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Careers service axed? The Careers Advisory Service (CAS) at understand, and that the job was not a for Technical Experience (IAESTE) which Imperial College is under attack from purely administrative one. 'Most students gives students the opportunity to go abroad spending cuts. The college is expected to are not as confident as they would appear and do technical work. They claimed that remove the Information Officer, also to be', she added. 'They need somebody this would be particularly important in known as the careers librarian, as of the who's credible'. 1992 when the European Community end of this term after the post was IC's Management Planning Group becomes closer. With the post frozen, abolished last Thursday. (MPG) on which the Rector, Pro-Rector, appointments must remain part-time with Russ Clark, Head of the college careers Managing Director and the four Deans of a possible review. service claimed that this would mean that the constituent college unions sit, hopes The CAS added that in both jobs, 'We would seriously consider closing the to staff the careers office with postgraduate complex judgements had to be made. If service - we can't consider running with students, as they do in the USA. 'The there was no such service, the nearest one person'. The Rector, Sir Eric Ash American system hasn't a patch on ours' available one would be the Gordon square justified the decision by saying that 'The claimed the staff. T think that the idea of library, serving the University of London. university system has gone through a a moveable group of students running the They claimed that this was too far away financial squeeze - Imperial College has office would be hopeless - they could stack to be of immediate practical use to IC had it's spending dramatically squeezed shelves only and need constant students. because it was seen as overfunded and supervision', said Shiona Llewellyn, The Rector, Sir Eric Ash, answered on over-resourced'. 'much time is spent in showing students the question of confidentiality saying that The college careers service has how to use information - it is a job T have no reason to distrust students'. He undergone a series of cuts in recent years; requiring motivation and experience ...the said that IC has lost about 2-3 % of its it had it's budget cut by £10,000 two years Rector is convinced that all students are funding per year, and that cuts must occur ago and has already lost its assistant sought after by all employers, that we in all places. 'These cuts are never information officer. Shiona Llewellyn, the almost don't need the careers service. The comfortable - cuts imposed on the CAS careers advisor and Mr Clark do not spend problem is that they (the students) don't are not painless. We are not cutting out all the working week at IC CAS, and there always know what they want'. fat, but substance,' he added. are two other members of staff who are Russ Clark said that they had an ethical He said that there was no problem with paid for by private companies. Frances obligation to keep the office open both for job finding at IC, 'We don't have a McEwen, the present Information Officer students and the private companies who desperate need to find jobs for obscure is working on a temporary basis. She said pay IC for the facility. IC makes a nett departments'. He added that it was not as that 'If you remove the post it reduces the profit of £13,000 from these companies if the CAS was 'the only port of call - there ability of the service to provide the range each year. It was claimed that on busy are the departmental advisory services.' and depth of information that both days anywhere between 100 and 200 When challenged that the CAS may have undergraduates and postgraduates students would use the library and other to close at times he said students must 'just require—it wil reduce our ability to cope facilities in the careers office. With the come when it is open - like a doctor's with individual enquiries.' No other possible closure of the Careers Library the surgery'. University in the country lacks an College may be forced to break these He asked the staff in the CAS to Information Officer for its CAS, only the contracts with employers. Mr Clark now 'approach this in an open minded way', smaller Institutes of Higher Education can fears for the confidentiality of students 'It's terribly easy to find all sorts of do without. application forms. With PG students reasons why it can't possibly be done Shiona Llewellyn claimed that the taking the place of the Information Officer when it hasn't been tried before.' He Information officer dealt with 'literally he feels the position of trust the CAS holds criticised the CAS claim that the MPG cut tons of literature' including regularly may be lost. the job because 'it was just an updated videos, brochures and company The College has now frozen the post of administrative job' as 'a caricature'. newsletters. 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Firstly there are those that know the apparently killed, vanishing in a cloud of chiffon, not authour and his writings, and secondly there are those long after they were kicked out of a New York that have strayed onto this page and are looking for boarding house, they don't take it lying down. The something to read. four remaining drag artists, with the help of the To the first group, you can skip the next paragraph, alcoholic Madame Blavutski (who bears an uncanny while the second should read it with care. resemblance to Betty) follow her to the astral plane, This is the third book, of the second series by David and the Murphers Motel. There, strange things are Eddings, the first of which, The Belgariad, has going on. received much critical acclaim and perhaps more This little affair is in no way your run of the mill importantly, has made the authour very popular. The London theatre. Along with, by their own admission, style of the books is fantasy adventure, set in an alien 'ludicrously thin storyline' is a strange mix of dance land far removed from normal life. Unlike many books routines, social satire and more conventional comedy. of this type they do not depend on the weird and The targets range from Broadway musicals to Section fanatical creatures and places for interest as they are 28—appropriately enough. all very good stories in their own right. The story line The whole production obstinately refuses to take is fairly simple, the evil powers in the world have itself seriously. Comments about their own acting, the kidnapped Garion's baby, and he being a normal loving laughable stage effects (a small puff of dry ice) and father is a bit put out by this. So setting out, sword the curious familiarity of the piano that is always in hand, with an amazing assortment of friends and where they are. family his only aim in life is to recover his young son. The sets themselves are minimal-apart from the The book is fairly well written, as all the others have piano, and a black projection to indicate when they been, and the four hundred pages drift by quite are in the motel, all the props are carried on and off painlessly with very little appearing to happen yet still the set by the cast.

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