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'f\.-~\r.,v-eo VOL 6 NO 3 20 MARCH 80 Newsletter for ( The University of Newcastle U /G PASS RATES a ""mber of ho"" per week that a REPRODU CTIVE M EDICIN E full-time student is advised to The Vice-Chancellor. Professor At its meeting on March 5, the spend on study. Members of staff . Don George, has announced the Senate considered the Report of will be advised to take reasonable appOintment of Dr. Jeffrey the Committee to Consider Under­ care to ensure that attendance at Robfnson of Oxford UniYersity to graduate Pass Rates. classes, set work and required the Foundation Chair of Reproduct- Senate recognised the com­ reading for each subject can be iye Medicine in the. Faculty of plexity of the problems. which accomplished within the appropriate Medicine in the University. are by no means confined to this fraction of the total number of Dr. Robinson. who 1s 37 years University alone. Senate was an­ hours recommended. of age. was educated at Queen's xious to treat the matter serious­ The Senate also supported the University. Belfast, where he ly. whilst keeping the issues in appointment of external examiners graduated in 1967 as· B.Sc. (Anat- proportion. It considered that for all Departments. An examin-- omy) with 1st Class Honours and positive action could be taken on ation result "terminating pass" in 1967 as M.B., B.A .• B.A.O. In 'several levels. In principle, was approved for introduction at 1970 he took up a Nufffeld Fellow- the Senate believes that the pro­ the discretion of Faculty and ship in the Nuffield Institute blems can only be solved at Departmental Boards. The Senate for Medical Research in Oxford. Faculty and Departmental level proposes to consider means by He returned tQ Belfast in 1973 for after a careful and detailed re­ which individual students might twelve months during part of which view of the level of attainment be given more academic advice in he was Registrar in Obstetrics and of incoming students and the con­ their choice of subject. Gynaecology at the Royal Maternity tent of individual subjects. To enable members to monitor Hospital and the Royal Victoria The Senate requested Fa~ulty the results of any changes made, Hospital. and Departmental Boards to exam­ the Senate has requested that Since 1974. Dr. Robinson has ine those subjects where the pass statistics be presented annually worked in Oxford at the Nuffield rate is significantly different to the April meeting of the Senate Institute and the John Ratcliffe from that in related subjects. showing passes, failures and Hospital. His personal research- Departments have been asked to withdrawals (with or without pen- es into reproductive physiology consider modifications in these alty) in all subjects. The Senate have won him an international rep- subjects in the mode of teaching, will also monitor the time taken utation and it is anticipated content and workload demanded so to complete degree requirements. that he will build up a research as to take account of the level It is hoped that the delib- group in Newcastle similar to of attainment of the intake. erations of Departmental and that which he presently leads at Departments have also been asked Faculty Boards and any changes Oxford. As Professor of Reprod- to ensure that all grades of which result from them, will lead uctive MediCine, he will be res-" academic staff engage in tutorial to more satisfactory progress by ponsible for planning. the obstet- work. undergraduates without any dimin- rical and gynaecological input to Faculty Boards have been ution in the high academic stand- the FaCUlty ot Medlclne'S eaucat- asked to examine student workloads ards the University aims to main- io"nal program, as well as for in order to recommend to students tain. various clinical areas in the tea- ---------------------------------------===ching hospitals. ARRIVALS he has ever been before. he ex­ New arrivals on the campus for pects his wife and son, aged l~, the 1980 academic year include to join him in about a month. several overseas students. They Notwithstanding his several are currently making the diffic­ degrees, Sumanaratne Kahagalle. ult transition from one way of 'life to a differ~nt one. In add- 39. is enrolled in yet another ition to trying to cope with lang­ course. Sumanaratne is a Sri­ uage difficulties, they have had lankan who works as an Economist to try to get comfortable accomm­ for the Central Bank of Ceylon.· odation for themselves and their The Bank has financed his studies families. into the impact of inflation on /, Univepsity Ne~s recently rural finance markets in low­ said welcome to two postgraduate income countries. He expects to students -- one from Tanzania and spend about three years reading one from Sri-lanka. Tanzanian for a Ph.D. degree supervised by student, Rajab Idd Mwajasho, 27. Professor I.G. Sharpe and Or. C. is enrolled in a Diploma in Bus­ Stahl. Sumanaratne originates iness Studies course in the Fac­ from Sirisena Estate, Bulathkoh­ ulty of Economics and Commerce. upitiya, in Sri-lanka. He holds The move follows service with, the. degrees of Bachelor of Arts first, the National Textile Corp­ with Honours and Master of Arts oration (as Assistant Corporation and a Diploma in Statistics from Secretary) and, later, the Tanzan­ the University of Sri-lanka. ian Legal Corporation (as an Vidyodaya Campus. His wife and Assistant Counsel). He says he children (a bo"y. seven, and a is convinced that he cannot prop­ daughter, five) will join him in erly serve as a lawyer in a big Newc~stle shortly. corporation without having know­ ledge of modern economics and business methods. Rajab graduated at the University of Dar-es-Salaam as a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in 1975. Now further from home than KIRBY WARMLY RECEIVID l£I1ERS TO· A Bill of Rights: the prob­ The Hon. Mr. Justice Michael lem'is that in the rush of events Kirby asserted at the UniverSity today countless acts of parliament THE EDITOR on March 11 that real problems are passed and rights tend to get existed with legal aid in Aust­ overlooked. ralia. The chances of getting a "There is no right to legal Bill of Rights are very grim. representation. If you are not When you look at proposals to a­ able to get legal aid. then you mend the Constitution. you see have to do the best you can". that we are an intensely conser­ Oear Sir. His Honour. who delivered vative country. the first SRC Lecture of 1980, Against that, the Government Volume 6 No.2 of 'University News' attracted a capacity audience of recently put a bill to parliament carried an item on 'A Toast to students to the Common Room of for the establishment of a Human Melba', the Union. Although he is Deputy Rights Commission. This is a A box 1n this article advert­ Chancellor of the University, he different approach which relies ised a special discount price for was invited to talk in his role on the Courts, but has a watchdog of Chairman of the law Reform body to report on abuses of rights. tickets at the Union Shop upon CommisSion. production of a copy of 'University His view is that this is a distin­ Federal funding for legal ct step forward. News I. aid was fairly stationary at ab­ However when I made a booking out $24 million a year, he said. Modern Sc i ence: The law there. the existence of such a The legal Aid Commission had com­ will ultimately have to face up to special offer was denied. plained that. in fact. funding questions of rights that are rais­ Was the information supplied had been reduced because of in­ ed by advances in modern science to 'University News' in error or flation. such as better life support sys-' was there an unannounced cancell­ The Judge -illustrated the terns and artificial insemination ation of the 'special'? mafn legal aid problem by report­ Today. the law is silent o~ ing the case of a man who was sen­ a person's right to die; it is JOHN A. lAMBERT. Director, tenced to gaol for six years 1n left to the discretion of hospit­ Western Australia for rape. The als whether or not people are put Computing Centre. accused had been refused legal on new life support systems. aid because there was no money. "Science has a caravan effect IThe NeW8 passed on to its readers His appeal to the Supreme Court and the law 1s in the tailend of information concerning ticket failed. Subseqdent1y. the High the flock. We hope it will catch arrangements for A Toast to Melba Court rejected his appeal after up with the problems before they supplied by the show's Producer. it was argued that he should have become too overwhelming". Mr. Robert Page. who comments: had a barrister. as the Crown had. "Mr. Lambert ought not to have "You have a privi lege to ask been inconvenienced. Many people for legal assistance -- no right The Deputy Chancel lor. Mr. Justice have availed themselves of the dis­ as Americans do under their Con­ M.D. Kirby, visited the Department count offer since we opened on stitution". Mr. Justice Kirby said. of Modero languages on March 11. March 6. If people show University We had to ask whether. in Over an informal buffet luncheon, News when they book at the Union respect of fellow citizens who are staff and postgraduate students Shop they are able to obtain a dis­ at risk as to their liberty, the of the Department were able to count at the Box Office in the present law was satisfactory or discuss with Mr.

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