..

Kc 11 go

Founded I

the College ewsletterd

T: /U Acting Pn'ncipal dis suslIu conupl ofCreditAccumulation and Transfer in tlte

context of King's activities.

to the number of poin needed for thedegree. The poin will be compatible

with the redit ccumulation and

Tran fer heme (C T ) that I

beginning to operate nationally. Therewill be 360 poin required for a

tandard undergraduate degree now

taken over three year. normal one

year programme would then compri e

120 points, and 1 course unit for a 9 unit

degree would earn 40 points, and for a

12 unit degree, 30. choolOffice will

receive copie of the ice hancellor'

report to the C OIver it) Committeewhen it I publl hed.

1 here i little else that the Collegemust do to It course unit degrees otherthan to bnng the nomenclature and

regulatIon IOto llOe with the new

structure. Ilowe er, we sltould regularly

recon Ider the degree tructure that we

currently have, and now i the

opportunity to do o.

I et out over some issue that we

Before the d u t has settled on

'semesterisation' within the univer icy,

let alone within the Univer icy ystem,

we have to come to term with Credit

ccumulation and Transfer cheme

(CAT) and the related concepts of

pecific and general credit, credit points,and transcript detail.

uni ersities around the country arerapidly revising their degree tructure .

Many are in the proce of

'modularising' their degree; other ha e

recent! fini hed that proce . London

and its Colleges have had a modular

degree tructure for many year - 'coursc

units' - and now almost all of our

degree run on that system Yet the full

implications of that change are only now

being gra ped by the Univer ityof

London - the Vice Chancellor i putting

a paper to its committees this term. I le

will propose, among other thing, that all

units taught for the degree awarded by

the niversicy of London be as igned a

value depending upon their contribution

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Dr Roger PoIient, co-founderoflite Deue/opmenlol Biology &searr:lt Cmm, describinglite ffJJOrk ofIlteCmm 10 lite Pd Royal (S«fullreportofllteClumallor'suisJts 10 tile Rondoll InstitzmondKCSMDonpoge 13)

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4. What are the criteria for designatingprerequisites, co-requisites andexcluded combination?

d th

new degree tructure that

require the accumulation of3 0 points will require explicit

pecification of ru le of dtptlr progrtssion

and coMrtna. Extreme po ition willillu trate the i ue.

. . 0 one would expect to earn a degreeby accumulating 360 points from topicsall taught at introductory level. On theother hand, a tudent who hadaccumulated 360 points by taking 120['first level '] units in year one, 120['second level'l in year tWO, all of whichhave year one units as prerequisites,followed by J20 ['third level'] in yearthree for which the year two units wereprerequi ites would expect to qualify forthe degree.

The latter expectation pre-supposethat prerequi ite truly representedknowledge, kills or intellectualmaturation necessary for the ucce fulstudy of the more advanced' unit. Inmany case, however, the setting ofprerequi ite cannot be so preci e. Inome area there i a true sequence of

nece sary knowledge without which thestudent cannot attempt the econd unit.In others, a unit normally taught inecond year as a timetable convenience

docs not in truth require any of thepreceding units. Some service units, forexample in statistics for biologist, couldbe taught succe sfully in first year. Theyare often taught in second year so thatthe skills acquired could be used in afinal year project. Should we count uchservice units as 'second level' units?

Probably not; 0 degree regulation areunlikely to pecify '120 points at each oflevels one two and three'. More likelywe will find a requirement that thedegree programme contains units in atleast one stqutna of, say J20 pointslinked by prerequisite requirements,and, sa , 60 or 0 at level three, with nomore than 140 at level 1. ervice orcontrasting units de ignated as level Imay be studied in the second or thirdyear of a course.

The que tions we need to addressinclude:

statement influence recruitment?

It would not affect the informationprovided to the emplo er: the transcriptwe now pro ide give much moreinformation about the content of thedegree than the title could e er con e

If we did make that change, academicis ue would arise. How would theprinciple affect regulation for degree ?How much control would we need overthe choice? hould we rtquirt studentsto take at lea t 30 or 40 points from adiscipline other than their major? Shouldwe require a non-major to be in acontrasting area, a compJemtntory area or inwhat are sometime called transferobk

skills, (such as fluency in informationtechnology, or in communicating tomultiple audience )? How would wedecide about the categorisation ofcontrasting and complementary topics?

(fwe did introduce ome requirednon-major units, how hould we treatthe deliberately multi-di ciplinarycourses, uch a the mutually planned':'v1athematics and Management' degreewe now have, or the new programmes in'European tudies', 'Mediterranean

tudies' or' nited tate and LatinAmerican Studie ' now beingintroduced through the School ofHumanities. How will tudents thenmeet the requirement for professionalregistration, in Pharmacy for example?

The questions for debate are:

2. hould we advertise onl the majorswe offer and the pre-approvedcombinations of and courses, and 'XStudies' being developed inHumanitie?

I. Should we abandon descriptivenaming of degree, allowing thetranscript to convey the content ofdegrees only identified a BA, BSc,BEng, LLB, MBB , BOS, BPharm?

3. Should wea) require,b) encourage,c) discourage, ord) prohibitsome study in single honours degreeprogrammes of topics outside the areaof the major discipline?

n Iternati 'e tern

t present we have 104 firstdegree titles that contain thenames of more than one subject

area, 35 of the form 'X with Y, eg,'Phy ic with French', and 69 of the form'X ondY', eg, 'Mathematic and

Management'. There are 86 degreetitle that are in single subject areas, eg'Philo ophy'.

There are many problem that ari efrom this proliferation, some real andome apparent. There i no doubt that

we attract attention by a wide range oftitles. i itors to the last twopresentation ceremonies have asked mehow we could afford to teach uch smallgroups of students. It is easy to explainthat most of the individual cia ses aremuch larger than number taking eachcombination would sugge t, but thesuspicion of gross inefficiency obviouslylingers in some cases. Opinions differabout the advantage in the CCAmarket of proliferated titles: some claimit illustrates the possibility ofcombination of su bjects to uitindividual needs; others maintain that itsuggests rigidity after entry. There ilittle e idence to test either claim.

Prohkration of de rcc mleand ructure uf dc rcc . ur c

hould address as a College, and ( askthat all members of the College con iderthem, and discuss them with the

member of the Academic Board 0 thatwhen the debate this paper December,the will know your vie . The Boardwill not make decision of sub tancethen, but the views and advice of theCollege community will inform any firmpropo als made in 1993.

onsider an alternative. eomit any specific listing of with

courses, replacing it with ageneral comment that we encouragestudents to take units worth up to, say,30 or 40 points from another discipline.For example, students could take a unitdesigned to give proficiency in readingor writing another language, or a unitdesigned to aid science students to

communicate scientific ideas to non­scientists, or an introductory unit in anydiscipline that has no specificprerequisites, or ... Would such a

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5. What i the minimum number of le el3 points required for graduation?What i the maximum number oflevel 1 poln permined?

6. What i the minImum stquma that wewill allow? For example, would asequence of 40 units at each of le elone to three be ufficienl, or wouldthere also need to be at least 0 uniat each of level one and two linked

by pre- and co-requisite relationship?Must there be at least one majorsequence (120 units linked byprerequisite relations) ondat least oneminor sequence of, say, 0 units

linked by pre- and co-requisiterelation hips?

7. What i the 'smallest' course we willcount for credit? 15 points, 10 points?

Transfer of credit

I n ome case, mainly but notexclusively in the humanities,students could learn the subject

matter equally well at first, econd orthird year level. The distinguishing

characteristic is the degree ofophistication required or expected in

the handling of sources, interpretation oftexts, or in synthesi of di paratematerial. Staff can easily handle suchcases within an institution, where theyknow the relative expectations. Thedifficulty will come in handling anapplication for credit transfer where astudent requests credit for a unit with

apparently the ame content as one weoffer, but where the level of study isdifferent. I suspect that we will accept

the unit as meeting the level

requirement, but not count it if thestudent takes another unit covering

equivalent content from our ownsequences. We should not allow two

units in Reformation Drama to counttowards the degree if the texts studiedin each are the same.

We will almost certainly give more

importance to the decision concerningwhether the credit being transferredmeets the requirements for the

sequence rules that define the degree,or whether we will restrict the student to

using it to make up the number of

points needed for the degree.

The relevant question is:

. What are the criteria that mu t be metfor the tran ferred credIt to be u ~d tomeet prerequisite requirements?

t\ related question i :

. Do we wi h to allow transfer of up to

240 poin to a degree that weultimately recommend for award?

(This is equivalent to the currentmaximum permitted by the universityof London.) In practice, the prerequisiterules we apply may dictate the decision.

It is conceivable that thedevelopment of credit transfer withinthe whole of the enlarged universitysector ma encourage students to takethe first part of their course in anin titution with lower entry scores, and

then attempt to tran fer to one with ahigher reputation to complete the finalyear, from which they would graduate.Would the large number of institutionswithin the London area make thi ea yto do logistically? Would we want to giveour imprimatur to students for whom weonly taught one third of the degree?

Would we be happy ifstudentstransferred all of a major sequence, andonly completed fir t and second level

units with us? Would we wish to beelective in responding to a request to

transfer credit? If so, what criteria should

we apply? (I believe that the majoreffect wi 11 not be one of mass transfer. Itis more likely in London that a studentwill take a unit for credit in oneinstitution and then ask for credit withinthe institution within which they takethe bulk oftheircourse . If this happen

outside the niversity of Londonsystem, as well it might, there will be

additional administrative problems

concerning payment of grant and fee. I

do not consider these here; they are

admini trators' problem inimplementing academic policy.)

The discussion questions arc:

10.00 we wish to accept the Londonminimum of 120 points taken at a

London college to qualify for one ofKing's degree programmes? If not,

what minimum should we require?

11. Should we allow students to

complete a major sequence by credit

transferred?

12. hould we allow studen to eran feran credit at level three? hould weallow le el-three tran fer if it is tocounted toward a major sequence?

13. What qualit criteria do we apply to atudent wi hing to eran fer credit?

Are the criteria the same for thetransfer of credit to meet prerequisiterequiremen as for general transfer?

The nature of an Honoursde C1ree

f credit is transferred from onein titution to another which awards

the degree, then problems ofdegree classification arise. It has beenproposed within the University thatdegree classification will be eliminated

by the use of transcripts, which willshow the points value of assessable unitsand the result obtained. form of theAmerican Grade Point Average systemis likely to arise.

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an Kmnetiy, Pro/mor 0/MediuJl Lowand EtIr . a reponed In Till TimlSafter a con ultant was found guilty

of attempting to murder a terminall illpatient b adminIstering a lethal

injection of pota ium chloride.Profe or Kenned said 'The law ha toprotect the citi7..C:nry from the worst case

scenario. ometime doctor neededucating that it i perfeetly permis ibleto make a patient comfortable, even if itbring about their early death.'

Commenting on the ituation in the

Netherlands where active euthanasia i

permitted, he aid the amearrangements would not work in Britain.

'We need to keep the law as a threatover those who go too far.'

Midtatl 'e!son, Leclurer in ulrilion andDieUlU:s wa called a an expert witnes

in the court ca e between amanufacturer of vitamin pill and

hrop hire aunty ouncil Tradingtandard Department. Dr. 'el on'

evidence wa exten i el reported andhe appeared on the BBC 'ine O'Clock

ews tating that 'between 3% and 10%

of children could be deficient inminerals, and may benefit from taking

mineral upplemen ,but that did notnece sarily mean that their intelligencewould increa e.'

Sltphen Ball, Proftssor 0/Educalion tookpart in Radio 4' File on Four programmewhich examined the government's plan

to produce a league table of ccondaryschools and to use examination re ults a

indicators of ucce or failure. Profes or

Ball poke about the role of parental

choice. Drawing upon ongoing researchon market force in education he

commented on the untoward effects of

'raw score' league table for childrenwith specialleaming need. He al 0

noted the importance of go ernmentcontrol of market information in asystem which appears to reflect parentalpreference in a neutral way.

Camelia Cabnel, Visiling Ltclurer in Plrysicspoke to The Daily Telegraph about the

potential health hazards of mobilephones and the large re earch project

that is being undertaken to look at theeffects on the body of expo ure toemissions from mobile phone. Or

abflel aid 'It' very likel that we willfind the e eml Ion are harmle .'

AndTi Crubb, Reader in Meduol~appeared widel in the national preand on The llmf11) Young Programme onRadio 2 explaining the Li ing Will,which wa launched in conjunction withthe errence Higgin Tru t. Thi is

de igned for people with HI or AIDand allow them to make arrangement

for their future health care before they

become too ill to do o.

Chris Mam'oll, Pro/essoro/ Pharmaceulics,appeared on a Walchdog Special on nBC I

in a programme inve tigating healthprodu ts a ailable without pre criptionfrom pharmacie and health hop. lIetalked about the re ults of tes that hecarned out on calcium tablets whichwomen take In the belief that the will

be protected from osteoporo i . lIeexplained that the vast majority do notli e up to their claim. and that mo t

women would be better off drinking a

pint of milk a da .

lames COfW, Research Officer. Cenlre/orDefmce Sludies commenting in theFinancial Times on the GenevaConference's draft con titutional planfor the former Yugoslav republic, aid'lf

such mono-ethnic communitie ,originally established through force, are

accepted at the Geneva peace

conference, what will dissuade the

ethnic Albanian from the Serb­controlled province of Kosovo, or any

o her minority from setting up their own

ethnicall pure tate through the diklatof either precedent or force?

Or Gow was al 0 the con ultant onCentral ele i ion's Cook Report Specialon ethnic clean ing.

(,uide Up'! re

ou may remember back inJune we ran a piece in Commenlabout our plans to produce a

Directory 0/Experls - the guide listingKing's experts for use by journalists who

want comment or informed opinion on apartieular ubject. We al 0 wrote to allacademie inviting them to be included

We as cd den or theircomment' and here are some;

Dr ue Dlrmikinlor areer .\dvi er

e

VI mn exhibitor were pleased withthe venue and the admmistratlon. omevoiced di~appolntmentwith the lower­than-u ual attendance on the . inanceDa '" perhap finance career are 10 Ing

their appeal?veralorganisatlon had gone to

ome trouble to send King' graduate:thl probably helped tudents to identifybetter With ueh people and their

tran mon to the world of work.

One comment from an exhibitor wa :• tudents mu t re earch and market

what they have to offer.' We hope thatevents like areer V,eek will serve to

remind tudents of the manyopportunities open to them after they

graduate.

It was a u eful mean of finding outwhat Ind of Job are a ailable.' 'Itbroadened m . horizon.' 'I tal ed to

people ""ho ""ere u Ing an arts degree ina pra ical wa,.' and on the down ide...'only u eful for tudents who don'tkno what the outsIde world i allabout.'· ome firms were too focu ed onvacancIes and not on the generalpro i Ion of information.'

Student discussing teac!zing as a careerwit;' a TA C representative.

Day 1: Arts & Media, 3 0

Day 2: General, 610Day 3: Finance, 550

Day 4: IT, Englneenng and Life

ience ,730

f 'ou were at the trand between.1onda 2. ovember andThursday 5 . 'ovember ·ou

probabl ' noticed that areers Wee wbeing held in the Great Ilall Organisedby the Career d i ory rvlce, It w asene of Career InformatIOn FaIr, Witha different theme for every da : arts andmedia for da 1, general for day 2,finance for da 3 and IT, engineering

and life seience for day 4. The arts andmedia fair wa a new introduction thiear, designed to broaden the range of

career represented during the week.Wh do we run Career Information

Fair ? A the name ugge t , these fair

are not pnmanl Intended asrecruitment even . The are Intendedto act as a forum to enable students togather accurate information and toque tion at fir t hand those direct!.working in, or in 01 ed With, a wide

range of indu trie , profe IOns andcourse. In other word they are a form

of career education.

Did the Fairs meet thc need oftudents? Career rvice taff counted

a total of2270 tudents attending theFairs over the four days, a follows:

Although the even were widely

publicised, attendance wa lightlylower than In 1 I, except for Da 4.

Thi drop In attendance appear to be anational phenomenon, according toexhibitors present at our Fair, and was

interpreted as being a renection of afeeling of de pair among t tudents, asthey contemplate another difficult ear

for graduate recruitment. Thl i a pity,because it i precisely at uch time that

there i an increased need for tudents

to understand the labour market betterand to prepare a reali tic job-seeking

trategy. Few organisations have cutgraduate recruitment altogether, and

many report a worrying drop in

application.

~elanieGardner

Pres and Information Officer

in thl new publication. The re ponsew ovef\\-helming - we recel\;ed over

oreplie . ian than all thowho toO the time complete heIr

orm . There I a good representation 0

all our ubjects acro the . school so

he Dtrec ory wIll re ea well the multi·dl clplmal! na ure of the Colle e.

The hard wor no... begin All theorm have been carefull read, orced

and edited and are currentl bemtypeset, and when the proof come Inthey wIll be ho... n to a repre entatlve ofeach school to ensure continuingaccurac . A de igner ha helped u topresent the informatIOn in a friendly andconci e wa hich journali t will beable to refer to quickly and easil .

The main taSk now i the compilationof a comprehen ive mailing li t. TheDIrectory will be sent far and wide to allareas of the media· radiO, televl IOn,newspaper, magazine, Journal etc.I lowever, I am ure that de plte my be tefforts the mailing la t could beImproved upon, 0 if you have anyugge tion , or there I a particular

journali t or magazine you think ithould be sent to, please do not he Itate

to let me know (ext 3073). I will al 0

end co pie of the Directory to each

department.

I would like to take thi opportunity

to tep up our monitoring of thecoverage King's receives in the media.If you are going to appear on radio ortelevision, please let me know. Iso, ifyou are quoted in a magazine or paper, Iwould appreciate receiving a copy of thecutting. We often receive call in the

Office from journali ts or member of

the public after an appearance in themedIa by a member of taff and it mean

we can be more helpful if we are aware

of what they are referring to. e ournew 'In the. 'ews' column on page 4.

p ge:;

n 1988, a QED programmebroadcast by the BBC suggestedthat giving a multivitamin and

mineral supplement to chool childrenwould cau e a dramatic improvement intheir IQ. The programme wa ba cd onan article publi hed in the Lancethowing that a grou p of apparently

normal and healthy el h adolescentswho had received a supplement dail forfor eight months had a significantincrease in non-verbal IQ comparedwith a placebo group. The potentialignificance ofthi finding - that

children on an average British diet wereo deficient in micronutrients as to

impair their mental function-stirred up acontroversy that has raged for overfour year.

The first response from the cientificcommunity was one of incredulity.Thcre was no evidence to suggest thatundernutrition was widespread amongstBritish children, and the Lance! reportcame in for heavy criticism. In truecientific spirit, however, the hypothe

was retested in a number of centres, andthe fir t of these tudie to becompleted was carried out in theDepartment of utrition and Dieteticsat King's. This showed ab olutely noeffect of a supplement on children' IQ,nor was there any evidence ofundernutrition of the type described inthe Lance! report. A second tudcarried out in Dundee, an exactreplication of the original Wel h study,also concluded that supplements wereineffective in raising IQ.

While scientists swapped claim andcounter claim, another angle to the storywas developing. Shropshire TradingStandards prosecuted Larkhall aturalHealth Ltd, manufacturers of amultivitamin and mineral supplementcalled Tandem IQ Pock, for a false trades

p

description. The packaging depicted abo and girl looking at book and theimplication was that the upplementswould be likel to impro e children'IQ. The case reached the courts thisSeptember, and re 01 ed around theque tion of the 'wide pread and generaleffeetivene 'of the upplement.Evidence was presented b both idesregarding the proportion of children inthe CK who might benefit from takingthe supplement. The prosecutionwitnes es included Or Michael 'elsonfrom the Department of 'utrition andDietetics at King's, (see 'In the News'page 4) Or Steve Blinkhorn, apsychologist and Managing Director of apsychometric research firm in St Albansand Or John Todman, a p ychologi tatthe Univer ity of Dundee who hadcarried out the large t of the replicationtudie . Theye timated that between

3% and 10% ofchildren in the K mightbenefit, but the evidence of an effecteven in thi mall minority wasinconclu ive. In contrast, defencewitnesses put the estimate at at least25% (and at one point a high as 60%).

In the end, the evidence in fa our of thesupplement' effectivene was deemedinsufficient, and the prosecution wassucce sful. Following the conviction,several member of the nutritiondepartment appeared on nationaltelevision and radio, and a livelyexchange of letters on the issueappeared in the Independen! andGuardian.

In a totally different phere of activity,in ovember, The Family Budget nitlaunched its 'modest-but-adequate' andlow-cost hou ehold budgets. The workwas supported over the la t two years bythe Joseph Rowntree Foundation, acharitable trust supporting research intoocial policy and hou ing with particular

reference to low income households andpen ioners. For the fir t time in over 50

years the Family Budget 'nit hasdeveloped households budgetmethodology which has lain dormant inthe UK since the work of SeebohmRowntree and Beveridge, whose work in1936 and 1942 provided the foundationfor the basis for the calcu lation of socialsecurity payments. The Department of

utrition at Ken ington has beeninvolved in developing the foodcomponent of the budget. The FoodWorking Party of the Family Budget

nit was led b Or Michael • 'el on, andemplo ed two ~ graduate of thedepartment.

he launch wa held two da s beforethe Chancellor' utumn tatement andattracted wide pread publicity in thepre and on tele i ion and radio. Foodi the largest ingle component of thebudgets (except for hou ing co ts inowner-occupier households). In lowincome household e pecially, food ithe item mo t likely to suffer whenmoney i tight. The consequence ofthi i a poorer diet and ultimatelypoorer health. The new budgettandards will provide benchmarks

against which the adequacy of benefitsand income can now be asses ed;ammunition for those pre sure groupwho aim to improve the living tandardof the poore t sections of thecommunity; and a scientific basi fordetermining the nece sitie of life inBriti h hou hold at a level which willenable them to participate fully inociety.

Charlotte Town endDepartment of Nutrition

incorporating

THE DEPARTMENT OF CENERAL PRACTICE STUI

and

POSTCRADUATE AND CONTINUTNG EDUCATION CE

King's College London and King's College Hospital joint education centre

~an paign 20lan by King's College, its

hool of \1edicine andDenti try, and the Ho pital are

well advanced to develop together a

Joint Education Centre as a ubstantialextension and refurbishment of theexisting :"ormanby College (an. 'Hfacility) on the Camberwell site.

This will provide a new Centre forKing's College hich, together withKing's College Ho pital, has a majornational role in the education andtraining of doctors, dentists, midwive ,nur es, physiotherapi ts, radiographersand other.

The interaction of different groups ofhealth care professionals in training andtheir teachers in one location is seen a avaluable feature of the project. Thecreation of the new Joint Education

Centre will certainly ensure that King'sremains in the forefront of medicaladvance and will establish an innovative

modelofCni ersityand.·Hcollaboration which can be appliedthroughout the United Kingdom.

c I·c ture

he College offer educational

programmes for its healthcare professionals across a

number of site . The education ofclinical medical and dental tudents isprimarily undertaken on the

Camberwell site and the developmentis therefore of crucial ignificance to

King's College School of \1edicine andDentistry.

The Centre will add a most

important resource to the existingeducational provision of both King'sCollege and the Hospital. Forexample, the Centre will assist in thedevelopment ofthe teaching of

medicine in the setting of General

Practice, which is already beingpioneered at King's; the education ofnurses under the innovative Project

2000 s stern, whereb the demands onthem to fulfil ard duties are secondaryto educational achie emen on four eardegree programmes, which combine awide range of practical experience with

considerable emphasis on academIC udies.

By extending and enhancing anexi ting .. H educational facility rather

than ha ing to fund a complete 'newbuild', it will be po sible to incorporateup-to-date facilities and audio-visual aidstogether with a comprehensive library tomeet the need of the ite in a cost­effective manner.

Areas and facilities will be dedicated topostgrad uate and contin uing ed ucation inorder to extend links into the communityby liaison with local General Practices.Provision of adequate areas for majorconferences and events will attractnational and international audience.

There will be ongoing emphasis ontraining those who will, in turn, be

undertaking or supervising the training

of others.Research and development in key areas

of patient care such as Accident andEmergency treatment and the care ofdiabetic patients will be fostered.

The welfare ofstudents and staff will becatered for by the provision of recreationareas, catering facilities and a creche.

1 he 0 t:

T he overall cost of the Centre is

£9.1 million. The HigherEducation Funding Council for

England is committed to funding the

establishment of a new Library andcertain other educational facilities for the

Centre. Further funds in support of theproject will be made available from thesale of land. The King's Appeal ispledged to raise £2.1 million for theproject and, to date £450,000 has already

been raised.For more information, please contact

the King's Appeal, King's College

Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5

9RS, telephone 071-9788894.

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C \ ~p trltm m npr m () n

College Reorgani anon

Mathematics and ComputerScienceOn the recommendation of theAcademic Board the College Councilha agreed that the proposedDepartment of Mathematical Sciencebe replaced by two separatedepartments: Mathematics andComputer ience.

Closure of RogateThe College heard with regret in Julthat the Finance Committee consideredthat the closure of the Rogate Field

tudies Centre, in Petersfield, Hamswas ine itable, given that fewer peoplefrom the College were using itsfacilitie . The clo ure is expected to

take place in the ummer of 1993.

Gordon quare. Liz Dawe has left herpo t as careers information officer and. 'ick Halfhead ha been appointed aher replacement. li on H utchin andJanet Culle continue a careersinformation officer.

The Career rvice continues to

operate from two ite, namel trand(3rd Floor Macadam Building) andKen ington (Careers Hut).

DrMolcolm Moden ha become Readerin Experimental Embryology

Dr Efroim Ko h has become Reader inWar Studie

Dr Emily Crundy has become Reader in

Gerontology

Mr Andrt'lfP Crubb ha become Reader inMedical Law

Dr Nicl Creen ha become Reader in

Chemistry

ReadershipsThe following have had the title ofReader conferred upon them:

Dr Mid/oel Robb ha become Profe or ofChemi try

Dr CiO'Uonni Monn ha become Readerin Physiology

Dr Diego Vergoni ha become Profe sorof Immunology

t

he College has announced thefollowing new appointmentsand promotion ,effecti e from

1 October unless otherwise tated.

Appointment to Established ChairsProfessor Ceroid Dworkin has beenappointed to the newly establishedHerbert mith Chair of European Law,and will also be the Director of theCentre for European Law. He will joinKing's in January from Queen Mary andWe tfield College where he i currentlthe Herchel mith Professor ofIntellectual Property Law.

Mr John Longdon of King's CollegeSchool of Medicine and Dentistry habeen appointed to the Chair of Oral andMaxillofacial urgery and as Head of theDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial

urgery.

fro 111

rtlnent

,co raph I ep rtmcn

r Linda :\'ewson from theGeography Department hasbeen awarded the Carl 0

ward for DistinguishedScholar hip at the Conference of LatinAmericanist Geographers in the C

Mr Travis Ma on, a student in theDepartment of Geography, ha beenawarded the Best Dissertation ward1992 by the British GeomorphologicalResearch Group in competition with

dissertation submitted by 32univer ities. The referees commentswere 'research of the highest quality,beautifully presented.....of publishablestandard', 'the best dissertation I haveever seen'.

• rcefat Kinraff

DrAndrt'lfl) Pressley ha become a Readerin Mathematics

r ue Dirmiki has takenover from Or :\'eil Harris assenior careers adviser in

charge of the Careers dvisory Service.:\'eil is now in charge of the service at

niversity College and is DeputyDirector of the niver ity of LondonCareers Advi ory ervice.

Other new arrivals as careers advisersare Colin Bailey (three days a week),Derek Mortimer (two days a week) andLesley Martin, who is replacing MaryBaldwin while ary is on maternityleave. John icholles has left King's to

join the Central Career ervice at 50

Dr Mark Sondler has become Reader inDigital Signal Proce sing

Mr John Wooiford ha become Reader in

English

Dr Cordon Davies has become Profe orofPhy ics

Personal ChairsThe following have had per onalprofessorships conferred upon them:

DrJohn Price has become Professor ofPaediatric Respirology, effective from1July 1992

Dr Alison While has been appointed tothe newly established Chair ofCommunity ursing, effective from1 'ovember 1992. She was previou Iyaenior lecturer in the Department of

ursing Studies.

Dr RicJzord Overy has become Professorof History

Mr Kypros Nicoloides has becomeProfessor of Fetal Medicine

MrC(Robin) Morse has becomeProfes or of Law

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wo of King' tudentsreceived award in the Lord:via or's OOth nni er ry

Tru L Fiona Dodd (2nd year Lawstudent) received her prize for the be tWrite-up of her project A Trans Afw

Journey at the Lord :viayor' reception on5, ·ovember. Rebecca hite' (\01

B zantine tudie tudent) award wafor her project -An exploralion in Greece

in preparation for her PhD (Oxford) ont Gregory ofPalamas.

former King's Reader and hersister have eome as near toimmortality as may be possible ­

by literally having their names recorded

among the tar. The nited tateGeological urvey has chosen to name acrater on the planet Venus (where allfeature are named after women) after

idnie \o1anton and her sister Irene\o1anton who died in 1979 and 19re pectively. idnie wa a Reader inZoology at King' for 11 year , andconsidered to be the world' greatestexpert on the cia sification ofanthropod while Irene wa Profe or ofBotany at Leed Cniversity.

\o1A tudent to the Department andthen wor ed for TIre Su Te 'OfJ.After hI death at the age of2 hifaml1 ,with Telegraph,

endowed pnze to hi name.The first pnze were awarded b lohn

O'Dw 'er-Ru 11, imon' ather, at arecep Ion to ber. The prize for thebe performance in the first ear of ournew BA course was awarded to William

teed , and for the be t performance inthe. 1 course to H ugh Fisher.

or the first time in its 30 yearsof exi tence, the Department ofWar tudie ha its own prize

to award. The prizes, for the be tperformance in each year of the BAcourse and the be t final result of the BAand MA degrees, are in the name ofSimon O'Dwyer-Ru sell who was an

Miriom CIIong of/he Departmenl of

MedlaniuJl Enginemng andJelfMedal!: I,

pictured01 W Sc1Iool ofPltysiuJlScimas

and Engineering Priu-giuing Cermlo1Tj wi/hlurparmls

College udent and current member ofCollege CouncIl. He ga ea hortpeech in which he praised the

dedication, hard wor and exceptionalabili which had clearl. beendemon trated b} the tuden . Hetre sed the Importance of the

contribution 0 ph' lcal lence to theworld and mused to whether the:viaxwells and Whea ones of the futurewere among t the nu mber recei ingtheir prize that da .

Present in the audience was :vir:viichael. 'elkon, the author of manywell-known phy ics textbooks. He is analu rnn u of the College and donor of the:"elkon prize, which was awarded forthe first time thi year to the tudentwho gained the be t honours degree inPhysics.

Kamlcsh Pand a of the Departmentof Computing, one of the lelf:viedalli ,ga e the Ote of than toProfes or Tre or lone.

Research Opportunities in SouthernEuropeThe Department of Geography atKing' ha been awarded up to ixFellow hip under the Human Capitaland :viobility programme of theEuropean Commi sion. The award willenable po tdoctoral and doctoralresearchers from 'le s favoured' regIOnin outhern Europe to work either on"1editerranean land degradation andin tability, or on the integration and

ulnerability of migran to southernEurope. he first programmeconcentrates on the application of fieldmonitoring, hydrological modelling andremote sen ing to spatial forecasting ofcatastrophic erosion and mas ­movement caused by extreme climaticevents. he second focuse on newmigration into southern Europe, withparticular regard to retirement migrationfrom northern Europe, a ylum eekerfrom the Third World, the problems ofmigrants in housing markets and women

migrants in the job market. Furtherdetail can be obtained from LizTraynor, Department of Geography,

trand campus.

he chool of Phy ical iencesand Engineering held theirfirst ever Prize-giving

Ceremony on 22 October in the GreatIlall. It was well attended by tudents,staff, family and friends who all cametogether to acknowledge the 'fruits oftheir labour', as Profe or Roy Pike, theHead of School, put it. Over 35 prizewere awarded across the hool,including two lelf Medal.

The Guest of Honour wa Profes orTrevor lones of the WellcomeFoundation and a former Chel ea

Polish Honour for Bill Morgan1n recognition 0 hi research on theeograph . of Poli h agriculture and hi

contribution to Pol h-Bnti h academicrelation, Pro cs r BI1I :viorgan of heDepartment 0 Geograph has beenpresented with the diploma 0 honorarylife membership by the Polt hGeograph IcaJ ( ocietasGeograph lca Polon ica).

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are el &thankLetter from Christina KeenDear Colleagues,

I wanted to take the opportunity tosay a big thank you to everyone whocame to my leaving party andcontributed towards a present - I wasoverwhelmed by the generosity and Iwill now be able to buy a pianol I was ofcourse sad to say goodbye to all myfriends but I'm sure I'll keep in closetouchl

Letter from Norma RinslerI should like to thank everyone whohelped to give me the most splendidfarewell on my retirement, and hopethat I may be forgiven for not writingindividual letters of thanks to all of youin turn. It was good to see so many oldfriends at the party, and to have so manymessages of good wishes from those whocould not be there. I am overwhelmedby the generosity of the gifts: I shallcherish the fruit bowl engraved with theCollege's crest, and the amazing 'card'with all your signatures. The chequewill allow us to replace an ancient andrather unreliable turntable, so that wecan listen to our precious vinyl discswithout wincing. Thank you, all of you,for all your kindness, and for thirty years

of your very enjoyable company. I shalltry to avoid haunting the corridors, but

shall be in College from time to time inconnection with the publication ofModem Poetry in Translation, and hope tomeet many of you in passing. My verybest wishes for your - and the College's ­future.

Letter from Liz Auden -CaviesDear Friends and Colleagues,

I am being very lazy in using Commentto pass on my great thanks for all yourwarm wishes and the lovely vase,flowers and cheque which youcontributed towards when I left theCollege in October.

Alas, the flowers have now withered,my hangover after the 16 October hassubsided and I am about to put thecheque to good use in the purchase ofan 'overlocker' machine. To those of

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you not familiar with what this is, hardluckl Suffice to say I shall think of youall as I neaten seams, sew elastic, rollhems etc, etc with it.

Once again, thanks and be t wishes toeveryonel

On 5 November tlte College Iteld a party tosay farewell to Professor Norma Rimier,wlto retired as Vice-Principal ofKing's inOctober. Professor Rinsler Itad been Vice­Principal since 1987, but titis was only tltelatest ofmany important roles site Itad Iteldin tlte College sincejoining tlte staff in /962.

These included: Dean ofthe College FacultyofArts, Cltairman oftlte Staff PolicyCommillee and Cltairman oftlte EqualOpportunities Croup. Site was a member ofa number ofSenate Commillees and amember oftlte Estates Policy Commilleeand oftlte Universities Funding Council.Professor Janet Bately, deputisingfor tlteActing Principal wlto was called aflilJ toWltiteJzall, tltanked Prof Rimierfor Iterservice to tlte College and wislted Iter aItappy and active retirement.

Liz Auden-Davies picture at Iter leaving intile Social Club (wltere else!) on /6 October.Liz joined the College Of)er /2 years ago asSecretary to tlte Assistant Registrar (bel/erknown now as tlte Academic Registrar).Site rose tIIrouglt tile ranks and becameAssistant Registrar (Academic Services)with responsibilities including theorganisation oftlte PresentationCeremonies, servicing Standing Commilleeand administm'ng tlte ERASMUS sdteme.Liz was a very popular member oftlteCollege community and will be sorelymissed. We wislt Iter luck witlt Iter dress­making business.

Melanie Gardner

Letter from Ray HuntDear Friends and Colleagues,

I wish to convey my thanks to all whocontributed to my presentation on the

occasion of my retirement. Those whoattended will know I received a 'King's'decanter which is receiving regular use.There was also a surprise gift, (a piece ofconcrete from the old Ci il EngineeringLabs) beautifully mounted courtesy ofthe Mechanical EngineeringDepartment technicians. It will be alasting momento of happy times withthe 'Civil's'. This now has a centralplace on our fire surround. There wasalso a cheque presented and this hasbeen used to purchase somephotographic equipment and patiofurniture, the latter has had very littleuse so far due to the continual badweather we have had since myretirement.

My thanks to Mike Harrington forarranging an unforgettable occasion andProfessor Stanley Earles for making thepresentations to my wife (an enormous

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flower arrangement) and myself. [was

honoured and overjoyed by thepresence of so many.

With renewed thanks and very be t

wishes for the future.

A letter from David H Davies ­formerly in the Registry

This letter is to say thank you to all

those of my colleagues who gave so

generously to both my retirement

presents and leaving party last July. Mynew radio is working well and I now also

have a small collection of compact discs.

Basil CrowleyBasil joined the portering staff of

Chelsea College in 1979 and pent all

his time in lodge duties in College

HousefLightfoot Hall, where he was

held in high esteem by the staff and

students, especially those who resided

in the hall of residence.

Basil was a very valued member of

staff as well as being a great friend, hewas always extremely conscientious in

his duty and no job was too big or toosmall for him. His cheery disposition

and friendly attitude to everyone wasexceptional and will be sadly missed.

We wish him a well and long, happy

and healthy retirement in Worthing.

John Worn ham

delegation from the Ministry

of Education in Turkey paid

a visit to the Centre for

Educational Studies on Wednesday 21

October 1992. Headed by His

Excellency Mr Koksal Toptan,

Minister of ational Education, the

delegation included the Director of

International Relations and the Under­

Secretary responsible for teacher

training, and was accompanied by Mr

Colin Perchard, Director ofthe

Turkish Office of the British Council.

Professor Margaret Brown, Head of

the School of Education, welcomed the

delegation on behalf of the College and

presented the Minister with a

Dartington glass bowl engraved with

the College crest.

The delegation had specificallyasked to talk about curriculum

development and the use of computers

in education. Professor Black, who has

unique experience in curriculum

development, as joint director of one of

the first Nuffield Foundation ScienceTeaching Projects and currently as Vice

chairman of the :'-iational Curriculum

Council talked to the Mini ter about

curriculum development.

The Minister took a lively interest in

how curriculum development is

organised in England and Wales and

expressed surprise that the Department

for Education does not elect the school

text books.

The close links between curriculum

development and asse sment procedures

were explained by Professor Margaret

Brown and Gill Close who have been

involved in the development of

assessment programmes. Gill Close is

currently directing a team at CES

producing national assessment materials

in mathematics for children at Key stage

3 (aged 14). Or Margaret Cox described

a range of work done at CES in

educational computing and illustrated

the ways in which CES has worked in

countries overseas to help set up local

computing education programmes.Dieter Pevsner, the Manager of the

Nuffield-Chelsea Curriculum Trust(which was set up to continue the workof the uffield Foundation projects)

explained the work of the N-CCT.

The Minister stressed how useful he

had found the visit and hoped that it

would be the start of further collaboration.

Basilpictured here with a chain for hisoJfice keys to 'help him remember'

(clockwise from bottom left) Jale Anagnan, Bn'tish Council interpreter; Professor MargaretBrown, Head ofSclzool ofEducation; Professor Paul Block, Professor ofScience Education;John May, Director International Education Unit; Gill Close, Director ofthe Key Stage 3SATs Mathematics Team; Margaret Cox, Senior Lecturer in Educational Computing; DieterPevsner, Manager ofthe NuJfield Che/sea Curriculum Trust; His Excellency Mr Kt/ksalToptan, Turkish Minister ofEducation; Olkii Bilgen, Deputy Under Secretory; MeJrmetGiindiiz, Deputy Under Secretary.

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esearch work betng carried out

in the Phy ics Department on

the optical propertie of

diamond featured prominently at a CK/

Japan cience and Technology Event

held at thc Royal ociety on October

1992. Or Allan Collins. Director of

Diamond Research. was invited by the

Cabinct Office to mount two displays

illu tratlng the collaborative work

betwecn King's College and the

:'\ational In titute of Research in

Inorganic \1aterial (:'\IRIM) in

T ukuba Science City. Japan.

The oltd tate Phy ics Group at

King' ollege ha a long history of

tud 109 the electronic and optical

propertlC of diamond . In 19 links

were formed with the research workcr

at. 'IRI.1 who pioneered the

techOlque for the growth of diamond

thin film b chemical vapour depo ition

( D). These layer promise to have a

number of Important indu trial

apphcatlon (for example thermal

management in the semiconductor

indu try. hard optical coatings. machine

tool) and studie ofC D diamond have

represented one of the fastest growing

areas of materials research in the la t

decade.

he quality of the diamond films can

be investigated by variou optical

technique and members of the

opera house ; from excavation at

phrodl i and pana to the langua e

and cu ture 0 the HI h Ande ,and from

n 10- on Iexlcograph . to the hi 0

o he Gul War.

A number 0 interd'sciplinary research

centre have already emerged in the

hool, provldin a focu for Jomt

re..earch \\.or berneen scholar 0

di erent leld but with common

intere cs. The new over-arch 109 Centre

will bnng together the wor of these

centre and other. Headed b

Profe or venl Cameron, Profes or of

Late Antique and Byzantine tUdies.

the research centre which will comprise

the Ilumanitie Re earch Centre are:

dvanced V1u lcal tudie; Bu ine s

Ethic; HelleOlc tudie; Late ntlque

and \1edle al tudie; PhIlosophical

tudle; mencan tudie and

T\\.entleth-Century Cultural tudle.

he Humanitle Research

Cen e \\. launc ed a m

on 7 ober m the Great Hall

by r Anthonv ' enn, ' Pre Ident of the

Bn I h Acadell1) Gue a the

recep Ion heard ir Anthony tal 0 the

mportance of the humanitie to the

nation and the current tate of funding,

Profe or te\\.art utherland, \'ice­

Chancellor of the 'nlver ity of London,

al 0 welcomed the advent of the new

Centre.

The creation of the Centre marks the

emergence of a new approach in upport

for arcs research and It I particularly apt

that it hould be e tabll hed at 109's

one of the count!)' major centres of

academiC excellence 10 thi field. In the

last CFC Research electivity Exercise

the hool of Ilumanltle achie ed an

outstanding performance (comtng

second onl to Oxford and Cambridge),

and It attracted orne 1.5m in research

tncome in I 1-92.

While much humaOltle research

conttnue to be carried out by lone

scholar. the e tabli hment of the new

Centre demon trate the recognition

that in Sign ificant areas of arcs as well as

science. research is tntcrdisciplinary and

inter-departmental. and that the

interests of academics often cluster in

the gaps betwcen traditional disciplines.

This i already evident in the great

variety of re earch currently in hand in

the School of Humanitie : ranging from

land management in. 'epal to the

reconstruction of eighteenth-century

Proftssor Barry 1ft. Ilead ofIhe Sclzool ofIlumanilits. inlrodudng Sir Anlhon] Kmrry,Pmidml ofIhe Brilish Academy, 10 gums alIhe Humanilits R£searclz Cmlre Iounclz. Alsopictured is ProfessorAvnil CamtrOn andProfessor SItf1Mrl SUllzerlond. 10 her righl.

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Japanese team have worked at King'

with Or Collin to establi h criteria b

which the material can be asse sed.

The. 'IRI~ group i al 0 able to

produce ingle cry tal of diamond b

high-pre ure nthe i . The second

di play at the Royal ocie describedwork in progre sat ing' College on

'heavy diamonds' - diamond grown at

. 'IRI~ from carbon-I3, the heavy

i otope of carbon. The atom in heavydiamond vibrate at a lower frequency,

and preci e measurements of the

changes in frequency have led to a

much better understanding of thc

phy ics underlying some ofthe optical

pro perties.

The links with Japan have beenmaintained by a series of vi its; Or

Collin spent a month at '1 RI\1 in 1990as a Foreign Speciali t, with a

Fellowship from the Japane e cienceand Technology genc (ST ), and

more recently imon Law on, who

obtained hi PhD working on diamond

at King's, has joined the :'\IRIYi group

on a two-year Royal ociety/

Fellow hip.

lIt

Dl:ntal . choo] ('" ·ten ion

he visit began with an

opening ceremony at whichthe Prince s Royal gavc her

upport to the research being carried outat the Dental chool and highl praisedthe work being undertaken.

During the tour of the Extension the

Chancellor met taff and viewed a

number of new laboratorie and office,

eeing at fir t hand the work of the

hool. In the Department of

Communit Dentistry he was hown

two projects: a travelling puppet how

which i u ed to educate young children

about the importance of looking after

their teeth, and a project funded by the

charity Cri is on the dental care of thehomele s.

From there the Princess Royal was

taken to one of the eminar rooms onthe first floor which will be used for

teaching medical tudents through the

u e of interactive video. Students can

watch and communicate with a urgeon

he College recei ed two i its

withm five da' from the

Prmce Ro aI, hancellor of

the Cni er i of London. On Frida 9October he opened the Dental hool

Exten ion at KC YiD and the Day

urgery Centre of King College

Ho pital, and on Tue day 13 she

opened the Randall In titute at Drury

Lane._ <.: \ H.e c r h (7 m

The Chance/lor meeting Ms LianaZOifOpolous from the Department 0/Community Dentisfry. With them is DrAIex Inglis, Dean o/the Faculty o/ClinicalDentisfry. In the background is fhe puppet

show which is used to explain theimportance 0/dental care to children.

T he Centre for Heat Transfer

and Fluid Flow Mea urement

has been awarded £137,1 3

from Ford Motor ompany to re earch

the flow proces e in internal

combustion engine inlet port andmanifolds. The research will involveboth predictions of the flows u ingComputational Fluid Dynamics

method and experimen u ing laser

anemomeuy and image proce ing.

using a tran lation programme that he

has devised.

o far he has completed the hand

cop ing of manuscrip for a new

volume of ei ' mu ic which i

expected to be pub" hed in 1994.

Cnfortunatel • he will not be makingmuch mone from hi work - there are

only 20 or 30 profe ionaJ lute player in

Britain!

ford' I· InIr er

ute music written in the

eighteenth century which wasdamaged by water during the

econd World War has been recrcatedon computer in the College by TimCrawford, a lute player for 20 year and

re earcher in music.

Lute music is written in a different

way from conventional music: the tave

with six lines instead of five, u e letters

in tead of notes, and is called 'tablature.

Tim Crawford is producing twoversion of he damaged music, which

was composed by Silvius Leopold

Weis ,a virtuo 0 lute player at the

Dresden Court and a friend of Johann

ba tian Bach. One type i a faithfulreproduction of the faded page theother is in conventional notation for

mu icians who cannot play the lute.

The music is copied out by hand and

entered into an Apple Mac in

conventional notation, the programme,

iglzfingale, providing a stave onto which

the notes are placed. ighfingale also

has a facility for playing the mu ic, 0 it

is possible to 'proof-listen' as well as to

'proof-read'. Tim then convert the

conventional notation into tablature

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performin an operation 10 one of the

theatre on the floor belov. ia a

televl Ion screen tin ed to a mera

dIrectly above the operation ite. Thi

no onl} give a far clearer viev. 0 the

procedure. but also enable a larger

number 0 tuden to v.a h than I

po Ible V.I hin the theatre.

Pr edlOg to the ground oor of the

\rthur LevlO BuildlOg, the Pnnce

Royal formally opened the Da urger)'

entre, v.hlch ha been built at a co t of

. mIllion through a generou

donation to the King' Appeal b)' the

Charle Wolfson Charitable Tru t. The

Centre, which is the large t of Its kmd In

Europe, will perform upward of 10,000operation a year and ignificant!y

reduce waiting lists. It compri four

operating theatre and 36 bed and

allow patien to have theIr operation

earned out within a fnendl .

envIronment b staff trained in the

pnnciple of da urgery, and to return

home on the same da . The type of

operation which will be performed

IOclude dental urgery, ear, nose and

throat surgery, gynaecological and

general surgery.

Dunng the tour the Princes Royal

was hown a trolley/bed which has been

pecifically designed for the Centre. It

combine the functions of bed, trolle

and operating table, thu eliminating the

need for the transfer of the unconscious

patient. he was also hov.n one of the

operating theatre whIch had been

prepared read for an operation and wa

givcn a demon tration 0 laparoscoplc

procedure.

he Pnnce Ro)al returned to

thc Collegc on the followlOg

1 ue da to open the Randall

In titute based 10 Drul)' Lane. The

building I named after the first

Profe or of Blophy ic at King' ,John

Randall, and it was particu larly

appropriate that hI daughter-in-law and

grandson were able to attend theoccasion.

The In mute I home to the

Developmental BIOlogy Re earch

Centre (DB RC) recent! e tabli hed

within KlOg' : a ne 'Aedlcal Research

Council (:-vi RC) :-viu le and Cell

:-viotility Cnil, and a number of other

research groups who e work In olve

molecular and cell biology.

The DBRC comprise ten

laboratone and over 50 re earchers and

I under the direction of Dr. 'Igel

Holder. Research i focused on the

mechani m controlling vertebratedevelopment, particularly the

development of the nervous system, the

blood system and muscle and perm

cells.

The hancellor v.a ho.... n round

several 0 the la oratone and di pla,ed

an e traordinary amount 0 intere t 10

and nowledoe ofthc wor bcin

und en in thl area. he met a

number 0 ta and v.a hown everal

of the proJcc goin OlL

The tour then .... ent 0 he ~1 RC

laboratorie v.here research i conducted

on ho.... mu le v.or at a molecular

level, how cell uch as fibrobla mo earound and how cell maintam their

hape. 109' has a long connection

With the :-vi RC dating bac to J

Facelift for the InstituteThe Randallln titute al 0 u ed theoccasIOn of the Chancellor' vi it to

redecorate and re- ign their reception

area and the exterior of the bUIlding.

.ow pa er -b 10 Drul)' Lane will not

fail to notl e the mart, clean frontage of

the In mute with the College' new

logo boldl di played on each wlOdow,

Thi work was completed b Pentagram

a part of the development of the

ollege' VI ualldentity.

PionsJor tlu nlfP) men'or signogeJortlte Rondoll Institute

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David Ball

Deputy College Secretary(Planning and Resources)

finance team con i ting of:v1r Mervyn:v1aharaj and a Contracts Officer, toas I t 10 contract negotiation, includingpricing, and all contract will require theformal appro al of the Finance Director.

Imo t as aide i ue, but equallimportant, research contractees throughthe Compan will enjoy appropriate

profe ionallOdemnity and product

liability in urance cover.

Thirdly, the Company i seen to bethe mo t obvious and appropriate way to

mitigate or e en avoid potential taxation

liability both within the contractre earch activity and the College'strad ing activities.

The Inland Revenue is showing anincreasing intere t in activitiesundertaken by universities which it

deem to be not within the primaryobjectives of the Cni ersity. Contractresearch, elling of vacation pacemounting hort courses for external

bodie and bar operation ,are exampleof the acti itie which fall into th i net.

t present there ha been a • tayof

execution' but potentially, the taxliability could be significant if the InlandRevenue are not per uaded away fromthi particular line of inve tigation.

A ompany, although subject tocorporation tax, i able to recover uchtax by covenanting back profits toactivitie , with exempt charitable tatu .

The ompany arrangement is alsopotentially a major source of benefit in

VAT rccovery processes. At the pre ent

time, the College being in the exempt

AT category, cannot recover VAT

incurred on supply. There are, however,

major benefits to be gained by placingbuilding contract and other contractarrangements through a Companytructure, and active con ideration i 10

progre as to how best this aspect ofreco ery may be implemented.

Finally, it i planned to mount widerdi cu ion forum at hoollevel, where

hopefully relevant details can be

discu sed, including appropriate

financial and management procedure.

related areas; the arrangements for

ownership and exploitation of

intellectual property generated in thecourse of Collaborative ResearchAgreements, and handling the publicrelation and marketing of the College'sintellectual expertise in the commercialmarket place.

The marketing aspect of industrialcollaboration were identified by theDTI as a primary need ifuniversitiewere to improve their re earch base,

increase con ultancy income andenhance benefit from their profes ional

and intellectual property.

ubmis ion to the DTI for supportin establishing an Indu trial Liaison

nit was successful, and a grant of£100,000 has been secured. The award,which effectively commenced 1 August1992 i spread over three year and isdesigned to meet approximately 40% ofthe estimated co ts of the Unit.

Secondly, following in the wake of the

Hanham Committee Report as tocosting of research activity, and the

CVCP Recommendations and Guidance

as to the management of ponsoredniversity Research, there is a need to

adopt a more co-ordinated and

profe sional approach to researchcontract negotiation and related matters.

This ituation is brought more sharplIOto focu b the fir t mo es to placeResearch Council pon ored researchactivity on to a more commercially

orientated basi .

The Company approach is therefore

perceived to be the be t way to co­

ordinate good management practice as

to research contract negotiations, and in

particular, en ure proper interactionwith pricing and intellectual property

exploitation matters.

All re earch contract negotiations,irrespective of source or sponsor, will

therefore be routed through theCompany management machinery. Inthis respect the Company will have a

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he College has establi hed aPrivate Limited Company,

KCL Enterpri e Ltd.The Company is effectively managed

by a Board of Directors consisting of allHeads of Schools, the College Sccretary,thc Acting Principal and Vice-Principal.The ice-Principal, Professor RichardGriffiths, i Chairman of the Board and

:v1r David Ball is the Compan 'Finance Director.

lthough the Company and its

management tructure is in place, it willnot be i ibly operational until ome

time in the :"ew Year. Thi is primarilybecause key appointments, uch as the

anaging Director and choolIndustrial Liaison Officer, have yet tobe appointed.

The Company has been e tabli hede entially for three reasons:

First and foremost, to undertake the

promotion of indu trial collaboration.This aspect of the Company' activities

is concentrated in two basic inter-

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Department of Portuguese andBrazilian Studies public lecture inPortuguesegoo B06 S:ra d a: 17 303 Decemberp,otessor C eo ce Be a'a ne( n e s dade Fede a do RIO de.la e ro)

DOls Poecas Engen e,ros varo deCampos e Joao Cabral de elo eCo

The Maxwell Society LecturesTo be eld In Room 2C, aln BuildingS rand rom 1400 0150030 NovemberDr LAD ssado ( Ing's Co egeondon)

Brea down scatlstlcs. fractals andtrees

7 DecemberProfessor R ddoc (I pe aCo ,ege Lo don)Early scages of VIsual paccemrecogmcion coarse fIItenng of thereclnallmage reduces computaClonalreqUirements

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Physiology Research SeminarsOn Wednesdays in the PhYSiologyLecture Theatre from 16 30 0 17302 DecemberDr Colin Dolphin (Queen Mary &Wes ield College)Flavin-contalnlng monooxygenases'molecular biology and the relacionshipto trimethylamlnuna. the fish odoursyndrome

9 DecemberDr Jo Beauc a p (Chafing Cross &

es mlns er edlca Sc (01)

Conditionally Immortalised myogeniccel/llnes· n VIVO and In VI ro studies

Developmental Biology SeminarAt 17.00 in he Lec ure Thea re.Randall Institute. Drury Lane9 DecemberDr Ma hew Guille (DB RC King'sCollege London)

Randall Seminar at Drury LaneM: 17 00 n' e _eCL,,'e ~t'ea:'e t'eRa ca nS' ".J"e. D'u -ane7 DecemberD' goon ne ( ::RC I s:" :e,8a a a Camo'dge

e p osp 0 os: de c c e. c eao c ea']

Pharmacy Department SeminarA 1600 n Roo 19. anresa Road3 DecemberPro essor C GreenIschaemiC and reperfuslon injurydunng che preservaClon of organs fortransplanCallon

Age Concern Institute ofGerontology SeminarsTo be e d In Room 3/8. Cornwa

o se rom 15 40 0 17 0030 November

I e urp (London Sc 001 0

EconomiCS)Elderly people and household changeIn the 19805 a comparativeperspecClve

1 DecemberDr M Marshall (formerly MedicalOfficer at the North London HospiceHome Care Service)Livmg WIth dymg from cancer

,on rence

Age Concern Institute ofGerontologyOne-day ConferencesTo be eld a Can erbury Ha ,Ca wngh Gardens. Lo don Cl9EE10 DecemberElder Abuse new fmdings and policygUidelinesThis con erence IS aimed aprofeSSionals and policy makersworking In SOCial services. heal andhousing authorities and in he priva eand voluntary sectors.Recent research on the extent andInds of abuse will be discussed as

well as an In ernational comparison

Pa lcipan s will be encouraged 0

s are he experiences 0 wor n heira eas

16 December 1992Assessing older people's needsresearch and practIceHow can e needs 0 olderpopula ions be assessed] How doolder people's needs change overime? How can needs assessmen be

used to plan services? Theseques ions will be discussed withreference to the results of three majorlongitudinal studies.

Age Concern Institute ofGerontology Study Days1 December, 10.00 017.00 andollow up discussion on 8 December,1000 0 11.40. These wo parallels udy days are being organised or he

Sc in Geron ology s uden s, buother members 0 the College arewelcome 0 a end by priorarrangemen. Please con ac Dr EmilyGrundy, eXl 3038 or Lyne e Yor , ex3036 or more in ormation

Dr Claire Jarvis (a historicaldemographer and Research Fellow inthe Institute)Old age in historical perspective

Dr Rahman Najlerahim (Lecturer inGerontology in the Institute)

Cognitive psychology andneuroscience in gerontology

Department of Computer ScienceColloquiaRoom 3D, ain Building, S rand,13.302 DecemberClive GalleyA single-function coarsest partitIOnPRAM algorithm

Music Department ConcertsA 1305, Grea Ha I, ad Issron IS ee1 DecemberC au Yee Lo a d Vale 'e 0, musicfor piano

2 DecemberT e Emperor Quarte musIc byMozart, Debussy and Shostakovlch

3 DecemberCia ran Crilly and John Page, music forviolin and hom

8 DecemberMusic for String Quartet by King'sComposer Majors

10 DecemberCandice Wood and Jessica Sum ers,music for violin and soprano

Advent Carol Service2 - 4 December a 17.30 in he ChapelFree ickets for thiS year's AdventCarol services are now available. Thetheme of this year's services is 'Fromdarkness to light', and we hope thatyou will come with family and friendsto listen to the fine music. Theservice lasts for about an hour and ahalf, and mulled wine and mince pieswill be available after the service.

Christmas Carol Service10 December a 17.30 in the ChapelWe hope ha his will be a Collegea ily occaSion, and children are

pa icularly welcome. T is service ismore in ormal han e Advenservice, . h radi ional, fa iliarChris as carols. T e service las sabou 45 minu es, and re resh en swill be available a tervvards.I you would like 0 read a one of heservices please get in ouch. Weneed abou 25 readers 0 cover hefour services, good voice projec ion isnecessary as we don't usemicrophones. Please contact theChaplaincy for more information or toreserve tickets.

I.. n er lnmt:nt

Romeo and JulietSadle 's ells is 0 ering a hmi ed

ber 0 £28.50 a d £23 stallsIC e s a 0 or e price 0 one ore Lo don Ci y Balle pe orma ce 0

Ro eo and J lie on ednesday 9Dece ber a 19.30Ben S e enson, A is ic Direc or 0 eHous on Balle, as choreographed aballe which received ou sandingcri ical acclaim when first performed inLondon las Christmas. The ballet isset to Prokofiev's score which hasbeen rearranged especially for theLondon City Ballet's orchestra. Pleasecall 071-278 8916 to book by creditcard Tickets will be allocated on aIrs -come-firs served basis.

Traspunte TheatreThe Depa me of Spanis andSpanish American S udies presen s:Tres sombreros de copa a 1930'ssurrealls comedy by iguel ihura,on 9 - 11 December in the NewThea re S rand. Ticke s are £3.50.For more information please call 071­8732069.

The King's TableChelsea Campus - Christmas LunchThe annual Chelsea Campus StaffChristmas lunch will be held in theMain Refectory, Manresa Road, onTuesday 22 December from 12.00.The raditional Christmas 'carvery'lunch is offered a a special price of£6.45 per head inclusive of VAT and arecep ion drin . Book early to avoiddisapooin men, using e ormsalready circula ed, or elephone heCa ering Departmen a C elsea onex 4907/4908.

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ObituariesMarie Ambrose\1ane Ambrose, the denti ~ joumali tand campaigner for women' right hasdied. aged 75. \fter the _ 'orth London

Collegiate hool, he trained atCniverslry College Hospital and became

a dental surgeon in the communiC).

From 1974-79 she taught at Kmg's and

was President of the. fetropolitan

branch of the Bmi h Dental A ociation

m 1977-7 . When he was 5 she gained

an orthodontics diploma at Rome's

Eastman Institute. he will be

remembered for her ardent campaigningon behalfofwomen' equality within

the dental profes ion. After the BritishDental AssociatIOn refused to endorse aBDA's women's group she went on tofound an independent body, Women in

Denti try. he was a member of the

"ational UnIOn ofJournalists, theFawcett ociety and the 300 Group for

women In politics. [n 1983 she stood for

local government in Hamp tead. he

also wrote mu ic criticism regularly for

her local newspaper, the Ham and fligh

John FreemanIt is with great regret that I have to

report that John Freeman, SeniorLecturer in Law (Emeritus), passedaway on Sunday 18 October 1992.

Those ofyou who knew John will beaware that he was devoted to the work

of the School and the College, and he

will be greatly missed by his friends and

colleagues.

Professor CGJ Morse

I lead of the Law School

Professor Richard PurchonFormer colleagues and students of Dick

Purchon will be saddened to hear that

he died in October. He became the first

and only Professor of Zoology at Chel ea

College in the 1960s following IQ year

as Raffles Professor of Zoology in

Singapore and a short spell in Ghana.

He was a distinguished marine biologist

with a fondness for molluscs. As an

authority on bivalves in particular, he is

perhaps best known amongst zoologists

for h is book Th~ Biology ofMollusca.Curiously Dick's first contacts with

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London were m 1940-45 when as a

POW he taught and examined formal

biology c1asse with material arranged

through the Red Cro and CCHentschel at Chelsea Polytechnic on

behalf of the C nJ er icy.To London DIck Purchon brought a

welcome tropical dimension tomalacology and marme tudle. I [e was

a dedicated teacher believing in

profe orial contact WIth students fromear one. All who knew him will recall a

gentleman and a scholar. A1way

upportive of his po tgraduate and

younger colleague. he bore

departmental administration with

fortitude and contributed much timeand energy to Presidency of the

;vialacological ociety (1969-71 ),Chairmanship of the Cniversiry's Boardof tudy In Zoology, and Zoological

Secretaryship of the Linnean ociety(1970-73). Presiding over a department

which initiated the fir t CK graduate

traming programme in Applied

I Iydrobiology, he foresaw the scope for

further developmcnts of ecological

activities at Chelsea, some of which

since amalgamation, have contributed to

the strong environmental theme in the

Divi ion of Life Science. Dick retired

in 1981, but remained active publishing

as recently as 1990 from his home inOtford, Kent.

Roland Bailey

Or J A TyrrellWe record with sadness the death on 13

September 1992, at the age of 60, of

John Alfred Tyrrell, BSc, PhD, AKC,

Emeritus Reader in Pure Mathematics.

John Tyrrell had origmally been an

undergraduate and a re earch student in

the Department of ;vIathematics and,

after a short spell as a schoolteacher, was

appointed assistant lecturer in the

Department in 1958 and became alecturer in 1960. The title of reader wa

conferred on him in 1970. II is pecialfield of study was algebraic geometry,

and his long stay in the department

coincided with a happy co-operation

with Professor Semple, whose results

included a joint monograph and a

number of joint papers. As a

professional mathematician, John was

first-rate. As well as being a leading

scholar in geometry, with a fine

collection of books and papers, he had a

broad knowledge of pure mathematics,

which he was alwa' ready to put at hi

colleague 'di posal.

John Tyrrell was a qUintessential

College man. He seldom missed aCollege occa ion, and was on friendlterm with everyone. He had been

Pre Ident of the local branch of theIn, and secreta!) of KC LA. lie

organised the London Geometry

minar, was a secretal)' of the London

;vIathematical ocleC) , and ran the inter­

collegiate;vl e In \fathematlcs. lie was

probably the mo t popular lecturer [he

;vIathematics Department has ever had;

indeed, students would ask to enrol for

'any course taught by Or Tyrrell'.

Bishop Gerald EllisonI he Rt Revd Gerald Elllson, formerly

Bishop of London, died on 15 October,aged 82. Gerald Elli on' a ociation

with the University of London began in

1953 when as Bishop ofWillesden he

became Chairman of Westfield College

Board of Governors, a po ition he

continued to hold until 1967 while

Bishop of Chester. In 1973, on

transferring to London, he became ex­

officio Vice-Chairman - in effect

Chairman - of the Old Council of

King's College which was responsiblefor the Theological Department, at thattime a separate School of the niversity.

On the granting in 1980 of a new

Charter which reunited the Theological

and non-Theological parts of the

College, he became Vice-Chairman of

the :"ew Council, a position which he

held until J988. Even after he retired as

Bishop of London in 1981 and went to

live in the delightful Dorset village of

Cerne Abbas he continued to be a

regular attender at Council meetings,apart from the year he spent as VicarGeneral of Bermuda sorting out the

problems of that far Oung corner of the

Anglican Communion.

Sometimes seen as a naturalconservative - he was said to have been

the last Bishop to wear gaiter - Gerald

Ellison was as early as 1966 firmly in

su pport of the ordination of women to

the priesthood and two of the suffragan

bishops he appointed were convinced

socialists.

Peter Gilbert

rt Lhe Chairman of Germany'slargest bank, Herr Hilmar

Kopper of Deutsehe Bank,gave the Gilbart lecture at King' onOctober 27. The annual lecture iho ted b King's and the Chartered

In tiwte of Bankers and pon ored by. 'ational Westminster Bank. Thi year's

lecture was entitled 'German banks:what role do they really play?' and the

event was chaired by Lord Alexander,

Chairman of National Westminster.

Addre sing a prestigious 250-strongaudience in the Great Hall, includingthe Chairmen of three of the nationalclearing banks, Herr Kopper warnedthat the single European market willincrease competition between the bankin Europe. He also responded to whathe called the recent 'war of word 'aboutthe German banks' role in the UK'sdeparture from the European exchangerate mechanism. On the events of

'Black edne day', he gave it as hi

opinion that 'The Bundesbank ...

neither wishes to be a bank that rules

Europe, nor does it regard itself a the

pilot responsible for the pound'stail pin', He regretted the 'bitteraftertaste' given to the goal of Europeanintegration by the UK's departure fromthe exchange rate mechan ism of theEMS and stressed that, in the long term,he could not imagine Europeanintegration without the nited

Kingdom. 'For me, Europe without the

political culture of the British

parliamentary system, the British way of

life and the London financial centre

would be a torso,' he said.

The lecture was very well-received

and was covered by The Independent andThe Times. It was followed by a

reception for all the audience and thenby a dinner for lP, which enabledKing' to further develop its relationship

with many important people in thebanking and financial world.

hri tine Ken 'on JoneH: pond:

unintentional, of a general laziness or

inefficiency amongst a particularly

hardworking and under-respected groupof staff. I hope that the record will be

put straight.Your sincerely,

Christine au nders

I'm sorry the Humanitie Administrative

taffCommittee hould have taken

offence at my remark. I am not sure

why they hould have inferred that I wasaccusing them of any lazines -

e pecially since they evidentl knowthat they distribute Comment very fast!The 'internal factor' I mentioned as thecause for the delay of Comment could beall sorts of thing ,and we are grateful for

all the help departmental secretariegive in getting Comment out fast. Wehave to plead guilty to there being a few

events mentioned in the last edition that

were on the same day that the copiesarrived at the College: this was due to

problems with the four-colour printing

in that ed ition, and doe not usuallyoccur.

In1anltl

raff on111lttee

Dear Editor,

I am writi ng at the req uest of the

hool of Humanities Admini trativetaffCommittee, which repre ents over

30 members of secretarial andadministrative staff throughout the

chool, to take issue with the Director ofPublic Relations' remarks in Is ue 63about the often late arrival of Comment.

Departmental secretaries were

particularly incensed by the inference

that they normally distribute Comment in

a less than efficient manner, and that if

they were to distribute it 'as quickly as

they can' in future, he problem of out­of-date publicity would be olved. On

the day upon which our secretarie

received issue 63 from the Pre andPublications Office, at least half a dozenpublished events had alread takenplace; clearly, the 'internal factors'

mentioned by Chri tine Ken on lonein her article had already created thedelay before the secretarie had a

chance to distribute their copies.

Obviously an individual secretary may

have problems once in a while whichprevent a speedy distribution of circular

items in her/his own department.However, much offence was taken atthe apparent assumption, however

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Tlu Jlaffoftlu Vocation Bureau ae;;atflng tlu opening oftlu B UAC S/roe;; /reld atKensington Toe;;n Hall on 27 October

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T he designer of the College'

new corporate visual identity,

Pentagram, are al 0 involvedwith other academic ventures clo e to

the Thames. One of their partner i.

Theo Crosby, on the board of the

International Shakespeare Association

Conference, and they have been

involved in making drawing • based on

the exca ations at the Globe Theatre m

Bank ide - showing how the theatre

might ha e looked in hakespeare' day.

They have also hosted several eminar

on the deSign of the Elizabethan

theatre.

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