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the College Newsletter cademic Audit
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roftssor Robert Hill, Chairman of the Academic Audit &view Croup, describes preparations for the 'Visit ofthe CVC? Academic Audit Unit to King's in November /993. It is clear from the limited budget for higher education and the example of the research rating exercise that funding in the higher education sector will only gain maximum support when it is recognised as excellent. There is,
therefore, a requirement that not only should we, as a College, be certain that what we do i excellent, but that we should be able to demonstrate that this is the case. If, at the same time, we can develop the demonstration procedures for our own u e there is advantage to be gained in carrying them through. The scheme of academic audit allows us to do this. An audit trail is a logical and sequential path of enquiry which is designed to make clear the strengths and weaknesses of an activity. The CVCP, in 1989, realising that the binary line was in the process of being
dismantled and that the 'new' universities already had a trong background of review, initiated academic audit within the university sector. Since then the technique of audit has become accepted as an effective means of internal and external academic review. The CVCP cademic Audit nit will be visiting the College in ovember 1993 in order to carry out the first of a continuing series of academic audits. In preparation for this the Standing
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Committee of Academic Board has set up an Academic Audit teering Group and given the Group the brief to examine the College's mechani m for monitoring and promoting academic tandards; to assist Schools to identify and evaluate strengths and weakne es in teaching, research and cholarship, and in organisation and management, and thereby to improve the effectivenes of the College in relation to academic standard and performance.
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he Review Group ha recognised two tasks. Firstly, to develop in the College an understanding of the nature of academic audit and, secondly, to en ure that support and advice, including the background information required for audit, is made available to Departments and Schools. Because of the differences in the ways in which Schools carry out their teaching, academic procedures require to be clearly defined and understood at choollevel. However, the responsibility for monitoring that approval procedures for degree courses and course modules are applicable and in place lies with the Audit Review Group. The College requires that there must be comparability across Schools and between Boards of Examiners. This can only be done through a College-based acceptance of quality standards and by internal checking that the standards are being met by use of internal audit. In order to establish an awarene s of the nature of the Audit proced ure throughout the College, the Review Group has initiated a series of audits, initially of individual degree programmes. The Audit Group of four has met with similar sized groups from pecific departments and asked a series of questions to bring out all the information about why and how the course is run; how are student progress and degree award procedures carried out; how are academic standards maintained; how is information from staff and students about the cour e made available and what use is made of this information. These initial visits are intended to establish a philosophy of
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audit trails, and are helpful in that they allow the procedures for such visits to be di cu sed and refined before being emplo ed acros the whole College. It is the intention that the members of the College udit Review Group (Profes or Richard Griffiths, the icePrincipal; Profes or imon Howell; the cademic Registrar and myself) will lead separate audit teams 0 that a number of staff will not only be audited but have experience as auditors. The Group consider that this is the best way of bringing the concept of audit into the College and of preparing College for the Audit visitation.
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he C CP udit nit will be asking similar questions about every academic activity in the College and eeking information from course organiser and lecturers and also from other members ofthe department, scrutinising external examiners' reports and talking to students on the course. Essentially, they will be seeking detailed information on the how and why of every academic activity and what use we make of that information. The Audit team will visit for about three days, having read the background information that they will have requested beforehand, and will speak to about 200 College members. It is important that every staff member is aware of the rationale, nature and extent of audit. The second a pect of audit is the preparation offactual statements to upport the interrogative interviews. The Academic Regi trar has established an audit office which will be assisting Schools and Departments with advice, support and statistical information, where this is required. Individual programme and module organisers will not be left on their own but given assistance from Departments, Divisions and Schools. Part of the purpose of the internal audits will be to ascertain the type of information required to support the Audit review. As a follow-on from the reorganisations of the last seven years, and the move away from federal degrees and Boards of Studies, large parts of the College have been reviewing their degree programmes and
revIsing or etting up course modules. The information is there but needs to be made acce ible. We are not certain at the pre ent time, that we have the correct College procedures for the acceptance of new degree programmes and course modules but thi is under consideration. The Colleges of London university are the last of the 'old' universitie to be audited by the CVCP. The complete round has taken almost three years. Once it has been completed the audit role will be taken over by the HEFCE and continued on a similar rolling basis. The CVCP audit is self-regulatory, with the report on the audit passed to the College wh ich mayor may not make it publicly available. It is expected that the HEFCE audit will have a direct effect on funding. The Research Assessment Exercise has shown that gradings achieved early in the life of a scheme tend to continue with minor modifications. Let us make it clear to the Audit team that we are indeed a friendly, caring College with high academic quality and that we do understand where we are going and why we are going there.
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ontinuing the column in which we ill print a selection of short quote from ing' taff who ha e appeared in print, on the radio or on tele i ion. Paul BIod, Professor ofsOma Ed tWn, was reported in TIlt Indepmdm/ on the publication ofthe boo EduaJ/ion: Pulling tM RecordS/rai / which criticise the Government' con tant shifts in education policy. Profe or Black said that many distinguished authors had contributed to the book because of concern that 'the national curriculum is in danger of being changed from a means of improvement to an instrument for regre ion. '
In the news Professor Conrad Russell
CUr!' Pria, King Edward Professor of M tCappeared on Radio 4's Today programme on the occa ion of the launch of celebration for the composer I [enry Purcell in the run up to his tercentenary in 1995. Professor Price outlined the range of activities that would be taking place to mark the event, which is focused on the outh Bank, including concerts, operas and workshops. Tom Sanders, &aderin Nu/n路/ion. In an article in The Independen/ on Sunday reporting on a study of the health and fitness of Britain's young people, Or Sanders commented on remarks made that the general health of children had improved beyond recognition in recent history. He was emphatic that much of the improvement is due to a better diet, particularly in the first two years of childhood, which can largely determine general health in later life.
po itlvel to motion passed b the Lord. This has rai ed an interesting con t1tutional i ue. Andn w: /hr, S ior Udurer in Tlzeo/(}gicol Ed li . Following the vote b the Church of England ynod that women can be ordained as prie ts, The Indtptnd. Ion Sunday ran an article about where opponents of women priests can take their faith, arguing that negative reason for converting to Roman Catholicism and the Orthodox Church will not be accepted. Or Walker tated' nglo-Catholics are mi taken if they think the Orthodox Church will accept them with open arms. Being against the ordination of women is not ufficient or even good grounds for joining the Church. You mu t want to embrace the Orthodox faith.' Alia Colnnan, Professor ofGeograplry poke on the Today programme about the de ign and layout of Milton Keyne and in particular the network of cycle paths. The path have been the scene of a number of assaults on women recently and Profes or Coleman argued that their layout can be especially dangerous as they provide easy escape route for attackers.
Finally, for those soap opera fans among you, who were eagle-eyed enough to notice that a couple of episodes of Easlenders were filmed at the Kensington campus? Michelle and Sharon were enjoying a girls' night out and discovering the delights of Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Conrad Russell, Professor of Bri/ish His/ory. Professor Russell has a seat in the House of Lords under his other hat as Earl Russell and takes a very active role in the work of that House. He was heavily featured in a Channel 4 CUlling Edge programme about a peCts of the work of the House of Lords. Together with Lord Henderson of Brompton, the programme showed how Lords can introduce a motion to change existing regulations - in this case concerning benefits to homele s people. The motion was won after a division, but the Government decided not to act on it although traditionally they respond
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cntrc of (,on truction I" \ and 1anagcmcnt ach year the ociety of Con truction Law award the Hudson Prizeof£l,OOOfor a paper contributing to professional knowledge in the field of construction law. Thi year's Prize has been won by David Ballard, an ex-student of the Centre of Construction Law. Hi paper,
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the ociety's meeting on Tuesday 8 December in the Great Hall. At the same time, the Society's prize of£IOO for the best dissertation submitted in 1991 for the MSc in Construction Law and Arbitration was presented to Miss Valerie Chapman, a solicitor with London Regional Transport. Her topic was Htal/It and
he 20th Sandoz Prize in Pharmacology has just been awarded to Or Michael J Curtis in the Pharmacology Group. This is the most prestigious prize in the K for young pharmacologi ts (under 35 years old), and is awarded annually for distinction in published research. The sponsors are a leading Swiss-based multinational with a de erved reputation for pharmaceutical innovation, who stipulate that the prize should be awarded competitively after peer review of the candidates' research output. Mike is the third recipient of the award in the last five years from King's Pharmacology Group, joining Clive Page and ue Brain, and he will collect his prize from Sandoz at a dinner to be held early next year at Queens' College Cambridge. The Prize is worth about £750 and, as yet, Mike is undecided as to how his bank manager will determine its use. Or Curtis is a home-grown Pharmacology graduate, who gained an upper second class degree at Chel ea in 1979 and since that time has been involved in research on the mechanisms and therapeutic usefulness of drugs acting on the heart. The citation of the prize award specifically mentions the important contributions he has made in designing new methods for drug evaluation, and his work in identifying new ways that drugs can protect the heart against the effects of oxygen deprivation. Appointed lecturer in 1989, he has an active research group at the Chelsea Campus, which includes two postgraduate students who themselves have prize studentships. Robin Hoult Department of Pharmacology
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Dr Miclzad J Curtis
Miss Janet Weil also received the Bickerdike Alien Book Prize of£IOO for the best first year student of 1992. Congratulations to Professor John Uff QC, the Director of the Centre, who is now Head of his Chambers. Our Research Fellow for the current academic year is John Barber MA LLB CEng MICE FCIArb.
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he Department of War Studie has recently been awarded a grant of £24,000 by the Volkswagen Foundation to run a programme of training for scholars from post-communist Europe. The course will focu on security problems of po t-communist Europe, including economic, social and cultural origins of ethnic ten ions, civil-military relations and construction of new defence forces in democratic societies, confidence building mea ures and transparency of defence organi ations. Junior and senior fellowships are to be advertised. The programme's codirector are Or B Heuser, Or E Holoboff and Ms J harp.
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illiam Rowe's appointment as Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies has recently been confirmed, and will be backdated to 1 August 1992.
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he title of Reader in German has been conferred on Or David Yeandle as from 1 October 1992.
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ondon is set to have a new air pollution monitoring scheme, based at King's. The capital has one of the country's worst smog problems, and the new scheme, run by the outh-East Institute of Public Health, will monitor and co-ordinate readings on sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, benzene, carbon dioxide and smoke. A particular appeal of the scheme is that it is offered free to the London boroughs for five years. The Institute has already examined air pollution and health in the East Thames Corridor, the tract of land that tretches from East London into Kent and Essex. It identified 82 polluting installations in the area, which a recent report by the E'Ve1ling Standard cited as corresponding with high levels of respiratory disease in the area. The Institute integrates social care, public health medicine and environmental health information services, and will become part of King's from April.
Pctcr Bakcr Travelling I路 e1lowship, 1992-1993
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he Fellowship wa established in 1987 by family and friend in memory of Professor Peter Baker, cD, FRS, Halliburton Professor of Physiology, Head of the Department of Physiology and Fellow of King's College London. The Fellowship will assist a research worker or research student in the School of Life, Basic Medical and Health Sciences, King's College London, who is under 35 (at the time of holding the award), to spend a period of up to three months applying new methods to their research, in another laboratory. The value of the Fellowship is 拢1,500 maximum, and may be used for travel, living expenses and the cost of research at the laboratory to be visited.
ews Applications for travel in 1993 should be made by 31 January 1993 to Professor P A Mc 'aughton, Physiology Group. There is no application form, but a curriculum vitae and letter stating how the applicant would u e the Fellowship to further his/her research should be enclosed.
KC \\'ong Schobr. hip for China
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ollowing the recent retirement of Or Abraham Lue these scholarships will now be administered by the tudent Recruitment & Exchanges Office. However, members of staff with potential applicants should write to Or Lue at the following address: 18 Randolph Road, London W9 1AN. Applicants should satisfy the following requirements: i) They must be of Chinese nationality and under 35 years old; ii) have a Master's degree and a pass in TOEFL with a score in excess of 600; iii) have gained admission to a post MA or post MSc doctoral programme with the award of a tuition scholarship at a K university; iv) be recommended by their work organisation in China and possess from them written consent for accepting the award. The Scholar Loan provides a living stipend and medical insurance for a maximum period ofthree years, plus a single journey economy class air ticket from China. The Scholar Loan scheme is intended to encourage sponsored students to return and work in China. Students who do return upon completion of their study, and who are certified by their work organisation to have made satisfactory contributions to the country's development, will be deemed to have been relieved of their liability
for repayment. The cholar Loans are particulary uitable for Chinese students who are applying for an Overseas Research Scholarship, and who have no other upport for a living tipend. For detail of other available scholarship please contact ally Pumford, Administrative ssistant (Recruitment) on extension 3044, Cornwall House.
2,500th annivcr ary of the e tabli hmcnt of Athenian democracy
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mid all the political upheaval currently going on in the Balkans and in eastern Europe, 1992-93 is being celebrated as the 2,500th anniversary of the establishment of Athenian democracy by the reforms of Cleisthenes in S08n BC. The London programme of commemorative events was inaugurated with a dinner at the Banqueting Hall, Whitehall; at which the guest speaker was Betty Boothroyd, Speaker of the House of Commons. The celebrations will culminate with the arrival of the trireme 'Olympias' on the Thames in June 1993. The trireme will be moored at the Festival Hall pier, where it will be open to the public. Several universities have organised or are organising seminars and lectures during the year on the theme of classical Greek democracy and related issues. From the King's side, Professor Averil Cameron will be giving a talk on the subject at the Athenaeum on 11 January. On 24 February, King's will be the venue for a discussion by the Rt Hon Enoch Powell MP and Or R Osborne (Oxford), organised by the Centre for Hellenic tudies and and AngloHellenic League. This will take place in the Great Hall at 18.00 and all are welcome to attend.
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Public Lecture The British Institute of Human Rights e
Thea re, Sad a 13 00
26 January Pro essor Rod 0 ga • P 0 esso Ol C I a sce. U I e s o B 5 0 dv'se 0 e E ropean To re Co I ee
The European Torture Committee Setting international custodial standards
Royal Society of Chemistry Lecture
Centre for Medical Law and Ethics Roe
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25 January p olessor R
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Fe S ud es, osp"a
Problems of gamete donation
Centre for Hellenic Studies Byzantine and Modern Greek Seminars All ee ings ondays 17.00, room B6 (ClaSSICS Oepartmen )
Room 1B06, Strand at 16.30
18 January
26 January
Michael Jeffreys (Sydney)
Professor J F S oddart (Birmingham)
Oral tradl ions in la e Byzan ium
Molecular meccano - making molecules to order
25 January An ony Beevor (London)
The Cretan resls tance, 1941-45 The Maxwell Society Room 2C (Main Building). Strand a 14.00
Events
1 February Professor Averil Cameron (King's), Lyn
11 January
Rodley (London). Andrew Lou h
Or A Moreton Moore, RHBNC
(Goldsml h's)
Natural and synthetiC diamonds
The Byzantine Saint. discussion of he recent book by Calla Galatariotou, The
18 January
Making of a Saint, The Life, Times and Sanctification of Neophytos the Recluse, Cambridge 1991
Oarren Toulson, King's
Neural networks - teaching computers to guess
8 February 25 January
Amalia ANaniti (Oxford)
Or R C Warren, UCL
Medical imaging - the inside story
The rhythm of Modern Greek from a linguistic perspective
The Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
Humanities Computing 1993 Programme
Pll, Kensington Campus, 17.15
Committee Room, S rand at 18.00
14 January
28 January
Professor Roger Whi ehead of the
Or Robert Dale (University of
Ounn Nutritional Labora ory, Cambridge
Edinburgh)
Is there adaptation In energy metabolism in undernourished and lactating women?
Computer-based editorial aids: limitations and possibilities 23 February Or Manfred Thaller (Max-PlanckInstitut ur Geschichte, G6ttingen,
Centre for Hellenic Studies Second Runciman Lecture New Theatre, Strand at 18.00
4 February Professor 0 Nicol
AD 1354. A fateful year for Byzantium
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Source oriented data processing: what are 'specifically historical' computer applications?
Letters to the Editor Children in Need Dear Editor, I have written in the past citing my two 'normal' children as my in pi ration for supporting those who are le s fortunate through Children in. eed. I write to thank those who 0 generously contributed toward our total of£730 this year. This figure is all the more creditable when the depth of the recession is considered: we were only £300 short of our total of last year (£1077). In the year when the overall total for the appeal was down by £6 million, this is very good goingl To my 'army' of collectors and tin rattler . thank ! Donald Farr Biomedical Sciences Division
Letter from Basil Crowley Dear friend , Thank you all most sincerely for coming to my retirement party, making for me a memorable and emotional time, and for the very generous cheque which has now been safely deposited. I took a photocopy which will be framed and will hang in my hallway so that each time I view it, it will remind me of your generosity and kindness. My special thanks to John Wornham who made my entry into retirement such a pleasurable experience and to King's College for the happy times spent in their employment. Cheers everybody!
John Tyrrell's obituary Dear Comment, Thank you for your fax of John Tyrrell's obituary. To say that I am displeased with the re ult is to put it mildly: several days of enquiries, consultations, writing and re-writing has mostly ended up in the bin, leaving only a bald and incomplete list of facts which any halfway competent clerical assistant could have assembled from the files in five minutes. If this is all you have space for, then please remove our names from the item; I for one (but I am sure I
can peak for Or Laird as well) do not wish to be as ociated publicly with uch a mean and pointless exercise. Perhap when you have time you could explain to me why, on the one hand, you were able to pare a whole page (J 000 word, plus another 100 of introduction) for Alastair Pettigrew, a man who took his own life for reasons which have been the subject of much scandalous speculation, but on the other hand you can only spare 250 words for John Tyrrell, who led a blameless existence, gave his whole life to the college, and was an in piration to generations of students. Is the deciding factor that Alastair (who was a good friend, and I don't begrudge him hi page) died in service, whereas John Tyrrell had retired? I can see the point of this restriction for someone who served the college for a short while before leaving to do something else, but John was emphatically not in this category; also he was an Emeritus Reader, and we have continued to include his name in staff lists right up to the present. Or do you perhaps have a sliding scale: 1000 words for administrators, 500 for professors, 250 for readers, and SO (if you're lucky) for lecturers? I suppose that if the College Secretary or the Academic Registrar were to hand in their dinner.pail (perish the thought!), Commenl would devote an entire number to their achievements. Perhaps in the next issue you will want to print 'Or J R Silvester died of apoplexY,18 Tovember, 1992' - that'll do, don't bother with the rest. Or J Silvester Department of Mathematics
The Editor comments: In common wilh our usualpraclia on obiluaries for former slaf/ we restricted Dr Tyre"'s obituary 10250 'lI1iOrds andaskedfor Dr Silvester's commenls on tlte shortened version before prinling it. We made an exceplion by allowing 350 words for John Freemon's obituary (see page 8) because he hadso recently leflthe College.
oticeboard Evening Language Classes From January 1993 he Language and Communica ion Cen re will be holding a new series 0 Evening Classes in French, German, Spanish, I alian, Japanese and Greek, at hree different levels: Beginner, In ermediate and Advanced. Each session las s 90 minutes and takes place once a week starting at 18.00. Specially reduced fees of £100 per term are being offered to staff at the College. Please contact Vanessa Beard, ext 2485, for registration details.
Advance Notice The next meeting of the Peter Baker Dining Club, which is open to senior members of the College, will be Thursday 21 January 1993. The guest speaker will be Professor Stewart Sutherland.
Searching for lost alumni Lorna Baird, the Alumni Officer at the University of Strathclyde is searching for lost alum ni, and would be grateful if any Strathclyde alumni out there would contact her at: Public Relations Service, McCance Building, 16 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XQ. Tel 041-5524400, fax 041·552 6558
Maisonnette for sale Purpose-built Warner-style maisonette, near Upton Park tube (District Line). 1 bedroom, 1 reception plus modern 10 t conversion providing additional reception/study. Large kitchen/diner, own front/rear doors and garden. Long lease, peppercorn ground rent, no chain. £38,995 ono. Please contact Morris Berg, School of Physical Sciences, Strand, ext 2267. Home telephone number 081-552 9744.
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Christmas Mailing Dates De ails 0 e Royal ail dell ery service or e Cnns mas a d ew Year penods are gi en below : 24 Dece ber one deli ery 0 y (la e an sal) 25-28 Dece ber: no service 29 December. one dell e only (la er an us al) 1 January' no service T e Royal Mali recommends e ollong as e la es pos ing da es or U C nstmas mail: 18 December: Second class le ers 21 December: Firs class let ers
Lost & Found Found - Strand Campus - Hallmarked silver pencil. To claim. please elephone John Mongan on 071-873 2606
Central Research Fund The Central Research Fund has been instituted for the purpose of making grants to members of the University (other than present undergraduate students and those registered for a taught Master's degree) engaged on specific projects of research, to assist with the provision of special materials. apparatus and travel costs. Applications are considered each term and the next closing date for applications is 22 March 1993. Forms of application and further particulars may be obtained from the Central Research Fund Section, Senate House, Room 21a, Malet Street. London WC1 E 7HU. Tel 071-6368000. ext 3147.
Comment is the College's regu lar staff newsletter, issued by the Press and Publications Office (ext 3202) three times a term Contributions for the next edition should be received by mid-day Friday 15 January, jf possible on a 3.5" ~ac disk. Please note the editor reserves the right to amend items as necessary.
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Obituarie Leonard Cotton We were saddened to learn that Leonard Cotton, former Dean of King' College hool of :v1edicine and Dentistry, and Senior urgeon to King' College Hospita~ died on 9 'ovember. A full obituary will be covered in January's edition of Comment, along with details of the College memorial service to be held in F ebruaryl\1arch of next year.
John Freeman :v1embers of the College and of the University of London will be saddened to learn of the death of John Freeman on October IB, 1992. John was a member of the staff of the Law School, as Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer and Director of Criminological tudies, from 1967 until his early retirement on the grounds of ill health in 1991. He had a total commitment to the Law &hool and to the College. As a teacher and researcher, John's primary interest lay in criminology. He taught the undergraduate course in that subject, single-handedly, for many years and participated significantly in the specialised teaching in that general area on the intercollegiate LLM. Having studied Law and Psychology in Tasmania it was natural perhaps that he should develop an interest in criminological and legal psychology. A focus for his interest in juvenile offenders was provided by the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency, of which he was Chairman for many years. He was also at various times Chairman of the Association of Law Teachers, and a magistrate in the juvenile court for Inner London, and was an inveterate traveller in pursuit of his criminological interests. The international dimension to John's work is perhaps best seen in what may be regarded as his most significant achievement. He played a prominent part in the formulation of United Nations policy on crime prevention, particularly in relation to the 'Beijing Rules' on the treatment of juvenile offenders, setting civilised standards in this sensitive area, and the nited
~ations Declaration on Basic Principles of Justice for ietim of Crime and Abuse of Power (19 5). John died at the relatively earl age of 60. Those who saw him recently will have witne sed his battle with cancer but not 0 many will know that he had fought with thi illness for twenty year . He married in July 1992 only a few months before his death. John will be sorely missed in the College and University community. Our deepe t sympathy must extend to his widow Aurelie. A memorial service will be held in the College Chapel in January 1993.
Professor Robin :v1orse Head of &hool of Law
College Chri tmas Cards
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his year there are four reasonably-priced College Christmas cards available: Canaletto's Vitw from Somerset House Gardens, Quinten Massys' Tit/! Madonna standingwillt Cltild andangels and Sisley's Snow al Louveciennes (new th is year, see front page) are a1l65p each or ÂŁ3 for five. College crest cards are 35p each or ÂŁ3 for 10. All excellent value for money! The cards are available from the following outlets:
Strand: Porters' desk, Main Building entrance
Kensington: Philomena D'Souza, Room L6, Main Building Manresa Rood: John Worn ham, Security and Domestic Services Supervisor
Cornwall House: Porters' desk and KCLA Office (Rooms MBIO and MBI5)