative re earch projects involving

groups from different countrie . The

award are ery competitive with a

reported ucce rate for the la t rou nd

ofaround 12%. A mall numberof

award were made th i year to

application invol inggroup in Britain­

tWO of them involved research teams at

the Randall In titute; adding to a third

award which was made la t year.

The two new award are for work at

very different level of cellular

organisation - both are for over

$700,000. The first involves a

collaboration between Professor Bob

Simmon ,directoroftheMRC\ilu cle

and Cell Yfotility nit, and two

laboratorie at Stanford univer Ity in

California and aims to use biophysical

in trumentation to inve tigate the

structUre and fu nction of individual

biological macromolecules. The team

will u e the optical tweezer techniq ue,

ba ed on the abilit of a focu ed la er

light beam to manipulate individual

macromolecule. to examine the force

underlying interaction between the

proteins actin and m 0 in which

generate movement during mu cle

contraction and to te t model offolding

of the genetic material D:"A.

The second award involve Profe sor

:'\igel Holder's laboratory in collaboration

with a group at the :"ationallnstitute for

Medical Research in London and teams

in Basle and Tokyo. The thrust of the

grant i to anal e the function of the

protein growth factor acti in during the

earl development of the vcrtebrate

c

traml

RC Redmond.

General ervice Manager

Chrislmas /993

Thc College will clo eat 16.00 on

Thur day 23 December 1993 and

rc-open on Tuesday 4 Jan uary 1994

The Per onnel and Training Office

moved to Cornwall Hou e at the end of

August and the Estate Department

Offices move there on 23 eptember.

E tate work hop remain at the trand.

The Principal and hi Office, the

cretar and the ecretariat, the

Regi try and the Finance Department

will move to Corn wall Hou e in

:'-.'ovember.

Easier /994

The College will close at 16.00 on

Wedne day 30 Yfareh 1994 and will

re-open on Wednesda 6 April 19 4

Olher Bank Holidays

Yfonday 2 May (Yfay Day Holiday)

Yfonday 30 May ( pring Bank Holiday)

Monday 29 August (Late Summer

Iloliday)

There have been a number of burglaries

at the Strand Campu during the la t

year and in an auempt to prevent

further criminal activity, additional,

covert urveillance operation have been

put in place. During the night of the 4

and 5 June 1993 thi initiative warewarded.

Four uspec entered the trand

ampu via the Macadam Building,

made their way to the Central Regi try

and broke into three room there.

Before the were able to teal an th ing

night security staff approached them

and were able to arre t two of the

suspect. UnfortUnately the other two

managed to escape.

The two u pects were taken to

Charing Cross Police tation where they

were interviewed and subsequently

charged with a number of offence.

Iage 1

m

Lu I!>C adal on ext 1252

E·~1ad. LDXX 4)

L erran

he Leverhulme Tru t IS

currently offenng the

follOWing ellow hip grants

and awards.

research fellowships and gran .

ntended to a SiSt re earcher

experienced m their own field to

complete or undertake a re earch

programme. normally or tho e

over 30.

Emeritus fellowships, for those

recently or about to retire, aged 59

or over at the age of retirement;

• tudy abroad students hip for

graduates under 30.

Further details are available from The

ecretary, Research Awards Advisory

Committee. The Leverhulme Trust, 15­

19 f CW Fetter Lane. London EC4A

I. R. Clo 109 dates are in :'>.ovember

and January

.\ ....ee I E-. lall 'promptm . service

I al 0 avadable 0 remind those With

access to he Colie e net ....or to loo at

e. 'otlceboard re ularly o\nybody

nm to receive thiS servICe should

contJ either 0 - he 'ollowmg m the

.\ aemlc tandards' ctlon o' the

Re I tr\.

. ate uantrell on ext II

rt Ol le

~mlteE~' (. mml

Researcn OppOrtUnities

. 'otlceDoard IS now avadable for

consultation on the King's

Information :,ystem(KI ). The

.otlceboard gIVes up-to·date

mformatlon on gram opportunitieS for

eachmg and research mcludlng EC

funds. Research Council grants and

undlng available from commercial and

charitable ources.

Colleagues \\Ishlng to access thiS

,CfYICe should c.:I1I or connect to 'I. TO'

at the V.\X prompt. The Research

Opportunities :'-!otlceboard IS Item 5 on

the 1'1 malO menu.

hc compet tlon -or Research

[fate· mmlt ce nd for

projects commencm m

!>C slon I I now open.

fhe 'olloy, n monae re a 'adable 'or

I tnomlon m tOl ro nd:

Rese.:Jrcn trategy Fund . 40.000

Researcn E Ipment Fund £200.000

Junior Rc!>Carcn tudentshlps -5,000

IX tudentshlpsl

All bid should be ubmltted la

'hool Re earcn Committee. and. ote~

o GUidance booklets. offiCial

applicatIOn forms and m ormatlon on

I I clo 109 dates for submiSSions are

adable from chool \dmlOl uallve

o Icers.

the end of J Iy. an

In tematlonaJ p<:(:lallst

Wor shop on'. on-Imear

o namlc of Electronac tern'.

or anlscd bv 'm ' and the Technical

C naver.my 01 Dresden. toOK pia at

hlo Ec ber , an Immaculatelv re·

urb. hed nco-gothiC chateau built on a

high pomt 0 erloo 109 the RI er Elbe

and the City of Ore den. There y,ere

over fifty parttclpants, ""Ith

representation from many countne

IC prus. Denmark, Ireland. (tal, Japan.

Poland, Romania. Ru Sla. cotland.

pain. wltzerland. CSA. and. 0 course.

En land and Germany) 0 ullv

Justlfymg the title 'International' ""hlch

wa cho en when I first propo~ed the

Workshop less than a . ear ago. The

programme mcluded three contnbutlon

from Kmg's College, and man of the

'famou name' of the subject were

present.

There \va agreement b the

participants that an annual workshop on

this ubJect m Europe would fill a real

demand and stimulate research and

applications m thl rapidly developing

area. As a result. a second workshop IS

planned for Krakow. Poland m 1994.

The Workshop m Dresden developed

as a by-product of Jomt research work of

the Department of Elecuonlc and

Electncal Engineenng of Klng'~ College

and the Institute for the Foundation of

Elecuonlc and Electrical E nglneenng of

the Technical L: nlverslty of Dresden.

This re earch I partially funded b the

Bml h-German AcademiC Research

Collaboration ( RC) programme.

Prof. Anthon C Da les

Department of Electronic

& E lectncal Engmeenng

TIllS pllOlograplt, laim by Dr SII!f-I Wtlson

a/lite Drollopmtnlal Biology ReSlordt

Cmlre, fIVas uSld reuntl by SERC as a

pnnapal tlluslrallon In Iltttr lallsl annual

reporl and by lite DTI in a gOfJernmml

sponsored communll:ollOn almld al Sllling

Bnlislt rlseardt 10 IIIl JapanlSl mariti. 1IsltOlll'S lI1r1y dif/trmllallng neurons In lite

brain 0/a ubrafislt embryo Idtnlifild lIl'IIIr

an anllboOy.

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Obituarie

Dame Joyce BishopDame ]oyce Bishop, who died in June

aged %, was an Honorary Fellow of

King's and a former upervisory Tutor

in the College's Faculty of Education

between 1963 and) 973. She was

famous as the Headmistress of Holl

Lodge High chool. Smethwick, from

1924 to ) 935 and of Godolphin and

Latymer School for girls in

Hammersmith from 1935 to 1963. She

was also Chairman of the Association of

Headmistresses in 1950, and a member

of the niversity Grants Committee in

the early 1960s.

Les FosterLes was recruited from the portering

staff in 1953, by the late Or :v1ary

Locket. who was Head of the

Department of Physiology and

Pharmacology at the time, to begin his

career as an Animal House Technician

at Chelsea College. He became a

tremendous asset to teaching and

research at the College, and his animal

house was a model of care and excellent

management.

Ken Bromfield has written this tribute

to him:

'I am among many people who were

at Chelsea who can testify to Les's

kindness and down to earth wisdom. He

helped me immensely when I joined

the College as a teenage technician and

I learned one key lesson from him­

there need not be barriers to progress;

he had made the grade from porter to

chief technician by giving everything his

best shot, an attitude which continued

until he died. We remember Les with

warmth and gratitude and our hearts go

out to his family.'

Mr Desond Fitzwilliam Lewis. OBE.FRPharmSMr Lewis who died recently at the age

ofn served for several years on the

Poisons Board, on the Council of the

School of Pharmacy at the niversityof

London and also on the Council of

Chelsea College.

Professor Peter Stott

Peter tott'S asSOCiation with King's

College was relatively short, a mere IX

ears out of an extreme! ull and

distinguished career. He came to the

Ke 10 . 'ash Chair ofCi il Engineering

in 19 3 and retired in 19 9. Soon after

hiS arnval it became clear that King's

could no longer support a viable

department of Civil Engineering

without the mjectlon of sub tantial

resources which were not available.

Professor tott had the unenviable task

of closing the department he had so

recently joined. That his colleagues

were able to find posts in other colleges

of the L niverslty says much for his

negotiating skill and diplomacy.

Peter 5tott began his career as an

engmeer in private practice and

e tablished a reputation as one of the

world's leadmg bridge engineers

particularly in the field of pre- tressed

concrete. He was responsible for the

design ofa number of bridges in

..... ustralia and also of the Hammersmith

Flyover.

In 1963 with his reputation firmly

established he accepted the post of

Deputy Chief Engineer of the LCC

becoming shortly thereafter Chief

Engineer. Following the reorganisation

of London's government in 1965 he

became Director of Highways and

Transportation of the newly formed

Greater London Council. His

ach ievements there were to create the

Department of Planning and Transport

of the GLC which combined these two

functions for the first time in local

government and to draw up the Greater

London Development Plan which

introduced the concept of "dynamic

balance" between road provision and

traffic restraint. Only now are tott's

ideas on road pricmg coming to be fully

appreciated.

He left the GLC in 1973 to become

Director General of the 1\'ational Water

Council: a challenge which he could not

resist. Although the Council was

abolished by the Government in 1983

tOtt could look back on solid

achievements including a short but

incisive report providing for the first

time a complete per pective of the

whole industry.

Peter tott's proudest achievement

was to be elected President of the

Institution of Civil Engineers for the

year I 9-90. where typically he

initiated a major reorganisation.

In retirement he continued as active

as ever. As Chairman of the Quality

heme for Read M ixed Concrete he

was 10 trumental in gaining acceptance

by the mdustry and its customers of a

truly independent quality control

system.

He was a member of the College

Council appointed after consultation

with Westminster City Council from

1992.

L tter

Equal Opportunities forum

Dear Editor

How good to see icola Le Fanu's

letter last issue) following up the

statistics provided about women at

King's by Valerie Davies. We now have

an Equal Opportunities Forum, which I

understand is proposing to hold regular

Open Meetings for the expression of

general opinion. I hope profoundly that

it will take an active role and not merely

a monitoring one. How about King's

joining Opportunity 2000 for instance?

We always seem to be the last in line on

issues like this, only moving when

forced (eg by the Academic Audit) but if

Oxford can join and fifteen other

universities during this year (Indtpmdml

24.6.93), so can we. There are so many

important issues here. from working

conditions to appraisal and promotion,

none of which has even been addressed

as yet. I do hope those women at King's

who think along the same lines will

make their views felt to the Equal

Opportunities Forum (the Chair is

Richard Griffiths).

veril Cameron

Professor of Late Antique and

Byzantine Studies

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10 October, 14.00A e _ec:.. 'e -rea:re e s g'o'"

Principal's meetings with staff28 September, 14.00••e -"ea"e S:'aro

Gresham lectures:I'o'esser ::'a~ Co S gig a se' es

o' ec' 'es s caoac as Gres a:I'o'esso 0: P",s cs re ec:ures

ce "e a a: G'es a Co ege, 8a a as~.., ~a 000' _on 0 EC' 2

:e 01' -83' 05758 ovember, 17.30:' a s ana .vna can do?-"'e:Jr CD es 0' gere: c e 9 "leer 9/' De exo a reo r "0 soec,a ,s ermsa'la e apes o· w a ca be 00 e

..s g trese 'ec I"laLoeS be g en

24 November, 17.30Replacmg defec / e genes"''le POSSlbl1i ,es 0 replacing nede'ectlve genes will be discussedage er WI some 0 e prob ems,

bo prac Ical ano e nlcal, I ely 0 beel"coun ered

15 November, 17.30Problems m he genes probmg and

orognoslsCommon gene IC olsorders will beoescr oed ano examOles given 0'

a s In W IC pa IC lar genes andgene oroo c s con nou e 0 ese

olsorOers ec nlques or eaen , ica 0 0 oe ec Ive genes 11

be OISC sseoCentre for Late Antique andMedieval Studies2 Oc oDe~oom B06 S 'and Campus, '7 30 0

'900

J Anarew?resco ,Bn ISh L,braryThe res ora: cn 0 e co on library

In ugur

Seventh Benno Pollak Lecture27 Oc:oDer ' 993, '7 30 to 8 30

o ISSIO ee 01 son ec e-"ea re, ns:: :e 0 Ps cn a eC eSDlgny Pc:-'.::. Jen a I, LO 00

SE58AFDr :a s a ea esearc Dlrec or,:: n IS FOL."'::a Ion 0 A,co 01 S 0 es,-,e,slr: ,

Alcohohcs Anonymous as anmterna /Ona, mo emen of mu ual aid

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Centre for Educational StudiesWednesday 20 OctoberGrea Hall, Strano, lime tbe

Pro'essor argare Brown, Pro essor

o a hemal/cs Eduea Ion

Clashmg epiS emologles. he battle for

control of he nat/onal CUrriculum ands assessmen

Department of Physiologyrsoay 28 Ce:ober

ew I ea e S:ra 0, e beP o'essor Jere y Pearson, Pro essor

o ase lar Bo'ogyA man /s as Cid as hiS artenes

Department of Byzantine andModern Gredt Studies22 October, 17.30-he Comm: ee Room, S rand Fee

admiSSion, all welcome 0 a endDlmJ ns Angela os, (Departmen 0

L. era ure, Unf erslty 0 Cre e,Rethymno)

The PolyphonIC novel m Gree flc Ion

smce 1960

Eacn lecture las s or one hour and ISheld In he Chapel a he Strand In e

Irs ns ance a 12.00 on Mondays

en a Video 0 he lec ure IS

screened on Tuesdays a enslng onn e P ySlology Lec ure Thea re a•6 DO, and again on eonesoays a

o00 In Room 2C at e S rand, anda 3 00 n he PhYSiology Lecturerea re a enslng on The Videos 0

:re ec res are shown a Chelsea onrsdays a 6 00 n Room 20

11 OctoberDr Graham Gould

The ongms of Chnst/an consciousness

18 OctoberPro'essor Avenl Cameron

Chnst/amty and empire m the laterRoman world

25 OctoberDr Bnan GouldTheology and the creeds m the fourth

and fifth centunes

a cl

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Seminar by e Lo don edlcal

Sociology GroupRoom 4/24 (4 h loor) Depa en 0

ursing S dies, Cornwall ouseAnnexe. Admissio ee 50p 800 0

9.00

13 OctoberPhil Strong (London School 0 Hygieneand Tropical Medicine)

The public debate over AIDs

Special Management SeminarsThese will be held on Thursdayevenings, 17.30 to 19.0021 OctoberJohn R McLellan, General Manager(Personnel) Panasonic

Managmg at a Japanese company m

the UK: the myths and realities

anagement Seminar Room 1,ensington

28 OctoberJ Andrew Couns (Lecturer inAccounting and FinancialManagement, Shef ield UniversitySchool of Management)Calendar effects in the London StockExchange FT-SE indicesManagement Seminar Room 1,

Kensington

29 October

Senator Mark 0 Hatfield, US Senator(Republican) at the centre of US Policyto Extend Moratorium on NuclearTesting. Free admissionDefence and disarmament priomies: aview from the United StatesGreat Hall, S rand, please note time17.30 020.00. Free admiSSion

Geography Research seminars,All seminars will ta e place a 17.00 Inthe Departmental lounge (room 102),

orfolk Building, Strand Campus.

19 OctoberOr Peter Moore (Chair, HumanEnvironmental Sciences, ing's)

Pollen analvsls, plants and people mthe South East

26 OctoberOr Davld Simon, Department 0Geography, Royal Holloway CollegeThe world City hvpo thesIs: reflectionsfrom the penphery

Age Concem Institute ofGerontology research seminars

5.40. Se I ar Hoom ( Ird loor-3/B)o e Cor wall ouse Annexe.25 October

Or aria E a aro (Departmen 0EOlae lolog a d P blic eal ,LJ I ersl Cc, lege 0 aon)The manclal position 0 tnformalcarers

Science and Technology EducationUnit SeminarsThursdays (t roughout erm- Ime),3.00 0 4.00. Cornwall House

Annexe, Room G12. Admission ree.Con ac Dr artln Mon on 07 -8723100 for urtner In orma Ion.

Electronic and Electrical

Engineering Research Seminars.Room A, S;ra d, 3:00- 4:00

5 OctoberDr Aubrey Sanaman (Department 0cectronlc ana electrical Engineering)Very low dlstorvon ampldiers (somenovel approacnes Will be describedl.

14 OctoberOr R Grunene 'elder (CIT-Alcatel)

Software for me CIT-Alcatelcommunlcatton networ 5

26 October

Oavid E Kren ()epartment ofElec ronlc ana Electrical Engineering)

ew hetero/unctlon bipolar transistorsfor hIgh power applications

Department of PharmacyAll meetings wtil a e place in Room8, WI n re reS'1men s between 6.00

- ; 6. 5 and seminars being heldbetwee 6 -5 - 7 00

21 Octoberr Evans, (Gi iiesearch Unl , London,0Spl al ea,cal Collegel

Motlltty and tntraluminal factorsrelattng to GI a:seases and theirtreatment

28 OctoberOr D Sarlow IJepartmen ofPnarmacy, ing's College London)PeDtlde drug aeltvery - the nonsensecontinues

Centre for Hellenic Studies,Byzantine and Modern GreekResearch Seminars 1993-94

18 OctoberRoom B6, ClaSSICS Depa meS rand Campus, 7.00 0 8.30

a es Pe J erGreece, Albania and he Bal an oasIs

25 Octoberoom B6, ClaSSICS Deoartmen ,

S rana Camp s. 7 00 0 18.30P o'essor Roger Sco tMa tng the past conform mTheoohanes' Chronicle

Centre for American StudiesResearch Seminars 1993-94

14 October

Room 2C, S rand Campus, 18. 5Dr Richard Gordon, University of eele

Faul ner's 'Absalom, Absalom: Haitiand Labour History': readingunreadable revolUtions

28 OctoberRoom 12C, S rand Campus, 18.15P 0 essor Eric Mottran, Department ofEnglish, ing'sPound's Performance

COIIOqUl

Institute of Advanced MusicalStudiesWednesdays, 17.00-18.30. RoomGO , Music Department, StrandCampus. Free admissionFor Information contact ChristopherWintle on 07 -836 5454 ext 352713 OctoberPro'essor lan Ben. ColumbiaUniverSity ew YorMUSical analvsls and hermeneutlcs in

he nine eenth cenrury

27 OctoberMic ael Schrelder, oscowUniversity

Threads m RUSSian musIcfrom the tenth to thesIxteenth cenrury

pa e 17

Hea 0

S' ana

rd r 10

. 0 - celebration on_

September Will mar the

Colle)!;e part In the discovery

nd publication of the tructure 0 0 .-\o\earsa o. \ plaque will be un clled

In the trand quadrangle b) the

President 0 the Ro al oclery, naming

the five In' taff who worked on

D. A structure: R E Frankltn; R G

Gosling; A R tokes;.\1 H F Wilklns

and HR WII on. Four of the e people,

including :-"obel PrizeWinner Profes or

\laurlce Wil Ins. Will be among tho e

lecturing to an audience Including

everal hundred school pupils In the

. 'ew Theatre that day on subjects

related to the discovery.

Further details are available from the

Phvslcs Department.

Fannv Lau, a \1aths and Computer

ience student at King's. has been

cho en as the \1ost Enterprising hell

Technology Enterprise Programme

(STE P) Student for. orth London for

her work for at a Finchley based .ccunty

sy tem firm, Caretrend Securlry

ystems.

During her eight week work

placement scheme at the firm she

computerised the company's

administration by re-designing their

database, produeinga manual and

ralnlngallthe taff.Asaresultofher

e fortS the compan Inve ted in four

new computers.

Two other King's students, Tarquln

Purdle. a Management student and

Wendy Yau. a Computer Science

tudent. also made it to the local finals.

Fanny won a cheque for £ 150 and will

go on to represent the area in the

forthcommg regional finals.

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\ new tlmetaole for the College Inter­

site mail ""as Introduced on 28 June.

mainly to douole the number of ervlces

[0 Drury Lane and to Include Denmark

Hill. If you ha\e experienced any

difficulties ~ Ith this revised timetable,

please report them to John Worn ham on071-3334 i-.

Departure times for the new service are:

Morning

\lanresa Roaa

5-2 King's R d

KenSington

trand (catenn~)

trand I postroomJ

Drury Lane

trand Ipo troom)

Cornwall House Annexe

Denmark Hill

Aftemoontrand (Po troom)

Cornwall I louse Annexe

552 King's Rood

KenSington

\1anresa Road

Comwall/louse Annexe

Drury Lane

Strand (postroom)

ea esaa s 00 3).ese ee: gs a'e

pro so a. p ease ca e 'S 28~2 2588'or co ;Ir~a 0

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a c so5 n hes/smg programs rom proo,s

and Harrop or ufas fa er 5 e ano

Berard/J

20 OctoberA.an PearsAn ouellne 0 he Z speed/ca IOn

language

27 October

alcolm SirProgram ven lea Cion uSing Program

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Humanities Research Centres13 OctoberGrea ail. S ra a Campus. 11 00 '0

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Forty years of la e Roman and early

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language CoursesThe Language and CommunicationsCen re will be 0 fering a vanety 0

evening language courses, In up 0

ive levels, sublect 0 demand, InFrenc ,German, Spanish, Italia ,Japanese, Portuguese, Gree andArabic. They Will also be o· enng eollowlng co rse. BA Language

Training odules; French/German!Spanish for Lawyers; B slnessRUSSian; Franco-German Rela Ions,French or ar e Ing, Frenc orInsurance, Con emporary FrencC Iture; Scientl ic and TechnologicalFrench/German ana In enslveLanguage Course Further In orma Ionon all 0 he above IS available In eCentre's current brochure which canbe obtained rom Vanessa Beard on

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Blac orse La e Nictona line andBri is Rail s a on) S I able or vlsi ingacademc WI amrly or 2/3 adul swilling 0 live communally or 0 e yearfrom Sep e oer. Con ac Ez a ext3 65 or 08 -527 92 6

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itchen and bathroom with shower.Low outgoings. Good decorativeorder. Close to public transport(Pimlico, St James's Park and Victona)and shopping 'acilities. ReSident'sparking available. £55,000. Please callKate Quantrell on ext 2 18.

To letQuiet, secluded 2 bedroom co age(c1820), Sydenham, South EastLondon. Fully urnls ed, gas centralheating, garden and parking. Suitableor visiting academc couple. £400.00

per calendar month plus electricity,

gas and phone bills and Council Tax(presently £46.00 per monthl. Twentyminute train to Charing Cross andVictoria. Available now.Contact Llnasay Elllott SmithConference Administrator, V~cationBureau, 552 King's Road Campus on071-351 6011 (day) or 071-266 2066(evel.

For sale

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2' 4", dining room with smallconservatory, I c en/break ast roomu r1ity room, cellar. Sunny patio W1 h 'large south acing leafy garden. Enjoybeing ou of own but within 45minutes of he College. Phone Wendyon ext 3034 or 081-540 7522.

To let

Large, very at rac Ive room 0 le In36c Champion Hill. Very near King'sCollege and Maudesley Hospitals.Own telephone, share Itchen andbathroom. Suitable for doctor orperson or s udy purposes. Rentnegotiable for SUitable applicant.Tel 071-737 5289 after 19.00 or 0923239211 during day.

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Varian Vista 500 HPLC With uv/vis andai ferentlal re'rac ome er ordetection. Columns, syrrnges,manuals and otner accessoriesincluded. 0 ers over £1,000 please toProfessor P ice or Or Richardson, int' e Biochemistry Department on exts4451,4412 or 2497.

s from the beginning of October

the English Language Unit will

be situated in the Atkins

Building in Kensington. Our new

telephone numbers will be as follows:

Tony Thorne, Director:

071 - 333 4073

Susanne Elliott, Deputy Director:

071 ·333 4074

Sabine Schiglod, Secretary:'

071 - 333 4075

\ e shall continue to hold In-Sesssional

English support classes on the trand

Kensington and Ylanresa Road sites. if

you know of any students who might be

interested/benelit from those classes,

please ask them to attend our initial

testing sessions:

Strand Campus:Ylonday,4 October, 17.30, room 2C

Manresa Road:Tuesday, 5 October, 17.30, room 56

Kensington:

Wednesday, 6 October, 17.30, Old

Refectory

Of even greater benefit are 'dedicated'

in- essional classes for groups from

particular departments. The nit is

happy to arrange these, but lecturers'

fees and room charges must be borne b

departments.Should you have any queries, please

do not hesitate to contact SabineSchiglod (extension 3049 until the end

of September).

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109 sta f Cricket team enJo. ed

another ucces ful sea on thiS

year. me Side won more

games than u ual and missed

surprl Ingly few game to poor weather.

The team plays against the other

unlver lues In and around London on

Wedne day afternoons during :v1ay,

June and July and covers the full

spectrum of abilities. -mce we are

competing against other aCtiVities such

a meetlOgs etc we require a large squad

In order to ral e a full team throughout

the eason.

I f you are Interested In playing next

season pica e contact Richard EWIn. eXl

1156 or Bnan Ca kmg, ext 7 204.

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Chflstme Jamleson

Publication Officer

nclosed In thiS editiOn of

Cllmmnrl you Will find a copy

of a new leaflet glvmg details

of free events at Kmg's open to the

public thiS term. me Press and

PublicatIOns Office IS planning to

pUblish thl tWice a year, In late

eptemoer and January. Please pass

your cop. of the leaflet on to a fflend or

contact outSide King's v. ho might be

mterested m the e"ents mentioned

(limited numbers of further copies will

be a"allable rom thiS Office). We shall

be clrculatln . copies to local employers

and busme es. to L nI er Ity of London

Intltutes and pUblic libraries. to

London secondarv schools and further

education colleJ?es. to Journalists. and to

other appropnate lists.

Please contact the Pres and

Publications ASSistant. Shelley

immons. on extensIOn 3:02 If you have

an queries.

new ;-<le I ne Colle _e '01 er

s nov. m t at the

tatlonen 0 Ice at the moae t

price .": pence per cOP:~ the Ider I

pnn'e n ne egant matt red carQ as

Illustrated.

These are ultaole ior a "arlet\- o' use

and v.e II pe t ey Will be particularly

e Tec I"e 'or peclal e"ents at the

College.

The" are supplied flat. I f you ""I h to

order oulk copies. for example for a

conference. please alert Carmel In

~tatlonery as oon as pOSSible a he may

need to order more tocks which are

currently tored at the printer.

Per anal Finance

ou ""ill have seen from the

insertion 10 thiS editiOn of

Commnrl that J Rothschild have

arranged emmars In the Council Room.

on :v1onday I . 'ovember and

Wednesday 'ovember I at I .30.

Whll t the College does not 10 an:

way ponsor these event..!> or WI h to

associate Itsel With personal finanCial

plannlO~, the mlnars could be useful

for member of staff who are conslderlnJ;

seeklOg protesslOnal adVice about their

per onal finanCial affair or plannlOg or

retirement.

he Government s propo I 'or

pre entmg compul ory

student union member hip

and the use of public funds for all but a

restricted ran~e of student aCtlvltle

were described as 'perver ely c1um m

a report to Council m July. fhe

prinCipal purpose of the proposal

recently published by the Secretarv of

'>tate for the enactment of le~lslatlon

wa to 'outlaw' the use oi public und

or political purp0!>e . It wa reported.

But smce political campal~nJn~ v.as such

n mSlgnlficant component of union

aCtiVities the propo Is seemed

perversel, clumsy. me dlstmctlons

between 'allowable' and 'disallowable'

actiVities were at first Sight Judged to be

unworkable. The CounCil heard that

the matter was bemg con Idered by the

CVCP.

DO Ball

Deputy College Secretary (Planning

and Resources)

:ou w,1I probablY nov. II

allege I holdm hree

Presentation Ceremonies thl

ear at \\'estmmster en raJ H311.Commnrl v. 11 be rep rtIn on he

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