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T wo of London" most famous

college for educating nur e

and midwivcs - :"Ightingale

and Guy' ollege of Ilealth and

. 'ormanby College - are to be

amalgamated within King' to form the

new. 'ightingale In titute.

The 'outh 'a t Thame Regional

Ilealth uthorit, ( ETRIIt\) and

King' have agreed to the amalgamation,

which will bring together the

profe sional expcrti e and caring

trad Itlon of the pre eOl colleges of

health with the academic trengths of

nur 109 at King's. The [n titute will

form part of a new Divi ion of .. urslng

tudies, alongside the existing

Department of. 'ur 109 and \1idwlfery,

within the School of Life, l1asic :v1edical

and Ilealth lences. The student

nur es and midwives will gain by being

located within a multi-disciplinary

learning environment in the School of

Continued on page 3

The new Principal, Professor Arthur Lucas, is ofcourse no stranger to the College, and Mrs

Paula Lucas (above) will now also be a frequent visitor to King's. Forfurther details see

page 4.

page I

,

page 2

t e,ews

11th the long break between

the previous edition of

Commml and thi one,

combined with the Ea ter break, there

ha been a huge accumulation of entrie

for thi column - here I a na our of

ome of them.

In the aftermath of the Warringron

bombing, Dr Conor Gear/), mior Leclurer

in Ihe School ofLow, appeared on BBC

Radio 4's Today programme talking

about way of combating terrori m and

the need for the public' help.

Ms Sue Willel, Researclz Officer, Cmlrefor

Defmce Sludies, appeared on a recent

Panorama programme di cu sing the

Implications of cut backs in the defence

budget.

The release of new Ilome Office figures

showing a decrea e in crime in inner city

areas but an increa e in rural area. wa

explained on Radio 4's PM by Dr Keilh

Iloggarl, Senior Leclurer in Ihe Geography

Deparlmenl.

The piddock' fame ( ee January'

Commml) has extended further. In the

run up to a QED programme devoted to

these tiny, lumine cent creatures, and

the work being carried out by Dr Frank

lIibberl, flead oflhe Chemislry Deparlmml,

there have been several articles written

on the subject including one in The

Times magazine.

Professor Margarel Brown, Ilead ofIhe

School ofEducalion appeared on the

Channel 4 News di cus ing the teacher'

boycott of te ts for 14 year olds and

whether I lead Teachers and hool

Governor would upport them.

DrJames Gow, Research Officer, Centre for

Defence Sludies, appeared on The Cook

Reporl, talking about the ituation in the

former Yugoslavia.

Following the banning for life of athlete

Ben Johnson Professor John Gorrod,

Professor of Biopharmacy, appeared on

Sky ews to discuss this and the problems

involved in testing for drug abuse.

Dr Marlin Navias, Leclurer in Ihe War

Sludies Deparlmenl, has been in great

demand recently, like so many in that

Department. I1 i appearances include

the Channel 4 .'\'ews, talking about outh

Africa\ nuclear bomb, and the military

ltuation III rbia on Gltf7V.

M( Ann Sakage, Research AssoClale, Age

Cone. InsliluleofG onlolog), was

fcaturcd III Scolland on undO) outlining

the effe t on elderly pcople of the

Chancellor' dcci ion to impo e VAT on

fuel bill .

Professor Frank Cox, Professor of Parasile

Immunology. took part in Radio 4's Seience

.'\'0fIIJ programme diseu ing the future

prospects for vaccinating children

againt malaria following a promi ing

trial for a controversial vaccine in

Colombia.

Lady Penelope (of Thunderbirds fame)

has been attacked for etting a bad

example to children for her smoking by

ProfflwrhhnMomam, Professor ifThoraeic Medieine, KCSMD, in the Today

newspaper.

Dr Chn'slOpher Dandeker, Senior l.eClurer In

Ihe War Sludies IJeparlmenl, contributed

to an article in the Sunday Telegraph on

how to cut the dole queues, in which he

considered the option of :"ational

Service.

Professor Mark Sainsbury, Subbing

Professor of Philosophy, contributed to the

Sunday Jj'mes 4-part magazine on literacy

with his view that literacy is also about

the development of a oph i ticated level

of thought and ideas and maintain ing an

intellectual heritage.

Dr Margarelllill. Food Seiences, explained

vitamin loss during the process of cooking

and chilling food for ready-meal in the

BBC' Good Food magazine.

Dr Ivtargam Cox, Senior Leclurer, Cf:S,

appeared on Radio 5's Formula 5

programme di cusing the Energy

Expert urrieulum Paek ( ee :vtarch'

Commenl).

Professor David Ilall, Profmor oflIiology,

featured in an article in the Guardian

describing a scheme for producing

'clean' energy from the cynara cardunculus

- a relati e of the artichoke - in Spain.

The Big lIoly One is Radio I 's newest

programme and its remit is religious

Profe or Arthur Luca

Prll1clpal

I· utllrl: of the t· ni\ l:r it\' ofLondon

L,'e lence ""ell ab, ha" m

acce to the facilitie 0 the College and

the Cnlerslt) of London

The final IZC of the ne"" [n tlwte I

et to be determmed, bu It I expected

that it ""ill edu te ome 1.2'0 wdent

nurse and mid i e and pro Ide a

substantial element of eontmum

education for regl tered practitioner.

The In tiwte will admit its fir t

intake of wdents in auwmn 1 3 and

will provide educational opportunltie

for nurses and mldwlve at both diploma

and degree level. :\ programme of

po tgraduate wdle leadin to the \1 c

or PhD will be available ""'thln the

Dlvi Ion of .ur Ing. wdles. Itwill

therefore be po Ible to pur ue further

profelOnal qualifications at man

different levels through the Instiwte at

an tage in the nur Ing or midWifery

career

The taff and swdent of the

'Ightlngale In tlwte will 0 cupy the

exi ting teaching accommodation at

King' College Ilospital, Guy' Ilospital,

Lewi ham Ilospital, . t Thoma '

Ilospltal and Farnborough Ilospltal.

Student will al 0 continue to benefit

from the wide variety of acute and

community clinical placements available

m these geographical locations.

Peter Rankin, Director of I Iuman

Resource for ETRI 11\ commented:

'Our hospital and community ervices

need to know that they can rely on a

skilled, flexible and educated work force

to meet the changing need and

priomles of healthcare ,n the 1 Os.

One of these change IS the recognition

that nur e and midwife education fits

nawrally withm higher education,

opening up new honzon for both

swdent and potential employer, and we

are delighted that this amalgamation will

bnng about opportunities to fulfil these

needs 0 effectivel .'

Profes or Arthur Lucas commcnted:

'King' is proud to be one ofthc leading

univerSity in. titutions for thc swdy of

hcalth cicnces and we believe that the

new Institute will not only bencfit from

this rcputation but will al 0 cnhance it.

We look forward to welcoming the e

colleuecontinued

YOU will be aware that there ha

been a long debate about the

future relationship between the

Fedcral Cnlver Ity and Its con t1tuem

college. 'ow that there are a number

of, chools of the Lnlver it who ha e

'dllcct aces' to the Fundll1g Jouncal,

the debate ha , In one way or another,

been about the power to award degrees.

, hool offices in King's now havc a

copy of the VIcc-Chancellor' papcr

rehear ing a number of options. There

i general upport among mo t of the

head of the chools of the University

for the proposal that the Univer ity

should devolve its degree-awarding

powcr to individual chools of the

Cniversity, at least tho e which have

direct funding.

There will be a di cussion at the

College's cademic Board on 16 June

and then at the Univer icy nate in

July. Plea e read the papers, and ensure

that your view are known to Academic

floard member.

ne"" wdent into our Li'e clence

hool. mto he Colic e and into the

Cni 'er It, of London.'

'J he Project 0 Icer for the \1erger I

J udy talght m the 'r hame Ide Campu

Project 0 lice, Corn""allllouo;e (exrn

).

and _lid\yif r T

\~Tithin Kin u '

In uurt

Professor John Taylor, Professor of

Mathematics explained the relevance of

neural network to the exchange rate

mecham m, u mg pauern of prevIOus

trad mg to pred ICt the next day'

currenq data in the Cu rdl n.

1 he problem ° 'oun people, includin

scientl ,going abroad to ""or ('the

bram dram ') and not rewrnm ""a the

ubJecto'd, u lonml3l3 2'RqJortage programme m which D ....., et/lolder, D,rector, De'Velopmental BlOlo

Researdt C tre, took part.

Fads, I· ash Ions and Cults, the ,econd

hook hy Jfr Ton) Thorne, D,rector ofthef:ngllfh I.an age Unit (see page 10), ha

received a good deal of covcrage

mcludlng a two·page pread m the Dally

Mat!.

Christine Kenyon Jones

Director of Public Relations

'Ihe (JrIglns of the great I3mlsh pmt

""ere examined h f)r John .'\'icholson,

Visiting Lecturer In the Chemistry

Department, in an article m the

Independent who has di eovcred that the

ancient umerians were probabl the

first hrewers in the world.

(:irculatJo!l or pre cumng

a al m the broade t sense DW Ilff, S IQrWlu In T, eo "E tlQn. too part m a dl u Ion

conducted m the li h ° the \\'a °tra edy. to explain the ociolo , and

heolo : 0 modem millenanan

movement.

The Public Relations ub-commlttee

has a ked us to try to ensure that the

collectIOn of pre s cUUlngs concernmg

the College and ome i ues m higher

education - which we cl/culatc oncc a

wcek to I lead of' hool and. orne

enior officcr -I available for

con ultation b a. man people a

pOSSible. The current and ome past

cutting should be kept in cach _ hool

Office, and we have alerted I leads of

• hool to the fact that taff may a k to

see them from now on.

We hall also be ending a et of the

cutting to the ollege Archive and to

the libraries of KC. MD, helsea and

Kensi ngton.

page 3

A everybody mu t now be

aware, Profe sor Arthur Luca

ha been appointed a Principal

of King . Downing treet made thc

official announcemcnt on J9 Ylarch and

ir James pooner, Chairman of CollegeCouncil commented: 'The College is

delighted that her Maje ty The Queen

has approved the appointment of

Profes or Arthur Lucas. The Council

had very strongly recommended to the

Prime Ylinister that he hould put

forward Professor Lucas's name to the

Palace in the knowledge that he had

great support from both within and

outside the College, and also a a resu It

of the exemplary way in which he had

conducted the affair of the College

during his time as Acting Principal.'

Professor Lucas had been A i tantPrincipal of King's since 19 ,llead of

the School of Education since 19 9. andVice·Principal since J991. lie joined

Chelsea College in J980 as Profe sor of

Science Curriculum tudies. Ilis full

official biography can be een in the

June J992 issue of Comment, when he

was elected a Fellow of the College.

He was born in 1941 in Moe, Victoria,

the elder son of dairy farmers May and

Val Luca . They lived in the isolated

community of Coalvi lie when he was

still very young and he started hi

educational life learning through acorrespondence course under the

guidance of his mother. When he did

attend formal chool two year later his

form of transport wa hor eback, along a

track he 'helped' his father cut through

the bush· the chool then had the

required 12 pupils aged from S· I J!

Ilis econdary schooling began at

Warragul but switched to Ylirboo :"orth

Iligh School when the family moved to

a new farm at Delburn. Arth ur Lucas

played a full part in the life of M irboo. orth High School: writing for the

magazine, raising money, undertaking

the duties of a prefect, and leading the

School band as Drum Major.

Excerpts from the hool magazine

(sent to Comment by the current ActlOg

Principal, who is delighted by the

rthurfro111 do

ucas11 ul1d

traigh t to th c topr

ucce of the chool's former pupil)

reveal that, even in thi early stage in hi

life, Arthur took a healthy intere t in the

importance of a trong corporate vi ual

identity, contributing an positive article

on the new school badge and motto('Strive to erve').

After completing hi schooling he

went to the niversity of \IIelbourne

where he graduated with a BSc in

Zoology and Genetic in 1963 and

gained hi BEd in I 68. lIe wa

awarded his PhD four ear later from

Ohio State Cniversity for his re earch on

environmental education.

Profe or Luca now lives in Ylorden

with hi wife and two children. \IIrs

Luca work part·time as the Archivi tfor the Royal Geographic ocictyand

also part·time with Profes or Lucas

(funded by an Au tralian Re earch

Council grant) on the correspondence of

a nineteenth century Australian·German

botanist, ferdinand Von YI ueller. Their

most recent joint publication (with

collaborators in Melbourne) is Why

explore Antarctic'? Australian discussions in

the 1880s, which appeared in the

Australian Journal of Politics and llistory.

The other members of the Lucas family

are I3eth, 19, who is in her first year

studying l3iological Sciences at

Edinburgh University, and David, J 7, atrainee in a banking oftware company

and studying part-time.

Profes or Lucas ha pointed out to

Comment that those who speculate on

the probability of an Anglo-Au trailian

being a descendant of people 'given free

transport by Ili \!laje ty' Government'

can obtain a copy of a teaching exercise

based on hi family tree from John

Barker, in the Centre for Educational

tudie !

("orpor,1 C Idclltir. - Prin ipalto ho r emin. r

he Pre and Publication

Office are holding two

eminar CO introduce taffto

the GUIdelines forpublicatIOns, nerr;slelle

and invitations.

The trand eminar will be ho ted by

the Principal on Tuesday 25 May in the

Council Room between /2.00-/4.00.

The Ken ingcon eminar will behosted by Professor Barry Ife Chairmanof the Corporate Identity Working

Group on Monday 24 May in the

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Main Building

between /2.00 and /4.00.

A copy of the Guidelines will shortly be

distributed to all departments and

further copie will be available on

reque t. Thi~ document i the second in

the guideline ~eries produced by the

Pre and Publication Officc and i an

Important tool in thc implementation

strategy for the College' ncw corporate

vi ual idcntity. It aims to explain. in auser·friendly style, how to produce avariety of publications in the new

identity and can be u ed byanyonc

wi hing to produce a publication

whethcr they are completely

inexpericnced or whcther they arc a

profe sional de igner needing guidance

on how to follow the correct King'~ style.

\!lany staff at King' now find

them elves having to prod u e a variety

of material for publication, from

student and department handbooks to

recruitment material for new cour cs,

within a wide range of budgets. Theseguideline should help such pcoplc.

To help explain the broad concept of'corporate vi ual identit 'wc havc

in ited John Rushworth of Pentagram

De ign to introduce the Guidelines to the

College. \1an of you will remember

that John gave a er useful and

enjoyable talk on the dc ign of the

College logo to staff of the th ree main

campuse la t ear. The seminars arc

not intended to be a technical training

e ion, but if taff have particular

queries on the Guidelines they are

welcome to di cuss them at the cnd of

the eminars.

Both of the e eminar~ are open to all

members of staff, and we would

particularly like to welcome staff with

direct respon ibility for production of

publications for their departments.

page 4

e e o a o cedello ..... hip 0 he olle e I the

hi he t honour ' 109 can

be [0..... and It I awarded [0

those IOdl\idual .... ho, in thejud emem

o the ommluee of Re Idem I' ello.... ,

have dl tlO ui hed themselve by

ma ing a major contflbutlon 10 academic

or public li e, The following ha e been

elected Fellow of the College for I

and their biographical detail are gi\enbelow,

ir Peter Oald .... in

Reverend Richard CogglO

Profe or .'tanle) Earle;

Dr :V10hammad Ilablb

Pro cl. or Barry I fe

Dr .\braham ek-'I ong Lue

Profes or Roy Pike

Sir Peter Baldwin, KCB, MAChairman of Delegacy, mg's CollegeSchool of edlcme and Den IS rySir Peter ha been Chairman 0 the

Delcgac) ;lOce I I and I; an ex-o fi 10

member of College CouncIl.

lie enjoyed a dl;lingul;hed career In

the Civil ervi e with po;t; at the

Foreign Office, the Trea Uf) and the

Cabinet Office. lie ro e [0 ach ieve the

highest po ition a eivil ervant can hold.

that of Permanent Secretary, at the

Department of Tran port in I 7 and

remained there until 19 2 when on

retiring from the Civil, ervlce. he [Ook

up the Chairmanship of the • outh I~ast

Thames RegIOnal Ilealth i\uthorlt), a

post he held untd 1991.

ir Peter' concern with publi affair;

i well reflected in the organisation 10

which he holds offi e, as halrman of

the tatutory Di abled Per on.

'I ran port Advisof)' Committee, and the

Executive ommittee of the I{oyal

ASSOCiation for Di abilit and

Rehabilitation. ice-Chairman of the

Automobile ASSOCiation and a trustee of

the Charitie Aid FoundatIOn.

Reverend Richard Coggins, MA, BDSemor Lecwrer m Old TestamemStudies, Kmg's College LondonReverend Richard Coggins jOined

King's 30 year; ago as I,ecturer In Old

re tament tudle.:\ 10,'al member 0

In . , he h a i ely partiCipated in

College life. I"-lOg on a number 0

eomml tee • includin -\ demlc Board.

lie ha proved [0 be a very popular and

much appreciated teacher amon the

tudents. lie wa promoted to enior

Lecturer 10 Old Te tament tudie

In 19 I.

Between graduatlOg from Exeter

College. Oxford...... ith a degree 10 \1odern

Ili [Ory and a Diploma 10 Theology. and

JOining King' . he undertook a number

of appointmem at Oxford.

I r Cogglns I a well re;pected

authority In hi pccialist area, Biblical

interpretation, and ha; \\ f1tten wide I) on

the ubje t. I le gained a Bachelor of

Dlvlnlt) mD) from Oxford in I 75 and

wa elected PreSident 0 the. OClety for

Old Testament 'tudy earlier thiS year.

Professor Stanley Earles, PhD,DSe(Engl, FEng, FIMeehE, AKCHead of he Depanmenc ofMechanical Engmeermg and Professorof Mechamcal Engmeenng. Kmg'sCollege London

Profe or Earlcs rejoined King's in 1976when he took up the appointment of

Professor of \1echanical Engineering

and I lead hip of the Department. lie

had been at the ollege ome two

decades earlier as a student and had

out. tanding ucce . achieving a fir t

cia, honour degree and being awarded

the Jelf \1edal.

For a number of year he trained and

worked a a production engineer in the

automobile IOdu try and for a hort time

wa with the Admlralt Engineering

Laboratof) as a lentlfic Officer.

Profe sor Earle jOll1ed Queen V1af)

College a a Lecturer In 1955 and left 20

year later a a Profes or.

ince rcturning to King' he has al 0

held the po t of Dean of Engineering of

the Cniversity of London, was the first

Ilead of the chool of Physical ciences

and Engineering. and has erved on

many College committec including as

Chairman of the Estate Polic

Committee.

Dr Mohammad Habib, MSc, PhD,CChem, FRSCChairman and anaglng Dlrec or 0

I eflcome (Pa 'S an) L d

Or Hablb I a former tudent 111 the

Chemi tf) Department at ing'. After

gaming hi fir t degree from PunjabLniver It)' Lahore, he studied for hi

Ph D 111 Ileterocyclac hemi try at the

Colie e 111 the late 1 -0.

lIe till retall1 hi tiCS With the

Colle e and i a member of KCL (The

Kmg' College London:\ oelatlon) and

-\KCC. ('I he '\; OClatlon of "lI1g'

College Chemist ).

.\fter leavlI1g KlI1g' he returned to

Pakl tan and ;mcc I I has worked for

Wellcome (Paki tan) Ltd, one of the

large t manufacturers 0 pharmaceutical

111 Pakl tan lie began hI career 111 the

research laboratofle and ro e to become

Production Director in 19 . lie ha

been halrman and V1anaging Director

mce 19 2.

Professor Barry Ife, BA, PhD, ALCMCervantes Professor of Spanish andHead of the School of Humanities,Kmg's College LondonProfessor Ife is also a graduate of King' ,

gaining a first cia s honour degree in

• pani h in 196 . lie was awarded hi

Ph D by the C nlvcr ity of London.

After holding Iccture hips at

. 'ottlngham Cnlver It and at Blrkbeck

College. he returned to King' in I as

Cervante Profe or of. panlsh and

I lead of the Dc partment of pan ish and

pani h-American tudics. Ili research

II1tcre t are in the literature and music

of Golden-Agc pain, literary and

lingui tiC computing and the

histofiography of the . 'e\\ World. liegave the 1992 Ta IOfian Lecture in

Oxford to mark the quincentenary of

Columbu ' first voyage to America

, II1ce appoll1tment a the first J lead

of Ilumanitie 111 1989, he ha played a

major ad mini trative role in the ollege.

page 5

I11Cn

Valerie Davics

Director, Continuing Education Unit

. re theher

he following table i m

analysi of the recently i ued

taff Ilandbook. It include

onl academic taff in academic

departmen . All error are entirely

mine and I apologize, particularly for

an mi -reading of the ex in names

unfamiliar to me.

ince we are as ured that opportunity

is eq ual, I can on Iy assu me that it is thewomen at King's who are unequal­

unequal to the men in the qualifications

and/or experience needed to fill the

senior po t .

The handbook doe not contain

sufficient information to be able to carry

out a imilar analysis for non-academic

taff, but we do know that the ecretary,

the Director of Finance, the Regi trar.....

This means of course that women are

severely under-repre ented in the

policy-mak ing groups of the College­

there is only one woman on the College

Committee.

I am well aware that there are otherrelevant variables, (eg. age, length of

service), but I do not have the requisite

information and have no idea whether it

would mitigate or exacerbate the

situation.

Professor E Roy Pike, BSc, PhD,CPhys, CMath, FIMA, FlnstP, FRSHead of the School of PhysicalSCiences and Engmeenng and ClerMaxwell Professor of TheoreticalPhysIcs. mg's College LondonProfe or Pike joined King' in 19 6

from the Ro al ignal and Radar

E tabli hment where he wa Chief

ientific Officer. ppointed to the

Clerk \1axwell Chair of heoretical

Physics, he became Ilead of the School

of Physical ience and Engineering

in 1991.A highly re pected figure in the world

of physics, he has held many prestigiouspost. He wa Vice-President of the

Institute of Physics, has served a a

Council \1embcr of the European

Physical ociet and was a Board

\1ember of the European Phy ical

Societ Optics Divi ion. lie was elected

a Fellow of the Royal Society in 19 I.

Profe or Pike ha written extensively

in his own pecialist ficld of quantum

optics and superconductivity. He has

also been the recipient of several

major prize including the Annual

Achievement Award from the

Worshipful ompanyof cientific

Instrument Markers and the \1acRobertAward of the Confederation of

Engineering Institutions.

Or Abraham Sek-Tong Lue, MBE,BSc, PhD,Former Assistant Prmclpal, Kmg'sCollege LondonOr Lue as a tudent, Lecturer, and

i tant Principal was a dedicated and

loyal member of taff who contributed

immea urably to the life of the ollege.

He came to King' in 1%0 to tud for

his PhD in Algebra and joined the taff

of the Mathematics Department two

years later as an Assistant Lecturer. lie

rose to become a Senior Lecturer and in

1986 was appointed As istant Principal.He was actively involved with KCLA

(King's College London Association)and was Honorary Treasurer for 10 years.

Or Lue will be pecially remembered

for hi tireless work in the recruitment

and welfare of 0 ersea tudents. It wa

hi negotiations which establi5hed 22

scholarship for students from Ilong

Kong and China. Away from King's. he

ha been for many years a much-

re pected leader in the field of

community relation. In addition to his

work in setting up Saturday chools for

Chinese children, he served for even

years on the Home Secretary' dvisory

Council on Race Relations, he was thefounder of the Chinese Community

Centre in London and remains itsChairman, and he was until recently

Chairman of the Westminster

Community Relations Forum. lie

continues to work in promoting UK

educational and cultural link with

China and Taiwan.

Academic Staff of Academic Department by Se

Education Humanities Law Life Sciences ~edictne & Physical Total

De i ry I &Eng

M F %F ~ F %F ~ F %F .\01 F %F ~ F %F :vi F %F M F %F

Professors 3 34 5 12. 11 .3 32 6 15. 29 32 141 13 .4

Readers 16 5 23. 19 3 13.6 2 27 65 10 13.3

Sn Lecturers 7 2 14 2 12.5 5 27 3 10 51 12 19 16 5.9 120 21 14.9

Lecturers 15 7 31. 59 33 35.9 15 14 4 .3 73 36 33 54 23 29.9 64 5 7.2 280 11 29.6

T0141 25 11 30.6 /23 45 26. 32 17 347 /5/ 4 24/ /36 35 20.5 /39 6 4./ 606 /62 2/./

(oj5I1icll)

lId of School I 5

Hd of Deptl 12 7.7 10' 4 2 .6 29 3.3 7 58 6 9.4

Division

"Includes Bob Hider twice - once as Ilead of Division and once as I lead of Department

:"13 No percentage have been calculated for group totals les than 10

Source: SlaffManual ParI/I /993

page 6

Ro\al\llt

hIS year' annual

:"atlonal Conference of

Registrar and Secretarics of

thc univer ItlCS was hosted by King'

and hcld at the College from 5 LO 7

April. The onference was last held in

London In I 49.

The conferen e dinner In the Great

Ilall wa attended by Iler Royal

Ilighnes The Prince Royal, as

hancellor of the Cniver ity of London,

accompanlcd by her husband

Commander Timothy Lawrence. Iler

Royallllghne hown (above)

chatting to College, ecretary Rill lade

with :v1lchcle Parson, theadmini trative

organiser of the conference, beh ind them

The thrce-day onference pro ,de a

forum for the heads ofadmlOi tration in

the univer itle to meet together LO

di cu s policy is ue led by eminent

key-note peaker, and to consider

matter of mutual interest. Among thi

year's speaker were Or David J Jarri on,

Chairman of the CVCP, \1r Jim

Donaldson, Director of Quality

ssurance at the cotti h Iligher

Education Founding Council, and

Profe or I3rian fender. Vice-Chancellor

of the C niversity of Keele.

hed

13arrie S :v1 organ

Director of External Relations

up ner ~ho are mtroduced LO "I 'in

~ a fir t tep to~ard developing the

habit 0 philanthropy. Potentlallar e­

~Ie donors need to be Identified and

brou ht LO the pomt ~here the a

'~hat are ~e gom to do?' not 'what are

you gomg to do?' Lar e if rarely

come from those who have not had Ion

and po Itlve hlSLOne of annually

supportm an 10 titution.

\1an colleague have Id LO me 10

the la t 'ear that they believe we hould

be developlOg new source of external

funding. Ilowever, the deci ion LO seek

pnvate mcomc i not an ca y option,

from which \~e can It back and enjoy

the frul : It put a particular

re pon Ibillty on us all a member 0

the College. It Will be difficult LO

convince alumni. major philanthropis

corporations. and fou ndatlOns that we

are worthy of their support unle we,

the taf. who, along With the College'

tu den t.!>, tand LO gain most from their

generosity, have madeome finanCial

commItment to impro e our own

futllre . There are ground LO be

optlml tiC that taff will accept this

re pon ibillty. Thc gencrosity of taff­

giving was one of the succe sLOrie of

the King's 150th nnlversary campaign;

taff at Chelsea College also gave

generously in the early J980s. Succe scannot Simply be Judged in terms of the

amount rai ed; the percentage of taff

prepared LO upport the fund is another

important indicator.

taff al 0 have a crUCial role LO pia in

opening door LO key IOdlvidual in their

contact network and In bnnging funding

opportunities to the De elopment

Office' attention. An appeal for funds

by the academic most closely

concerned, after the padework ha

been done b the Development Office,

I on many occasions the route to

ucce . In ummary, we must not look

on de elopment a the ole province of

Development Office taff. but

omething which I done hy us all with

the help of profe sional taff. On the

degree LO which this attitude takes root

will the succe s of this new ventllrc

tand or fall.

nt

he Colic council It

rneetln on 25 larch

approved the Wor m Part

recommendallon to e tabll h a

Development 0 Ice. The 0 lice.

~ hlch ~ ill be located m the I~ ternal

Relation Department. ~ ill be mltiall

tarred by a De elopment licer,

i tant Development Officer and a

crew I I tant. The King' ollege

London De elopment Tru t ~ III be

reacti ated LO collect and di bur e

development fund .

Briti h univer itie ,and the li e of

their taff. have changed out of all

recognition incethe 19 O.. 'otonly

doe Kmg' now have LO compete for it

fundmg from a maller national pat, but

the IIEFCE limits our freedom of

action through its unding formula to an

extent which would have been

unlmagmable even ten ear a 10. Only

b IncreaJ 109 ignlficantly our source 0

pn ate lOCOme will It be po slble LO

increase our autonom .

Onc by onc I3f1ti h unlversltie~ have

set out on this path. The vast maJority,

contrary to TIll! /ligher lead sLOry In

December, have made solid if slow

progre LOward theIr goal. ,ome,

notabl Oxford, with a powerful and rich

contact network but al 0 with the

courage LO resource their Development

Office properly, have achieved

spectacular results. King's has been

slow LO join the field.

La t year a Working Party wa formed

LO advi e the then Acting Principal on

development. lhi included Chn topher

:v1ann (an alumnu with hi o~n fund­

raising con ultancy, who had agreed LO

givc hi time LO advi e the College on

development), a econd profe ~ional

fund-rai er, :v1rs hirley farmer, who is

Director of the King' 2000 Appeal, and

:v1r John Willlams. the Chairman of

K L who also ha a background In

public relations.

The Working Party recommended

that development a tlvitie initially

focus on three activitie : an annual fund.

assisting department LO obtain

externally funded posts, and laying the

foundation for legacy income. I\n

annual giving programme is the clasic

fir t step LOward a major gift campaign.

The College has a ba e of active

page 7

chool et Departn1ent--------------------

fron1

D, chool Office reorg.mi 3rlon In

rhe Life cicncc

uring the latter part of lastyear the chool Office

Resource Working Party,

under the Chairman hip of Professor

I Iider, considered the organi ation and

resourcing of the central activitie of the

School of Life, Basic Medical and

Health Sciences. As an outcome of that

review, there have been a number of

changes to the tructure and

management of the School office.

With a School the ize and complexity

of our, and in its present state ofevolution, it was agreed that a team

management structure would provide

the most flexible and functional

approach.

Essentially the School office

management team will comprise the

following:

Dilys Carter, Academic ervice Officer;

Christine Crewe, Personnel Officer;

Management Accountant, to be

appointed; Jeremy Mason, Industrial

Liaison Officer; Peter Butterworth

ub-Dean.

For communication/liaison purpose,responsibilities will be a follows:lIead ofSchool Strategic policy issues

Academic Services Officer. Teach ing,

research and external relations

Personnel Officer. Human resource

management and staff development,

health and safety and ethical matter

Indus/rial Liaison Officer. Re earch

contracts, liaison with industry,

continuing education

Sub-Dean: Policy and advice relating to

the admission of student and their

progress

Managemen/ Accoun/ing: to be agreed

Professor Harold Baum

Head of School

e \ Portugue e Uuir

T hi academic year has seen

the endowment of a newchair in the Department of

Portugue e and Brazilian tudies.

Manuel Villaverde Cabral has been

appointed as the first Prince Henry the

:"avigator Profe sor of Portugue e

1I istory. At Profes or Cabral' inaugural

lecture on 23 February, the Principal,

Profe or Arthur Luca ,and Professor

Helder Macedo took the opportunity to

thank the many spon oring institutions

in Portugal and Britain (many of whom

were repre ented on the night) for their

continuing enthusia m and generous

financial support.

Coloured Diamond.

At a lecture entitled Thear/ijicialcoloura/ion ofdiamond byradio/ion damage, presented to

the Gemmological Association of Great

Britain on 8 March 1993, Or Alan

Collins of the Physics Department of

King's explained the origins of colour in

natural and man-made diamonds and

described how the colour of gcm

diamonds can be improved by radiation(in an accelerator or nuclear reactor)

followed by heat treatment. Because the

elling pricc of a gem diamond is greatly

influenced by the colour it is importantfor a gem testing laboratory to be able to

decide whether the colour of so-called

fancy-coloured diamond i natural, or

whether it has been produced, or

enhanced, by /rea/men/. Or Collins

explained how tudie of the optical

propertie of diamond in hi research

group had produced information whichallowed treated yellow and treated pink

diamonds to be detected

unambiguously. Establi h ing the originof colour in a pale green diamond is

more difficult, and research is

continuing in this area.

In the meantime Or Collins has

proposed that uniformly coloured green

diamond hould not be regarded a

naturall coloured unle the inten ityof

the green colour is le than that of the

Dresden Green - a 41 carat diamond for

which the green colour is known to be

natural.

erewyn homet

Phy ies Department

(;oou ne\\,> forBiochemi"rry graduare

An analysi of the destinations of

ingle honours Biochemistry

graduates from King's for thela t five years ha recently been made

by Or Mike Perry of Biochemistry andhows that employment prospects for

the e graduates are far from bleak.

Over the last five year, 35 per cent

have gone on to further biochemical

training; 22 per cent have used their

biochemistry in their first job training

(including those who have gone to train

for teaching); just under 15 per cent

have found employment outside

biochemistry; 15 per cent have

continued with studie other than

biochemistry (usually in other sciences);

eight per cent have either returned

home oversea' or arc British nationalsgoing to work overseas, while under five

per cent are unemployed or their

whereabouts are unknown. There are

no ignificant change in the proportion

of tudents in each category over the

five-year period.

Or Perry comments: 'Our students

receive unremittingly bad news from

television and the pre s ahout

employment prospects and, not

urpri ingly, are deepl concerned. The

true statistics, however, present a more

po itive picture and should serve to

reas ure tudents. On a more po itivenote till, of the 33 single honours

Biochemistry graduates who have

included an extramural year in their

degree, 23 are now undertaking PhD

training.'

page

The Project i the re ult of a three­

year ~tudy examining the impaet of IT

on children's achievement in primary

and econdary chools. acro a range of

national curriculum subject - English.

mathematic. clence and geograph .

The cla\ses were grouped in 'matched

pairs'. One of each pair planned to be a

regular user of IT, whilst the other

planned lmle or no IT u e.

Information provided b pupils about

their n u~e was u~ed to quantif the

validity ohhe ongoing matched pair,

and the con equent asc. ment results.

'I he re earch methodology was

monitored and the re ult endor ed b

the independel1tcon ultants. KPYlG

Peat :'Y1arwick :'Y1cLintock.

The Directors of thc ImpacT Project

are ()r :'Y1argaret Cox, • enior Lecturer

and Profe ~or David John on. hell

Profe or of Ylathematic Education.

'1 he Ca e Stud o-ordinator and

Report Editor i Yl r Deryn at on.

enior Leeturer in C' ,

chool andcon1puter

C omputcr\ In the cia \room

definitcly do aid chlldrcn's

learning, the fir t C K-wldc

\tudy (carned out at King's) has found.

But thc benefits are only felt if pupils

regularly use omputer. in an

appropriate way and teachers are

committed and ultably trained 10 the

u e of n (lOformatlon technology).

Ihi is the conclusion of The ImpaeT

Project (The Impaet of Information

'1 eeh nology on Ch IIdren 's

\chievement ) undertaken by the

Centre for Educational. tudics for the

Department for Ed ucation,

The Study involved 2,300 children In

7 clae divided into three age group,

-10.12-14, and 14-1 • In I local

education authorities.

1r l-.IIzabchDo\\de ~ell.

the ne\\,l appolO ed

Executive D,rec or 0 the

Lnlted a Ion [n"lronment

Programme n; 'EP)and a l Lnder

cretary-General. I pictured herc \\ Ith

Profe or Pcter on. Director 0 1 \RC.

dUring her VI it in :>.1arch to the

:'Y10nitorin17 and. e ~ment Re earch

Centre (\1.\RC) at Ken in ton.

Ylr Dowdc \\ell. who beforc hcr

C. 'EP appointmcnt on 1 January 1993

was '\s istant Dcputy \lInl\tcr at

Envlronmcnt Canada and Ilcad of

Canada's ;\tmo pherlc En Ironment

ServICC. ~pent half a da at \1\ RC

dl cU%lng thc 'entrc' current cO\'lron­

mcntal re earch and mcctlng taf.

Kmg' has a longa.\\ latlon With l 1':1'

through \1 ..\I~ which. a a dC\lgnated

l; I'ol'-CE 1S \\\c~~ment C<.:ntr<.: and a

World Ilealth Organl7.:mon Collaborating

Centr<.: or I~nvlronmental lonltorlng

and t\\\e~\ment, play\ an Important role

10 \cveral L 'EP aCtlVltle~, notably th<.:

programmcs on air; watcr and food

quallt . DUring her" iSlt:'Y1 r

Dowdewell dl cu ~ed Yl I~C' ... work

on the as,essment of urban air pollution

and strc sed the importancc of C 'EI'

working with countrie to evaluate urban

air quality and devise \\ays in \\hich

human exposure and con equcntial

health effects, for example re\plratory

dlsea\e ,could be reduced. The

recently publl hed C. 'El' \'110 report

produced by YlI\RC entitled er. on iltr

PollullOn In MegaCJties ofthe World clearly

hlghllght\ such need. Ylrs Dowdes\~ell

also dl used vL\RC' \\,ork on global

watcr quality and on food contamination

with It\ conseq uentlal Impact on health

and implication or world tradc,

(left to nght) Dr Frank Iltbbert and

Professor Robert Ilills with Dr Sed Rnffm(0 former King's student now orklng 01

I~SSO Ruearch), Professor I,utm, JohnI'nce (1lead of f~SSO Research) and I)r

f)avld Malcolm-I,aws atlhe founclz of the

new I~SSO micro-computer laboratory In

the Department ofChemistry founded fJ1;t1h

money won under the f.SSO Iligher

Fducat;on Support Scheme.

page 9

T

Fad, Fa hion&Cults

on Thorne Director of the

English Language CnitatKing's, ha written Fads,

Fashion And Cults, a dictionary of po t­

war Anglo axon culture, published by

Bloom bury (£20). The dictionary deals

with almost 50 years of craze, vogues

and trends to produce a study of the

minutiae of modern history. The book

has received interest from 17 local radio

tations and the pre . Articles have

appeared in the Sunday Times, the

International Herald Tn·bune the Doily

Mail, the Financial Times and several

local papers. Here are some editedhighlights:

"inky boots: women's knee-or thigh­high leather boots as worn in Britain

from 1962 to 1965. This kind of

footwear, inspired by feti h istic style~,

was considered daring at the time and

emblematic of the winging Sixties.

The leather repertoire, of which kinky

boots were a part, was one of the fir t

examples of a deviant or underground

mode being recognised by mainstreamfashion.

Indie pop: the Indie abbreviation

started to be used in the 1970s by the

music press and music industry to

describe an independent record label(ie not one affiliated to any of the big

business conglomerates, known as the

'majors').

page 10

imby: i someone who oppose

controversiallegi lation (typically on

en iron mental or ocial i sues) only in

case where !he is directly affected. It

is an acronym for the catch phrase ':"ot

In:vty Backyard!' coined in the USA

during the 19 0 to de cribe a s ndromewhereby a person who in principle

upport a potentially harmful move or

policy, opposes it in practice for selfish

reasons. Byexten ion, a per on in

unqualified opposition to the same

is ues i known as :"amby, from ':"ot In

Anyone's Backyard!'

G.'obal Village: a term coined by

:vtarshal McLuhan to describe the world

in the age of information networks, a

world in wh ich individ uals have access

to virtually instantaneou communication,

rendering previou notions of time and

space obsolete. The phrase became acliche of the '1lippie era', appealing

both to a desire for a common

consciousne and to the wi h for a

convergence of primitivism and

technology.

School ofLondon: a school of painting

of the 1950s made up of five of Britain's

most influential post war artists whose

reputations, temporarily eclipsed by

abstraction and 'pop art', were firmly re­

e~tablished in the 1980s. The five

central figures were Frank Auerbach,

Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, :vtichael

Andrews and Leon Kossoff.

Tony has also contributed to theOxford Dictionary of Business English to be

published in May.

Water Lilies Inthe ile

D espite the extensive

archaeological excavati~ns of

the civilizations of AnCient

Egypt, surprisingly little is known of thevegetation and environment in which

these civilizations aro e. Is it possible,

for example that woodland once grew

where the Great Pyramid now stands in

the sands of Giza? Papyrus swamps are

well represented in the surviving art, but

papyrus is now virtually extinct in

Egypt, so we know that great changes

have occurred. What part did past

human land use play in these changes?

Ilow has the area been affected by

climate change'

In the Divi ion of Life iences at

Ken ington. Or Peter :vtoore and

collaborator from Egytian C niversities,

including Or kina yyad (Cniver ity

of:vtan oura) and He ham El Fayoumi

(Cniver it of Cairo) are applying the

techniq ue of pollen analysi to theinvestigation of uch question. It is

po sible to identify micro copic fo il

pollen grains with a considerable degree

of preci ion and such remains are abundant

in the archaeological sediments of Egypt

and aloin the mud bricks that were used

as building materials. p until now,

however, such a rich re ource of

archaeological and environmental

information has been almost completely

neglected.

One project associated with this

re earch programme is the study of

water Iilie in the ancient Nile - plants

that are very well repre ented both

graphically and in stylized form in thestatues and jewelry of pharaon ic times.

Two species are involved in these

representations, a bl ue-flowered species

(~ymphaea caerulea) and a white­

flowered one (:". lotus). A third water

lily, the true Indian lotus (:"elumbo

nucifera) wa probably introduced from

the east during the Persian Period (525­

332 B.C.). Both of the ancient native

water lilies evidently played an

important part in the cultural life of

ancient Egypt, judging by the way inwhich their flowers were enclosed with

embalmed mummies (including

Ramases 11) and used in religious

representation of the the king emerging

from an opening water lily (as with one

bust of Tu tank ham un).

l3ut we know nothing of the ecology,

biogeography or past distribution and

history of the e species in Ancient

Egypt. The first task for the King's

group has been the development of an

effective way of identifying the two

specie on the basis of their pollen

grains, and thi has now been achieved

using a combination of phase contrast

and seanning electron microscopy. The

pollen grains of the two species are

closely similar and resemble tiny

hamburger buns, just 1/500th mm in

diameter. Their separation can only be

achieved by the microscopic detection

of sin uou ridges beneath the surface of

the blue variety. This technique for

identification has been tested on muds,

continued on back page

Review of the CentralAdlninistration

T owards the end of last year the

College Committee

commissioned a review of the

Central Administration. The Review

Group consisted of David Ball (Deputy

Secretary-Planning and Resources),

David L1ewellyn (SAO Laws), Timothy

Si mons (Physiology) and Bill Slade

(College Secretary), with myself as

Chairman. The purpose of the review

was to make recommendations about

appropriate staffing levels in the central

admin istrative departments - and in

some cases to re-define the roles of

those departments - in the light of the

College's policy of devolved

administration and the staffing levels

envisaged in the Strategic Plan.

The Review Group re-affirmed the

thrust of the Priestley Report, which

argued in 1987 that the administration

needed to be more responsive to the

academic activities which it existed to

serve, and that this could best be done

through a policy of devolution. The

enormous changes which have taken

place in King's and in higher education

as a whole over the intervening five years

have proved the wisdom of that advice:

a centralised system could not have

coped with the size and the complexity

of the problems we have had to face.

The changing patterns of

administrative support associated with

the establishment of Schools have, of

course, left a question in many people's

minds: if we have local adminstration,

why do we need central administration~

The Review Group has attempted to

answer this question in its report by

CENTRAL ADMIN1STRATION

defining the roles of the central

admini tration - many of which have

changed very considerably in the last

two or three years - in terms of corporate

accountability. We are a single entity,

albeit large and heterogeneous, and we

have to be able to co-ordinate and

control our activities as well as take

legal, financial and academic

responsibility for them. These planning,

co-ordinating and accounting tasks are

best done centrally - indeed, some of

them can only be done centrally.

The other question we had to answer

was - how much should we be spending

on adminstration? We made national

comparisons, of course, but the main

task was to scrutinise the staffing levels

proposed in Appendices K I-M I of the

Strategic Plan. These tables, adjusted

for changes which have taken place

since the plan was published, proposed

an across-the-board cut from IIB.I full­

time eq uivalent posts in 1991-92 to 93.1

in 1994-95 - an overall reduction of

nearly 25%. The problem here was that

these reductions had been formula­

driven, and had not been derived from a

detailed consideration of needs, as had

been the case with academic

departments.

The Review Group looked carefully

at the staffing needs of each of the

departments in the light of their

responsibilities and work-load. The

result has been a series of detailed

recommendations which have reduced

the cuts in the Strategic Plan by 4.1 full­

time equivalent posts. In addition, the

College Committee has recently approved

the establishment of a Development

Office, which brings the final

recommended staffing level for 1994-95

to 100.2, as detailed in the table below.

Copies of the full report, which has

been approved by the College

Committee, may be consulted in School

offices, or in the offices of central

administrative departments.

Professor Barry Ife

Head of School of Humanities

King's Report1994

T he feedback from the King's

Report, published in January,

has been extremely positive.

We are now beginning to plan the next

edition, to be published in January 1994,

and therefore need to collect ideas for

features as soon as possible. These

should be similar in type to the ones

used last year: ie about projects that

show King's as active in the world,

contributing in interesting and useful

ways to knowledge or to the quality of

life, preferably capable of illustration with

striking images (although this is not

essential - the designers will find ways

of illustrating most things!). We would

like to include interesting teaching and

consultancy ideas or projects, not just

research ones. We are not looking for

finished articles, but for copies of

existing papers describing the project, or

for brief accounts (about 100 words) and

photocopies or notes about any illustrative

material. This will enable us to make a

choice which will give a balanced spread

across the College's work.

Please send material as soon as

possible, before the end of May, to me

in the Press and Publications Office at

Cornwall House.

1991-92 1994-95 1994-95

aclual 5lral. Plan recommended

Cost centre (adjusled)

Bursar 10.5 .5 .5Finance & Personnel 58.1 46.1 49.2Academic Regislrar's Depl 23.0 18.5 18.0Principal & Secretarial 10.0 7.0 8.0External Relation 16.5 13.0 13.5

Development Office 3.0

TOTALS 11.1 93.1 100.2

Christine Kenyon Jones

Director of Public Relations

page 1/

Vice-PrincipalProfes or Richard Griffith ha been

appointed by Council to the post of

Vice-Principal for a further two years

from I Augu t 1993.

Or Abraham LueThe Extcrnal Relations Dcpartment is

pica cd to announce that Dr \hraham

I.ue, who retired a \,.,,,stant Pnnclpal

last Septcmbcr. ha., agrecd to act a., an

advl ory con.,ultant for the Collcge With

Immediatc effect. King' will

particularly hcnefit from :\be's help with

tudent recru Itment and 10 tilUlIonal

lial~on in The People's Republic of

Chin , Ilong Kong and Taiwan, and in

opening doors in the City and el~ewhere

for the benefit of thc Collcgc's

devclopment campaign. The KC Wong

cholarshlp sehcmc, undcr the auspices

of which 15 PhD tudent study in the

College. I testamcnt to i\be's kills. We

arc delightcd that hc IS prepared to

parc the time from hIS husy hedule­

he IS 10 no ,ense of the word retired - to

give u., thc advantage of hi unrivallcd

knowledgc of the Chlllcse world and

bUSlne ~ acuman.

New Assistant Registrar forAcademic StandardsKatc Quantrell is the new Assistant

I~cgi trar for eademic Standards. hc

will be ba.,ed at the, trand on ext 211 .

HonoursProfe or La Hen..:e Freedman, Ilcad of

thc Dcpartment of War. tudie , ha

becn appolOted Chair of the Committee

on I nternatlOnal Peace and ecuntyof

the l;nlted tate ocial cience

Re earch Council. lie I the fir t non-

L Itl70Cn to hold thi'> position.

Bamc \1 organ

Director of I~xternal Relations

I)r Anthony \\ POtt ha., been cleeted to

,. cllow~hlp of the II1'>tltute of Phy ICS.

Promotions in Humanities

1 he 11," n~ ta ha e bee n

recommended or romotlon t eOlor

Le urer 10 thc hoolo IlumaOltle ,

r m ( to er I 3:

Dr Da dear . De part me n 0 ~ rench;

Dr Ph I P b n, Department \\ ar

udle . ( hn topher \\ ntle,

Department of 1u IC

Dr DomlOic Rathbone ha been made

Re derlO \nclent Ili tory

Visiting Professorships:v1r C R Ker e has been appointed for

two years to the Law. hool.

Professor :v1 jefferys ha., been

appointed for three cars to the Centre

of\1cdical Law and Ethic.

:v1r F:v1 Pope ha., been appointed for

three year to the Biochemistry. ection

in the Life eienee Division.

Or W B Grat7..cr has been appointcd

for three ears to the Division of

Biomedical. ienees.

Heads of Department1 he 0110.... 10 appolOtmen and re­

appolOtmen 0 llead Department

or 01' I Ion .... ere agreed by Cou ncillO

\larch. -\11 the appolOtmen tart ram

1 Augu t I 3. and are for three year

unks ho""n.

A a ° a d anProfe or Kelth Web ter, Biology Group

ClaSSICSProfessor :v1 ichae I , ilk

Compu er SCienceProfessor julian Lllmann

cnglsrPrafe sor janet Bately

c ec r,ca Engineer ngProfessor ·\Ian Roger.,

French

Profes or Richard ,riffith

GermanProfessor Roy WISOCY (until 31 7 4)

Hea SCiences 0 VISion

Profes or Bob 11 ider

a hema ,csDr Davld RoblOson (Deputy I lead

Dr Alan Pears - untlI3!.7. 5)

urs,ng S ud,es

Professor jenifer Wil on Barnett

In Ion and Die e ICS

Dr Catherine Geis ler

Pharmacy

Profe or hris :v1arriott

Ph"osphyProfessor \1ark ainsbury

Po uguese and Brazilian S udies

Or Patriek habal

Theology

Professor Colin Gunton

ar S udles

Professor La""rence Freedman

etaff

New Council memberProfes or lan Cameron. former Pnnclpal

of CM 0 " has become a mcmber of the

College Council. Professor Camcron

was nominated b the L nlver Ity of

London 'enatc and will erve for thrcc

year.

Reorganisation in Finance1 he FlOa nee Department h been

diVided In 0 our dlvl ion: FlOanclal

and '\ccou ntlO rv Ice - mana ed b,

n hna I\lrpllaOl; PlannlO and

orporate \1anagement - managed by

Brian Oldham' chool :Y1ana ement and

Intema! -\udit - managed by RoblO

honfield and lndu trial Collaboration ­

managed b :Ylerv n Maharaj <Financial

Accountant and Compan ecretary-

KCL Enterpnse Ltd.)

A a re ult of thl rcorganl atlon the

Job title and remitS of ~everal of the

manager have al 0 altered nd arc

explalOcd below:

Knshna Klrpilanl I the Collcge'"

Chief ·\c ountant, responsible for all

finan lal accounting ervlce ,lOcludlng

thc, hool of Medicine and Dcntlstry

and the rclated services, ic payroll.

supplier, debtors and cashlenng.

Robin Shonficld "Ill a ~ume the role

of Assistant Director of finance,

essentially helping Da Id Ball 10 the

management of hool and elf­

financed or trading actlVltlCS, as well as

having control of the Internal Audit

function.

Brian Old ham will become the

Collcge's Corporatc Planner, and will

contlnuc to provide the Collegc'"

Executive :v1anagcment with

appropriate management report~,

lOeluding financial plans, budgcts and

management account.

page 12

p

ur cry prO\"1 IOn

I lalf-term play chcme

Valeric Davies, the Director of

the Continuing EducationUnit, i a member of

CE 'TEC Higher Educaton Forum andha ju t been a ked to join the Council'

Education and Training SUb-group. Shewould like colleagues entering into

negotiations or dealings with CENTEC

to keep her informed so that she can

su pport their cases.

Central London Training andEmcrpri e Council(CE. 'TEC)

he College has made a grant

to KCLS to support two

places for students' children

in the niversity of London nlon

nursery. The College Committee has

also made a proposal to provide a

number of nursery places for staffs

children at another nursery, and further

details will be given in Commenl as soon

as they are available.

T he next half-term playscheme will take place from

31 Mayto4]une 1993. Itisavailable for children of staff and

students from 9.00 to 17.00 at £7 a day,

and will be held in Room 132, the Gym.

To re erve a place please contact Su ie

Gentleman on ext 1245 as soon as

possible, as they need ten children per

day to enable the scheme to fund itself.

T

I n order to keep in clo er contact

with users on other ite

~ick Bugg will be calling at

Ken ington on Wed ne days and

Chelsea on Thursdays, and will be

available from .45 until 10.00.

Yles age should be left on ext 2356 or

with Alan Rowland or Bill Colwell at

Kensington, or John Worn ham at

Chel ea.

rofessor E Brian Davies of the

Department of Mathematics,

has been awarded a Royal

ociery Leverhulme Tru t Senior

Research Fellow hip for the J993-94

academic year. The fellow hips provide

an opportunity for cienti ts in an

ubject to be relieved of all teaching andadministrative duties for a year to do

full-time research; even awards were

made in 1993. Professor Davies will be

ucceeded by Dr David C Robinson,

Readcr in Applied athematics, as

Hcad of Department and the College

will employ an academic under the age

of thirty to take over hi teaching duties

for the year.

Profcs or Ibrecht Frohlich, FKC,

PR ,formerly Head of the Departmentof\llathematics until his retirement in

19 3, ha been awarded the De Morgan

Ylcdal by thc London Mathematical

ociety. The medal, presented

triennially, is the most prestigious award

ofthe national mathematical society and

marks a career of di tinguished

contributions to mathematics. Profes or

Frohlich has also been awarded a

Re earch Prize by the H umboldt

foundation to enable him to make

research visits to univer ities in

Germany.

\1arathon taff

C ongratulation to those

members of taff who lOok

part in the recent London

Ylarathon. We're not sure how many of

you out there took part but would like to

congratulate those competitors that we

have heard about:

Mike Clorke, the Executive Director of

the Centre for Defence tudies, who

completed the course in three hours and

27 minute;

Co/in Chown, a new member of the

trand portering team, who completed

the cour e in four hours and 17 minutes;

and John Thomas, from the Estates

Office, who completed the course in two

hours and 56 minutes.

Rcmis ion of tuition fee forCollege taff

I3rian alter

Academic Registrar

he regulation about the

remi ion of fee to College

staff their spou e and

ch ildren, in respect ofcour e taken atKing' ha e been lightly amended.

The courses that are covered by th i

provi ion are those leading to a degree

qualification, and the staff covered are

the full-time members of King' College

taff other than those employed as noo­

IIEFCE funded taff. The fee are

remitted to the extent that the members

of staff would otherwise be liable to pay

them. The College may al 0 at its

discretion meet the cost of other course

undertaken by members of the College

taff, provided that the course i directlyrelated to the member's employment

and ufficient funds are available.

Australian \'i, it

I n Ylarch, Harry Rajak, Director of

the Insolvency Re earch Unit in

the Law school, attendcd a

conference in Melbourne and read

papers at Monash University and at the

Melbournc office of Mallcson tephen]acques, the largest law firm in Australia.

lIe took the opportunity to visit the Law

chool of Melbourne, Mona h and La

Trobe niversitie and also the Law

Schools of Sydney and New South

Wales Universities. There was a

tremendous enthusiasm among

member of these law facu Itie for

exchanges with the King's ollege Law

hool of both teacher and students. A

report is being prepared for con ideration

by the Law School at its next meeting.

The College has a draft exchange

agreement with the University of 'ewouth Wales and a member of the

foreign programme di ision of Sydney

niver ity - whom Harry met on his

vi it there - made clear how enthusiastic

all School would be to develop

exchanges with all corresponding

departments at King' .

page 13

eIdu mounlS

reinc" dinIt S ranlJ f Iui/993. Cr. nts

/1 'PP r In IIu Ju

Age Concern Institute ofGerontologyPro -\r n er .000 (E RC) ta pursue

and define the heme "or new research

Into ageing. Dr J\.~kham. £-,000 (The

\.1edlcal ollege of t 8artholomew'

110 pltal). Contflbutlon toward research

expense .

1 otal grant (including exten ions worth

,77 ), £24, 02.

Anatomy & Human Biologyrotal grant (ll1c.1udll1g exten. IOns).~-(.2 2

BiochemistryPro R Cammack, 102.971 Ecu (approx

~0.3171 (l.. EC) to upport research on

the e Iu IdatICll1 of the caral) tic

me hanl,m of hydrogenase en/Y me, b)

electron paramagneti resonance

Spectroscopy.

Total granv (including extensions worth

11, 5), £95.662.

BiologyPro DOl lall, 132,000 Ecu (£102,960

approx) (U~C) to ,upport re carch on

blocthanol prod uction from sorgh um.

Total granls (including extensions worth

6.< 0), £114.860.

BiophysicsDr B J Suttan, £74,234 ( E RC) to

upport research on the development of

novel IGG binding proteins. Dr VI

Irvll1g, £140.652 (VI RC) to support

research on the molecular mechanl,m of

force generation in mu c1e: time

resolved X-ray diffraction \vith Isolated

Il1tact fihrc . J)r VI ~andcrson, J)r B J

Sulton. £5 - ,3 -0 (VI RC) to purchase a

rotatll1g anode- ora generator for

protein crysrallography. Prof I I Gould,

£7,500 (. mlthklll1e Beecham) Research

student hip. J)r l~ Jordan, 5,37

(Wellcome 'I ru t) toupport research on

gene structure and autOantibodies to

nucleoli.

Total grants, 313,114.

Centre for Educational StudiesDr J Bliss, £9,000 (I~. RC) to support

research on the current academic

concerns in the areas of cognition and

communication.

Total grants (including extensions worth

12,711 ). £21 ,711.

Re arch grantrecel cd

The 0 I.\<are I.\<a de i ned for

dentl t to u unas I ted 10 their 01.\<0

practice to learn more about the

dla no i and treatment 0 ·pulpall.

compromised deciduou teeth' (,e

children' fir t teeth that are diseased or

damaged). It comblOe text, diagrams,

clinical photograph, radiographs, narration

and Video material. The user are

presented Jth a sefle of option on the

screen, enabling them to control the

learning route through the programme

themselvc . Thl hould enable the

mateflal to meet a I.\<Jde range of

dentl t ' need, depending on their

prevlOu nOl.\<ledge and expcflenee.

'r he evaluation of dcntists' computer

u e and need wa based on an anal) I

of 76 return from dental practitIOners.

It wa found that half the dentl t had

101.\< knowledge and skills with computers,

and less than ten per cent were ery

expeflenced computer users. !\fter

trials, 95 per cent of the dentists rated

the software at three or above (on a eale

of five) and there were many

appreciative eomments on ItS uscfu Ine .

\:inety per cent would be willing to pay

over £200, and 25 per cent over £500, to

haveuch a sy tem installed in their

practice, and nearly all dentists said that

it would be useful not on Iy to them but

al 0 to surgery as iStant~ and receptionists.

It is hoped that this pilot project will

provide the foundation for a more

exten Ive Investigation of the role of

computer a Isted learn Ing for practl Ing

dentl t .

For further details contact Dr Peta

'mlth i1lead of the School of

Paedodontic); VIr "'ndrew Could

I Paedodontic~) or Dr \.1argaret Cox

(Centre for Educational. tud,e ).

Comment is aiming 10 carry

regular reporlS ofresearch

granls received by members ofIheCollege. The deloils ofgronls whicJr arecon/tdenlial are nOI given, nor ore Ihose for

ward cover fellow and their

amilie and IOclude return

fare, living expense ,

fellowship cos ,extenSive travel I.\<lthlO

the C and medical In urance. Tenure

i from even to twelve month,

beginning in August 1994.

Applicant hould be Bfltish citizens

aged between their late 20 and earl

40 and hould alread)' have ub tantlal

profc slOnal expeflence. They 1.\<111 be

selected for their qualitle a leader and

opinion former, the qualit)' and

relevance of their project propo~al, (10

one of three main ubJect area of

common concern to the L K and the LS).

The ubJect areas are: I/uman r(\()urct In

Ihe 2/sl cenlury: impro 109 the cducatlon

system, tralOing and emplo ment

practices; People In CJMs: ImprovlOg the

quality of life in urban complexes by

addre ing contflbutory factors eg Cflme,

hou ing etc; Promoling good heallh.improving health ervlces and relevant

activities In order to maximize the good

health of the community.

hort-listed candidatc will be

interviewed in London in January 1994.

further information and application

forms may be obtained from The

I larkness Fellowships, 2 Bcdford

• quarc, London WC! B 3EG. Request

for application forms must be re elved

by 14 October 1993 accompanied by a

10 x 7" E, carrying 34 p postage.

Completed form hould be rcturncd b

edneday 20 October 1993.

J l:l: 11 on (omputl:r

Ajoint project funded by the

Department of Ilealth has

brought together a team from

the Centre for Educational tud,es and

the Department of Paedodontics at the

Dental School to develop computer

software to help train dentists and other

taff in dental surgeries. The research

has also been asses ing what kinds of

existing training materials denti ts prefer,

how much they use computers, and how

u eful they find this kind of training.

p ge I

Chemistry

Dr K lone, - ,000 ( mithkline

Beecham). Contribution LOward

research cxpense .Dr K lonc ,£9. 00

( mithkline Beecham) ase re earch

tuden hip. Dr [ Lewi ,3 0,664

Ecu ( 04,531 approx) (EEC) LO upport

the development of on- tream

biosen or for pe ticide detection.

Total gran ,£319,431.

Electronic & Electrical EngineeringDr W Chambers, £110,064 ( E RC) LO

support rc earch on hybrid prcad

spectrum technique for cellular mobilc

communication. Dr S A ela tin,

£22,075 ( ERC) LO support a pilot study

on aULOmatic data capture and analy i

of crowd in confined arca u ing image

processing.

Total grants (including extension worth

£5.200). £173,727.

GermanProf R Wi bcy, £37,657 (Leverhulmc

TrustlI3riti h Academy) . cnior Re earch

Fcllow hip awarded LO Dr D G M

Ro ler.

HistoryTotal grant (including extensions).

£1,500

Human Environmental Sciences

Prof P 1Peter on, $40,000 «£25.000

approx) ( IEP). upplcment to the

Gem MoniLOring and s es ment

Rcscarch Project. Prof P 1Peter ·on.

$14.000 ( ,917 approx) (WIIO) LO

support the Gem Water Research

Programme. Prof P1Pctcrson. $26.000

(£17.177 approx) (WHO) LO support a

research project entitled "concern for

Europe' tomorrow."

Total grant (including extension~worth

£ 190.322). £241,416.

Mechanical EngineeringDr M Yianne ki . 128,000 Ecu (£12,400)

(EEC) LO upport research on the effccts

of fouling on the efficiency of hcat

exchanger in lignite utility boilers.Dr M

Yianne ki ,£137,1 3 (inc £37,670

overhead )(Ford MOLOr 0) LO support

re earch on flow pattern in 2-~troke

engine cylinders and ports.

TOlal grants. £147,544.

MicrobiologyProf M I3azin, £12,647 (RITE) Re earch

studentship Dr 1 Heale. Dr 13I3ainbridge,77,42 Ecu (£60.394 approx)

(EEC) LO upport re earch on

pathotyping of isolates of ascochyta

rabiei cau ing blight of chick pea.

Total grant, £73.04 I.

Nursing Studies

Prof1Macleod-Clark, 0,000 ( EThame Regional Ilealth Authority).

Research fellow hip and tuden hip.

Total grants, £64,19-.

Nutrition & DieteticsDr M :"elson, 23,343 (MAFF) to

produce tandard food phoLOgraphs for

u e in dietary urvey.

Total grants (including exten ion worth

£1. ). £25.843.

PharmacologyDr S Brain, £4 ,700 (Wcllcome Trust) LO

upport research on the use of

venom and toxins LO elucidate

inflammaLOry mechanisms with pecial

relevance to neuropeptide release. Prof 1LittleLOn, Dr 1Tucker, Or 1Pizzey

(AnaLOmy). £122,646 (Wcllcome Trust)

to upport re carch on cc lIu lar

adaptation in adrenal cell culture a a

model for chemical dependance on

benzodiazcpine and opiate. Dr

Brain. ,50 I (Fisons PLC). Research

student hip. DrCPage.£15,975

(Biogen). Contribution LOwards research

expense.

Total grants. £239.473.PharmacyProf R Ilider, £25,000 (Ciba-Geigy AG)

LO support research on novel aluminium

chclaLOrs for neurobiological application.

Dr Bloomfield, £6,000 (Unilever

Research). Contribution LOwards the

disin fectant evaluation project.

Total grants (including extension worth

£13.714). £51,685.Philosophy

Dr L iorvane, £10,000 (I3riti h

Academy). Exten ion LO a research

project entitled, the dictionary oflIeo­platonic terms.PhysicsDrG :\10rrison, £12 ,00 (. ERC)LO

~upport research on direct imaging of

growth proce c in ilica gels and

zeolite precur or. Prof E R Pike,

£101.919 ( ERC) LO upport research on

inver e problem theory & quantum

monte carlo imulation in high TC

superconductivity. Prof R M Ilill,

£3 ,630 (The :"ational Grid ompany

plc) LO upport research on modelling of

electrical degradation and breakdown.

Or T Ilall, 90,000 Ecu (£70,200 approx)

(EEC) to upport re.earch on parallel

optical processor and memories.

TOlal grants, £432, 64.

PhysiologyProf L Howell, £11,250 (British

Diabetic A sociation). Supplement LO

Group uppOrt. Prof1Pear on. 142,697

(Wellcome Tru t) LO uppOrt research on

the mechani m of anti-inflammaLOry

action of gluco-corticoid on

endothelium.

Total grants (including exten ions worth

£1 ,64 ),£177,097.

PhysiotherapyOr D :"ewham. -,235 (The Arthritis

and Rheumati m Council) LO uppOrt

research on the muscle function and

rehabilitation of the osteo-arthritic knee.

War StudiesProf L Freedman, £47,099 (Ministry of

Defence). Extension of support for

foundation tudie for higher command

and taff cour e, and resident hi LOrian.

Prof L Freedman, £30,000 (Ministry of

Defence). Extension of hisLOrical

research inLO air-LO-air combat.

Total grants. £77.099.

:\dditional award made afterjanual) 31

Dr Martin avias has been awarded a

grant of $7000 by the Social Science

Research Council in l'ew York LO

conduct a work hop on the subject of

the West European Arms Trade.

Sally Redftm, DirecLOr of the Nursing

Research Unit and Ion Norman and TedWhite, both lecturer in Mental Health

J ursing in the Department of Nursing

Studie , have been awarded £86.000

from the Engli h National Board for

0: ur ing, Midwifery and Health i iting

LO inve tigate the changing educational

need of mental health and learning

di ability nurse following implementation

of the Community Care Act.

The Department of War tudie ha

just been awarded a new grant by the

MacArthur Foundation, U $94000 to

support a project entitled Post-SovietEurope: relations among the former WarsawPact allies. The project is part of a

collaborative project with the SLOckholm

International Peace Research Institute

LO explore Europe after the Russianwithdrawal. The project leader in the

War tudie Department is lane Sharp,

already a enior Research Fellow. The

duration of the grant is two years from)

March 1993.

page 15

Department of Pharmacy researchseminar programme

""ee: n9S • :ao(e p ace ~oo

· 8, ",'~ 'e"eS""':1er.:s oe' een ' 6 00-· 6 '5 ana se 'la's De' Nee •6 • 5-· 7 00, C e sea Ca o....s a esa~oao, Sv' 6

p

Cen1re for Philosophical StudiesIssues in Medical Ethics (ne 0 n

co JLl'lC" 0"

ed ca LaCer e f O

Event

20 May•7 30- 930, goo 27C, S: a'lO

a Idg e (orme' 0 e cas eI ers· )

How big IS blo·-e hlcs?

Cen1re for Philosophical StudiesCulture and the State: subsidy orpaternalism.,21 May

6 00- 8 DO, Council RoomPro essor Jo n S orups I (Unlverso S, An rews) - CuI ure, SCience and

he StateJr 0 e Le' n (ConseNa vePar amen ary candida e or

a ps ead) - The S a e and CuI uredo's and don' s

cn Illlr

20 MayJ' ::> ""0 9":0 IDeoa~rr'e":0

P a'mac, g's)On no ,ea mg Ii 0 e sna e

27 MayOr (Drug P e'ormula ,on

and De e ,Ctba-Ge 9Pharmaceu IcalS)The oral de" ery of human calcl onm

3 JunePro essor P do ( , e SCle ces,

'1gs on U'" ers I )

Smo mg and endo heltal mjury/artertaldisease

10 JuneP 0 essor Barber (T e School 0

P armac ,U Ivers. y 0' London)Surveying ward pharmacIsts'

m erven Ions

Physiology and VascularBiology SeminarsHeld on Wednesdays between 16 30 ­17 30 In the PhYSiology Lec ureThea re, enslngton Campus26 MayOr S eve Wa son (Depa men 0

Pharmacology, Ox ord UniverSity)Phosphorylatton even s m plateletacttvalon

2 JuneOr Pe er obbs (Depa men 0

P YSIOIOgy, Unlversl y COl egeLondon)The phYSiology of re mal ghal cells

17 JuneOr T Te ley (Chamg Cross and

es mJns er Medical Schoo )Hole-y smoke I (smo mg and the lung)

Department of PhilosophySeminars in the History andPhilosophy of Science

ee ,ngs will held on Thursdays a14 5 In Room 1B22 n il 27 ay andn Room B06 rom 3 June, S rand20 MayPro'essor A ce G B er eu en(Indiana Un'vers y, BlOOming on)Chronoscopes dynamIcal ools for

emporal reasonmg

9JuneOr Davld Bec er (Depa men 0

Ana omy, Unlversl COl ege Londo

The role of gap Juncttons m mouse

embryOniC developmen

27 MayOr Douglas Ehr'ng (Sou ernJ'v1e hodls Unlversl y a Dallas)

Pre-emp Ion and eel/s on 0 encausa IOn

16 JuneOr Trevor Hallam (Roche Produc s L d,Welwyn)Functtonal slgnlftcance of PKCacttvatton m human T-cells,neutrophllls, and endothelIal cells

3JunePro essor S even Rose (OpenUnlversl Y)The study of memory betweenmolecules and metaphors

10 June

(wi h Cen re for Philosophical S udles)Pro essor Alan Richardson (Unlve Sltyo Penns I ania)

From epistemololgy to phIlosophy 0

sCIence. Rudolph Carnap and theemergence 0 logical empmCfsm

17 June

Professor Phillp Allport (University 0

Cambridge)Are the laws of phvslcs 'economIcalwith the truth'?

Randalllnstitute SeminarsSeminars s art 17.00 at he RandallInstitute, 26-29 Drury Lane, WC2B5RL. Drinks are 0 ered af erwards inhe re ec ory

24 MayOr Tim Hun (lCRF, Clare Hall)Cvc/in-dependent kmases and theregulatIOn of the cell cvcle

7 JunePro essor ay Davies (lnstl u e or

olecular Medicine, Ox ord)Comparative analvsis of Dystrophmand Utrophm

14 JuneOr Mary Coli ins (Chester Beat yLaboratories, London)Cytokines and Death

Randalllnstitute DevelopmentalBiology SeminarsTo be held at 26-29 Drury Lane, WC2B5RL. As it is occasionally necessary 0

change he times 0 seminars, pleasephone on he day (af er 9.30) tocon irm that no change as beenmade, el 071-8368851. Seminarsusually start a 17.0026 MayOr John urphy (In ec Ion andImmuni y Research Group, ing'sCollege London)Earlv response gene expressIOn mhuman B lymphocVte activation

2JuneOr Roger Morris (Department of

eurobiology, IMR, ill HilllRole of Thv- 7m Itmitmg axonal growthover astrocytes

9 June

Or Andrew Par er (Departmen 0

Blochemls ry, Unlversl y 0 Ox ord)Targeted mantpula IOn of genes andchromosomes m human cells

16 JuneOr Clare Isac e (Departmen 0

Biology, Imperial College)Regulation of the extracellular matrtxreceptor, CD44, m normal metastlcand embryontc cells

23 JuneOr David Hartley (Department ofBiochemistry, Imperial College)From ectoderm to excitation:formation of the Drosophila centralnervous system

Colloquia

Ins itu e of Advanced Musical StudiesWednesdays a 17.00 In RoomG01,Department of Music. Admission isree, withou IC et

26 May

Philip Weller (Universi y ofo lIngham)

French dramatic representation: themusical and rhetorical portrayal ofcharacter (7670-7740)

2JuneDavid Pountney (English NationalOpera) with Christopher Wintle (King'sCollege London)

David Pountney will discuss hisproduction of Jonathan Harvey's newopera Inquest of Love in the con exto his recen wor or E 0

Concert.

Sum er Term 993 All conce s

excep • will a e place in Room GOUSIC Depanmen . Please chec wi

the Music Department forconfirmation, el 071-873 2029.Admission is ree.20 May, 13.05Music by Composition major students

25 May, 13.05aomi Hillman, lute, and SarahIcolls, piano

26 May, 13.05

onl a S ache, soprano, and GilesI e, barl one 0 Include music by

Purcell, oza and Faure

27 May, 13.05USIC by Composi ion major s uden s

1 June, 13.05Ann arner, lute

*7 June, 17 .30Grea Hall, Lincoln's Inn (to beconfirmed)

icolas del Grazia and the King'sCollege London Orchestra music byMozart and Stravinsky

G\'. -Q - nc\\' cntrancequal ification cminar

20 May, 10.30-14.00, Room MB07Cornwall HouseLast summer a series of seminarswas organised by the Registrar andthe Schools Liaison Office to assistadmissions utors in assessing UCCAapplicants. This year, the firstapplicants with he new General

ational Vocational Qualification(G VQ) level 3, will be applyingthrough UCAS for entry to King's in1994. In view of the short lead-timefor this course, which is being pilotedin schools and colleges now, OrVenetia France has organised aseminar 0 inform admissions tutorsand other interested members of staffabou the qualification. It is expectedhat numbers of students offering

G VQs will rise significantly in futureas BTEC quail ica ions are replaced inmos schools and colleges by G VQs.The seminar will involve an address bya senior 0 ficer from the ationalCouncil or Voca ional Quali ications( CVQ). a series 0 short alks anddiscussion and G VQ co-ordina orsrom several insti utions are expected.

A sandwich lunch will be provided. Ifyou wish to at end, please contactSusanne French, Student Recruitmentand Exchanges Office on ext 3003.

page 17

Obiruarie

Bill HutchisonBill 11 U[chl on, a !>',rter at the trand

ampu . died recently 0 leu 3:mla onl,

dlagno!>Cd a fe"'- m }nth pre.. u Iy 13111had wor ed for the olle e for a

relaw:ely hort lme, a ter La ng early

retirement from Bntl h 1 elecom. but

dunng hi ~rvlce he had endeared

himsel to hi colleague. A cheer ul

and willing gentleman, popular "'- Ith all

who came Into contact With him, he will

be adly ml ed. Our deepe t

ympathles go OU[ to hi Widow, 'yl.. la,

and their on Paul and lan "'-ho

tOgether "'-ere aver: clo e knit f mlly.

Rob Redmond

rvlces \1anager. _ trand

Kl:n in on (l:ntr.1 Cl\ICC

\ltarch wa a very '>ad penod for the

Cemral Service Department here at

KenSington. In that month "'-C lo;t two

much valued members of tafh~ho dlcd

Within a week of each other Both wdl

be ml%ed by taff and ;tudent,> alike.

Abslam El HannachiAbsalam joined the College In 1986 as a

Porter! Cleaner in the Atklns Budding.

J le maintained a cheerful and ;mart

disposition at all time. Even

throughout hi last illness, he reullned a

pride in hiS work and did hi be;t with

regard to his duties. I le wa finally laid

to rest back home in \10rocco.

Emanuel Nsubuga\ltanny, Porter Receptlonl'>t at the orth

Entrance to the Atkins Building, was b

contra t a very quiet, pnvate man, totally

reliable, dependable and con;clemious

at all times. J le had only been With u;

for two year, but in that t1rne had made

many friends. I Its intere ts were Wide

and varied: a gold medali t (on several

occasIOn) for ballroom danCing, a holder

of the 'Alex Moore ward', Part I Bar

Exam qualifications and qualificatIOn m

LogiC and Economics and World and

Public Affairs, made him a most

interesting man to converse with.

any members of staff were ahle to

attend a memorial ervice for Emanuel

on aturday 27 March at t Mary of

Angeles Church, London WII. lie was

page 18

Inall. laid to re t bac home m L' an a.

Bill Colwell.

ce 1ana ,er, •en Ington

Eric wonel MascallPrcfe rofllltn rheolo~at

rom I 2 to 1 73, died on 12

f-ebruar: I aged 7, only a ew

mon hater the publicatIOn o' hi la t

boo ,.s r. b, nd It I a collection 0

memoir ,and when he began v.mlng It

;everal years ago he aid to me: You

may wonder why I am doing thiS. I am

not 0 vain as to thin anyone v.ould be

particular! mtere ted m m life, but I

have kno"'-n a number 0 Imere tlng

people and 1 may be able to bnng them

to life in my recollection of them'. It wa

a characten tiC tatemem: genUinely

-.elf-effacing; and the book turned out to

be exactly a he des ribed It. \\ e learn a

good deal about what It; author did; we

learn even more - and often hilarioul '­

about v. hom he met and how he viev.ed

them; but v.e learn almo;t nothmg about

hi own opinIOn of hlm;clf, There is no

;elf-scrutiny, no parac1ing of inner

connicr or emotional di;turhance . no

p ychologlcal ;elf·analy;is. Enc 'v1ascall

would have con'>ldered It bad manners

to di'>Cu s hi; per;onallife In public.

'I he reader has to deduce from the cool,

humorous reCital of the facts what

manner of man this was.

By tempcrament and training he was

a ciemi r It always amused him that

although he became famous for hiS

theological work, It wa not until he was

mature that he took hiS Iirt dcgree in

that disci pi me. J le had begu n as a

mathematiCian and haviog distingui;hed

him elf at Pembroke College,

Cambndge a a mathematical cholar he

went on to teach mathematiCs at a

school m Coventry m 192 . I1I carcer a

a schoolmastcr did not last long. Ilc was

never ashamed to confc that he ""as

not a succe;s as an in truetor of

recalcitrant choolboys and he wa;

ordained in 1933, not becau e he had

ailed a a teacher but because b this

time he had become profoundly

convinced that he wa called to the

;acred ministry. It was ineVitable that he

would not remam long in parish work,

though he alway believed that as an

academic theologian he needed to be

rooted In a commun ity of worsh ip and

pastOral care. J le always saw his writing

and teaching as ways of serving the

ch urch: a I 'me that had to ha ea

-0 ndatlon 0 - pra. er.

In J unc 1 37 he jOll1ed hc t.1 of

LII1 oln I heolo lcal CollcJ!;c and eight

'ear later e me Icc urer in thc

Phll orh. 0 RellJ!:lon. at Ox. ord

enl er I and a tudt:nt 0 Chn t

Church. Il hi tlmc he "'-a alrC4d

ma JnJ!: a mar In theological Circle and

had pubh hcd hi fir t boo ,Ill ~nl) Is

1 hi tud) In radltlonal thCI m', thc

concept 0 - God. was grounded 111 an

exten Ive no\\ledge and deep

appreciation 0 the v. riting of 't

'1 homa Aqull1a . I hough he alwa .

preferred not to be lahelled as a neo­

1 homi ,there i no doubt that bic

\1ascall became one of the most

dl tingul,>hed exponents ofl homl m 111

the tv.entleth century everal book~

followed. all 0 them demonstrating the

acuity o'hl mll1d and the clarity of his

thll1kll1g. I le hclieved 111 theology a a

rational dl'> ipline, to be pur ued with as

much ngour and humility a any

philo,>ophllal or mathematical '>tlJdy. Ill'>

,teady defence of the Catholic faith and

hI'> theological tradltlOnali;m aro'>c out

of II1tellectual conVictIOn; not out of an

II1nately Lonservative temperament. lie

could he ;c.. ere 111 hI'> expChure of

ImpreCise thll1kll1g and he detested

pretentiou;ness; but he was never ill­

natured and never, consciously,

humiliated anyone.

The late, ydney Evans, Dean of

King's from 1956 to 1977, persuaded

him to move from Oxford and accept

the Chair of Ilistorieal Theology at

King' . It wa a move he never regretted.

There may till be some members of the

College \~ho remember his benign and

humorou pre;ence 111 the Lpper, enior

Common Room, and other.. ""ho ;tlll

pos e s cople'> of the many v.ltty verse

parodiC he produced over the year.

Dr Brlan Ilorne

Dept of'! heology and ReligiOUS Studies

C Northcote ParkinsonC ortheote Parkln~on, the 'di coverer'

of Parkinson'~ Law, ""ho died on 11

'v1arch 199 took hIS PhD 111 at KlI1g's

before the War. The famous law holds

that all work expands to fill the time

available for its completion. Parkinson

wrote more than 60 books including

eight novel and Imaginary biographies

of J lornblower and Jeeves.

:\ tribute to Luf Rebdo­Fer'chrift

The long and distin ished career of

Portu /!Se sclzolor and . iting Professor

UtS de Sousa Rebdo (whiclz includes 36

years with King's College] was celebrated in

Februo . Colleagrus andfriends gathered

at the Institute of Romance Studies for the

presentation ofa volume ofessays published

in his honour. tudies in Portugue e

Literature and History in Ilonour of

Lui de ousa Rebelo, edited by "elder

Macedo andpublished by Tamesis Books,

includes contributions by on international

group ofleading specialists on Portuguese

literature and history. Professor Macedo

recalls:

I first met Luis de ou a Rebelo in

19"7. I was 21, had ju t publi~hed m

fir t book of poem and wa reading

Law at Lisbon .niver ity. Portugal was

till having its collecti e soul reduced by

Salazarism and I had come to I,ondon

on an extended visit vaguely hoping to

gain ome per pecti e on the life that

lay before me. I returned to London

three years later a a voluntary political

exile. and on e more found in Lui.

Rebelo a true companion, this time of

the shared refusal which for him,

although pos ibly les public than mine.

was certainly no les deep and went

back much further.

In both these phascs of my life thc

Luis Rebelo I knew wa a tea her of

amazingly vast erudition and contagious

intellectual enthusiasm who e classe I

had the privilege to attend when I

enrolled at King's College London as a

mature ·tudent to tud the literature.

of my own di tant language. Luis

Rebclo alway managed - and I think

alwa wanted - to keep hi life in

eparate compartments. He gives people

only what they ask of him, but then doe

so with un urpas able genero·ity. The

more I asked of him, a a student, the

more he gave, and there wa alway a

little more for me to a k that he could

give. This is till true today.

I became his colleague and, later, the

last of the three Camoens profes or

who have benefitted from his

collaboration.

When, five years ago, Lui Rebelo

reached official retirement age his

colleague, tudent and friend joined

him to mark the occa ion. It wa onc of

the mo t heart-warming public

ceremonies I can recall. I wa able to

announce that hi farewell wa al 0 'a

welcome back' ince he would be

returning to King's College a enior

Calou te Gulbenkian fellow. five year

I al 0 the time thi volume has taken to

be publi hed. Even the mo t deserving

homage are not alway ea to turn into

material form.

I am grateful to all those who, through

their contribution and upporc, have

made it po ible for me to hare in thi

collective homage to Luis de Sousa

Rebelo.

Ilelder Macedo

Camoens Profes or of Portuguese

LetterHave we got it right?/\ few i ue back, Profes or Luca

suggested that the page of Comment

would be a suitable place to begin a

general discus ion on teaching. 0 Ithought I would use the opportunity to

describe a couple of incidents that have

led me to the view that we ought to

have a fre h look at what we are doing.

The fir t occurred while I was

teaching elementary tati tics to a large

class. 1 thought it wou Id be helpful to

use the opening lines of Tom Stoppard's

RorencranlZ and Cuildenstern ore Dead to

introduce the idea of testing hypotheses.

/\s the play begins, Guildenstern is

to sing coins. Rosencrantz picks each

coin up, looks at it, and announce

'1 lead '. After this ha gone on for a

while, everyone in the audience i aware

that there is omething wrong. The

point was to how that many stati tical

te ts are basically ju t common en e,

with ome mathematic added for

precision.

I was a bit disappointed when I found

that no one in the cia had een the

pia, but I wa quite taken aback to

di cover that none of them had any idea

who Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

might be.. ince thcn, I have been

onducting my own privatc urvey, and

I have yet to find a King's science

undergraduate edueated in England

who ha read or seen Ilamlet. I dare say

there are ome, but I haven't found

them. I thought I had, once, but it

turned out he wa from otland.

ome time later, I had to gi e a few

lecture on ecology to a cia of

I\meriean tudent. The ranged from

one who had almo t completed a degree

in ph ic at y! IT to other who had

done onl the fir t ear of a liberal arts

program at a mall but reputable college.

Lecturing on thi course was a lot ea ier

than it ound becau e I knew that if I

wrote down a differential equation,

everyone would have some idea of what

was going on. I didn't mind that hardly

any of them could remember how to

olve it; what mattered was that they

knew the language. A similar group from

this country, even many with degrees in

biology, would have been totally lost.

It ha traditionally been as umed that

Engli h tudents receive all the general

ed ucation they need in chool and 0

can afford to concentrate on on Iy one

ubject at univer ity. That may have

been true in the past; it certainly isn't

true today. American college, who

expect le of their tudent on entry,

consider it their respon ibility to do

omething about it. fre hman Calculus

and fre hman English are often

compulsory, and other subjects outside

the 'major' are u ually requ ired as well.

nd it's not omething you find only at

State Colleges with a large entry of

poorly qualified tudent: Harvard too

has its 'core curriculum'.

Everyone seems to agree that

graduates should be both literate and

numerate. I'm not at all convinced we

are doing enough to make sure that they

arc, or that they are as well educated in

general as their contemporaries in other

countrie . I have also found that even

those who do go on to become

speciali t in the ubject they tudied a

undergraduates are placed at a

di advantage by the narrownes of their

background. I realize that there are all

ort of obstacles in the way, and I agree

that the existing structure has some

advantage which we would want to

keep. l3ut are we really doing the best

we can for the majority of our tudent ?

Peter aunders

Department of Mathematics

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Lightfoot and Malcolm Gavin Hall

The deCISion to dispose of LIghtfoot

Ilall/College Ilou e and 'v1al olm Gavin

Ilall (reported In the la t edition of

Commenl) has been deferred. The

College Council in 'v1arch ratified the

finance Committee's deCISion to defer

the dl posal becausc of the formation of

the, Ightlngale Instltute of urslOg

( ee page I),

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ne ~ !ct er, I lled b the.: Prc nd

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\\ r ilhe Ifi he 1 '-

conlln / IJm p ~ 10

rom an rchaeolo I Ila:er beneath the

ancient capital ci ,0 1cmphl and It

ha pro~ed mo t e "cCtlve, 0 the >roup

I no'" In a po Ition 0 appl) hi '" or to

the tud, 0"the pa t dl tflbullon and

hi tolle 0 the t.... o pccle ,

1 he dlmen 0 Egypt till h ~e

many Important thing to re 'cal about

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