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fIo . or tra fie Jan1:' Professor Richard Criffiths, College VicePrincipal and Chairman ofthe Course Approval and Review Sub-commillee, discusses the work ofthe Sub-commillee.

long with most of my other colleagues working at the coalface, within our Departments, I am at times exasperated by the new procedures for course approval produced

by CARS (the Course Approval and Review Sub-Committee). The timescales appear long, and yet alongside this the time given to Departments to prepare submissions, in order to meet those time-scales, is uncomfortably short. The forms, too, appear to demand far more in the way of detailed information than those that preceded the new dispensation.

In CARS, however, I and my colleagues are forced to see all this from a different perspective.

Continued on page 3 King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry and the College's School of Life, Basic Medical and Health Sciences are two ofthe parent bodies ofthe new Centre for Epilepsy at the Maudsiey Hospital and the planned Institute of Epifeptology at Denmark Hill, whose work is generously supported by King Fahd ofSaudi Arabia. Here the Saudi Arabian Ambassador (left), is seen after presenting a cheque to Dr Ted Reynolds, Chairman ofthe Centre and Director ofthe Institute, on 29 November. Patients Lucy Dent-lones (left) and Hamet Compston gave the Ambassadorfiowers and books about epilepsy, and receivedfrom him toy mother and baby camels. See story on page /2. pa e I

An articlc In TIre Indepen ent revealed that allcrgie ~uch a~ asthma ha"e bccome the mo t common environmental illne c 0 We tcrn countrlc and their frcquenc~ continue to gro..... Pro/e!sor H nn h Cou 'd, /'ro/cHoro/ Bwm ic ,\oi'nces. aid that atmo ph n pollutan~. hou'>C du t mite , pollen, food and fun '3.1 pore arc ome of the principal rea on behind the ri e.

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The changing role of the RAf wa the ubject of an article in TheSundO) Times.

Proposal for redUCing It trength from 90,000 to 75,000 by 1995 were announced in thc Option for Change Rc iew in 1990, and now numbers are planned to fall to 70,000 or Ic~~. Dr I'hilip Sabin, Senior Lecturer in the Department 0/ W r StudIeS, de~eribed how "ulnerable this section ofthc armed forces \Aas fecling. "I hc air force's problcm i that a lot of It~ capability i for h igh-intcn ity \\arfare - whcre you arc bombing people and shooting dO\A n aeroplane,. It can bc argued th3.t we h. vc wo much of that and nO[ enough of the mher thing we no\\ Il(;ed. like infantr) battalions, for operations in Bo,nia, "orthern Ireland or el cwhcre. /'rv/essor Ted Grant, Ilead v/the /)ejJartment 0/ Physics, \\ a~ irncrviewed on }'ou and Yours on Radio 4 about microwave hcaring - the ensation experienccd somctimcs by pcople who live near high-powcred radar transmittcr , d uc to the pu!si ng of thc microwave. ..\ 'postural \\a) meter' wa. the focu of a report on /\'erc;s Room South liast. The de"j e IS the \\ork of DrMike Ilurle;, R search Fello " Physwth rapy Croup, who u e. it to a e phy~iotherapy rehabilitation in patient~ with arthriti \\ ho uffer mu~cle function dcficits.

The programme wa abo irnere ted to ~ec if there would be a role for thi same dc" ice In as'>esing elderly people at risk from fall;.

'1 he lack of govcrnrncrn action over re arm of re~trictlve practices in the area of the retail price of books \\ as the subjeet of an articlc in The Independent on Sunday. The .... ider issue of re~trictive practice~ in general was also examined. l nder the present sy~tem, ProfeHor Richard Whish, Professor 0/ Lo~, explall1ed that director of companle operatl ng restrictive practices ace no

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punishment for a fir t offence. Only if a compan i brought to court a econd time could they face impri onment for contempt, but by then the re trietive practice could have been varied sufficlentl . for it to be regarded a a new agreement - and the whole proce s must begin again.

An article in the oni h Daily RÂŁcord investigated the problem of rogue tattooi ts who are spreading blood poi~oning and di ea e uch a Hepatiti 13 and HI by their unhygienic practice. Professor Norman Noah, Head 0/ the Department 0/ Public Health and Epidemiology, KCSMD, who produced a booklet on guidance on hygenic kin piercing for tattooi~ts, acupuncturist and ear piercer, reinforced the findings, ack no .... ledgi ng that there have been documented ca cs of hepatitis which wcre tran mitted through unhygienic tattooing in other parts ofthe world and that at least three outbreaks of Hepatiti B have been traced back to a tattooist.

One of them whom infected 30 people ,n thi countr).

In the run up to the publication of hi book You Don't Ilave to Diet! Dr Tom Sanders, Reader in Nutrition, has taken part in various debate on the issue of weight los eq ualling good health and the misconceptions urrounding dieting. Virginia 130nomley, the Ilealth ccrctary, sparked off a heated debate with her remarks that there were LOO many overweight people in Britain tOda . In The Sunday Times Or Sanders pointed out that an increasingly sedentary lifest le and fast food culture had contribu cd to the nation weight gain, but that the Government's definition of obesity wa an arbitrary one. lie also lent support LO larger people by aying that you can be fit and fat - look at Paul Gascoigne and lan 13otham. The health risk of obesity pales into in ignificance when compared with making, he aid. Or anders also appeared on Watchdog, the BBC I con umer affairs programme, evaluating the effecti eness of three mail order diets which had been tried un ucces fully by a viewer. He explained why each would not help people lo~e weight.

den ing hat London CnIver It) procedures, and, as de olutlon de eloped, those of the Colle e , ""ere until recentl more lax that tho e exerted by mo t other univer Itie . ~uch could be done, when all el e failed, b Chairman' action. AcultUre had emerged whereby everything wa ultimately po ible, e en if one had mi ed those boa that exi ted. ~ot onl is it important, as the College develop their own procedure, for them to try to make the e procedure as stringent as tho e of other univer itie ; it is al 0 true to ~ay that the con iderable change that 11 igher Education ha undergone In recent year, and the greater empha i placed upon the a e ment 0 academic tandards, have meant that the ba!>ellne ha moved ever upwards. C niver!>iue are con tantly forced to demon trate the valid ity and good practice of e ery aspect of their procedure~. Impll it in this i the need for their con tiLUent departments and division to how a coherent level of forward academic planning, and for the central bodie to demon trate, by their proced ure . that due care is being taken to examine. and if neces ary refer back for amendment. the submi ion that comc bc ore them.

It is for thi reason that our new form, on the model of tho e in other place, req uire so much detailed information about aim, re our e , ~tructures, as e ment.experti e,etc.ltal 0 explains, in part, the length of the timecale involved in our new proced ure . It has alway been rare, in other un iversitie , for degree programme to be validated in one academic year for commencement in the following October. There has alway , however, been the pos ibility of special ca es being made; and our new procedure offer the opportUnity for accelerated procedures being ollowed, If a special ca e is made to, and accepted by, the Chairman of the tanding Committee. ( ote that it would not be rea onable for AR both to admini ter the pre Cnt proccdure ,and to decide on the exceptions to them.)

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To meet the deadline for the CCA handboo , and or the College pro peCLU . Thi i partieularl important, becau e in the pa tome entfle have appeared in both. '" Ithout the pro ramme haVIng been approved.

The pre umption appears 0 ha e been that appro al \\a a mere rubber tamp. CAR ha had dl ficultie with thi~, in that on a number of occa ion we have ound that programme hich pre ent problem have already been adverti~ed, and ~tlJdent are alread being admitted. :\0 procedure can allow a comminee\ hand to be forced in this wa\.

To allow time for programme which ha e presented problems. and which have had to be referred back, to be re-~ubmilled. Ifour procedures did not allow for this, not only would \ve not be doing our job properly, but also our ver procedure would alert :\uditors to the possibility that we were a mere rubher-stamping committee.

the course choice for the next academic year in about pril, the timetable has to follow omething like the present scheme. Howe er, at a recent meeting C R decided that all these criteria could be met if, in future years it u ed I :v.larch meeting as the deadline, thus allowing Departments to ubmit propo al to their hool after the Chri tmas vacation (though naturally, for thi ear, the deadline remains February, a everyone i already \ orking toward that).

cr- n -ndl Thi i an illu tration ohhe fact that CAR will continually be reviewing its procedure for succeeding years in an attempt to make them more userfriendly while at the same time maintaining their underlying aims. :"othing is perfect; and our initial attempts to grapple with the problem of the preceding free-for-all may well de erve modification. For this rea on, we welcome any po itive submis ions with regard to our procedures, and consider them carefully at our meetings.

AliI ask, is that nobody will propose reintroducing extensive powers for Chairman's action! It was very thankfully that I renounced all such powers, which seem to me a recipe for chao .

The time- cak for approval of individual cour e-units ha abo cau ed some angui h. [n order to meet CAR's dead IIne of its February meeting, I epartmen have had to have propo als ready for their chool :\cademic Committee by the cnd of the \1ichaelma Term. Thi does cause enou problem, if the new propo al are to he discussed properl within the Department, a a part of academic strateg . It means that people must tart thinking about th i from the moment that they reLUrn for the new academic year, often amid the tUrmoil of new commitment. The member of CAR are aware of thi problem (both a individual from within Departments. and al 0 because strong submissions have been made to them about it). The problem i a ain that of what happens if a course-unit ha to bc referred back for rc-subml sion. Taking that into account, and also the fact that mo t Departments wish to be able to offer their student

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tl 11 he College wa vi ited b three auditors from the HEFCE Division of Quality Audit between 16 and 19. '0 ember. In all 105 staff and 60 studen met the auditors, with a small number of taff appearing more than once. Interview were arranged between the panel and about eight staff covering a particu lar area or topic and these lasted for 4minute. The first day was taken up with questions on the management of the College and its activities; the econd day with groups of staff, probationer, sen ior lecturers, admission tutors, etc from the areas of Education, English, Mathematics and Clinical ~v1cdicinc and the final day on Examination~, Academic Services, and Strategy Committees. In between the auditor spoke to Personnel. Teaching Committees, CAR and the Audit Review Group and had their lunche talking to some 60 tuden .

The auditors were well prepared. It was clear that the information sent to them by the Academic Audit Group of the Registry had been well received and read. The format of each discu sion was similar to that used by our own College Audit Teams, in that topics were raised and followed through in a logical fashion. It was also quite clear that the auditors were somewhat mystified by the interactions between College and Senate House, a view that ha some support in College. We felt that, on the whole, we were given a reasonable opportunity to answer, explain and, where necessary, defend the College procedure.

A draft report on the audit will be received from the HEFCE toward the end of January. The College will respond to it and a fir t report will be sent back sometime later in the year, this report will be made generally available in the College. An academic audit deals with procedure - doe the College have procedure? do we use them effectively? are they understood? is there feedback? what happens if things go wrong? Over the last few years much of the way in which the College is managed has been changed and it will

be helpful to u to receive a broad external View of how we look from the outside. We await the report with intere t.

For the pre ent I would like to thank my colleague, all 105 of them, and the 60 tu den , for taking part in the exerci e. I hope you found it interesting.

I would al 0 like to thank Kate Quantrell and Loui e "adal of the Audit Office for their in aluable collection and collation of the information ent to the H EFCE Audit Office and for their organisation of the visit. The auditor also a ked the Principal to thank the organiser for the smooth running of the visit.

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ne niSloJ/. the Students' Union Employment Bureau, was formally launched on 24 . ·ovember. King's is onc of the first Collcgc~ in the cou ntry to e~tablish such an agency and is hoping to emulate the success of similar schemes in America and at the University of Wales, Cardiff.

It has been establi hed with the dual aim of meeting the casual labour requirements of the College, and providing a mu h needed ~upplement to tlldent grants. From time to time most department have a task which need performing but it has eemed extravagant to employ a temp. "ow help i at hand in the form of a tudent with a few hour to spare.

How does it work? The Bureau ha a register of tudent who have indicated that they want to undertake temporary ",ork. They are interviewed b the Bureau and detail are kept of their age, skills, qualification and previou work experience. This will en ure a student i' mJ.tched aecur:ltely to a job.

A comprehen ive range of skills i available from basic clerical to more advanced keyboard skills through to sil er service waiting.

ni taffwill be run by Eunice Wilkin who i ba ed on the fir t floor of the ~acadam Building. Initially the cheme will run in term-time only, but i likel to extend to the vacation. With tudy commitments arying between departmen ,and undergraduate and po tgraduate level it i hoped to ha e tudents a ailable at mo t time . tudents will only be allowed to work a maximum of 17 hours per week 0 their tudies hould not be affected nor will they have to pay income tax or national in urance. Pay is by the hour and at a basic rate of £3.20. Th i cou Id rise depending on the nature of the work. The Bureau will not take the usual high percentage which agencies charge: it will cover its administrative eosts only.

The scheme has been ucce sfully operating in the tudents' nion for some time with tudents employed in the bar, shop and as ecurity taff.

0, if you want a temp either for an hour, or a da or two, to do that awkward job you keep putting off contact Eunice Wilkins on extension 3569 between 9.00 and 16.00.

Bill Rammell General ~anager, Students' Union

Applications are invited from members of the Univer ity by the following clo ing dates: 10 January and J J April for Re earch Grant application • I ~arch for Postgraduate tudentship application for the 1994/5 ses ion For further particulars and application form please contact the Central Research Fund and cholarships ection, Room 21a, enate Hou e, ~alet Street, London WCI E 7HU. Tel 071-636 000 ( tudent hips ext 3042 and Central Re earch Fund ext3J47).

here can be e .... people In Colle e \vho remain unaY.'are hat the Colic e ha recently e tabli hed a Development 0 lice Y.'lth a brief to increase the College' Income from private source. For thi inItiative to be uece ful, It mu t be OIA ned b the College communit . A a lir t tep tOward thi objecti e, the Development Oflice ha recently completed a con ultation exerci e lA Ith members of the community 0 determine the advice to be given to Tru tee 0 the King' College London Development I ru t regarding the di bur ement of fund, The con ultatlon wa carned out u ing a variety of method.)o \gne\\. the Development Director, addre~ cd public and departmental meeting which then dl cu sed prlomle . c.;ome parts of the administration and om: hool \Vere urveyed by means of a questionnaire urve . 'Iho e members of staff who were mi ed b, these mean were reque ted to make an IIlput through Developmen/ Xews and an article in Comment.

It is not possible, given this methodology, to report tatlsticallyon the re ults ofthe con ultation. That aid, there was a surprising degree of unanimity about the major heads of expenditure for which the College hould Initially seek private upport. upport for the provi Ion of more postgraduate scholar hip wa very strong among academiC members of taff, ince the e would both help IndIVidual tudents and a sist departmen in rai ing their re ear h rating. he method of election 0 the e students may, however, be more controver ial ince a number of individual and department expre sed some d i tru t of existing mechanism.

There is al 0 wide pread su PPOft or pecilic library purchases and the provi ion of more computing facilities, particularly terminals in halls of re idence, It became clear on the fir t day of the

con ulcatlon hat all ~ra eo- ca -- eel ron I, abou he ne' to I pr e he abric and 0<.: la I .htle. Wherea Impro ement to our ph Ical and ocial en ironment arc; an entlrel, proper ou let or developm'rH und .

Inve tmen in ba IC m int nance I not. 'r ou lA 111 be plea ed to IC:lrn. hOlAe er. in thl context that the I', tate Department arc prepanng a ten year plann 'd maintenance programme for the College propertle , Havin e tahli hed our priori le . we mu t no\\ turn to deH:lopmg the mcome o reabe them. Pro e or Paul Blae , ch:lIr of the King's fmll /IU group, wme (right) ahout their appro ch [0 taf "Iving. I h3ve been truc dUring the con ultatlon period by the numher 0 ta f lA ho have aid that in recent year the) have 10 t the ecllng of being members 0 a College community. I hope that by working togetht:r [0 a.:hle\路e our development OhJectl\e \ve lA ill begin to redls ()\t:r:i sense of communlt). [lame " \-10rg3n Director of ".xternal I{elatlon 7/ze Kzng's Ini/la/iu gruup piClured a/ a recent mee/lng. From Iti//o ngh/ CharJol/e Rou.'cM, Dr feur .\"unn, Professor Pe/er Saunders, /Jill Coldl, K Brumfield, Joe M y, Josephine Bell and Professor Paul Block .1faxlne P rlndge and I)m/essor 7 un) CueS! re Iso m.mbers 0) /he group.

an unlver itie in the C obtain a i mlicant ra Ion o heir Income from prlva e ource, includin throu h donation rom heir alumni and ta . I Y.'e could do the ame, we could upplement our meagre Government gran and und actIVities for which IIEFC und cannot be used.

I am chalTlng a taff committee, composed of repre entative from each school and from all grades of staff, which ha been e tabli hed to upport the development campaign. It has two main ta k . One i to ad ise the Trustee of the Development Tru t - who will have sole authomy over the use of money ral ed - on taff wishe about the \\ay In which their gifts should be u ed. Thu the) will have to con ult thclr colleague about the ways in which thc fund hould operate. Thl links with their other ta k, which is to develop Idea about raIsing gifts for the fund and to act a amba s ador for it to their colleaguc . Any mcmber of taff who fcel that the \\ould like to contribute to the work 0 the group are very welcome to Join It. The overall strategy is to raise funds In two way. One is from donation of our own taff for pecilic purposes which those staff feel will improve their work in the College. The other is to rai e much larger funds from alumni. ucces with the lirst exercise will erve a a helpful lever in calling on alumni for the second.

The ommiuee is proceeding cautIOusly, and the timetable is Continued on pagl 6

developing more slowly than originally envisaged. This is becau e it i e ential that staff who may contribute have confidence that their contribution will be used for purposes that the value. It must al 0 be clear that taff donations are not being u ed for purpo es whl h should be met by the normal College budgeLS. To secure the e condition. the Committee is exploring e eral idea raised during the taff consultation LO establi h feasibility and co l.

The Committee will also need LO discuss with Trustees waY5 in wh ich they can so administer fund rai ed to meet expectations of various donors. A good precedent was set by a imilar fund set up in Chelsea College cveral year before the 1985 merger. The balance of this fund, which i over 0.000. will bc the first substantial asset of the new fund.

The Committee ha decided LO name this new exercise 'The King's Initiative. To sum up. the Initiati e already has a basis LO start modest expenditure and is eeking ways LO fo ter staff confidence that we can all contribute LO our mutual advantage. J n these ways, the Initiative can be well placed LO create an example which will strengthen our hands in seeking much larger donations from ou ide the College.

Professor Pau I Black CES

reception for the pre entation of a Festschrift to Profc sor Eric Mottram was held in the Blackwell Room on the evening of Friday 3 December. Profes or Ylottram, who reeently retired from King' College after 30 years of service, and is now Emeritus Professor in the Engli h Department, was presented with a book of essays by former students, edited by Robert Lee of the niversity of Kent, and entitled, A Permanent Etcetera: cross cultural perspectives on post-war America.

Representatives of PluLO Press who published the volume were among the guests.

Present at the reception were Profes or Barry Ife and Trud i Darby of the School of H umanitie , Profe sor janet Bately and members of the English Department, contributor LO the

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Festschrift, and past and preent graduate tudent of Professor Ylouram. many of whom now have teaching post at universities throughout13ritain.

The proceedings were opened b Profes or janet Bately of the Engli h Department which ho ted the evenl.

Robert Lee spoke of the unique and pioneering contribution Eric Ylouram had made LO the teach ing of !\merican literature in the post-war period, and he also recallcd with affection Dr Howell Daniel who died earlier thi year and \\ ho had long been a colleagu<; of Professor Ylouram at the old In~titute of L nited tates in TavisLOck Square.

In his reply Profe or 'v1ottram spoke not only of the pleasure the occasion had given him but of thc fact that the tribute of former studcnts in the form of a contribution LO continuing cholarly investigation gave the occasion a pecific and worthwhile authcnticity.

Or Clive Bush Reader in American Litcraturc Department of English

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At a recent meeting of the International Lnion of Pure and Applied Physics in Tokyo. Paul Black, Profe sor of cience Education. was elected Chairman of the International Commission on Physics Education. This is one of the 19 commi sions et up by the Lnion. Its 13 member are drawn from 13 different countric . Professor lllack has bcen a member of thc ommlsslon for thc pa t

six year. lie edited a recent book for the Commi sion, published by lJ:"E CO, which pre ented an international comparative study of phy ics examination for university entrance.

Professor Grant

Profes or Ted Grant, Head of the Dcpartmcnt of Physics, has been reappointed as a member of the l\."ational Radiological Protection Board by the lion Tom Sack vi lie, joint Parliamentary nder Secretary of tate at the Department of Health, for anothcr term of four years.

In the la t issue of Comment the prize giving in the School of Physical Sciences and Engineering was wrongly headed and captioned; the prize was for hemi try and not for Phy ic . We apologi e for this oversight.

In i ue 72 of Comment the la t two words of the article about the i':ightingale Institute were inadvertently omiued. The last paragraph hould have read: 'Thi i a marvellous new venture for the College and for the School of Life, Basic Yfedical and Health cience, and for the students of the Institute who will benefit from studying in a multidi ciplinary learning environment.

Jill Macleod Clark and jenny Wilson13arnett are encouraging taff from the Instiwte LO liaise with their colleagues throughout the College.'

B ictured below are the econd intake of enior Re earch Fellow on the Programme on Po t-Communi t ecurity tudle together with member of the Department of War tudie, who run the cour e. The PPC upporled by olkswagen and the f-oreign and Common\ eallh Office.

Thi year's Senior Research fellows are from Moscow, Budapest, Prague.

Kiev and Vilniu . One of the group, Audrius l3utkevicius (fourth from the left) only managed to ecure his place on the course after negotiating the complete withdrawal of Ru ian troop from the newly independent Republic of Lituania: he was Lithuania' fir t po t-independence Defence Y1 ini ter.

Butkeviciu qualified a a phy ician and worked in several ho pital before being elected to the upreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania in I 90.ln 198 he founded the Lithuanian Exiled Club, arranging a n umber of expedition into iberia to bring deported Lithuanians home.

On the PPCSS he will undertake a re earch paper examining current Baltic ecurity is ue using the re ources offered by the various ~trategic ;wdie;' in titutes, archives and libraries in London, a prospect which excite him greatly.

eggie the LIOn. \Ia COl of King' College, celebrated hi 70th birthday on 10 December. To commemorate hi birthday and rai e fund for hi repair (years of patching up and damage at the hand of eCL and Imperial College tudents have le t him \\jth badly damaged back leg and a length of cable as a rail), King's student have produced

n he College's Postgroduote Prospectus has won an •Award of Merit' from the Higher Education Information Services Trust (HEI ), and the King's &port was shortli ted (from 68 entries) for the 1993 Higher/KPMG Award for uni ersiry annual reports. Next year we are aiming to win first prize for both!

The Official /lislory 01 Reggie Ihe /-ion, a booklet ba ed on exten i\'e archive re earch. llis eventful life includes television and newspaper appearances. leading marehe on Parliament and Fleet treet, being presented to 1-1 \1 the Queen. gored by elephants, dropped into the Thame . kidnapped ountless time and hung from a lamp-po, t. Ilis story is a 'tail' of courage in the face of lorr) -load of eCL students and rotten vegetable.

The Officio/flislory 01 Reggie Ihe Lion is available from the KC!.. L shop 111 the \lacadam Building. lrand or from imon Chapman, Rag Officer, KCL L' at a co t of £ 1.50. All proceeds go to the Reggie Repair fund and any over to this year's Rag charitie .

Phone Iloward Dawber on 071-242 2959 or , imon Chap man on 071· 36 7132 for more derails.

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Directory 01 Experts, the Press and Publications Office has produced Expert Opinion, a booklet designed to help members of staff when speaking to the media.

The booklet is divided into three section; the first deals telephone enqu iries from journalists, the second concern radio interviews, and the third how what to expect and how to cope with television appearances.

It ha been distributed to all tho e li ted in the Directory 01 Experts, senior officer and senior administrative staff.

We have a limited number of copies left, so if you would like one, contact Melanie Gardner on extension 3073.

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Penfriends in the Ukraine The College has been contacted indirectly by a teacher in the Ukraine where I 0 19 year old tuden wi h to write to penfriends in the K. They write excellent English which they want to practise and they want to know about life in England of which they have very limited knowledge. There are opportunities to visit the kraine, although the krainians have great bureaucratic and financial difficulties in coming here. Write in the first instance to: Daniel Kuzyk, vul Striskaya 27n, Drogobych, Lvov Region, Ukraine, CIS.

Holiday Villa l"erja - beautiful Spanish coastal town. wnning mountain views. Spacious villa sleeps 6. Available for cheap winter and summer lets. Tel 0734867292.

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Dr 8Jlupm ro J som from IAt Dtp rim I of or SI us Itos oke. In Iltt conctplof Umud.· lions 1nl Mm sOltllitt monilonng ogtncy (IS:"':'.) fur StfJUol,to ond Itos fJilrill litIS pk'Ufor Comment oUllining lite most rec I devtlopmtnls in litis oreo n 27 June I I the We tern European Cnion (WEL) committed them elve to e tablishinga WEL; atellite Centre. In . ovember of th IS year It \\as decldcd that the Centre hould be et up at TorreJon near :'-1adrid In pain \qth a budget of 3 .25 ECC million for the initial three year experimental phase ..\ number of companie from the nine member state of the WE L ~ubmltted bid for eq ulpping the \\'E C atelllte Centre. Of these the FALCO.. consortium con i tlng of II European companle , led by a CK company. the Cray y tern, won the bid. Or Jasanl was selected by the Cray Sy tern . a a consultant on arms control and peacekeeping agreement and also to train the interpreters at the Centre to interpret satellite images.

The first seeds of the concept of international participation in verification of treaties were own by France in 197 when it put forward the concept of an international satellite monitOring agency (I MA) to the . nited . 'atlons ( " '). Or Jasani, tOgether with a Canadian legal consultant, prepared the final report on the implications of an I MA. The report was submitted by the Governmental Expert Group set by the Cnited l ation's General embly.llo"ever, over a decade ha gone by and an I :'-1A is yet to be established.

Political difficultie faced b the L;:" in establi hing an I MA prompted Or Jasani to propose a regional satellite monitoring agency (R M ) in 19 3.

With the fragmentation of the oviet nion, and the changing global political climate an establishment of an international or a multinational sy tern i now more important than ever before.

An RS A would be an attractive idea

I It "ere IIn ed to a re"lonal rm control trea 1 he tre on he reduction 0 Con ent ,nal F r~e m Europe rCFE ~I 'ned 11 • ber I 0 ave c n iderallc mpc J -or an R M.\ in Europe re ullng In the WEL: atellite Centre.

An immedla eta k or the \\ EL: atellite Cen re I to r:lln European exper~ in the interpretation u photOgraph taken from pace. to compile and proce openIY:l\:lilable data and to make It a"ailablc to member _ tate . Thi would be \\ Ith the \ iew 0 verification of arm con rnl agreement. crlSI monitoring :lnd environmental monitoring. I)r J ,:1nl ha been contributing to the dev 'Iopm 'nt of the Centre in the e area and eel-. that to begin \\ ith it mi ht be better t e,tabli h a number 0 le \1\ 'Cl that the III ernatlOnal community could gel u ed to the Ide:l of be III '\\3tthed rom ,pace alld that the rc,ultlllg dal3 could be shared With a nu mbcr of eOllntrle..

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Age Concern Institute of Gerontology ()r J skham, £24, 4 (Joseph Howntree Foundation) to support a research project entitled 'attitudes of older people to income, taxe , social security benefits and the economy'.

Anatomy & Human Biology Group Or G E Jones, £10,000 (Royal ociety).

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Centre for Educational Studies Prof 0 C John on, I rLeverhulme Tru t) to support a re earch project entitled 'Cognitive Acceleration for Enhancing Learning rn hooI. lathematics'. Total grant, 114, Centre for Heat Transfer & Fluid Flow Measurement Or :'-1 Yianne kl, 9,990 (Ford Motor Co Ltd), C \ E project:developmenr of mathema lcal model of2 troke 4 stroke engine intake POrt flows.

Centre for Medical Law & Ethics £250.000 ([~uropean Commission BJO\.kdI Programme) to undertake a project on . he moral and legal I ue ari rng out of the care of PV patients In Europe' Centre for Mental Health Services Development \1r J Jenkrns, £10,000 (:"orthampron and Keuenng Ilealth Authorities, toward the cost of providlllg practical, developmental as i tance in all aspects of comprehen ive community mental health services; £ I0,000 (Warwickshire Inter-Agency Group) to undertake an as essment of the needs of mentally di ordered offenders in relation to their care treatment.Total grants, £25,000.

Centre for Philosophical Studies Prof 0 Papineau, ,0 0 (Briti h ociety for the Philo ophy of Science). ontributlon towards research staff co ts.

Chemistry Prof M Robb, - ,456 ( ERC) to U pport a re earch project entitled 'development of \1C CF and MM B method With applications to the modelling of chemical reactivity'. ProfC n Reese. 144,436 ( E RC) to support re earch rudie on the chemical synthe IS of oligo- and poly- nucleotides.

Total grants, 179, 92.

Computer Science Or A Poulovassilis £70,959 ( E RC) to u r>P0rl a re earch project entitled 'advanced active databases for transport engineering research'.This grant was jointly awarded to Or C mall (Birkbeck College), Or B G Heydecker ( 'CL) and

Or A Poulovassilis (KCL), King' has been allocated £70,959 of the tOLaI award of£220,9 2,ToLal grants, £74,009, Classics Total grant, £59,674, Developmental Biology Research Centre Or S M H ughes, 4,4-1 ("'1 RC), Training Fellowship, Division of Life Sciences Or J R Ma on, £4 ,572 ( ERC) to support a research project entitled 'the potential of directed evol ution for the con truction of novel biocaLaly ts', This grant was awarded jointly to Or 0 J Leak, and Or 0 A Widdowson (I mperial College) and Or J R Mason, the total award being £268,114, Prof M Black, 7, 00 Ecu (£6,000 approx) (EEC) to support a research project entitled 'germination and dormancy breaking of secds', TOLaI grants, £54,972, Electronic and Electrical Engineering Or l' G Clarkson, £4 ,324 (Leverhulme Trust) to support a research project on the implemenLation & applications of the temporal noisy-leaky integrator neuron model. Or J 0 Robert on, ProfC W Turner, Mr J Watkins, £133,382 (SE RC) to support a research project entitled 'advanced active antenna for millimetre-wave integrated circuits', Or I 0 Robertson, Or A A Reza7.adeh, £82,318 (SE RC) to su pport a research project entitled 'processing of novel dielectric strucwres for microwave and millimetre-wave integrated circuit ',Or A A Rezazadeh, £120,898 (SE RC) to support a research project entitled 'swdy of novel HI3T structure for high temperawre applications', Or, ] 1 Aghvami, £ 12-, -7 ( ERC) to upport a research project entitled'media acces control protocols for indoor wideband radio communication " Or I 0 Robertson, Or A A Rezazadeh, £72,379 (SE RC) to upport a research project entitled 'novel circuit technique for monolithic microwave power amplifier '.

Or l' G Clark on, Prof J Taylor (Mathematics), £96,13 (SERC) to su pport a re earch project entitled 'optimal represenLation of cia structure using pram nets', Or A 1-1 Aghvami, £] 21,357 ( E RC) to support a research project entitled advanced modulation & channel coding techniques for fuwre cellular mobile system', ProfC W Turner £66,65

(SE RC) to support a re~eareh project entitled 'novel ultra 'onic air-borne tran ducer', Prof C \\' Turner, 2, 60 ( E RC) to upport a re earch project entitled 'supercond ucting cavity backed microwave antenna', Prof C Davies, Or W G Chamber, £95.7 6 (SE RC) to upport a research tud) of chaotic and pseudochaotic ignals rom di crcte-time electronic system ,Total grants, £1,171,219, Geography Prof J Thornes, , ,000 (EEC, via L' niversity of I3ri tol) towards the COSt of printing the final executive summary for \1EOALL' I. Or 'vi Frost, £40,400 (ESRC) to support a re earch project entitled 'development pre sure & land use change in non-metropolit:ln urban areas', This grant wa jointly awarded to Or J Shepherd (Birkbeck College) and Dr:vl Fro t (King's ), £,40.400 of the total amount awarded has been allocated to King' , IJrof J Thornes, 200,000 Ecu (£ 153,846 approx) (l~ LC) to su pport a research project entitled 'med iterranean land degradation & insLability medimoo', Prof A ,\11 \\lames, 100,000 I':cu (£76,923 approx) (E EC) to upport a research project entitled 'integration and vulverahility of migrants to southern europe',Total grants, £2 4,049, History Total grants. £241 Mathematics Prof P C "':est, 34,000 Ceu (£26.074 approx) (EEC) to upport research on 'new methods in quantum field theory: infinite symmetric in tatistical mechanics and string theory', Prof J Taylor. Or VI 0 Plumbley, £91,563 (SE RC) to support a research project entitled 'dynamic bchaviour of networks of. piking neurons', TOLaI grant £150,028, Nutrition and Dietetics 1'OLaI grants, £2.875, Pharmacology Group ProfP Jenner, £15 ,297 (MRC) to support research on the effect of reduced gluthathione levels on oxidative stress and the integrity of the nigrostriatal pathway, Dr A Gib on, Or I \lcFad'l..ean, J)r J TlIcker. '1:141,949

Pharmacy TOLaI grants, £ 112,041.

Philosophy Prof R M ain bury, £68,189 (British Academy), Postdoctoral Fellowship, Physics Or M Holwill, £111,802 (SERC) to upport a re earch project entitled 'a dynamic study of bend propagation mechani ms in eillia', Or A M Mainwood, £24, 71 (SERC) to support a research project entitled 'theoretical modelling of point defects with multiple configurations in silicon", Or L Oissado, 7,700 Ecu (£5,746 approx) (EEC) to su pport a research project entitled 'fracLaI de cription of charge relaxation in polymers', OrCGabriel,$16l,5602 (United Slates Air Force) to support a re earch project entitled 'compilation of the dielectric properties of body tissues at microwave freq uencies', Prof R M 11 ill, £40,243 (SERC) to support a research project entitled 'the modelling of electrical degradation and breakdown', Prof RE I3urge, Or P Charalambous, £26,359 (SERC) to support a research project entitled 'advanced zone plate nanostructures by E-beam fabrication', TOLaI grants, £425,653, Physiology Group Or 0 Sugden, £8,840 (Royal Society), Contribution towards the cost of research consumables, Randall Institute Prof R M Simmons, £18,078 (SE RC) to su pport a research project entitled 'nanostructures for the optical trap technique', Or M Peckham, £10,000 (Royal Society) to support a research project entitled 'myosin mutations in mu cle', TOLa] grants, £28,07 , Thermal Biology Research Unit Or R P Clark, £14,000 (Rank Prize Funds) towards the support of the Thermal Biology Research Unit.

7'otal amount awarded in the quarter, £3,573,2 4,

Total number ofawards in the quarter (including extensions), 73,

'vi RC) to sUPPOrt research on cellular mechanisms by \ h ich endogenous & exogenous nitrate relax non-va cular mooth mu cle, Profl' Jenner,£104,572 ("'1RC),Training Fellow hip,Total grants. £620,923,

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Centre for Hellenic Studies and Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies Seminars to be held at 17.00, Room B6. Classics Department, Strand Campus

Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies Lecture 27 January

17 January Byzan me heres/ology a neglec ed genre A er Cameron, lng's

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31 January Telling he Gree personal story ex ualt choices and cultural cons tram s Alexandra Georga opoulou

Centre for American Studies Seminar 20 January

6 15, Room 27C, S rand Campus Cltn Eas wood Or Edward Ga:la'en . University 0

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540. Se inar Room 3/8, Cornwall ouse Annexe Elderly homeless people In London aureen Crane, Age Concern Ins I e o Gerontology

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31 January Why Eugenics is wrong has U opla arrived?

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Pharmacy Departmental Research Seminars To be eld in Room 18, an esa Road be ween 6.15 and 1700, WI h refresh men s served rom 16 00.

20 January The investigation of chiral active substanes - regulatory perspectives Or L GOring, Upjohn Limlled

27 January Applicattons of molecular Slmulatlons Prof C R A Callow, Royal Ins!1 u ion

Colloqul Institute of Advanced Musical Studies Colloquium 19 January Room G01, Music Oepartmen ,

S rand Campus, 17.00-18 30 Puccini's musical idiom Julian Budden, Florence

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I memorial st!rutCi?for I P (Peler) Sha • Sec la oflite College from 195210 1977, was he!. in lhe College Ch pe! on 23 i\'o'U!mber. Slephen H rrow,jormed) AssiSI nl Academic Rr.gislrar, who worked wilh Mr Show for m ny years. gave an apprecialion from whiclz Ihe folloflZing extracts ore drawn.

Copies ofthe fulltcxl are available from Stephen lIarrow.

'Peter haw wa~ e ,(;ntially a 'College man'. And a mo t unlhual academic admini trawr. For a ,>tart, of course, he \\a, a fir. t-cla.,., '>cholar (hi" holar hip 'lapscd perforcc', a, Sydney Fvans. the form<:r Dcan. put it. 'but never langui~hing'). lie cominued to gi e distinguished lectures, in,ide and outside the College, and the Ili wry DepartmelH made him an honorary lecturer in recognition: a mandarin, not a ;manager', in the omemporaryargot of our trade....

'In what way is wday" King's indebted to yesteryear' counier' ... Let me mcntion ju tone bndmark of that era from wh ich the Collcge in general and thi' Chapel and its Choir in particular continue to derive ignificant b nefit. The \1 u ie Departmcnt in King's, wda acknowledged as one of the finest in the coulHry, with a lu trous internatiol131 repuL'ltion, was e,>tablishcd 'irtually from crateh in 1964 under the acute and di cerning e~..: of I I' Shaw.

Incidcntally, Pctcr 'hall vIa. a regular, if undemonstrative, attender at Chapel.

'It i. ea ier the,e days to point w the tangihle record of Peter _ hall .., incumhency: ne\\ floor, addcd w the suuthern end ofthi building; thc premi'>e. at Drury Lane, nO\\ the Randall Institute; dcvelopment. at Dulwich where wda the. ir James Black Foundation flourishcs; the Strand Building; the \-bcadam Building; the 1966 and I 71 ext..:nsion at Kin ·'s ollege Ilall; and much mor..:.

'What of the intangihle? Peter Shaw, ;,ald • ydney Evan'>, ;ha,ed hi, li eat King'~ on one cardin:tl conviction, that the College I a In ·Ie ,ociet ' made up

of enior and junior members - mature, adult, open, friendly'. [fthat King's College till exists today, de pite all the upheavals and upsets and uncertaintie of recent times - and [ believe that, in all e sential ,it urely does - can there be any more telling tribute?'

Tire foll(}fJ;,ing lribute was mode by former Principal, General Sir John Hackell: 'During my even year as Principal at King's College, from 1968-1975, [relied very greatly on the academic and admini trative skills of Peter Shaw in the management of the College's affairs.

H is efficiency, integrity and loyalty were beyond praise, and his friendship was of the highest value. It is a source of deep regret to me that in convalescence from recent illness [ have been forbidden to undertake the journey from my home here in the Cotswolds, through a wintry countryside, to attend his memorial ervice, [ hould always remember with gratitude what he did in the work which brought u together. He will be much mi ed.'

Obiw,lf! . - - _ - - - - - Professor D B Scott Bernard cott, who died recently, was succe sively Lecturer (1947) and Reader (1953) in Mathematics at King's before hi departure in the early 'sixties for the then new niver ity of Sussex. He maintained links with the College for many years afterwards, regularly attending the geometry seminar at which his harp mind and quick wit were much in evidence. Bernard was a man of taste, both in mathematics - as can be een in his textbook on mathematical analysis written with his former colleague at King's, the late Rex Tim - and in hi other interests, which included music and chess. I t was while playing ches that he suffered a heart attack, from which he did not recover.

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Sa pit:/ure and cap/ion on Iron/ page he world's firstlnslllute of Epileptology to be linked to a university is to be established under the auspice of the College. The Institute will be based at Denmark Hill and will promote re earch and teachmg programmes with the aim of mcrea ing under tanding and improving the treaunentofepilep y in the CK, Europe and the world. Plan for the InSlllu te have been boosted by a second generous donation of£IOO,OOO from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, which wa pre ented on 29 'ovember by the audi-Arablan Ambassador, His Excellency Or Ghazi Algosaibi, to Or Ted Reynolds.

Consultant eurologist at the Bethlem Royal, Maudsley and King's College Hospitals. King Fahd had already given a previous £ 100,000 to help set up the Centre for Epilepsy, of which Or Reynolds i Chairman. and which i already offering a completely coordinated package of resources for patients with epilepsy and related disorders. The new donation will go towards the £5,000,000 needed to establish the Institute.

Two of the College's School KCSM 0 and the School of Li fe, Basic Medical and Health Sciences - are among the six organi ations which are associated with the Institute and the Centre: the other being the Maudsley Hospital, King's College Hospital, the Institute of Psychiatry and t Piers Lingfield, and the College is therefore very much at the centre of the new venture. Between them these institutions have a national and international reputation for scientific investigation into the treatment and causes of epilepsy; its medical and surgical treatment and the ed ucation of children and rehabilitation of adults with epilepsy.

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In accepting Km fahd' I tOr Reynolds, who I Pre Ident 0 the International Lea ue a am t Epdep explained that epllep ,'a ect at leas tWO per cent 0 all population m the world, without raCial, cia or eographlc boundaries. 'Deep seated Ignorance and prejudice abo tit remam,' he said.

'The wonderful thing abou hi generous donation from audl Arabia is that it send a very POSI Ive I nal throughout the world. I IS candalou that in Britain and elsewhere we allow people with one particular condition to spend a lifetime feeling mJ under tood and penalised. Amazm Iy, people with epileps are often genu mel frightened to be 'found out'. In the CK we raise more mone for leprosy than for epilepsy, despite the fact that there I not a smgle case of leprosy and there are over a million people who will experience epileptic serlure at ome time in their lives. Epileps) i, the most neglccted of all disease, b OClet, and therefore medical serVices, re'>earch and teaching are adly lackJllg.'

I n spite of the advances made in the treatment and management of epilepsy over the past decade, it ha remained hard to find pecialist help and virtually impossible to find all the necessary disciplines at one centre. At the Centre for Epilepsy, however, many different peciali ts are available, from neurologists, neuro urgeons, neuropsych iatrists and paed iatricians to counsellors and educationalist, and special links have been ,et up with commun ity and primary care services, including the academic department of gcneral practice at KCSM D, enabling the Centre to deal with ncwlydiagnosed, long-term or intractable :"H or private patient With epilepsy.

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