Comment 061 May 1992

King's College London newsletter

Semesterisation and a I that

The specific pattern 0 teaching was not decided. A small working party has made recommendation, which are now under debate and con ultation.

Professor Arthur Lucas, Vice Principal with responsibility for academic planning, wntes:

A number of considerations wiJl affect the final de ision, which must pre erve the strengths of the present system. The

Di cu sions about the trucrure of the academic year, whether to offer teaching in the summer, and whether to use summer teaching to offer fast track degrees, have been cau ing confu ion among member of the College, mainly because these separate is ues have become run together as if deci ion about the first entailed deci ion about the other. They do not. It i very important that the decisions be made as separate decisions, each on it own merits.

Just because omething is po sible it does not mean it is desirable.

teaching pattern mu t for example, alIo-\v tho e course which use the majority of the academic year or teachin (rather than examination) in the fir t and econd rear to continue to have at least 26 weeks of teaching, and pre erably 2 ; above all it continued on pages 2 and J

OPEN DAY SUCCESS Despite the mclement weather, King's Open Day on 28 April was successful In attracting over 1500 vISItors to the College. This year a new format was devised for the day featlmng individual School introductions and a central programme which included concerts by the Music Department and the King's Singers, displays of the work of the Language and Communication Centre and the Computer Centre and a talk from the tudents' Union.

I set out below some of the background, and some of the i sue still to be resolved. In doing so I thank the member of the College who have written to me with suggestions and concerns. The common concerns are addressed here.

Terminology 'Semesterisation' (for want of a better term - there is no suggestion that teaching be organised in six-month blocks!) is the primary issue. At present the College operates its undergraduate teaching in two main patterns: one based on terms, the other based on emesters. This split of pattern has for the last three or four years been causing major problems in booking centrally timetabled classrooms, especially from January to Easter. To make effective use of the limited teaching space available, especially on the Strand, it is necessary to have a uniform undergraduate teaching pattern. After recurrent debate over three years, the Standing Committee finally decided that the pattern should be a uniform one, based on semesters. This decision is in line with the dominant trend in the UK.

Potential students in the Anatomy Department.

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mu t be con istent with the patterns within the remainder of the Univer ity of London, o that intercollegiate teaching i pre eryed and enhanced. (At pre ent there i not complete uniformity in vacation date between the chools of the University, and it i nece ary for a College to take a lead in making a firm proposal for the date that hould be followed. King's i the econd largest chool of the Univer it)' and hould be taking a lead. ) There are also is ue related to teaching continuity: hould a teaching block be broken by a major vacation?

Recommendations The Working Party recommended that: •

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the teaching blocks be of 13 weeks, oupled with an additional two week period available for examinations in each 'semester'; that teaching in the first semester be completed b Christma; that there be a twO week break between the end of teaching in the first semester and the tart of the examination period at the beginning of the second. (Students without an examination would then have a four week break between teaching periods;) that Easter not be a substantial vacation, but be treated as a series of public holidays, with the exact numbers of days of closure in addition to Good Friday and Easter Monday still to be determined.

Summer teaching?

Summer teaching would be pos ible under this scheme, with another 'standard' semester period available. Whether it is practicable was tested by looking at two possible model , one involving the creation of a new set of course units to be taught only in the summer and which would cohere with an existing degree pattern and avoid replication of units, and a second involving the duplication of existing modules. Both were possible.

It is a separate question whether the use of the summer for standard undergraduate course units is desirable. (Remember, in considering the issues, that there exist now some courses, including some undergraduate ones, that ha e a teaching period substantially in excess of the standard 30 weeks: some non-clinical

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ummer Re earch Tea h Teach

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Departments now teach well into August and begin by the third week of eptember.)

I believe that it is desirable that the possibility for teachin in the summer is pre erved. The change in participation rate that are planned, with a move to an entitlement for higher education for substantially more than the current minority, means that it cannot be assumed that the present pattern of academic years will be desirable or possible for all who wish to participate. It is also clear that there are strong pres ures to accommodate the increased numbers of rudents without a corresponding capital programme to build more institutions with 'classrooms and teaching laboratorie left empty for 22 weeks in the year'. (While this is not true of all classrooms at King's, it is close enough to the truth to be difficult to rebut.)

For academic taff, it will be ne e ary to ensure that there i no increa e in avera e teaching load per annum, otherwise they will be le able to ensure that they undertake the re earch component of their contracts. I use the term average here, because I believe that ome staff, at some periods of their research cycle, might benefit from the possibility of having two adjacent emesters free of undergraduate teaching. This could be arranged by teaching in either of the following patterns, the first of which would have a 'normal' load in each year, the second by having one 'heavy' and one 'light' year. (In Table I the term 'teach' i u ed to represent a period when undergraduate teaching takes place; it doe not imply that no re earch is done at that period. imilarly, in the 're earch' period there may be some preparation for teaching, and often teaching of postgraduates.)

Leave and other issues If summer teaching is introduced, then a number of issues arise, for all categories of staff and for students.

There will be a need to reconsider the patterns of leave for non-academic staff, whose contracts now make assumptions about the nature of vacation and term time.

For example, it will no longer be defensible to assume that library, computer centre and departmental support taff take their leave in vacations; as in many service industries, leave times will be pread and rostered, not concentrated into a small period of the year.

This should allow taff to take lea e at other times of the year, depending on their own and their department's circumstances.

There are other issues that will need to be examined, not least of which will be the need to have some classrooms and laboratories out of action for one semester to allow essential repair and maintenance to be done. School Office and Registry staff will have to cope with additional administration related to teaching in nontraditional periods, and will not be able to count on period free of student demands for regular annual tasks such as archiving records. Account will need to be taken of the e demands when planning for change.

There are other patterns that would still produce an average teaching commitment the ame as at present, with the 'research seme ter' being taken at different periods in different years. (In my own ca e, for example, work in archives would be easier to sustain in January to March, without having to compete with the large influx of foreign scholars in June to September.)

Students and grants For students, the advent of summer courses, coupled with increasing u e of credit transfer chemes, would allow more flexibility in the time of the year in which they studied. Experience abroad suggests that as higher education moves toward a 'mass system' we will find students switching back and forward between fulland part-time modes, with the 'part-time' sometimes being full-time study in one seme ter, with none, or a light load, in the remainder of a year.

Issues of eligibility for grant on an 'in-andout' pattern need to be addressed by Government, an issue that will be forced by the decreased value of the non-fee part of student support. While it remains necessary for students to earn to supplement grant or to repay loans, some may find it easier to

-ind employmen in period other than the ummer.

I is unli ely 0 be po ible 'or all depart men to mount ummer our e every year. Tho e with a mall number 0 ta' may tnd i parti ularly di i ult. ther will Ind i e ier, and perhap de irable, to 0 er ummer our e as the norm. I do not believe that the olle e would ind it po ible for all Department to mount a full ran eo cour e or three erne ter in every year.

Fa t track degrees o-called 'fast tra k de ree ' become po ible if ummer teachin is offered. A tudent could obtain as much tea hin a now, under the ame condition of tud} and examination, but within two calendar year rather than three. There would be le time for reflection and acation readin , and there would be le s time for 0 ial maturation. The con equence of the e 10 se would depend to a great extent on individual circum tance . Entrant who have had a period in the work force may not uffer from the decrea ed opportunity for per onal maturation; tudent in cour e that are more technical may not lose by the loss of vacation reading time, wherea those in the more literary ubjects might.

Paradoxically, the problem of student support may be le s for students on a fast track degree, for if a full-time cour e extend for 45 weeks or more, then the

Lo al Edu a ion Authori y i obli cd, under he urren rul ,to pay rant or - 2 week at he appropriate rate per week beyond h 3" wee tandard.

I the Colle e de ide 00 er ummer our e there will need to be a eparate de isi n about whe her to permi ast track de ree , and I 0, whether to limit them to peci 'ied de ree pro ramme .

It i very important to re 0 ni e that fast track de ree are only bein on idered as an addition to the traditional pattern. I do not believe that it would be po ible for the College to offer fa t track degree as the only method of tudyin or an undergraduate degree' it is certainly not desirable.

Dates and deci ion In the hort term, we mu t determine the emester date for the Academ ic Year 1993/ 1994 by June 1992. ummer cour e need further di cu ion and market research; an academic deci ion need to be taken about whether to allow fa t track degree. I would hope tho e deci ion will be taken by the ollege it elf, and not forced upon it by outside agencies. It is therefore important to continue the detailed consideration of the implications of summer teaching, with a view to taking a decision, no later than Christmas 1992, and preferably earlier. I would particularly welcome individual comment on summer teaching and fast track degrees, with the understanding that the comments would be fed into debate unless marked confidential.

Dr Farzaneh (centre) and his team with Professor Sir James Black, FRS . ho opened the Unit.

MOLECULAR MEDICINE UNIT OPENS major new development to suppor mole ular biolo . re earch has been e tabli hed at Km ' based at the Denmark Hill campu . The. lole ular .fedl ine nit o Kin'" Colle e hool 0 Medicine and Denti try wa officially laun hed on 23 March by Pro e or ir James Black, FR ,in the company 0 the College's Prin ipal, Dr John Beynon Professor Michael Peckham, Director of R&D in the Department of Health and Mr lan Gainsford, Dean of the chool. The openin ceremony was preceded b. a presentation made by the Unit' Director and originator, Dr Farzin Farzaneh, on the aims and activitie of the new Unit.

The e tablishment of this central facility will provide a focal point for the promotion of collaborative cell and molecular biolo y within the chool and further clo er contact with the Divi ion of the Faculty of Life, Ba ic Medical and Health ciences. Current initiative under way include the molecular genetic analy i of normal and leukeamic haematopoie i , with particular emphasi on myeloid leukaemias and myeloid cell differentiation and the molecular genetic analysis of the retroviallife cycle, e pecially tho e mechanisms involved in the integration of provirus into the host cell genome.

The refurbishing of the laboratorie in the Rayne Institute was made possible by a grant from the Univer ity of London. The development of thi initiative wa identified a a priority in the chool's cademic Plan and this wa endorsed by the College's Re earch trategy Committee which earmarked additional re ource to upport the purchase of major items of equipment.

An initial allocation from the Committee of £18,7 to pump-prime the Unit' synthetic oligonucleotide utility has been amply rewarded: the revenue from this service is now £12, per annum. In addition, over £550,000 has been attracted by the Unit in the past eighteen month from various sources, including the Cancer Re earch Campaign (£145,000), the Medical Research Council (£118,000) and the Leukaemia Research Fund (£200,000). This has enabled Dr Farzaneh to build up his support team of 15 re earch workers.

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RECRUITING IN CYPRUS John Mltlr, Vlce-Prinapal, External RelatIOns, writes about hIS recent recruitment visit to Cyprus.

Profe or E M Deeley (Electronic and Electri al En ineerin ) and I repre enred the ollege at the recenr Briti h ouncil Recruitmenr Fair in icosia, Cyprus. The Fair wa very well atrended and rudenr came from many parts of the i land; about 175 were inrerviewed and useful contact wa al renewed with a number of school head and coun ellors. The balance of interest wa very much as in the past with Engineering, Management and Law leading the field. Mo t higher education in tirution from the UK were repre ented and, in the few interval of a busy programme, most experienced again the warm and generou welcome that Cypriots extend ro vi iror .

Our alumni once again helped u very con tructively. The Pre ident of KCLA (Cypru ), Mr Theodoro . icolaide , arran ed an e ening reception at a plea ant re taurant 0 that prospective tudent and their parenrs could meet parents of ptesenr srudents, as well as me, in le s formal circum tance .

A major initiative this year was Profes or Deeley' vi it ro the Higher Technical Institute in ico ia; thi is a wellestablished in tirution with good three-year Diploma courses in Engineering. As a re ult of Professor Deeley' meetings at the Institute, it will now be pos ible for ]n titute studenr who have obtained a very good aggregate score in the Diploma ro apply for entry ro the econd year of our undergraduate Engineering courses. This is potentially a source of excellent rudenrs for the College, and the opportunity ro apply ro King' on the e terms ha been warmly welcomed on the island.

On this occasion it was not po sible ro vi it Mr George Paraskevaide , a Fellow of the College, the father of an old srudenr and one of our most generous benefacrors. He and his son were abroad but they sent their best wishes and the hope that in the Autumn they will take part in the formal ceremony of opening and blessing the handsome office which Mr Paraskevaides has given for the u e of the College and KCLA (Cyprus) in the centre of Nicosia. If all goes well it will be opened, blessed and sprinkled with holy water by a Greek Orthodox priest (who al 0 happens ro be a King's graduate!).

] al 0 visited Or George Georghallides, the Direcror of the Cyprus Research Centre, ro di cuss preliminary propo al for a conference on Cypru ro be held in King' in the week preceding the Commonwealth Prime Minister' Conference in ico ia in 1993. More details will follow from the Centre for Hellenic Srudies.

CORPORATE VISUAL IDENTITY UPDATE The Corporate isual Identiry Advisory Group under the chairman hip of Profe sor Barry Ife has been progre ing it work in the development of a new vi ual identity for the Colle e ( ee Comment 0 59) and is plea cd ro announce that it ha appointed leading graphic designers Penra ram ro undertake this contracr. Penta ram are renowned for their designs for publi her Faber and Faber, the Guardian new paper, L10yd of London, the Vicroria and Albert Museum and The Design Council, ro name a few of their clients.

Work is well in hand for the launch of the new identity at the beginning of eptember but taff will have the opporrunit)' of previewing the identiry before thi date. A erie of Open Meetings i planned ro unveil the identity ro staff at the different campu es in order to explain how the new design wa conceived and how it is intended that it hould be used in a variery of applications ranging from stationery advertisements and publiciry material ro external decoration. The Open Meetings will take place on Tuesday 26 May at the following times: KCSMD, Denmark Hill Main Lecture Theatre Kensington Campus Alien Lecrure Theatre Strand Campus ew Theatre

09.30 - 11.30 12.30 - 14.30 15.30 - 17.30

All staff are welcome ro anend.

Plea e note that if ou need to reprint your existing stationery before 1 eptember only order sufficent stocks to last you till then as the new design will be introduced by that date.

Members of the College who visited Hong Kong in February to attend the British Education Fair were entertained to lunch by trustees and officers of the K C Wong Education Foundation. Front row (from left) John Muir, Jennifer Jackson, Dr S K Fong (Director of the Bank of China and Trustee), Barrie Morgan. Mr K H Wong (Trustee and Secretary) is on the left in the back row. Twenty King's postgraduate students are supported by K C Wong scholarships at present.

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Mooting success for King's Law students In re en year. he hoolo Law ha enjoyed an ou undin repu ation in he ield o' mootin competi IOn . Three year a 0, ucce in the Ob5er.-er Compe ition or unJver HIe and pol; e~hnl in the Uni cd Kin dom lead ro an appearan e and vi rory at the omm nweahh udent ~100un Compelllion held in. ew Zealand. . 'ow, the ea hievement have been rowned b} the remarkable vi rory 0 a team 0 tudent from rhe En li hand Fren h Law our e in the Je up International Law Moot held in a hingron DC in April.

The competition imulate a formal trial in which twO team play the role of lawyer advi ing the oppo ing parties. It is their task ro submit detailed written brief outlining their le .11 argument and then ro argue the ca e orally in front of the court, re ponding ro any que tion put by the judge a they go. Team - well over a hundred in all at the outSet - qualified for the final stage of the competition b. winning national heats. Then the national winner headed for ashingron for a week of concentrated activity. The King's tudent beat Hong Kong, Au tria and the United tate in the opening tage and Canada in the emi-final before emerging a o erall victors by defeating ingapore in the final.

The team con isted of David Reid and Peter Griffin (both graduated 1991), ina Ellin, Hywel Robin on, Wendy Barnard, arianne Potter and Pierre Lastenou e

(.111 third year student ). Pe er Gn in was awarded the prize or the be t individual mooter in the inal. \'\ hat made the team's vi rory even more remarkable was the a t hat the studen were all based at the UnJver it) 0 Pari I or the duration 0 the competition and had ro make do wi h no a ademi as isrance at all rom member 0 the aculry .

Another ucce ful venture undertaken this year by the chool of Law in a lmilar field was the chool' fir t ever Client Interviewing Competition, held in January.

This activity usefully complementS mootin ,being concerned with the out-ofcourt side of a lawyer' job where mooting focuse upon advocac} in court.

The competition was initiated in conjunction with City olicitor, ither, and held in the firm' conference rooms.

Thirty second and third year King's Law tuden in team of rwo, played the part of qualified olicitor, with lawyer from Withers acting as confu ed and distres ed clients eeking legal advice. The tudent were given valuable trainin over two day, a well as a rare in ight into the working environment of a City-based practice.

The piaure shows the eight finalists in the competition with winners Alex Cheung and Adam Smith in the centre. On the far right isJane Widger, a King's law graduate now working with Withers, who played the role of the client in the final.

KING'S COLLEGE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF METALS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE (MBM) A new interdis iplinary re ear h roupin ha been e rabli hed the 'Kin ' Colle e Centre for the rudr 0 _1etal in Biolo y and .1edi ine' (known internally a the ~1BJ\1 Group).

The new Group has evolved from a research strategy grant which was awarded primarily ro establish a centre for the study of the chemi try, molecular biology and strucrure of tran ition-metal protein. It soon became clear that the expertise at King' cover a wider range of metal inve ti ations than originally thought and the tran formation of the new group recogni e thi fact.

Around 3 full-time academic taff belong to BM. The di cipline included are biochemistry, biophy ics, chemi try, microbiology, nutrition, pharmacy, pharmacology, physiology and taff from the Medical chool. In 1990-91 over ÂŁ2.5 million in grants wa awarded to group members from a wide variety of sources.

The metal tudied include iron, copper, nickel, cadmium, manganese, thallium, aluminium, lead, zinc, gold, cobalt and chromium. The aim of MBM i to tudy the role of metal in biology and medicine, encompassing both pure and applied research. Given the broad range of the subject the centre intends to facilitate interdisciplinary research collaboration, marrying phy ical and chemical technique with biological and clinical problem .

The Group will be based in the new 'Atkins' Divi ion at the Kensington site.

However, the research activities take place in laboratories at several College sites and involve collaborations across the School and College.

John Wrigglesworth Biomolecular ciences

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New Respiratory Pharmacology Unit at Denmark Hill Dr C Pa e (Pharmacology, Manre a Road) and Dr J Co tello (Thora ic Medi ine, Denmark Hill) have recently been awarded £5 to fund the con truction of a new Re earch Floor to hou e a Re piratory Pharmacology Unit within the exi ting Department of Thoracic Medicine.

The fund have been obtained from two charitable sources the Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation (£350,000) and the Welton Trust (£150,000).

Furthermore, Dr C Page and Dr J Price (the Consultant Paediatrician within the Department of Thoracic Medicine) have recently been awarded a (Wo year grant from the Wellcome Trust to inve tigate'The influence of environmental factor on the development of persistant bronchial hyperresponsi veness'.

The creation of this Respiratory Pharmacology Unit will provide an excellent environment for PhD and MD students wishing to carry out fundamental research into the cellular and molecular aspects of respiratory disease such as asthma. Furthermore, the floor will undoubtedly attract Post Doctoral Fellows and foreign research workers and increase our research trength in the field of respiratory research.

Dr Clive Page Pharmacology

A NEW NAME IN LIGHTS IN DRURY LANE Toward the Holborn end of Drury Lane £la hin light and neon i ns (and a queue for return) indicate where Cats eem et to run for ever. Directly oppo ite i a longrunning King' College production known in shorthand as 'Biophy ics' or just 'Drury Lane', which now eems et to outrun its rival with a new 25-year lease from the Mercers' Company and a new name - The Randall In titute.

pared upheaval by refurbishment and builder; the MRC ha inanced the con olidation of it accommodation, both for it intrin ic merits and to optimi e the use of available pace, with the re ult that every previou ly pare corner throughout the buildin o is now u ed and the MRC Muscle Cell Motility Unit find it elf together on one floor for the fir t time.

Even before there were moves to re-align Life Sciences Division and independently of those, scienti tS from Biomolecular ciences and the Anatomy and Human Biology Group of Biomedical ciences were charting areas of common interest.

These contacts gained their own momentum once the College agreed to provide £25 ,00 to refurbish laboratories enabling some Anatomy staff to move from the Strand.

Five Anatomy staff and four Biomolecular taff took this opportunity to formalise their common research interests by establishing the Developmental Biology Research Centre. An impressive scientific conference has been planned for July. which Sir Mark Richmond, FR , Chairman of the Science and Engineering Research Council will attend, as will Professor tewart Sutherland as Vice-Chancellor of the University. Members of the Centre have already had great success in attracting research funding and the expectation is that there will soon come a point where funding-bodies will want to consolidate their investment by providing grants to the Institute as well as to individual .

The e fields of interest are complemented by the established Biophy ics grouping, where there i an increasing investment in X-ray cry tallography. The juxtapo ing of the e active re earch groups with common interest mean that members of the Randalllnstitute look forward to the future with zest and confidence. But why the Randall? Well, King's rightly ha a sen e of history. Professor Sir John Randall, FR , (1905-1984) came to King's in 1946 as Wheat tone Professor of Phy ic , already distinguished by his crucial contribution (with HAH Boor) to the development of radar in the Second World War - the cavity magnetron being today universally familiar in the microwave oven. ir John counts as one of the founders of modern molecular biology and could be said to be the inventOr of biophysics His energy resulted in King's acquiring the present building in Drury Lane - with generous support from the Wellcome Tru t.

Central Research Fund The Central Research Fund has been instituted for the purpose of making grants to members of the University (other than present undergraduate students and those registered for a taught Master's degree) engaged on specific project of research, to assist with the provisions of special materials, apparatus and travel costs.

Applications are considered each term and the next closing date for applications is 7 September 1992. Forms of application and further particulars may be obtained from the Central Research Fund Section, Room 21 A, enate House.

Tel: 071-636 8000 ext 3147.

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In this last respect, the Medical Research Council has been showing the way for years: there has always been an MRC Unit in the Drury Lane Building. This is a major source of research funding within the College and continues to be a critical contributor to the research strengths of Life Sciences. MRC staff have not been

The e Biophysics Laboratories were opened in 1963 by HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and it is both fitting and happy that Her Majesty's granddaughter and succe sor as Chancellor of the University, HRH the Princess Royal. is to formally open The Randalllnstitute in the autumn.

Derek Drummie Divisional Administrator Biomolecular Sciences

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STAFF NEWS College Fellowships The name 0 the new Pre emation Fellow and Fellow 0 the Colle e have been announ ed. They are as ollow :

Pre entation Fellow Rt Hon Lord Justice Bingham Lord Justice 0 Appeal and a Member 0 Council Mr Maurice ohl Property Developer and philamhropi t

Fellow Profes or Lawrence Freedman Profe or of ar rudie and Head of the Depanmem of ar tudle (King's) Mr John Eliot Gardiner Conductor Profe or Leonard Harvey, former Cervame Profe sor and Head of the Depanmenr of Spanish and pani hAmerican rudies (King's) Profe or Arthur Luca , Vice-Principal and Head of the chool of Education (King's) Mr John Muir, Vice-Principal, External Relations and College Orator (King's) Mis

Appointment to New Chair of Engineering Law The. 'ash Chair 0 Civil En ineerin at Kin's Colle e ha been rede i nated b,' the Univer ity and is now the. a h Chair ~ En ineerin Law. John Uff QC, the Director of the Centre 0 Construction Law at King' has been appointed to the new Chair. He originally tudied Civil Engineering at King's and later gained his PhD by research in Rock Mechanics. After a period working in consulting engineering he re-qualified in law and has practi ed a a barrister since 197 , pecialisin in building and civil engineering. He wa a Vi iting Professor to the Department of Civil Engineering and became Director of the Centre of Construction Law when it was et up in 19 7, at the invitation of the then principal, tewan utherland. Profe or Uf is the author of several books includin Construction Law (5th ed. 1991). He has been involved in commis ioned works from the DTI, MOD and IRIA, has written extensively for legal journals and i a wellknown conference speaker. In addition to his legal practice he has acted as arbitrator in many construction dispute here and in many parrs of the world.

ybil Rosenfeld, Theatre Historian

Dr Roger Williams, Director, Instirute of Liver rudies, (KC MD) Mr John Wright, JP, former Under ecretary, Overseas Developmem Admini tration, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; and a Member of Council ore detailed bio raphies of all the Fellow will appear in the next edition of Comment.

Higher Education Funding Council for Wales Profe sor Richard Griffiths - Professor of French - has accepted an invitation to become a member of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. Professor Griffiths wa formerly Professor and Vice Principal at Univer ity College Cardiff and member of the Wel h Arts Council.

SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB

The ash Chair is a pan-time appoimmem, reflecting the work of the Cemre of Construction Law who e principal activity is a part-time M c degree in Con truction Law and Arbitration, spread over two years.

The Cemre currently has over 10 srudem whose attendance at the College is for the mo t pan after normal hours.

Professor Vff

Colm Chinnery, the auaioneer The Annual General Meeting of the King's College ports & ocial Club was held in the bar on Wedne day 25 March. The main item on the agenda wa the election of officer. Your new committee i as follow: eil pencer Peter Howard Lynne]ohn on teve Blomer Len Ayling

Chair Vice Chair Secretary Treasurer Bar teward

Glyn Baker Debs Co sey Les Disley Sarah Sharp Fred Roberr Paul Lefon

Member Member Member Member Member Co-Opted Member

Vote of thanks were given to Mike Harrington, the retiring trea urer, for his many year of dedicated service to the Club and to Colin Chinnery who al 0 resigned from the committee.

After the AGM Andrew Tatham was pre emed with a bottle of 'The Macallan' whi ky for winning the photo competition.

There then followed a charity auction which raised in excess of 拢200 for St ]oseph's Hospice. Lots included an original Mike Harrington watercolour, which attracted some fierce bidding. Among the novelty item were a BCCI credit card and a pair of used Odour Eaters!

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STAFF NEWS End of Session Dinner

Social Club Charity Night

Friday 3 July The traditional End of e ion Dinner will thi year be held on Friday 3 July in the River Room, trand Campus at 19.15. herry will be erved in the Lower enior Common Room, outh West Block from 1 .45. Dress i informal.

This is an opportunity for member of the College and their guests to meet in pleasant surroundings and is also the occasion when we say goodbye to those member of staff who are retiring and who will be invited to the dinner with their wives or hu band a guests of the College.

The Dinner is being offered at a pecial concessionary price of £16.50 per person including herry, wine and port. A vegetarian meal can also be provided on request. Groups of colleagues may a k to be seated together.

Those intending to be present at the Dinner are asked to complete an application form, obtainable from me and return it with a cheque made payable to King's College London, to Mr P J Gilbert, Assistant Secretary, Room 2B, Main Building, Strand Campus, not later than Friday 5 June.

The ocia! Club invite member of the Colle e to a Charity i ht bein held on Friday 5 June at 17.3 to celebrate their for magnificent effort in rai ing over £1, the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.

A raffle will be held on the night to try and increase this total. All the money will go towards the training of a new guide dog. pecial guests, Mrs Anne Thair, the Guide Dogs for the Blind Regional Appeals Manager, and her own dog, Yvonne, will be there. Mrs Thair will make a presentation of a photograph of a recently qualified guide dog, called 'King', to Mike Harringron on behalf of the Club, in recognition of the donation.

The Club has a plendid track record for helping charities. In the last twelve months £218.03 has been raised for the ational Children's Home and £146.56 for St Joseph's Ho pice together with the £1007.35 collected for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.

Thanks (and a pat on the head!!) to all those who have helped to raise money for these worthy causes.

Arnold Rosen Travel Award The Department of Pharmacy has et up an award in memory of Dr Arnold Ro en who died two years a o. rnold worked at King' for over 3 year and headed a large re earch chool. Thi award, initiated by Profe or Gorr d, i intended to help postgraduate tudent with their conference travel expense.

Professor Gorrod ask that if you wish to make a contribution, however small, plea e send a cheque, made payable to King's ollege London, to Ian Clarkson, Finance Office, King's College London, trand, London WC2R 2L , or to Profe sor Gorrod.

Please mark the cheque clearly on the back - Arnold Rosen Travel Award XKB 41 Since this initiative was started Arnold's wife Verna has also tragically pa sed away.

Professor Gorrod writes 'I am sorry to bring further sad news of Verna. You will all be aware of their clo e relationships with staff and students, the underprivileged and the civic and academic communitie . They both had a strong social con cience and will long be sadly missed by their extended families.'

Peter Gilbert Assistant Secretary

Lynne Johnson Secretary, Sports and Social Club

Safeway award

KCLA Summer Event

AFRC Grant

Saturday 27 June

Professor Bill Bradbeer has recently been awarded an AFRC grant for £73,855 for re earch into the 'Control of metabolic fluxe through chloropia t and cyto olic phosphoglycerate kinases in transformed plants'

The Department of Pharmacy has been awarded the' afeway Prize for Excellence'.

The supermarket chain awards 20 such prizes to Universities and Polytechnics in the UK in recognition of a significant contribution of a degree course to the needs of the business environment.

Safeway now operate 50 pharmacies in their stores and the award reflects the high regard in which the pharmacy practice component of the King's degree course is held.

The award consists of a £100 annual prize and an engraved glass trophy, and will be awarded to the tudent pre enting the best project in the final year of the cour e. The award will be presented at a special ceremony to be held at Safeway headquaters on June 25.

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For this year's KC LA Summer Event we have arranged a private viewing of the Courtauld Institute GaJlerie .

The evening will begin with a reception and introductory talk at 18. 0 in the main entrance foyer of the College. Guests will be free to look around the Galleries between 18.30 and 20.30, and our speaker, Ann Thackray, will be available to answer questions. A buffet supper and drinks will be served in the Great Hall at King's from 19.30. The all-inclusive price is £19.50 per person.

Please contact Caroline Bartholomew in the Alumnus Office (Room MB10 Cornwall House, ext 3052) if you would like to come.

The Courtauld Institute Galleries

STAFF NEWS DISCIPLINE IN THE LIBRARY The Library taff are becoming increa in Iy concerned about the difficultie of maintainin an atmo phere suitable for seriou work and quiet study in the library. In recent year a growing number of studentS seem unaware of how to behave in a library. A library i a place both staff and tudents have to work. Chatting, eating and drinking have no pia e in this working environment. The rule are designed to ensure that reader work undisturbed and to ensure that no damage is done to book, furnishing and computer equipment. adly, a growing minority of student are taking little or no notice when asked to observe the Library Rules, and on toO many occasions become abusive to the Library staff.

After much discussion at internal Library staff meetings the problem wa aired at recent meetings of the Users' Committees and the Library Committee. Academic members of these committees have been very upportive and have made several useful uggestions.

From the start of the Summer term all Library staff will be making a particular effort to enforce the rules. Any student repeatedly refusing to behave in an orderly manner will be reported to their tutor and may have their borrowing privileges in the Library removed.

The Library taff would be grateful if tutors would remind tudent of the following: 1. Quiet and good discipline should be maintained within the Library at all times.

2.

0 food and drink may be brought into the Library.

Please help the Library staff to make the Library a more pleasant place in which

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The Equal Opportunities Forum at its last meeting in March 1992, ga e its approval to the plans to introduce Equal Opportunities Monitoring across the College, and this will now proceed.

The College's staff record system already holds data on individuals' sex, marital status and di ability, so the only further information we require in order to monitor the effectiveness of our Equal Opportunities Policy concerns ethnic origin. The information will be requested from all staff categories and once collected will form a confidential statistical record/

database which will not be used for any purpose other than the monitoring of the College's Equal Opportunities Policy.

Forms to collect the information will be dispatched shortly, and I should be grateful if ou would complete the form and return it, in the envelope provided, by the return date.

Your co-operation in providing the data for this exercise will be greatly appreciated and will help to ensure that all members of the College's taff, both now and in the future, are gi en fair and equal opportunitie at work. If you have any questions relating to the monitoring exercise, plea e feel free to contact your A i tant Personnel Officer or a member of the central Personnel Office for assistance. orma Rinsler Vice Principal

taff who live near Do Kennel Hill in outh London may nor have realised that the new ainsbury's Foodstore there i built on land formerly owned b, the Medical chool and the College. The ale ha re ulted in several tangible benefitS for King's, besides the development of the Ite providing new facilitie for the area.

The ale will enable the College to create ten new medical teaching post at KC MD, and to make a ub tantial capital inve tment in the 'King' 20 0' healthcare initiative at King's College Hospital. The proceed have al 0 as i ted in the purchase of the former Westfield campus - oon to be opened a the King's Hampstead tudent Village.

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Equal Opportunities Monitoring at King's My article in the January 1992 issue of Comment outlined the intention of the Equal Opportunitie Forum, to introduce Equal Opportunities Monitoring at King's.

This is to ensure that our Equal Opportunities Policy is proving to be effective, making King's an equal and fair environment within which to work.

King's site for Sainsbury's

In lieu of the poor-quality portS pitches that used to be on the Dog Kennel Hill ite, the picturesque Griffin Sports Ground in Dulwich (formerly owned by ain bury' ) ha been acquired for King's tudents. They will al 0 have use of the four rebuilt squash courts at Dog Kennel Hill, a well as acces to the all-weather pitch on the neighbouring local authority sportsground.

The College has contributed some ÂŁ3 million from the proceeds of the ale to improving facilities on and around the site for local people. Among the development's advantages for people in the area - apart from the store itSelf - are a new, wellland caped public open space next to Dog Kennel Hill, including a recreation area; and a new pitch, floodlighting, club-house and stadium for Dulwich Hamlet Football Club.

The Dulwich Hamlet's ground will remain in King's ownership, and the improvement have given the DHFC a new lease of life.

The College is particularly pleased that the Construction Manager for Mowlem' , the developers of the site, was a graduate of King's.

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Siberian Summer

Pygmy Shrew Dr Sara Churchfield of Biosphere Sciences has received wide publicity for her work with small mammals. Comment asked her to desmbe her field-trip to Siberia, whlch took place during last summer's attempted coup.

While other minds were concentrating on the extraordinary events unfurling in Moscow and t Petersburg last August, mine was engrossed in the more immediate pr blem of keeping at bay the swarms of giant mosquitoes and biting blackflies as I endea oured to collect data from my field ite deep in the Taiga forest of central Siberia, unaware of the political coup and its repercussions.

Supported by the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Royal ociety, I was here at the invitation of Russian zoologists to join their investigation of the dynamic of small mammal populations in thi remote wildernes area, 3500 km from Mo cow. My particular interest was the remarkable diversity of hrew specie in this region, and the ways in which these small, insectivorous mammals co-exist in the fore t. Amongst them is one of the world's smallest mammals, the tiny Sorex minutissimus resembling a large bumble bee in size and weighing a mere 1.8g.

Our field station wa a mall iberian hamlet on the banks of the huge Yenesei River. Once a self-contained community of fisherman and hunters it was de erted, together with most of the region's village, some 30 years ago as part of the oviet resettlement programme. It was sub equently taken over by the Soviet

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eademy 0 ien e implementing an ambitious pro ramme of environmental research in the region. A there are no roads or miles around a ce i by small, ancient heli opters with skilled (but kami-kazi mclined) pilo rom the li[tle town 0 Podkamennaya Tunguska ome 6 miles away, or by boat along the river during the three month hen it is i e-free. Its remoteness has so far protected it from commercial exploitation, and it remains in a pristine condition. Beyond the flood plain of the 2km-wide Yene ei River, the orest forms a den e reen blanket over the area, uninterrupted for 5 square miles, dissected only by rivers. Within it is magnificence beyond compare with a mixture of huge ilver birches, pines, firs and pruces. The forest floor is clothed in a mantle of green mosses, lichens and horsetails and bejewelled with a multitude of species of fungi with bright red, orange, yellow and purple eaps, and cranberries and blueberrie .

These fruits of the forest formed a welcome and necessary addition to our daily diet. Our taple was boiled buckwheat three times a day which was enlivened with boiled fungi or fi h caught from the river, and occasionally by tins of corned beef and auerkraut from various sources. On party nights we had a special treat of small pancakes with condensed milk and home-brewed vodka flavoured with forest fruits or nuts. As the

only foreign \'i itor there, I was treated to black caviar resh from the hu e tur eon which were ocasionally cau he, a omewhat dubious pleasure as far as I was on emed, but not one to refuse and ri k 0 ense. Daily ablutions occurred outside with a bu ket 0 old water, or in the river if warm enou h.

But washin was kept to a minimum in e disrobing made one immediate prey to the clouds of vora ious, biting in ects. Once a week we had a glorious Russian sauna with boiling water teamin over a wood fire in a small pine- cented hut.

ews of the coup did reach u the following day as we casually tuned in to a variety of crackly Russian and English-speaking radio channels, including the BBC World Service.

The news that their new-found freedorns were being abruptly ended was greeted with ashen faces by my Russian colleagues.

Concern and helplessness increased as we learnt of demonstrations by the people and reprisals by the military, everyone fearing for their relatives at home in Moscow and St Petersburg. My immediate future seemed insignificant in those moments, and I mentally prepared my elf for a long stay in iberia, cursing my lack of thermal underwear. But fears rapidly changed to joy and pride as demonstrations gained force, and suddenly it was all ended. The demise of the coup was celebrated in great force at our field station that night, with extra rations of dried salt fish, pancakes and moonshine vodka as we set off our safety flares like huge fireworks, with multi-coloured sparks showering the sky.

On my return to Moscow, a week after the coup's end, 1 was taken on a pilgrimage to the newly-designated historic sites where crowds had mas ed, demonstrators fallen and tanks' treads scarred roadways and lawns. On the Kremlin, at a di crete distance from the communist flag, the old Russian czarist flag flew proudly. Lenin's tomb, once the Mecca for visiting Ru sians and foreigners alike, was deserted. The statue of the first director of the KGB, and symbol of the communist regime, had been toppled leaving only its marble plinth on which the old Russian flag had been erected and bunches of flowers thrown.

Sara Churchfield

Dr Churchfield is running a course on small mammals at Rogate later this month. See page 13 for details.

SMALL ADS Flat to let Fully furnished luxury flat to rent - loun e rwo bedroom , bathroom and kitchen on top floor of pacious ictorian hou e in ecluded road, 5 minutes walk from King' College Ho pital, the Maudsley and Denmark Hill tation.

Rent £75 each per week for rwo people or £55 per week each as 3 bedsits. Rent includes central heating, hot water and electricity. eparate meter for gas fire in lounge and cooker. Own telephone. Available midMay. Depo it - 2 weeks rent. on moking tenants preferred. Tel 071-97 8894.

To Let Quiet, secluded, 2 bedroom cottage (cl 820), Sydenham, E London. Fully furni hed, gas central heating, garden and parking. uitable for vi iting academic couple. £400 per calendar month piu electricity, gas and phone bills. 20 minutes train to Charing Cro and Victoria. Available end June 1992 onwards.

Flat hare in Islington

Room to Let

re you a profe ional (non-smoking) per on who work in London during the week and goe home at weekends? If you are and have become fed up with bein o limited to a room in a Hall without your own TV telephone, wa hing machine and coo kin facilitie etc, then perhaps you would be intere ted in haring my flat.

ingle room available in pleasant, centrall heated treatham flat; hare lounge, kitchen (with washing machine) and bathroom with owner. ery clo e to treat ham Hi h treet with alar e variety of hop, restaurants and cinemas. 45 minutes door-to-door to King' .

I live in Islington (Zone 1) - the travelling rime to College by bus is approximately 20 minutes. The 10 alion has excellent hopping facilities (if you like cooking) and numerous re taurants (if you don't like cooking!).

The rent is £50.00 per week inclu ive of bill , with the exception of the telephone, and the flat is available from the end of July. If you would like any further information please call Karen Henry on ext. 3009.

on- moker only. £55 per week exclusive ( hort-let considered).

Tel: 1-677 137 (e enings).

outhfield area elf-contained 2 bedroom furnished flat available immediately for up to 6 months. uitable for 1 or 2 persons. £70 per week plus utilities. Non smokers only. Please call 0819466550 (evenings)

Design and Build For Sale: Alia Romeo 33 Cloverleaf 1983: Excellent condition and working order: UnJeaded petrol, radio/cas ene. Two owners, 4800 miles metallic green, £ 1 00.

Please telephone 081-680 3537 or ext 2038.

Architect with own design and build firm pecialises tn house surveys, conversions, exten ions and restoration. For further information telephone Lynette York, ext 3036 or 081-946 1865.

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Contact Lindsay Elliot, Conference Administrator, Vacation Bureau, 552 King's Road Site. Tel: 071-3516011

Superior maisonette for rent in London E3 Five minute walk from the underground, thi rwo bedroomed mai onette with sitting room, kitchen/diner and central heating, TV and telephone is ideal for a family. The rent is £450 per calendar month. Please telephone 0522 529468 for more detail .

Sadler's Wells Special Offer Opera 80 Don Giovanni - Tuesday 26 May, 19.30 Albert Herring - Wednesday 27 ay, 19.3 Both the e performance are offered at a pecial price to King's staff. tall seats which are normally £22.50/£17.50/£14 are offered at ju t £7.5 To take advantage of thi special offer please contact adler's Wells on 071-278 6563 ext 203 mentioning King's College. Ticket subject to availability.

The perfect remedy for the over-worked and underpaid academics and staff of King's College ... , a holiday break at the Glenfarg Hotel. Situated arrudst some of Perthshire's finest scenery, yet only 30 miles north of Edinburgh. the Hotel enjoys a well-earned reputation for sporting holidays. varying from an array of golfing packages, to shooting. fishing, birdwatching. riding, go-karting or even white-water rafting. .

All bedrooms ensuite with colour 1V (ine. satellite) and tea/coffee

making facilities. The attractive cancUelit restaurant offers an excellent choice of dishes. using the best of fresh local produce, complemented by an extensive and reasonably priced wine list. A wide range of bar meals are available lunchtimes and evenings.

Return flights from London-Edinburgh only £77. return rail fare £44.

We can also arrange an economical car hire.

For a brochure or golfing details and special discount rates, telephone or internal mail Lindsay Bliot at the Vacation Bureau (tel: 071-3516011).

THE GLENFARG HOTEL, GLENFARG, PERTHSHIRE PH2 9NU. TEL: (05773) 241.

RESIDENT PROPRIETOR: STEVE WHITING.

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EVENTS SEMINARS Electronic and Electrical Engineerin Department Research eminar Held on Thursday at 13. in Room llA, trand 4 June Transmission Elearon .~licroscoP'> of Elearonic Materials Dr Anne taton-Bevan, Imperial College.

11 June GaAs Solar Cells for Space Applications Dr Trevor Cros , EEV Ltd 18 June GaAs based H eterojunaion Bipolar Transistors Dr Peter Houston, heffield University.

For further information contact Dr Ian Robenson, ext 2523.

Department of History and Philosophy of Science Seminars Held on Thursdays at 2.15pm in Room lOC, Strand 14 May Some Problems in the Philosophy of Probability Professor Howard Sobel, University of Toronto 21 May A New Sort of Pseudo-Science Dr Jerome R Ravetz, Research Methods Consultancy 28 May Hume, Causation and the Theory ofIdeas Dr Justin Broackes, Oriel College, xford 4 June Relativism is Absolutely False Dr Jamie Whyte, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

London Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Held at 17.30 in the Palaeography Room, University Library, enate Hou e.

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LECTURES Department of B zantine and .Y1odern Greek tudie Public Lecture Thur day 21 May, 17.3 Time Place and \Var In 'ovels by ;\./}n- zllS and Beratis Georgia Farinou- lalamatari, Univer iry of The aJoniki ' Committee Room, trand

Department of Palaeography Thur day 4 June, 17.3 The makings of the eapolitan humanistic manuscript Profe sor AC de la Mare, King' College London Contact the Palaeography Department for more information, ext 3539

Annual Public Lecture in Palaeography Thursday 11 June, 17.30 Cistercian manuscripts in England: the library of Eberbach and the manuscript holdings in London and Oxford Dr igel Palmer, Reader in German, Oxford University Room 2B08, Strand

Centre for Philosophical Studies Issues in Medical Ethics The last in the present series of lecture held in conjunction with the Cemre for Medical Law and Ethics Thursday 28 May, 15.30 - 17.30 Coucil Room Rights and the allocation ofscarce medical resources Dr James Griffin, Keble College Oxford

Centre for Philosophical tudiesVisitors' Programme Thursday 4 June, 17. 0, Room 1 C On the nature oflogical form Professor Step hen eale, University of California, BerkeJey

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Inaugural Lecture ednesday 13 :\lay, 1 . czence and Truth Pro c or Davld Papineau ew Theatre, trand Thur day 2 May, 17.3 The Jlediterranean EnvIronmental Quinamx Professor John B Thorne ew Theatre, trand

COLLOQUIA Institute of Advanced Musical tudies Held on Wedne day at 17. in Room G 20 May The motets ofPhilippe de Vitry and the fourteenth-cemu.ry 'RenaIssance' Andrew Wathey, Royal Holloway and Bedford ew ollege 27 May Berg today Amhony Pop le, Lancaster University 10 June H andel's Cantatas: separating faa from interpretation Ellen Harris, Massachu etts Institute of Technology

CONFERENCE One-Day Conference in tatistical Mechanics - tatmech-8 Thur day 28 May 1992, trand Campus This one-day conference will consist of short 20 minute talks, and lectures by V Privman (Oxford/Clarkson) and D Stauffer (Cologne). There is no charge for this meeting.

For further details contact: D A Lavi ,ext 224012217,

Email D.LAVI@UK.AC.KCL.CC.OAK or G Joyee, ext 2168, Email G.jOYCE@UK.AC.KCL.CC.OAK.

I Rogate Study Centre courses 22-24 May 1992 The Ecology of Hollow Lanes Tutor: June Chatfield Hollow Lanes are fascinating landscape features of the West Sussex area. The old tracks have eroded down many feet below the level of the surrounding fields and are usually arched over by trees, providing a damp and moist environment rich in natural history interest. The weekend will include walks among these and pecimens will be coUected and analysed in the laboratory.

June Charfield is a zoologist formerley with the ational Museum of Wales and the Gilbert White Museum, Selboume.

Introduction to small mammals of Britain Tutor: Dr Sara Churchfield This course is a practical introduction to ome of Britain's wild mammals and the methods used to observe and study them.

Small mammals in grassland and woodland will be studied and live trapping techniques demonstrated. There will be visits to local habitats in search of signs of larger mammals, and tracking bats with the aid of ultrasound detectors will be demonstrated.

Site-Licenced software for sale The Computing Centre is offering further discounts on an extended range of computer software. A summary is given in the accompanying table and further detail can be obtained from Jean Davey, ext 4260.

Package

Graph plotter

CricketGraph

PC and Mac £35 including manual

Terminal emulators

EmuTek

PC £5; manual £6

Fawn Terminal

Mac £5, manual on disc

Database

lngre

PC (contact Harold hort'for details)

Statistical packages

Minitab

PC and Mac £55 including manual

SPSS-PC

PC £100 (for two years) plus cost of discs and manuals

SAS-PC

PC £100 (for one year) plus cost of discs and manuals

Fortran

PC Ryan McFarland £25

Fortran

PC Salford F77/386 £55

Pascal

PC Prospero £25

Programming languages

Sara Churchfield is a lecturer in the Biosphere Sciences Division and is an experienced field worker both in Britain and overseas.

Introductory and intermediate beekeeping Tutor: Dr John Cowen NDB This course will cover the natural history of the honeybee and some aspects of colony management including swarm control and queen rearing and will include apiary demonstrations.

John Cowan was a lecturer in Botany at King's and is Secretary of the Bromley Branch of the Kent Beekeepers' Association.

The cost for all of these courses is £73 inclusive of accommodation, tuition, meals and laboratory, or £50 for non residents, which includes tuition and dinner Further details from Anne FinJay, Rogate Study Centre, The Red House, Rogate, r Petersfield, Hants GU31 5HN. Tel: 0730821621

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Price and other information

Software function

(all three prices include manual) NAG Libraries for PC

Workstation

for Ryan McF. Fortran £35 Microsoft Fortran £65 for SalJord Fortran £65

Graphics

for Ryan McF. Fortran £20 for MicroSoft Fortran £35 for Salford Fortran £35 (all manuals direct from NAG)

TeX[ analysis software

OCP

PC £50 including manual

Bibliography software

Papyrus

PC £25 including manual

Microsoft software special offer until 21 May • Windows 3.1 price £34 (RRP £99 +VAT) Important upgrade-vcrsion. Full Copy to include disk set, manual and one licence.

• MS DOS 5.0 upgrade1O-Pack includes Dual Media disc set, I manual and licence for 10 users.

Price £315.

• MS lOUSE 5-Pack (specify B S or SERIAL). Price £213.

• Akhter MOUSE. with mal, holder, 9/25 pin adapter. Price £21 All prices include VAT and delivery. For informauon or ordering contact Jean Davey (ext 4260. c-mail J.da vey@ha7..cl) or Jolanla Wilk (cxt 4432, e-mail j.wilk@hazel)

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King's and the General Election Althou h you ha\ e probably had your ill of he ele tion and i sub equen di eetion and analy i , we thou ht it mi ht be u eful to write a round-up pieee abou the resul 0 9 pril and how they af ect Kin's.

Department of Education and clence

The hadow Education e retary i Jack rrav. and ndrew mlth I pokesman on maner 0 hi her edu anon.

Edu ation and len e are hordy' to be eparated: the DE will become the Department or Edu arion; and ience v.;1I come under 'X'illiam Walde ra\'e (Chancellor o the Du hr of Lan aster).

The new line up at the DE i as follows: ecretar of tate: John Panen Mini ter of tate: Barones Blat h Paruamentary Under- ecretary of tate: igel Forman (with re pon ibiliry for higher education) Paliamentary Under- ecretaryof tate: Eric Forth

John Patten, MP for Oxford We t and Abingdon ince 1979, was originally destined to pur ue an academic career, lecturing at xford Univer ity for ten years, before changing tack to politic and the Con ervative Party. He has enjoyed a peedy rise in politics with pell at the Home ffice, the Department of the Environment, as Hou ing Minisrer, and at the orthern Ireland Office. Before the election he was Minister of tate at the Home Office, a po t he had held since 1987.

According to the pres , he is regarded a a clever politician, with complete mastery of his brief, able to answer que tions from the dispatch box without notes. He has also been credited with coining the phrase 'lager louts'! igel Forman i also academically minded: he went to Oxford, Harvard, and u ex Univer itie and has had pell on the elect Committee on cience and Technology and as ecretary of the Conservative back bench education committee. It is aid he hold more degree and diplomas than mo t vicechancellor, let alone Tory MPs. He entered the House of Commons in 1976 as the re ult of a by-election for the con tituencyof arshalton and WallingtOn. In his early career he served a a Parliamentary Private ecretary, first to ir Ian Gilmour and then Dougla Hurd, and was PPS to igel Law on, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1987 to 1989.

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College Con tituencie It i alway u eful to know who our 'local' IPs are so we ha\'e li ted them below with their constituencie in brackets:

Edward Rowland (Lab,. IP for. lenhr Tyd 11 and Rhy mney An cia Rumbold Con" previou Iy. lini ter t tate at the Home 0 ice and now deputy party hairman; ~IP or. litcham and .10rden Gary treeter (Con), lP for Plymouth utton ir Patrick 1ayhe\, Secretary of tate for orthern Ireland, husband of Lady Jean Mayhew who is a 1ember of College Council.

trand (City and Westmmster South) Peter Brooke (Con) held his eat with a majority of 12,969. He enjoy a close relationship with the College and, in recognition of this, was made one of the ollege' fir t Pre entation Fellows in 1989

There were a number of candidate with link with Kmg' who stOod for ele tion but were un ucce ful. They were:

Ken ington (Kensmgton) Dudley Fishburn (Con) also held on to his seat with a majority of 3,548

The Hon ue Baring, a Member of ollege Coun il, who stood as the Liberal Democrat candidate in Hampshire East

Chel ea (Chelsea) icholas Scott (Con) also retained his seat with a majority of 12,789 and i the new ocial Security Minister

igel Bedrock (Green), a former student, who was a candidate in the outh We t urrey constituency

King's College chool of Medicine and Dentistry (Dulwich) TessaJowell (Lab) took this eat with a majority of 2,056 from Gerry Bowden (Con) Cornwall House (Vauxhall) Kate Hoey (Lab) kept her seat with a majority of 1 ,488.

MPs with College connections There are a number of MP who are King's alumni. They include: Alex Carlile (Lib Dem),

P for Montgomery

Candidates'with College Connections

Michacl Dutt, a former student, who stood for the Conservatives in Leicester outh, which Labour held Bill Rammell, General Manager of Student Service, who stOod as the Labour candidate for Harlow and only narrowly lost the seat to Jerry Hayes (Con) David Ripley (Green), a former Phy ics tudent, who was onc of the candidate m Devize Chris Shirley (Lib Dem), a former mechanical engineering student, who stood against Dudley Fishburn for the Ken ingtOn seat.

Michael Clark (Con), MP for Rochford

If you know of anybody else, not mentioned John MacGregor (Con) now the Transport ecretary and a past ecretary of State for Education and cience; MP for orfolk outh

here, who ha connection with King' and stood for election, succe sfully or not, please let the Press and Publications Office know, ext 3202.

John Marek (Lab), MP for Wrexham

Melanic Gardner Pres and Publications Office

- Adverti ement -

The Oxford University Middle East Society in conjunction with

The Middle East Centre at St. Antony's College announce their one day convention on Thursday 28 May, 1992 entitled

"The Middle East Towards The Year 2000" Our list of speakers includes: Dr. George Abed, Director General of The Welfare Foundation; Mr. Mohammed SidAhmed of AI-Ahram; The Right Hon. David Gore-Booth, Assistant Undersecretary (Middle East); Ms. Nadia Hijab, Regional Projects Officer UN, Mr. Youssef Ibrahim, New York Times correspondent; Dr. Rana Kabbani, author of Europe's Myths of Orient; Senator George McGovern; Congressman Peter McCloskey, Dr. Roger Owen, Director of the Middle East Centre at Oxford; Mr. Patrick Seale, author of Asad: The StruQQle For The Middle East; Dr. Reza Sheikholeslami, Professor of Persian Studies, Oxford; Dr. Avi Shlaim, Alistair Buchan Reader of International Relations, Oxford; and Mr. Ghassan Tueni, former Lebanese Permanent Representative to the UN. Student tickets are priced at £5 without lunch and £10 with lunch. Professor's tickets are priced at £20 with lunch.

For further information call 0865-249115 or write to 11 Woodstock Court, Osberton Road, Oxford OX27NU

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British Academy K C Wong Fellowship

Windows revamped

Or Jirao Hao, a le rurer in Ancient Gree

HJ tory at the. 'onheast 'ormal Uni

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at Chan chun in China, i ana h d to the Clas i Depanmen for 1992 as a holder of a British A ademy K C Won Fellow hIp. he i worlUn on a comparative rudy of the peasant econom} 0 classical Athen and Zhou dynasty China.

A previous pupil of her, Dr Yan Huang, completed hi PhD in this Department in 1991, and is now a lecrurer in Ancient Hi tory at Fudan Universi~' in hanghai.

With the help of A i tant Principal Abraham Lue, the Classics Department aim to develop the e links and to support the renais an e of the srudy in China of ancient Greek and Roman civilization.

Profe or G B Waywell Head of Department of Classics

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Scholarships for postgraduate study in commonwealth countries Commonwelath Scholarships are offered annually for srudy at Master's or Doctoral level, providing rerum fares, fees and maintenance and other allowances, in the following Commonwealth countrie : Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, ew Zealand, igeria, ierra Leone, ri Lanka and Trinidad.

Candidates must normally be under 35 years of age and United Kingdom citizens (or other Commonwealth citizens and British protected persons) and permanently resident in the UK. As a minimum qualification, they should hold, or expect to hold, a first or upper second class honours degree. Clo ing date for applications is 30 October 1992. For futher information please conract: The Joint Secretary, Commonwealth Scholar hip Commi sion (Overseas Awards) (PO), Association of Commonwealth Universities, 36 Gordon Square, London WCIH OPF.

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Chnstzne ]amleson shows the Pnnapalthe nl!'",,-' dIsplay

Colleagues working at or vi iting the Strand will have probably een the new display board that have been commi sioned for the Music Room windows.

The boards have been designed to take full advantage of the windows' prime position, and are ideal for grabbing the public's attention. The design has a built-in flexibility which allow material to be displayed in 3D and at a variety of size. Another attractive fearure of the system is its versatility. When the window are not displaying publicity material specific to a certain event, they can be used to display general information about King'S. A series of even boards highlights diHerent aspects of the College, and serve as a reminder of our pre ence in the trand. ince their commission the boards have already been used successfully to adverti e conferences, course ,and the recent Open Day.

If you would iike to make u e of the window to adverti e an event, or book launch for example, please contact Iona Lee or Christine ]amieson in the Press and Publications Office, exts 307113 74. We will be pleased to advise you on a suirable format for your display and can help commi sion a tailor-made de ign for your event.

Please contact us in good time as the windows tend to get booked up quite far in advance and display material takes time to prepare.

Comment is the College' regular taff new letter, is ued by the Pres and Publication Office (ext 32 2) three time a term, with pecial editions if required.

Contribution are welcomed from any member of raff of the College. The e may take the form of, for example, news of events or people, view on College matter, photos, items for ale. Please note, the Editor reserves the right to amend items as necessary. If po sible, plea e send your piece on an Apple Macintosh 3.5" Micro Floppydi k, using Microsoft Word programme.

Contributions for the next edition of Comment which will be the la t edition this term should be received by mid-day on Friday 5 June.