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WELCO E TO THE EW SECRETARY DESIGNATE Myles Tempany retires as College Secretary at the end of this year and at the fIrst meeting of the new College Council his successor was announced. Mr William Charles Slade, BSc, ACMA is appointed to the post of College Secretary as from January I 1986.
pyramid structure 01 indu try is ba ed on a broad foundation of support taIf leading up to a pinnacle of relatively few governing and controlling personnel. In universities the pyramid is turned on its head. There arc a very large number of highly qualified, articulate, professional people with relatively few staff supporting them. There is much more informed opinion here and university managers mu t harness this properly. Generally speaking, indu try and univer Hies do not communicate as they should. There are great benefits in learning about each other' need - the balance must be right though - the tail mu tn't wag the dog and we mustn't be tempted to try and overmanage our universitie .' DEMO STRATING OUR WORTH
Bill Slade is already well known to many members of the College. He fust came to Chelsea College in 1975 as Finance OffIcer and became College Secretary there in 1978. He has worked closely with the offIcers and committees responsible for the structure and realisation of the merger and for two years now has been completely involved with planning for the new College. "I am very, very pleased" he says Uto be able to see the merger through. I have, in effect, spent two years of my life working towards it and to be able to continue working for its success and development is very gratifying: I am quite thrilled about prospects for the future and greatly look forward to joining such a distinguished tradition." the culture is different and the general outI DUSTRY AND U IVERSITIES look and behaviour differs, in terms of the tasks to be done the gap is not so wide Prior to joining the world of university ad- "Techniques used in industry are often ministration, Bill Slade worked in industry. said to be inappropriate to universities. He is a qualified' accountant and has had This is not totally true. Universities are a extensive experience in the steel, cement huge resource. Such a massive investment and telecommunications industries. Do in people must be managed and industrial universities and industry have anything in management techniques are relevant. There common? Bill Slade believes that although are, obviously, essential differences. The
One thing Bill Slade i in no doubt of i that univer Hies will increasingly be required to Justify them elves and their performance will be measured. " We must be more willing to expose the things that we do well and to show ourselves as more acce sible place of work. Money will remain tight and this money must be applied to bring the best results. We must identify our strengths and capitalise on them and must see that the criteria by which we are measured are the right ones. King's has undergone a healthy process of elf-examination and has pinpointed key areas of growth. We must follow up bard on our Academic Plan and concentrate on being as successful as we can possibly be, each of us trying to do better the many things we already do well. We are a powerful, large institution offering a distinctive array of opportunities. There will, of course be problems and our biggest impediment in future planning is sites. The creation of a single campus will make all the difference in the world between being good and being the best. I believe we must succeed in acquiring Cornwall House - it will tax our persuasiveness and will require substantial investment, but it is cardinal." THE WAY FORWARD Realising the efficiencies of scale open to us, reviewing our work practices and building on the progress already made are ways in which Bill Slade sees the immediate way forward. "It is", he stresses, "the belief in our capabilities that will drive us forward and our energies must be directed by that belief - that way we surely will succeed."
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The weeks up until Christmas will be ones in which Bill Slade hopes to get out and about and meet those people he doesn't yet know, and learn about areas that are new to him. Anyone is welcome to come and chat (he and his secretary Dana Swinton are now ba ed at the Strand on ext. 2363). He will be working particularly closely with Myles Tempany and other senior members of the College bu.t hopes to build up contacts with all areas of King's, especially the students. He was.. President of the Union in his student days in Swansea and retains a firm belief in the autonomy and self-reliance of the student body. ON A PERSONAL NOTE Bill Slade was born in Newport in 1939. Unlike his wife, he is not a Welsh speaker; although he retains strong family links with Wales he feels that this fact precludes him from being thought of as truly Welsh. He does, however, have a fervent welsh interest in rugby football! He and his wife live in Epsom and have two teenage daughters, one of whom is in the process of university application. King's College does feature on her UCCA form, but sadly not at the top. It seems we may still have a bit of image-building to do!
STAFF NEWS OBITUARY PROFESSOR VICTOR GOLD, FRS Professor Victor Gold, Head of the Chemistry Department at King's since 1971, died from a heart attack on September 29 while on holiday in France. His funeral took place in Westcott, near Dorking, on October 14, and was conducted by the Dean. A Memorial Service was held in the College Chapel on October 29 when the address was given by Professor W.J. Albery, FRS, of Imperial College. Victor Gold was born in Austria in 1922, and there received a mainly classical education. He came to England prior to the outbreak of war, and began his association with King's College in 1939 when he entered a course in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics for the old BSc Intermediate Examination. Passing in 1940, he transferred to University College where he completed aB Sc in Chemistry in 1942, and went on to research in physical organic chemistry under Professor C.K. Ingold. These early experiences shaped his later interests and ambitions. Gold returned to King's as a Demonstrator in Chemistry in 1944 and spent the rest of his working life here. He became a Lectur-
er in 1947, Reader in 1956 and Professor in 1964. At his death he was the longest serving full-time mem ber of staff. He was a great King's man, and contributed importantly over the years to many aspects of College life. He was elected a Fellow of King's College in 1975. Everything Victor Gold undertook, including his lectures, was done with rigour. His earliest independent research work concerned the hydrolysis of carboxylic anhydrides and he returned to this field in one of his last projects. In between he studied many topics but extended especially knowledge of acidity, acid-base properties of organic compounds, hydrogen isotope exchange reactions, and aromatic substitution. He was perhaps best known for his work on solvent isotope effects. Development of the theory of these effects allowed him to indulge his talent for mathematics, and I well recall his commenting to me at the outset of this work how greatly he was enjoying it. Gold retained his enthusiasm for research until the end. Always keen on discussion groups, he organised several international
conferences. He sought to establish physical organic chemistry as an important branch of chemistry, and helped to found the Physical Organic Section of the International Union of Chemistry (IUPAC), of which section he was the current Chairman. He also founded, and edited, the review journal Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry. He was, without doubt, a world leader in his field. He was elected FRS in 1972, and served on various national chemical bodies. Gold's many contributions to College life began in 1948 when he became Sub-Warden (to Peter Shaw.as Warden) first at King's College Hall, and subsequently at Halliday Hall. He always had sympathy for student needs, and was very helpful in promoting the later careers of his research students, many of whom became academics. In the 1950s he was an important driving force behind the introduction of computing to the College, and was the first Chairman of the Computing Committee. Among his many other important administrative influences was his chairmanship of the Planning Committee of the Strand Building. It was fitting that he inherited the Chemistry Department just at the time that it moved into the new accommodation. Even before the College had embarked on the recent merger, Gold had initiated the unification of the King's and Queen Elizabeth Chemistry Departments, and in this way had some influence on College policy. He was keen for the merger as a whole to succeed, and was the first to suggest the acquisition of Cornwall House. All this, as well as serving terms as Dean of Science and as a member of the Council, represents only a fraction of his College work. His interests were universal; as Head of Department he involved himself in, and closely controlled, almost every aspect of its working. When a young don Victor spent his holidays walking in the mountains. He was a man of wide culture whose tastes and knowledge influenced students during his early years in College. He was as much at home with Goethe's theory of colour as with the electromagnetic spectrum. Marriage to Jean Sandiford, a former stUdent in the Department, led Victor to become a devoted family man. He was immensely proud of his very talented children, both of whom have worked for a period in the College. He had a fast, clear mind especially good at foreseeing the long-term consequences of an action. And, unlike some of us, he always learnt from his mistakes, He worked tremendously hard to overcome initial insecurity, and to occupy a valued place in British society. He succeeded triumphantly. If there were aspects of his character that did not commen him to everyone, that is only to be expected; people with any real force in them can never be universally popular. There was plenty of force in Victor Gold. DPNS
CELEBRATIO o CHELSE
FOR THE COLLEGE
PR YER OF DEDIC TIO
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composed for the occasion by the Dean. the Revd Richard Harri
000 ober 2 , the merger wa formally elebrated at a Service in the The Prca her w the Right Honourable Robert Runcie. rchbishop 0 isitor to King' College.
ollege Chapel. anterbury:
The Archbishop's visit was the highlight of a week of celebration. A special exhibition (above) was prepared and is available to be mounted at all campuses of the College.
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DELIVERED BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF C
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In I 7 I the older English universities were in a state of uncertainty and apprehension. Gladstone's m inistry had pas ed an Act which ended forever the ancIen regime of unreformed Oxford and Cam bridge. Religious tests were abolished, fellow of colleges were allowed to marry, and teaching posts were opened to competition. One clerical fellow lamented to the Archbishop of anterbury: 'Oxford is finished. The faith, the friendship, the common purpo e lost. There will be nothing left but profes ors pronouncing against each other.' I n fact, the college from which he wrote stood on the threshold of its greatest age, and he was to be one of the leading figures in its renewal. It i not always easy to discern the promise of the future amid the uncertainties of the present.
Heavenl. Father. giver of all good gifts, e an of er you nothing that you have not already gi en u . But mindful of your great 10 e bring before ou the three traditions \\ hI h now make up thIS College and pra} tor your ble ing on th' new pha of our eXIStence. we explore the my tene of your umver e and enter more d eply into the rich hentage 0 language and culture that makes us human we remember the promise that your Holy Spl1'it will lead us into all truth. Jn our tudy and re earch. and in all our work we pray for that pirh of divme tru th in mind and heart and SpirIt. Heavenly Father, we now dedicate the 1.lfe 0 thIS . ollege to you and pray that under your providence we may erve that wider community in which we are et, both in this country and over ea and this we ask lJl the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Change is always difficult, often disturbing. It is only natural to feel unsure, even hostile, when confronted by some amendment to tried and tested ways. The case for change is seldom so overwhelming as to meet at once with universal approval. 1 am reminded of the prayer of Reinhold thi century:
iebuhr, one of the great
hristian thinkers of
o God, give u Serenity to accept what cannot be changed, Courage to change what should be changed, And wi dom to distinguish the one from the other Of our e. change is almost by definition divi ive, and a prayer like tills can be u ed by either ide to defend its cau e. What one party accepts serenely as Incapable of change, another eek courage to tran form. One man's wisdom is another man' folly. Many of the most difficult issues for the Church arise from the tension between ancient and modern. This is so whether we're thinking of theological con trover y or liturgical revision. For many the new forms of service herald a great advance, a firm hope for the future, a lively and immediate way of speaking to God and declaring his presence and reality. For many others, however, the language of Cranmer could hardly be improved. It' to this we mu t remain loyal if we're to be faithful to our traditIOn and prove ourelves true tewards of the mysterie of God. I know from my own experiences of academic institutions as a don, as a theological college principal, and as a chool governor - just how ambivalent one can feel when faced with even moderate change. 'Change, even from worse to better', said Richard Hooker, 'is never accomplished without pain'. So 1 an well imagine that for your three former Colleges the voyage to August 1985 has not been easy. The Colleges had their own distinctive features, and possessed
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strength which have taken time to establIsh. You will have lived through uncertainty, even trauma - and you may have wished at times that you'd never ventured into these tormy and uncharted waters. But that' to look back. You mu t a k now what you need to make 'KQC' work. Let me offer three uggestions - they're three ingredients es ential to any ommunity's life. First, you need good leadership at every level, including the tudents' nion. Leadership with en itivity to the past, with commitment to the change that's been made and with an enthusiasm to turn it into reality. aturally we think here of Lord Cameron. It i a great adness that he' not here to ee thi day for which he had worked 0 unsparingly. Taking over as Principal in these difficult circumstances has not been an enviable task. But I am certain Profe or Sutherland will provide the vigorou and enterprising leaderhip that will help to bring this new College the uccess you deserve. Second, I uggest you need a vision of how the College can and hould become. As the Bible has it, 'Without vision, the people perish'. We need to look beyond ourselves if we are to know where we are going: not only because as the Psalmist said, from there comes our help, but because we need some inspiration, some sense of destiny, if we are to begin the journey at all. Clearly, you have many obstacle till to overcome. At times it will be a wearisome and dispiriting proce s. You will need to retain a clear vi ion of what you want this College to be. 'Be not conformed to the present pattern', ays St Paul, 'but be transformed by the renewing of your mind~ And third, I would ask you not to lose your memories. Remember the distance you have already travelled, the difficulties you've already faced. It's a mIstake to diminish or dismis them. Lord Scarman, Chairman of the niversity Court, has described the merger a the most important development in the sphere of higher education today'. That's a bold claim. But it certainly suggests the magnitude of what has already been accomplished. Finally, let me offer two theological truths from which you might take encouragement. The Christian experience of God has been described as a mixture of 'now' and 'not yet'. We believe that in Christ, God has acted decisively and conclusively, and we can know and experience the fruits of his action. But we have yet to reach the final working-out of his purpose. We have to accept that until that time we are still living at second best. It seems to me that a combination of 'now' and 'not yet' describes the stage this new College has reached. Perhaps you can be reassured by knowing that this is a state in which some of us not only survive but can actually flourish. Another aspect of the Church's life is suggested by St Paul in comparing it to a body. Each member brings to the body his own distinctive contribution, and puts it at the disposal of the whole. Here, each College has its own record of achievement and its own individual character. Chelsea College developed as virtually a technological university in its own right, a scientific community with interests closely meshed with the needs of an industrial nation. Queen Elizabeth College has been a pioneer in women's education, and has become a leading centre for Food and u tritional Sciences and the domestic sciences; its campus in Kensington was home to a society with a strong sense of common endeavour. King's Colleg~ founded as an Anglican response to the 'godless institution in Gower Street', became a place of great academic breadth, a place which overcame the disadvantages of a confi ned site to attract a strong sense of loyalty and affection from its members. Yet the result of union, says St Paul, is not that particular strengths and attribu tes are smothered. Instead, they are used more effectively because of their link with others. The overall result is far stronger than any group of dispersed individuals. That, I think, is the kind of hope that has inspired this coming together of three Colleges. Today, these rich achievements of the past face the challenge of becoming a single new College, one with greater resources and a wider academic community. There's every reason to believe this difficult and testing step in your development has been both courageous and wise. There's every reason to expect a new vitality, growth and excellence to emerge. But it will continue to demand your devotion and dedication to the task of building a new community - loyal to tradition, but open to new gifts and fresh achievements. To seize the promise of the future in the present requires patience, insight and the kind of care for others which gives a community coherence, sensitivity and purpose. May God grant you his serenity to accept the things you either cannot or should not change, his courage to change things you can and should and his wisdom to know the difference. Amen.
After delivering the Service, the Archbishop went down to the Great Hall, where, at a reception, he met many stud路 ents and staff of the College.
Sir Keith]oseph on Government policy on the universitie In th· , th first of a new eri of interview with national figur in the field of higher ducation, the ecretary of tate for Education and ence, ir Keith Jo eph, describes-following th publication of th Green Paper-som of the Cl.U' them and concerns in the ernment' policy n universiti . The text' in th form f a lightly edited tran.serip 0 intervi ir Keith recently gave Ray F tman Director of lnformati n & PR 'c at the 'niversi of Edinburgh. ~ subsequent inten'i in this are conducted under the auspic of the tandin nferen e of 'niversity W rmati o and are syndicated fi r publication in universi magazin and journals in th oited Kingdotn.
The Green Paper i a very ubstantial document: if you focus down what would you now de cribe as the cornertone of D policy on the university ide? The orner.,tone of our pollC) on the uni\t~r"ln SIde IS reallv a triple one-If ,:ou can ha\"(: a triple omerstone It IS to ma.ll1tam and \"here po sible. Improve qualit~ With a light hift m empha.'>I~ toward ..clence. engmeenng and te<.hnol ~ all wllhm a demogrdphK de lme 1I1 what I no\\ hut WIll not ahva\ s be the maIn agt" <.ohort )un:e for unh er'>lt) .,tuden!.:>
quality & demand You mentioned a couple of thing alread, ir Keith, I would like to touch on; one is your con ern about quality, which is well known. Could I perhap raise that under two heads? The sugge tion has been made that if your moves to improve quality, standards ~r whatever phrase you use-in the chools are successful, it is po ible thi ma have a positive effect on the numbers of candidates coming forward for higher education. Hallelujah. hallelujah. glory be' f hope it ma) he ..0 The foreCa'>t . the proj 'ctlon of the age parti ipauon mde for the main nonnal recruitll1g age concerned are ba.'ied upon current as umption and do not take for granted an Improved perfor· mance at ,>chool But we are from thl.., "1nter emharkmg upon the monllormg of demand and ,>hall he wat<.hmg very carefull) the .,chool performance, so that we can. from vear to year. adJu t the projected size of the unl\'ersit~ popufallon We are in good time to do this. because the main dramatIC fall doesn't occur for ,>e\'(:ral rear., and if we are hemg wo cautiou In our numbers. we can adju t in good time. Thai haVing been said, in the light of the projected number., that stem from the existing Ih'ing population, ir
would have been di ingenuuu . If not dlshone. t. (() conceal the Impftcal\(m.., of currem prupeu.
more places? 0, broadly peaking, you wouldn't rule out an upward adjustment in the number of univer ity or higher education places if circumstan warrant it? o. mr ..,u ceS1tOf'> may-I hope the) ha\'e-a rale to tell. a tal ro which to rea t of rislI1g qualifications; I hope the) do You will reali'>e that the (,o\'ernment regard.. the mature andidate." mature applicant.,. mature studenL~. continuing education ..,tu· dent.,. a., increa'>ingly Important fa lOf'> to be taken into account in universiry coverage We al· ready a.s~ume that they will provide an in rea'>ing hare of the demand. and here again. I hope thar we ma . have to take into account a rapidly increasing growth 111 that demand.
The full range of cOntll1ull1g educati n: po tgraduate n ngraduate. short. medium even hmg The elghteen'rear-old age group. gomg to fall by a thIrd \}, e are projecllng a fall m student place of l-i'\. In other word . we are alread) uming that a smaller population will make dhproportionately large demands up n uni\ er..,itle But pre urnably the probl of student support for peopl in thi category will remain, gi en the 0 . While it ma not appl in relation to a ix months top-up cour e, it often applie in relation to undergraduate cour e . And thi has been very much a constraint, as well as hortage of place . Ye~. There will continue to be. I hope. incre; ing opportunlti for II1dividual c ncerned 10 borrow mone\, if the' decide that it'.. worthwhile from that point of view There will al 0 he. I hope. mcreasing prosperit) to enable them to u e .,ome '>a\'mg." and. in some case no doubt. emplorer~ will help e\'(:n with that-parucularly perhap for con\·er..,lon cour e... or conver..ion trammg
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umversJ Though would you fore ee yourself any growth in that area, given the financial contrainu that tend to apply to people taking higher edu cation later in their careers? h. ver) mu h ye'>. becaus~ It L., our expectation that after 'tOme IJtitial pump-primmg through tile acth 1£\ known b\' it~ a 'nm\'m ~ PI(~Kt:P. more' and more' of continuing education co t!o \...·i11 be covered by fees. either b) the employer or b~ the indh· Idual who thmks it worthwhile to call upon aving" or loan!> for self-inlprovement. but largel) we hope by fees paid by em· plo) 'r. But in this context you'd be thinking more specifically of horter course rather than full-time first degree courses?
ould I t uch on one other aspect of our initial remarks in relation to tandards? It w~, I think, at the recent RHE Conference where y u poke. You did refer, I think, to the need for universitie to look to their tandards. I don't have the exact quote in front of me but I wondered what sort of evidence you had in mind in expre 'sing 'ome concern, perhap ,which <::emed to emerge from your speech about current university tandards. There ha\e I een ju t enough complaint.. to cau e, to justify. a certain amount of concern that the admirable intention!> I' the univer!>ities need careful
monitonng by [he unl\'er'tllle them eh'e!>--Ju t en ugh But there I al 0 the perennial (:0 cem that autonomou., m..,uru· tiolb.....ith no built·m pr edure for appeal beyond their own organc.ation. need to keep thelI' 0 ......" guard up in connection ....ith standard,>. parllcularlv where m over rn'ent\ \ ears there ha'> been uch a' rapid e pan ion 111 '>ome depar[ment And you don't think that the ernaJ examiner ern. r example, is an adequate safeguard in thi context? It hould be a ... er) \en tron!! .,afeguard. Of ourse 11 shoul be But human institutions are fallible. not always ul1l\'er!>alJ" applied in the ideal form and as I ..,a\ it behove the unl\·er.,lIle who are proud of theIr name . to mallltain them Yes, I'm ure that' the case. I wondered about the quantitative side of that that led you to make the e remar~, beca!J e given the output from univer ities-my own institution, for example, must graduate 2,500 tudents a year-I can't bone tl recall oming acro complain f an ' significant number or, indeed, very man to jus . that ort of remark. I wo dered if . ou had particular case in mind or could even quote a percentage figure. ;'1;0 I think I mu..,t m hone.,t) ,>a} that mr cm n expenen(:e 0\ er the Ia'>t !'\'ent) year". partlcularlr in the mld·19"'()·~ h;u; .,ometlmes caused me to won· d(.T about the ~tandard.. of jUdgement and scrupulou. con ider atlan of evidence that ... aUl()· matlcally to be as umed for e\"Cr)' univer.,ity ..tudent. I'm putting it as gentl) a'> I can You're implying that there are case from time to time, which perhap' are exceptional rather than characteristic of the y tern as a whole. I wouldn't know about that. I've had ome fairly hair-rai.,ing experience. I don·t. of 'our e,
take e, ception to heckling but . ome of the rejection of argu· ment, ome of the attitude have been n t just intolerantbe au e that' not a que tion of randards--but have rejected \\ Ide range of exp ri nce. But that i n't the le cau e for my Loncern A main cau e of m\' concern is that there have bee~ complaint and no outside ar· bit r a... a final appeal authority. A • ystem that i , as I ay, proud of it~ performance, h~ to take e\'en more ob\'ious trouble than has been taken up until now to safeguard its own randards, par· ucularly ~ince the other arms of higher education are subject to outsioe in pe tion.
'on cutbackS educa n U I could change direction slightly, comments are made in ide the education system about the alleged relative lack of political clout of education in the 1980's compared to ome 'pending sectors, and while, of course, it has been a characteri tic of public expenditure policy through the 1980' to cut back generally, in fact I think recent figures how that in some areas--and I'm not referring exclu ively to defence for examplethere has in fact been a substantial increase in public expenditure, in the health services for example. What's your judgement about the value that the Government in general puts on education as a national investment, as opposed to the other sectors of spending? The Conservative Party fought and won (Wo elections on oven declared e plicit policies of in· creasing pending on four great fields of public expenditure: Law and order; defence; the ati nal Health ervice: and. retirement pen ion. All to be afeguarded in real terms and expanded within a framework of constraint in general and public pending. It followed that wherever there was a po- ibility to prote t tandard and yet restrain public spending, we were bound to take it. In the schools. we have had the diminution of a million children in school in the last even year. becau e of·the falling birthrate prior to that. On the other hand, in higher education there has been an increased number of places for students-- lightly fewer in the univer ities and many more in the polytechnics and colleges.
Yet the taff: tudent ratio in the polytechni and the college. ha.') been adjusted 0 that the co t ha:. not gone up as fast as the number of tudent. But I repeat that what has happened ha... been within the declar d IIltenuon of the GO\'ernment when it :u campaignlllg twice for election. I have to sa . finally on that that I don't think that you can judge quality and efrectivene - imply in money term. Though I think there are some in the universities who would argue that it i difficult to maintain tandards in a certain area within the cutbacks. I am not over tating my case. I am sure that there i an indi pensable minimum of pending necessary for tandards, but it i. n't the only criteria by which to judge.
sWing to sdence Could I take up your third point-which was reference to what I think you referred to as mode t swing to science and technology? Some people take the line that perhaps what the country needs is not 0 much larger and larger numbers of scientists and engineers in all categories but a rather different type of education for a larger proportion of students, that is to say a les specialised one. Srudents including pupils, yes I agree. I know your expressed view
in relation to school exams and the curriculum in the ixth form. I wondered what your view was in relation to the question of placing more emphasi , for example, on the general degree which allows--certainly in Scotland and to some extent in England- tudents to maintain a wider range of subjects to a later stage, as oppo ed to simply increasing the pecialists in science and technol-
em that III me ther oun· trie', \'o'ho e culture i worthy of re-pect, there doe eem to be a broader range of education available and indeed. Robbin him elf, based hi Report on th as umption it would go in that direction. and expre ed di appointment that it hadn't before he died. But it i , at the niver ity level, difficult to ee how maintenance of advanced tandards in a particular ubject could be held if in fact you widen the subject base, particularly within the time restraints. But if a per on take to Univer· sity a broader range of elfconfident kills--the humani t ith a firmer grip on mathe· matics and a bit of science and the scientist with a firmer grip on ome literature and a foreign language-that could be a lifelong p e ion, not needing development particularly, but u ed while in higher education. There are twO other things I want to say. First that it was Finniston' emphasis that we do not need '0 much more engineer as better engineer ; and secondly, we need, perhap idealJy, to have more scienti ts and engineer with the elfconfidence and the skills to take their pecialist knowledge into general management and enterprise, as we see in many of our competitor countries. I do want to ay before we finish that I would have liked to refer you to the peech I gave to the Briti h Academy a year ago, because that was a speech about the importance of the humanitie' and I had thought in preparing and publi hing the Green Paper-for which I have been much criticised-that I could take for granted that people, thi was I suppose im· modest, knew of the high value I put upon the humanitie and would have remembered the pecial peech I gave on that ubject to the British Academy.
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ogy. I would like to see a broadening of the approach but if possible \yith no acrifice of depth. That i why we moved in favour of the A entry examination as you know. It may well be that ome ucce sor of mine will be free-him or herself-to move more broadly, but I think that the Government has moved a far as it is practicable to do at the moment. Yes, I note with
Yes, thank you. We have not touched really on research. Do you include cholarship in thi , cholarship and research. Yes, scholarship and research. I noticed recently that I think a group of R & D managers in industry had raised the issue of whether it was really in the country's best interest for universities to go more
in the direction of applied re earch and be diverted in me measure from the basic research which this group of people were arguing they were best at, and I wondered if you had an comments on that in the light of your general views about research directions in the Green Paper? Oh, the balan e between basi , strategic and applied research \vill ne\'er be finally. hould never be finally, fixed by Govern· ment or any out idee That it . hould contain a large element of basic research i rucial, becau e who know fir t of all because of the in atiable curi· osity of mankind. the earch for understanding, and secondly be· cause who knows from which particular road new roads will tem.
private funding 1 would like one quick ques-
tion, partly a personal interest of mine, and that i the question of private funding, of which you are thought to be a supporter. I think you have certainly expressed the view that it might be in the universities' interests if, say, up to 10% of their income were to come from private sources. Well, Cranfield has much more and even the LSE has much more than that. I don't set a limit, I simply ay that I do not believe it will ever replace the public finance. Yes, coming from a University that has been fairly active in pursuing private fund raising, both amongst alumni and in industry and corn· merce, I did, however, wish to raise the question of feasibility of this sort of figure of 10%. Certainly Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer has expressed the personal view that he doesn't think it is within the power of perhap other than one or two universitie in Britain to achieve anything like this, and whether you still felt there was much chance of universities increasing significantly their money from private funding. Yes, I think there is a chance of universitie increasing it signi· ficantly--enough to give them a. very much to be desired, element of freedom from the fluctuations of public finance, but I repeat J am not romantic about the scale on which it can be done universally. Thank you Sir Keith
This articLe was first pubLished for the University ofEdinburgh Bulletin September /985.
THEORETICAL BIOLOGY SEMlNARS
FRENCH LECTURES
DEPARTMENTAL
Thursday, 14 November IETZSCHE A 0 TRAGEDY by Or Michael Silk (Dept of Classics) Thursday 21 November A TlQUITY A 0 MODERNITY ACCORDI G TO CAMUS' 'L'HOMME REVOLTE by Mr Bernard Howells Thursday 28 November GIDE A 0 OEDIPUS by Or Patrick Pollard, (Birk beck College) Thursday 5 December UN TRAGEDIE FRANCAIS EN GRECE: Mounet-Sully Et La Resurrection d'Oedipe Roi (1899) by Monsieur M Monory, Director, Institut Francais de Londres All lectures will take place in Room 3B20, Strand Campus at 12.00pm Erratum The French Departmental lecture on 17 October entitled 'Coriolanus and Julius Caesar on the Seventeenth-eentury Stage' was given by Or David Clarke and not by Or MichaeI Heath as stated in the October edition of Comment. Or Heath's lecture, 'Proverbs Ancient and Modern: Erasmus and Rabelais' was, in fact, given the previous week on October 10. We apologise to Or Clarke and Or Heath and to all those attending the lectures for any confusion this may have caused.
by Jose Guilherme Merquior, PhD (University of Paris), PhD(London School of Economics) 5.30pm, Thursday 19th November Room 3B20, Strand Campus
A PUBLIC LECTURE IN THE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION AND ENGLISH FICTIO AL WORLDS: FICTION AND THE FICTITIOUS I LA GUAGE A 0 LITERATURE by Professor John McHardy Sinclair, University of Birmingham 5.30pm, Thursday 7th November The New Theatre, Strand Campus
SEMINAR IN HUMANITIES COMPUTING THE HUNTlNGDON PLAYS: A Test Case for Authorship Discrimination by Mr Tom Merriam, Basingstoke Technical College 6.00pm, Tuesday 19th November Room GOS, Strand Campus
A PUBLIC LECTURE IN THE FACULTY OF LAWS DO WE NEED THE CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT? by Professor B A Hepple, University College London 5.30pm, Thursday 28th November The Great Hall, Strand Campus
MEDlEVAL GERMAN STUDY GROUP Tuesday 26 November DIE EPISCHE STRUKTUR DES NIBELUNGENLIEDES UNO DAS DILEMMA DERINTERPRETEN by Professor Or Joachim Heinzle, University of Marburg Tuesday 10 December LEPROSY IN THE BIBLE A 0 IN THE MIDDLE AGES by pr S G Browne, CMG, OBE Both meetings will take place in Room GOS, Strand Campus at 6.00pm. All research students, MA students and advanced students are welcome.
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SEMINARS 13 November THE RELEVANCE OF FINITISM FOR PHYSICS: Some Illustrations by Dr J P van Bendegem, Ruksuniversiteit Gent 20 November THE PLACE OF FREUD IN THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE by Dr J Forrester, University of Cambridge
A PUBLIC LECTURE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN STUDIES
27 November CONTEXTUALISM AND LOCALITY by Dr H R Brown, University of Oxford
PATTERN AND PROCESS IN BRAZILIAN LITERATURE: Notes on the Evolution of Genre
All seminars will take place at 2.1Spm in Room IB06, Strand Campus.
For several years on the Kensington Campus, we have held seminars in Biology which have emphasized the current ideas and theories in the subject rather than experimental investigations. The seminars have served as a forum for the presentation and discussion of theoretical aspects of Biology, not only for biologists, but also for scientists and mathematicians from other faculties. We would now like to reinstate these seminars and draw speakers from within the merged College so that they may serve in some way to foster interdisciplinary communication. The seminars will normally be held in Room C22 on the Kensington Campus at 4.30pm on Fridays. The first two seminars will be: Friday, 8th November PRlMARY AND SECONDARY WAVES IN PRE-PATTERN FORMATION by Or P T Saunders, Dept of Mathematics Friday, 29th November PHYLLOTAXIS - A WORKING MODEL by Or J Chapman, Dept of Biology After each seminar discussion is usually continued in the Senior Staff bar to which all participants are cordially invited. If you are interested in making a contribution to the seminar series, or have suggestions, please contact Dr M Bazin, Microbiology Dept, Kensington Campus.
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR MARITIME mSTORY Tuesday, S November THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING by Or Keith Trace, Monash University, Australia Wednesday, 27 November BRlTlSH SLAVING FLEET IN THE 18TH CENTURY by Professor W. Minchinton, University of Exeter Each Seminar will take place at S.OOpm in the History Department, Strand Campus. Light refreshments will be served. All those interested will be welcome to attend, but it would be helpful if those intending to come would give their names to Mr David Procter at the National Maritime Museum (01 858 4422).
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UTRITlO A D HEALTH FOR ALL I A POST I DUSTRlAL SOCIETY by Mar den G Wagner, MD. Regional Officer for Maternal and Child Health. World Health Organisation, Copenhagen 7.00pm, Tuesday 12 ovember The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London Wl Adrni ion Free
POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR I MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
LECTURE RE E LS KG'S L KS WITH CZECHOSLO AKlA A forthcoming lecrure at the College, Masaryk's Criticism of Marxist-Lminism by Dr Anton van gen Beld, has bro ght to light an mtere ting piece 0 oll~ge history. The subJe t of the lecture, Profe sorT.G. Ma aryk, was the fir t President of the Csechoslovakia Republic. But, what per' haps is unknown to many people at King' is that he also held clo e link with the ollege. A Profe or of Philosophy in the University of Prague, and leader of the Czech party in the Au trian Parliament prior to the Fir t World War, he wa exiled during that war and ame to England. At the instigation of Principal Burrows, he was appointed Lecturer in Slavonic Literature and Sociology in the newly·founded School of Slavonic Studie at King' in 1915. He lectured here until 1918, when the Republic wa formed, and he became its President. He wa made a Fellow of the
TWO HO G KO G SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED BY KCLA (HK) The award of scholarship this year to Miss Daisy hi Wai Lai in the Department of Geography and Miss Shella Siu Chui g in the Faculty of Laws, brings to seven the number of Hong Kong student presently at King's who have received these award.
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[asary 's Criticism of Marxist-Leninism by Dr Anton van gen Beld of the niversity of Utrecht 'Will take place at 12.00 pm on Thur dal< 21 ,'ovember in the Council Room, Strand ampus. nyone who I interested I •eko 'e to aHe c1
COMME ORATIO
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Staff and tudents are inrited to attend the Commemoration Oration, whIch is to be gIven by The Barone s Warno on Monday 2 De ember at 5.00pm m the Great Hall. The subject of her lecture will be THE WAY FORWARD 1 HIGHER EDUCATlO '. Admis ion i free of charge, bUI b} ticket only. If you would like to obtain tickets, please fill in the reply form in this edition of Comment and return the form to the Prin ipal's orn e as soon as possible.
Both girls are former tudents of the Diocesan Girls chool, Kowloon. The ollege was repre ented on the selection board in Hong Kong by Dr Stuart Thorne of the Department of Food and utritional Sciences, who al 0 visited local schools there. Miss Lai's cholar hIP IS given by the Save and Pro per Group and Mi g's is sponsored by the Hong Kong branch of the King's College London AssocIation.
Monday 18 November A GELOS SIKELIANOS: POET OR THI KER? by David Rick [King's College London (KQC))
CHARLES WALLACE TRUST TRAVEL AND RESEARCH AWARDS
Monday 25 ovember RITSOS: THE LO G POEMS by Peter Bien, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, ew Hampshire
The Charles Wallace Trust of PakIStan offer grants for travel and research In Pakistan. The aim is to stimulate and encourage research leading to publication on any aspect of Pakistan Studie
Both meeting take place in the Burrows Library, Strand Campus at 5.00pm
Closing date for receipt of appllcallons is 15 ovem ber 19 5: further details are available from the Registry.
GRANTS A D AWARDS
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These fellowships are at Harvard, Yale and Princeton Universities; they consist of a stipend, tuition fees and possibly travel expenses. There is a single competitlOn covering both fellowships.
13 December BEREA VEM T COUNSELLI G by Rev. lan Ainsworth-Smith 12.30·2.00pm, Nursing Studies Seminar Room, 5S2 King's Road, Chelsea Campus
D PROCTER FELLOWSHIPS
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NURSING STUDIES POSTGRADUATE/ STAFF SEMINARS
Miss Daisy Chi Wai Lai (left) and Miss She/la Siu Chui Ng
Candidates must submit even copies of the application form by 11 December. Further details are available from the Registry.
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS IN CANAD· IAN GOVERNME T LABORATORIES Application forms and further details of these fellowships are available from Jennifer J ackson, Admissions Office.
U DERGRADUATE NUTRITION (from left:) Professor Eva Lee (Saskatchewan) STUDE T EXCHA GE Laurie Waiters (Saskatchewan), Sarah Powell PROGRAMME and Sarah Passmore (King's College), Wendy Dahl (Saskatchewan) and Dr A.R. Leeds (King's College) photographed in Saskatoon at the Inauguration of the exchange programme.
UGC GRA T FOR COMPUTER FACILITIES IN TEACHING One of the grant recently announced by the GC to support and develop computer facilities in teaching was for student workstations in the life sciences, to be installed at the Kensington campus. The first workstations are already on order and will be installed in a room being prepared to receive them, in the Atkins Building. The machines are irnbus microcomputers sup plied by Research Machines Limited, and there will eventually be at least 16 workstation networked together and to the college-wide central facilities and the UK JA ET network through the VAX 11/750 in the Computer Centre installation at Kensington. The UGC grant is for more than £71 000 in capital, and £38,000 recurrent ov~r two years. The recurrent grant will mainly be used to support a CAL (computer a sisted learning) programmer who will develop packages for the BSc courses in Biotechnology at Kensington. This post has already been advertised. The project director will be Phil Cunningham of the Computer Centre staff at Kensington, in association with Dr R.G. Price of the Biochemistry Department and Dr M.J. Bazin of the Microbiology Department - the two departments jointly supporting the Biotechnology programme. The equipment will be obtained, installed and administered by the Computer Centre on behalf of tile departments who are providing the space and the subject expertise and will use the workstations in their everyday teaching. Brian Meek, also of the Computer Centre, is acting as overall coordinator and will be particularly concerned with evaluation of the effectiveness of the workstations.
Two students from the College of Home Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Wendy Dahl and Laurie Walters, are now studying nutrition on the Kensington Campus, having exchanged places with two second years: Sarah Passmore and Sarah Powell. Undergraduate exchange programmes are difficult to arrange because of specific degree and state registration in dietetics requirements, but in this case similarities between the two courses have allowed a successful exchange programme to be developed. The programme, the first such undergraduate programme at King's, was developed by Professor Eva Lee, Professor of utrition at Saskatchewan and Dr A R Leeds of OUI department of Food and Nutritional Sciences. Help and support also came from Dean Gwenna Moss and Professor D J aismith, of the
money raised from sponsors will be sent to Intermediate Technology.
FUN RUN SUCCESSES Last year we reported that members of the Pharmacology Department had taken part in the Sunday Times National Fun Run in Hyde Park. The Fun Run must have lived up to its name, because the Department also entered runners in this year's event on 29 September. Those taking part were Sarah Baldwin-Charles, Mike Hudspith, David Leake, John Littleton, Paul Nash, George Ormandy, Christos Pagonis, Judy Phillips and Catherine de Wballey. Once again, the team finished in the top half of those taking part. The
Any other department in the College that would like to enter its own team next year can obtain information from David Leake ext. 2315.
PRESTIGOUS APPOINTMENT FOR FORMER KING'S STUDENT A former student of King's, Mr Donald Henry Grattan, has recently been appointed Chairman of the Council for Educational Technology by the Secretary of State for Education, Sir Keith Joseph.
two respective institutions, as well as from Dr Armitage of the Chemistry Department and from Professor Gahan. The financial support for the programme, raised by Professor Lee and Dr Leeds, came from the Dairy Producers CoOperative, the Saskatchewan Dairy Foundation and Heinz Canada for the Canadian students and from Farma Foods A/S, Copenhagen, The Sugar Bureau, Efamol Ltd., The Walker Trust of Shrewsbury, the Office of the Government of Saskatchewan in London. Heinz Corporate Office, the Rotary Clubs of Ludlow and Worthing, Abitibi-Price Sales Co. Ltd. and the Royal Trust Co. of Canada for the U.K. students. It is hoped that the establishment of the exchange programme on a firm foundation and its continuation in future years will result in the development of other contacts between the two Universities, resulting in benefits to postgraduates and academic staff as well as undergraduates.
Mr Gratton has held various teaching posts and was, for 28 years, involved with educational broadcasting with the BBC. He was Controller of BBC Educational Broadcasting from 1972 - 1984. Since 1984 Mr Gratton has been Chairman of the Adult and Continuing Education Development Unit. The Council for Educational Technology for the United Kingdom is an educational trust with charitable status, which was established in 1973 to be the central organisation for promoting the application and development of educational technology in all sectors of education and training.
Mr Grattan succeeded Professor J C West, Vice-{;hancellor and Principal of Bradford University
COLLEGE HO SE REFECTORY, M RES RO D, CHELSE e S C Plea. note that the Refectory in College Hou e. Manresa Road, SW3 will 10 e from 21 December 19 5 [07 January 19 6 inclusive for re-decoration. The pper Refectory in College Hou e will open for light refreshment onJy on :: January, 3 January, 6 January and 7 January. ending ma hines will operate a normal in the TV Lounge, First Floor, College Hou e. I t is hoped to restore full services on Wednesday January 19 6. Any inconvenien e to customers is regretted.
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II presentations ill lude a supporting programme and begin at 6.00pm in The. ew Theatre, unless an alternative venue or time IS tated. However, time, venue and title are liable to alteration at short nori e. member hould on It the Film 0 ,'Oll eboard in B Corridor, Mam Building. Strand Campus. regularl>
Memberslup IS onJy 7.50 tor the a 'ademic year, and members are admitted free to all evening programmes Temporary member hip (valid tor one night onJy) is ÂŁ1.00. For popluar films, members only are admitted until ten minute before the start of the programme, but the Film Society regrets that it cannot guarantee members a seat for an> film.
ACTJ G GENER/.L 3ECRETARY OF UNIO ANNOUNCED
IDuane Passman,
one of the site sabbatical officer of the Student' Union, has been appointed Acting General Secretary of the Union. a post he will hold until Kevin Dabbs is fit enough to return to lus job. Duane, who is ba ed at Kensington, IS likely to be coordinating the Union's activities at least until the end of tlus term.
Monday 18 ovember F WLT TO ERS l n> PRl TES 0.' PARADE
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Monday 9 December AGAI ST ALL ODDS
INTER-CAMPUS MAIL SERVICE
TELEPHO E DIRECTOR Y
With the closure of the Bridgcs Place annexe at Chel ea ampus, thc in tercampus mail van tinle-table has been slightly amended so that mail from the Strand ampu will be delivered on the same day to both Kensington and Chel ea Campuses.
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THE ATHLO E PRESS The Athlone Press was the official publishing house for the niversity until 1979 and it preserves a strong reIationslup with the Umversity through the body of an Academic dVlsOry Board compo ed of an senior members of the ruversity. Athlone continues to welcome manuscripts from mem bers of the University, especially first books from younger academics. Under certain circumstances, funds arc available in support of publication. Submissions should be sent to the Managing Director, Mr Brian Southam, 44 Bedford Row, London WCIR 4LY.
Thursday 14 ovember THE HO. ORARY CO. SeL
Thursday 5 December ER SA Y EVER AGAI '
Thursday 7 ovember; THE COMPA Y OF WOL ES Starts at 6.45pm
CAMPUS CIi0IR
The Kensington Campus Choir meets on Mondays at 6.00pm - 7.00pm in the Old Refectory, Kensington C<:.."'!:,us.. The music sung varies from carols for the December Carol Service, to madrigals to 'West Side Story' and ' J oseph and HIS Technicolour Dreamcoat'.
Monday 11 ovember YES MI fTSTER (Equal Opportunities) THE WOMA ' L' RED
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END OF THE "WORLD"? Since the reading room on the first floor of the Strand Building reopened, the reference copy of World of Learning 1984/ 85 has been missing. The Library would
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A group of Americans staying at Birmingham after visiting London and Oxford commented on how much they had been impressed by Windsor Castle, but could not understand why it had been built so close to such a busy international airport..
A one-day Seminar for Industry held in association with mM
Quidnunc is the newsletter of the British Universities Accommodation Consortium, of which King's College is a member.
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COMPUTING I MEDICINE Professor V C Robens, MSc, PhD, MIEE, AKC Professor of Biomedical Engineering Thi paper will discuss the application of computers to me diagnosis and treatment of vascular disease in systems which combine me online analysIs of physiological signals with diagno tic algorithms. The application of computer models of the human CIrculation LO me assessment and control of reconstructive arterial urgery will also be presented.
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FIFTH GENERATION COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE Dr P E Os man, BSc, PhD, CEng, FIERE Reader in Computing The Von I eumann architecture has dominated me brief history of computing. The belief that it is me root cause of me software c:risis is gainm~ ground and its influence on hardware technology is JUSt ~ pervasive. When (or is it if?) a fifth generation architecture arrives it Will dramatically alter both hardware and software engineering.
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SEMANTICS AND COMPUTING Dr R M Sain bury, MA, DPhil Le turer in Philosophy One ideal for man/machine communication is mat me computer should understand a narural language like English. But what is LO understand a language? This question is one LO which much attention has been devoted, ~n a tradition that goes back LO a time long before computers. On the face of It, one would need LO be able to answer the question in trying to perfect man/machine communication. Again t this background, mis paper considers philosophical contributions to the nature of meaning, and their relevance LO getting computers LO understand us.
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OVERVIEW Mr BD Whitaker, MA, MBCS Manager, Academic Systems Marketing, IBM United Kingdom Ltd An engineering graduate with experience as a Research Engineer and Production Controller in the motor industry, Brian Whitaker joined IBM m J 965. He has held a variety of POStS In marketing with particular responsibility for the academic community and in his present role he is concerned in the formulation of IBM's academic initiatives. He has a special interest in the application of computers to the teaching process.
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IBM RESEARCH Dr T R Heywood, PhD Manager, Graphics Group, IBM Scientific Centre This talk will cover some of the projeCts currently in progress at the IBM cientific Centre at Winchester. These include medical image processing, speech processing and molecular biology.
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IMAGE ANALYSIS AND IMAGE PROCESSING Professor R E Burge. BSc, PhD, DSc, FlnstP Head of me Depanment of Physics The Depanment is deeply concerned with the {lhysical understanding of image formation and methods of maximiSing it, and with image processing; for example. image segmentation. pauern recognition. compression and enhancement, using optical as well as digital approaches. £xamples ofbom aspects will be discussed based on images taken using s nmetic aperture radar and by soft X-rays. The development of a soft Xray microscope at King', is a unique development in the UK.
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COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING IN EDUCATION Professor PJ Black, BSc, Ph D, Professor ofScience Education and Director of the Centre for Educational Studie This talk will review the development of computers as a LOol in education. The review will cover three types ofsoftware: primitive "drill-and-practice" programmes, simulation exercises, and "tool-kit" programmes. The autonom and control of the learner increases as one proceeds across mis sequence and the educational implications will be discussed.
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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING RESEARCH Professor J N Buxton, MA, FBCS, Professor of Information Technology and Heaa of the Department of Computing The talk will describe some aSpects of the software research in progress in the Department of Computing whose memb~rs are particularly interested in the problems of constructing large Plograms to high standards of quality. The Department is planmng to construCt a Programming Support Environment (IPSE) as a basis for work in this area
SENIOR COMMON ROOM DINNER The Senior Common Room Dinner is to be held on Tuesday, 19 November. Sherry is available from 6.30 in the Lower-Common Room, and dinner is to be served at 7.00 in the River Restaurant. SCR members must return their reply slips by 13 November at the latest.
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UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE] LO DO The econd AGM of the U3A in London will be held during the afternoon of Wednesday 6 ovember in the Great Hall. It will be preceded from 10.45 am by an exhibition of the activities of the organisation, with an introduction by Professor Brian Groombridge at 11.30 and a short address from Bamber Gascoigne. Members of King's College are most welcome to visit this informal display.
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CHELSEA COLLEGE SOCIETY The seventeenth Annual General Meeting of the Chelsea College Society will be held at 6.30 pm on Friday 22nd ovember 1985 in the Upper Refectory, College Hou e, Mamesa Road, London SW3. Refreshments will be served after the meeting for which there will be a small charge of £ 2.00 per person. In order to assist catering arrangements, it is essential that anyone coming to the meeting inform Mrs M. Sharpe, clo Department of Pharmacy, Chelsea Campus, by Friday 15th November. MIS Sharpe's internal telephone number is 2511.
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FUTURE OF GOLDSMITH'S COLLEGE UNDER DISCUSSION A WorkiI1g Group has been set up to consider proposals for an association between Goldsmith's College and Birkbeck College. It is hoped that the Working Group will complete its task this year, thus enabling the two Colleges and the Joint Planning Committee of the Court and Senate of London University to study the findings early in the new year.
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