JANUARY 1997 RESEARCH RATINGS CONFIRM UNIVERSITY’S HIGH STANDING THE University’s standing as a factor in determining the received a 5 or 5-star rating: leading research institution amount of research funding Pharmacology, Biochemistry, was confirmed by the results university departments Physics, Archaeology,

TIN of the latest Research attract. Genetics and History (which Assessment Exercise carried The Exercise also highlights includes the two University out by the Higher Education the importance placed on Departments of English Local Funding Council. research in British universities History and Economic and The Exercise, last carried which helps keep the country Social History). out in 1992, is a UK wide at the cutting edge and The University had a total assessment of research underpins teaching carried of 34 subject areas assessed performance in each out at universities. and was one of only 15 university in the country, with In the results of the 1996 universities in the whole individual departments, or Exercise, the University’s tally country to enter 90 per cent groups of departments, of subject areas awarded the or more of its entire being given ratings of 1 (the top ratings of 5 or 5-star has academic staff in the lowest) to 5-star (the highest) gone up to six. This Exercise. The results reveal for the quality of their compares to one top rating that over 94 per cent of staff research work. The results of in 1989 and three in 1992. entered at Leicester are in

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STRAIGHT TALKING WITH VOLUME 29 SIXTH-FORMERS NUMBER 4 THE new edition of Leicester University’s colourful and imaginative student JANUARY 1997 recruitment magazine, Next Steps, has been sent to schools and colleges across NEWS...... 1-19 the UK. It profiles a successful FEATURES/ graduate in Psychology who ARTSTOP...... 20-26 now works with the BBC CUTTINGS...... 27 and there are columns, written by students, PEOPLE...... 28 describing their courses in the Medical Faculty as well RESEARCH...... 28-29 as what they like about life NOTICES...... 30-31 in Leicester. This is the 13th edition A.O.B...... 31 of the magazine which, in Back Page previous editions, has CROSSWORD spotlighted a vast spectrum of Leicester life. Details of Open Days and photographs of the Halls of Residence, clubs BULLETIN and sports activities are also included in this vibrant publication. The Bulletin aims to publish news and features which For more information about Next Steps, or requests for inform staff and students of developments affecting the University, and to report on the decisions of Council inclusion in a future edition of Next Steps, please contact Jacky and Senate. Wetzig on ext 2189.

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2 NEWS UNIVERSITY SUCCESSES HIGHLIGHTED IN ANNUAL REPORT

IN the new Annual Report (1995-96), the far received from the Funding Council’s Vice-Chancellor, Dr Kenneth Edwards, Teaching Quality Assessments, and the reflects on the University’s successes and praise which the curriculum for medical achievements but warns of potential courses has attracted for the way it has falling standards in higher education been developed to fit the new nationally if a solution is not found to the requirements of the General Medical funding crisis. Council. He also pointed out the growth in distance learning courses. “Amongst the most remarkable developments over the last few years, has been the rapid rise of a range of Master’s courses taught through distance learning techniques. The University now has approximately 3,000 students on such courses and is one of the leaders in the country.” Among other significant achievements, he cites the imminent opening - in January 1997 - of the new to take at least the Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability first steps towards the establishment of and the Arts, enabling people with such a Centre.” disabilities to participate in forms of art Dr Edwards pointed out that these which were previously achievements were remarkable in a year of inaccessible to funding crisis. them, and also the “Since 1989, the real value of our creation of funding for teaching, on an individual Leicester student basis, has been reduced by 30%. Biosciences Limited For the coming year, the reduction will be which will act as a a further 5% in a single year. More cuts broker between the are threatened.” work of University He called for a solution to be swiftly laboratories and found to the funding crisis in higher Commenting on industries which wish education and warned of the danger that the University’s to develop research the quality of higher education may be strong reputation more widely. damaged by funding cuts, in particular for its research Writing of the the threat to technical facilities required in programmes, he proposed new the teaching of science and the increasing wrote, “Last year, I National Space difficulty in providing contact between pointed out that Science Centre he teachers and students. the University commented, “Another ranked fifth in the product of our Note of optimism country, in terms scientific expertise and of the proportion the University’s very of total income strong position in space Concluding on a note of optimism, Dr arising from science, has been the Edwards said, “Providing that something grants from development of a is done about the funding problem, I am national major research councils proposal to the confident that the University will continue and major charities - an excellent Millennium Commission for the creation in to adapt to the ever changing world achievement for an institution of our size. Leicester of a National Space Science which faces higher education and, in so This position has been sustained again this Centre. This exciting scheme has been doing, will maintain the fundamental aims year. Furthermore, the value of new developed jointly by the University and the set out in the Charter. The University will grants and contracts announced during City of Leicester, with the help of many make a significant and characteristic the year was £27,466,537, an increase of others in the local community. The contribution to the totality of higher 10.3% over the equivalent figure for decision by the Millennium Commission is education, within which there will be, I 1994/95.” expected in December, and we very much believe, an increasing degree of The Vice-Chancellor went on to hope the result will be positive. Even if collaboration between institutions in the highlight the high scores which the the Commission is unable to support it to UK as the competition extends to a global University’s teaching programmes have so the extent that we hope, we firmly intend rather than a national arena.”

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THE University has good 5* (Business and Management reason to be well pleased with A STATEMENT BY THE VICE-CHANCELLOR and Sociology), while a further the results of the 1996 6% are in Environmental Research Assessment Exercise, DR KENNETH EDWARDS Science which achieved a with one 5* rating rating of 5. For Leicester, the (Pharmacology), five ratings of December 1996. The Funding extent of active research staff distribution was broader, with 5, twelve of 4, eleven of 3a Councils, in developing the in a university and can also be the major concentration being while there were four at 3b current scale, have stated that included as a weighting. in the three clinical medical and a single 2. The units the aim is to subdivide the When this is done a new table units of assessment for each obtaining ratings of 5* and 5 ratings of 3 and 5 which were can be produced (table 1, of which the rating was 3a represented a diversity of used in 1992; nevertheless the page 5) and the Leicester and which collectively activities occurring in ‘Higher’ has converted the position is improved to 30th. accounted for 21% of all Biological Sciences, Medical results into a linear seven In fact, a true picture Leicester University staff Sciences, Physical Sciences, point scale and on this basis requires a multi-dimensional assessed. The overall results Social Sciences and Arts. has produced a score for each analysis rather than a simple of these three units across the Where the country is, however, classification of the somewhat unusual in units of assessment that ratings of 5, or in the 1996 exercise even 4, are rare outside allowed comparison Oxford, Cambridge and with the 1992 London, while many assessments, there Medical Schools in were 13 cases of ‘provincial’ universities, improvement such as Nottingham, (including Sheffield, Liverpool, Archaeology which Leeds and Newcastle, moved from a rating had ratings which of 3 to 5) and only compared two units showed a unfavourably with the decline. Of the eight results of Leicester. units remaining at a Thus, Leicester scored rating of 3, seven comparatively well in were 3a. these three medical Furthermore, units which were, for Leicester was only reasons which are not one of 15 universities readily intelligible, returning 90% or rated rather harshly. more of all eligible This point can be seen VIEWPOINT: Dr Edwards said the University has good reason to be pleased with the results of the more clearly by staff in the RAE; this 1996 assessment. illustrates the overall comparing the overall strength of the research institution by taking an league table; to produce this scores in the clinical medical performance. average of all the ratings of demands a comparison by units of assessment with those This generally highly individuals units, weighted by subjects. Some institutions for Pharmacology and satisfactory outcome reflects the number of staff returned which appear high in the Biochemistry, for both of the great efforts put in by all in each. In the table which league table have either a which the universities Departments during the past was published, Leicester restricted subject range or represented included most of four years and is greatly to the ranked 42nd. But I have heavy emphasis on a limited those with Medical Schools. credit of the entire University. already drawn attention to the number of subjects. For In these two units, Leicester But if Leicester’s research fact that we returned in the example, Lancaster University, had excellent results with a 5* performance has improved, so Assessment a higher which ranks 7th in the rating in Pharmacology and a too has that of many other proportion of all eligible staff attached table, has 21% of its 5 in Biochemistry. But in both universities and our results than did most universities. assessed staff in two units of units the overall scoring was must be seen in that context. This proportion indicates the assessment which were rated high with seven of the fifteen Although the 1996 scale is entrants in Pharmacology more complex than that used aThis generally highly satisfactory being rated 5* or 5, while in 1992, simple league tables outcome reflects the great efforts put in twelve of the seventeen have been created by the entrants in Biochemistry press, such as that which by all Departments during the past four scored at these levels. appeared in the Times Higher years and is greatly to the credit of the There are several possible Education Supplement of 20 entire University. b reasons why variation

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Institution Rank Order Staff Proportion Unweighted Weighted of CVCP Selected for of Staff Average Average Table 1 shows each university’s RAE rating Members Assessment Submitted Score Score per member of staff when averaged across University of Cambridge 1 1,563 98% 6.49 6.36 London Sch of Economics & Political Sci 2 3 6 5 97% 6.28 6.11 the whole of its academic population University of Oxford 3 1,611 91% 6.68 6.10 eligible for assessment (Weighted Average University of Warwick 4 760 98% 5.51 5.42 Imperial College 5 770 90% 5.99 5.40 Score). The ‘League Table of Excellence’ University College London 6 1,216 91% 5.83 5.32 Lancaster University 7 464 92% 5.50 5.04 published by the THES on 20 December University of Edinburgh 8 1,290 94% 5.35 5.04 1996 uses an unweighted score, calculated University of York 9 454 91% 5.47 4.99 University of Bath 10 384 90% 5.56 4.98 by averaging ratings across only those staff University of Essex 11 288 89% 5.45 4.87 UMIST 12 432 87% 5.61 4.85 returned as research active (Category A). University of Sussex 13 553 88% 5.35 4.70 The THES’s rank order of CVCP members University of Manchester 14 1,396 91% 5.12 4.68 University of Durham 15 547 88% 5.22 4.60 consequently fails to take account of the University of Bristol 16 899 86% 5.34 4.60 University of St Andrews 17 319 88% 5.23 4.58 extent to which an institution excluded Birkbeck College 18 253 93% 4.87 4.53 academic staff from the exercise. It cannot University of Wales, Cardiff 19 673 86% 5.22 4.51 University of Leeds 20 1,109 88% 5.07 4.46 properly be regarded as an accurate University of Sheffield 21 969 85% 5.21 4.43 University of Birmingham 22 1,152 86% 5.10 4.40 reflection of each institution as a whole: King's College London 23 7 2 5 85% 5.16 4.40 one university, for example, excluded over University of East Anglia 24 420 88% 4.97 4.38 University of Nottingham 25 941 88% 4.96 4.38 half its staff and its unweighted average University of Southampton 26 817 83% 5.20 4.32 Royal Holloway, University of London 27 291 83% 5.20 4.32 score won it a ranking in the first quartile University of Reading 28 681 88% 4.85 4.27 of the THES’s table, compared with a Royal Veterinary College 29 73 84% 5.00 4.22 University of Leicester 30 6 2 1 90% 4.68 4.19 position in the third quartile when its total University of Newcastle upon Tyne 31 880 87% 4.72 4.09 Goldsmiths College 32 2 2 9 81% 5.04 4.08 academic population is taken into account. Loughborough University 33 455 82% 4.92 4.03 University of Bradford 34 371 88% 4.44 3.92 Leicester is ranked 30th. University of Surrey 35 389 78% 4.97 3.89 University of Liverpool 36 846 82% 4.75 3.89 Keele University 37 376 89% 4.34 3.85 University of Aberdeen 38 562 91% 4.21 3.85 Queen Mary and Westfield College 39 6 8 0 83% 4.60 3.81 between subjects in average performance might occur. University of Exeter 40 445 81% 4.55 3.68 University of Glasgow 41 1,075 76% 4.79 3.66 Institutions are likely to enter Pharmacology or University of Stirling 42 271 76% 4.70 3.59 University of Hull 43 484 88% 4.04 3.57 Biochemistry assessments only if they have clear University of Kent at Canterbury 44 395 82% 4.33 3.57 research strengths in these subjects, whereas the University of Dundee 45 476 77% 4.59 3.51 University of Wales, Aberystwyth 46 336 87% 3.99 3.47 medical subject categories will automatically exist University of Strathclyde 47 686 74% 4.58 3.39 wherever there is a Medical School. Alternatively, University College of Swansea 48 420 74% 4.54 3.36 The Queen's University of Belfast 49 645 74% 4.51 3.32 subject panels may apply different criteria; or, a third Heriot-Watt University 50 233 69% 4.77 3.31 Aston University 51 157 69% 4.77 3.30 possibility, the general criteria of the Research University of Wales, Lampeter 52 85 93% 3.55 3.30 Assessment Exercise may not fit so easily in areas of Brunel University 53 268 76% 4.27 3.24 University of Salford 54 249 68% 4.75 3.22 applied clinical research as in basic studies. Whatever University College of N Wales 55 290 68% 4.31 2.92 Open University 56 519 58% 4.63 2.68 the reason for variation between subject groups in University of Wales Medicine 57 223 54% 4.89 2.65 overall scoring, the fact of its existence will influence City University 58 325 64% 3.92 2.50 Cranfield University 59 211 46% 5.20 2.42 the average institutional scores if the relative size (that University of Ulster 60 490 54% 4.20 2.28 Oxford Brookes University 61 238 48% 2.96 1.42 is the number of active researchers) of subject De Montfort University 62 515 52% 2.67 1.40 categories differs between universities. Such University of Plymouth 63 291 45% 3.10 1.39 University of Portsmouth 64 339 44% 3.12 1.37 information must be taken into account in making true University of Brighton 65 288 45% 3.04 1.36 Middlesex University 66 309 43% 2.68 1.15 comparisons. University of Huddersfield 67 215 45% 2.53 1.12 On a comparison based upon broad subject areas Liverpool John Moores University 68 262 36% 2.77 1.01 University of North London 69 181 37% 2.69 1.00 (such as medical subjects, Biological Sciences, etc) the Nottingham Trent University 70 245 31% 3.22 0.99 Manchester Metropolitan University 71 442 34% 2.87 0.99 Leicester performance frequently comes in the top University of East London 72 199 36% 2.72 0.99 fifteen or twenty, an observation which is in line with Sheffield Hallam University 73 274 28% 3.56 0.98 University of Westminster 74 190 29% 3.31 0.97 the ranking based upon levels of income from research Robert Gordon University 75 136 33% 2.83 0.92 University of Hertfordshire 76 201 28% 3.16 0.87 grants and contracts. The results overall show that University of Greenwich 77 166 27% 3.20 0.85 considerable strengths exist in the diverse range of Staffordshire University 78 245 38% 2.21 0.85 Coventry University 79 211 34% 2.48 0.85 research activities in Leicester, a conclusion which is Kingston University 80 192 33% 2.53 0.84 University of Sunderland 81 146 29% 2.86 0.83 heartening but at the same time raises a number of Glasgow Caledonian University 82 188 31% 2.63 0.83 issues, particularly when considered against the current University of West of England, Bristol 83 257 28% 2.93 0.81 London Guildhall University 84 119 36% 2.20 0.79 uncertainty about the future of mechanisms for University of Abertay Dundee 85 78 35% 1.99 0.70 University of Northumbria at Newcastle 86 253 26% 2.69 0.70 funding research. In particular we must ask the South Bank University 87 172 22% 3.12 0.70 question whether we can continue to combine such University of Central England 88 268 34% 1.97 0.67 Leeds Metropolitan University 89 151 23% 2.63 0.60 diversity with a suitable focusing of support for University of Central Lancashire 90 123 22% 2.63 0.58 University of Derby 91 123 26% 2.19 0.57 research activities that will enable us to maintain our University of Teesside 92 161 32% 1.74 0.56 areas of excellence and continue to generate high University of Lincolnshire & Humberside 93 79 21% 2.60 0.54 Napier University 94 78 17% 3.08 0.52 levels of income for research. The attempt to answer University of Wolverhampton 95 206 27% 1.79 0.49 University of Glamorgan 96 83 18% 2.77 0.48 this question will be the subject matter for the Anglia Polytechnic University 97 138 23% 2.08 0.48 development of a research strategy as a vital University of Luton 98 126 28% 1.72 0.48 University of Paisley 99 70 19% 2.19 0.42 component of an overall University strategy and is a Bolton Institute of HE 100 66 21% 2.00 0.42 Bournemouth University 101 69 19% 1.97 0.37 topic to which we must next turn our attention. Thames Valley University 102 47 10% 2.64 0.27

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RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE 1996 FACTFILE:

I Leicester University was assessed for 34 subject areas covering the full range of its academic activities

I Six subject areas achieved the top rating of 5 or 5-star - this is twice the number in the last assessment in 1992 and reflects the continuing rise in standards at Leicester

I The top rated subject areas are from the Arts, Biological Sciences, Medicine, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences

I Over 94 per cent of academic staff entered are in units rated 3a or above I The University was one of only 15 universities in the country to enter 90 per cent or more of its academic staff. A total of 631 academic staff were assessed

I In terms of the proportion of total income arising from grants from national research councils and major charities Leicester ranks consistently in the top 10 in the country. TOP CLASS: I Leicester University had a total research income from research grants and Research at Leicester is highly rated contracts of £24,865,000 in 1995/6 - an increase of 10 per cent over the equivalent figure for 1994/5.

DISTRIBUTION OF RESEARCH ACTIVE STAFF BY RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE: RATING, AND PROFILE OF TOTAL ACADEMIC STAFF UNITS OF ASSESSMENT

University of Leicester 1 Clinical Laboratory Sciences 3A 2 Community Based Clinical Subjects 3A 3 Hospital Based Clinical Subjects 3A 250 5 Pre-Clinical Studies 3B 40% 8 Pharmacology 5* 200 35% 12 Biochemistry 5 13 Psychology 3A 150 14A Biological Sciences (Genetics) 5 14B Biological Sciences (Botany/Zoology) 4 100 17% 18 Chemistry 4 19 Physics 5 50 4% 20 Earth Sciences 4 1% 2% 22 Pure Mathematics 3B 0 23 Applied Mathematics 3A 1 2 3b 3a 4 5 5* 25 Computer Science 3A Rating 26 General Engineering 4 35 Geography 3A Total FTE Academic Staff (694) 36 Law 4 38 Economics and Econometrics 3A 39 Politics and International Studies 4 40 Social Policy and Administration 3A 41 Social Work 4 42 Sociology 4 43 Business and Management Studies 2 10% 50 English Language and Literature 4 51 French 4 90% 52 German, Dutch and Scandinavian 4 53 Italian 3B 58 Archaeology 5 59A History 4 59B History 5 60 History of Art, Architecture and Design 3B 65 Communication, Cultural and Media Studies 3A Research Active Staff not selected 68 Education 3A Selected Staff for assessment

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7 NEWS ANIMAL HUNT FOR HIGH BLOOD AND PRESSURE GENES PLANT SCIENTISTS from the University runs within families, and that are involved in a national siblings who both have high SCIENCE campaign to recruit at least blood pressure are likely to 1500 sets of brothers and have inherited from their sisters in an attempt to parents the genes which are RATED discover the origins of high associated with the disorder. blood pressure. Identification of a large FIRST The five year project number of families will allow involves researchers at six these genes to be identified. A NEW way of assessing universities in equal Using the MRC’s framework the research strengths of partnership across Britain. of general practitioners and United Kingdom Dr Nilesh Samani, senior other practices, the universities has placed the lecturer in Cardiology in the researchers will identify STUDY: Dr Nilesh Samani is involved University top in the field Department of Medicine and families with two or more in a national study into the origins of of animal and plant Therapeutics, said that it is brothers and/or sisters in a high blood pressure science. known that high blood family who have high blood The Institute of Scientific pressure, a condition which pressure. After patients with Hypertension), is being carried Information - the world’s greatly increases the risk of high blood pressure from out by the Royal Infirmary, leading analyst of science heart attack and stroke, other causes are ruled out, Aberdeen (Dr John Webster), publications - lists plant results from interactions each patient will be invited to University of Cambridge and animal science at among the patient’s life-style, complete a questionnaire and (Professor Morris Brown), Leicester as top of the list environment, and hereditary be visited by a nurse, usually University of Leicester (Dr for citations per paper. factors. in their local doctor’s surgery, Nilesh Samani), St The Institute says that This major study, which was who will take blood pressure Bartholomew’s Hospital, assessing research on the launched in December, has measurements and a blood London (Dr Mark Caulfield and basis of citations per paper received £2.15m funding from sample. Professor Nigel Benjamin) allows smaller institutions the Medical Research Council The University was chosen Oxford University (Dr Mark to be compared more (MRC), and will focus on the for the project because of its Lathrop and Dr Peter equitably against the great inherited aspects of high strong track record in this area Radcliffe) and Glasgow in size and reputation. blood pressure. of research. “We are a (Professor John Connell and Dr Professor Harry Smith, Dr Samani, who is leading centre in the country Anna Dominiczak). In Head of the Department of consultant cardiologist based for research into high blood addition to medical scientists, Botany, said: “It is at Glenfield Hospital, added pressure,” said Dr Samani. doctors and nurses, the extremely gratifying to find that the project is based on The project, known as research team includes ourselves at the very top of the fact that blood pressure BRIGHT (British Genetics of statisticians. the UK list. The list by the ISI is due to be published in January and will certainly further enhance the RECEPTION FOR ERASMUS STUDENTS considerable reputation the School of Biological WELCOME: The Lord Sciences enjoys in this Mayor of Leicester Mr field.” Culdipp Batty welcomed The Departments of over 100 Erasmus Botany and Zoology are students to the involved in research in a University. Pro-Vice- Chancellor Professor Asa wide range of fields Blakeley also addressed including biotechnology, the students at the genetic engineering and reception which was plant interaction with the organised by the environment. The School International Office. of Biological Sciences has a Secretary of the Twinning Association, high research standing Mr Colin Cook, joined with a great deal of the reception in the collaborative research Charles Wilson Building. between departments.

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QUESTIONS AT THE READY NEW THE panel for the BBC Radio Time to the University, while Building. Admission will be by programme Any Questions?, Channel Four’s A Week in ticket only and the audience is YEAR’S which will be broadcast live Politics has also expressed an asked to come between 6.45 from the University on Friday interest. This is part of the and 7.15 pm. The broadcast HONOURS 17 January 1997, is to include University’s double Jubilee will begin at 8.05 pm and will a member of the Treasury, the year celebrations. be repeated the next day at THREE former students Shadow Home Secretary, a Now chaired by Jonathan 1.10 pm. and members of staff Bishop, a Green Party Dimbleby, Any Questions? For ticket availability, limited have been honoured in spokesperson - and a strong began in 1948. Originally to two per person, contact the the New Year’s Honours Leicester interest. hosted by Freddie Grisewood, Conference Office. List this year. Michael Jack MP, Financial his successors include Michael Jack, MP for Secretary to the Treasury, is David Jacobs and John Fylde and Financial returning to his old stamping Timpson. Secretary to the ground. In 1965 he came to Jonathan Dimbleby Treasury, who Leicester University to study said, “I like to think of the graduated from Economics and left five years programme as a national the University in later with a BA and an MPhil talking shop, part of the 1970 with a BA and in transport economics, also national debate. You an MPhil in taking an active role in get articulate people transport Students’ Union affairs. discussing issues that economics, has been The Right Reverend Thomas really matter - because made a Privy Butler, Bishop of Leicester, is the questions come Councillor. He an Honorary Graduate of the from the audience. returns to his old University. No stranger to “If the people on the haunts on Friday 17 broadcasting, he will also be programme are well- January as a panelist on the panel, along with informed they can add in BBC Radio 4’s Any Green Party spokesperson, Peg information as well as Questions, which is Alexander. The fourth attitudes and views, being broadcast live member of the panel is and if the debate is from the Fraser Noble Shadow Home Secretary Jack stimulating it’s bound Building. Straw MP to provoke more Professor John Edwin The University is hosting the discussion at home. Enderby, previously programme following an That is what Professor in the Physics approach by Press and Alumni broadcasting at its and Astronomy Relations who, in conjunction best should do.” RETURN HOME: Department at Leicester Michael Jack MP, right, is pictured with the Conference Office, The programme will with the Vice-Chancellor and Bruce Grocott MP between 1969-76 and have been successful in also be broadcast live from during the 1993 Graduates’ Reunion at Westminster now a professor at bringing Gardeners’ Question the Fraser Noble Bristol University, has received the CBE for his services to physics. WOMEN MPs HAVE WELFARE AT HEART Mrs Kathleen Curnock, a former probation ANIMAL welfare interests would be furthered by 1992 Parliament. However, after a new intake worker and member of the election of more female Labour MPs, of MPs in 1992 the major concern about the University School of according to a study carried out at the animals came from a small group of under 40 Social Work, has been University . MPs. awarded an MBE for her Dr Robert Garner of the Department of “Significantly, too, in the larger group of MPs voluntary services work. Politics documented legislative activity on identified, women are disproportionately Mrs Curnock was animal well-being in the period between 1985 represented,” he said. appointed as a lecturer in and 1994 by creating a Parliamentary database. “Much of this is down to the fact that a high 1967 and retired as a An examination of which MPs were the most percentage of the women first elected in 1992 senior lecturer in 1983 actively engaged in lobbying for wildlife had shown, up to the end of the 1993-1994 whereafter she served on conservation, restrictions on animal Parliamentary session, an interest in animal an associate contract experimentation, farm animal welfare and welfare. until 1985. domestic animal issues showed a left-of-centre “Further research is necessary to confirm this Congratulations to bias with a proportionately greater involvement conclusion but it would seem safe to speculate them all! by women. that animal welfare interests would be He found that there was intermittent concern furthered by the election of more female Labour by almost half of the MPs sitting in the 1987- MPs,” he said.

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A NEW study of attitudes and behaviour was lukewarm. One opponent of care retirement, but a happy one: “Oh no! Still towards financial planning for care in old insurance said: “I’ve already paid much scrimping and saving after retirement age shows that people do not want more than that (the potential premium) more than you need to? Not for me!” said pensioners to have to sell property to pay each month to the state, so has my wife. one. for their care bills, yet they are reluctant Why should we have to pay twice?” Experts are uncertain about the future. for pensioners’ families to help out Some believe that growing numbers of financially. However, people also frail old people will overwhelm health and believe that those in residential care social services in the next century. Others should pay something towards their point out that the health of succeeding keep! The ESRC-funded study is part of generations is improving. Meanwhile, the Economic Beliefs and Behaviour lower levels of state support for older programme, and is being carried out at people are causing concern, signalling an the Nuffield Community Care Studies ideological move away from statutory help Unit by Professor Gillian Parker and towards voluntary provision. Harriet Clarke. “Confusion over the way Professor Parker concludes that to deal with this problem isn’t partnership schemes would not solve the surprising”, says Professor Parker, “most problem in the short term. People dislike people may not give care funding much tax increases or compulsory insurance, and thought, and almost everyone is reluctant they are sceptical about the state’s to contemplate getting old and needy professed inability to continue to meet the themselves.” bills. Another point made was that the When someone’s capital falls to a given current system is just about managing, limit - currently £16,000 - the state, in the although there is a strong argument for form of local authorities, starts to take restoring reductions in social services responsibility for paying. The study looked funding. at one way round this impasse, outlined in One suggestion from the research is that a recent Government discussion document we might start to encourage ourselves to Professor Parker is examining attitudes - partnership schemes. Under these, those STUDY: think of our homes less as castles to be towards financial planning for care in old age who take out care insurance can preserve passed on, and more as major capital capital by offsetting some care costs. A Another Government suggestion, holdings. Invested wisely, their value simple version was presented - a person variable pensions, where older people could be used to ensure a reasonable who had paid £6,000 for private insurance would accept a smaller pension in the standard of care, if and when we needed on retirement would receive two years’ early years of retirement in return for a it. Evidence from this project has been care from the policy, and be able to higher payment later when they might submitted to the House of Commons’ protect assets worth £60,000. Most need care, was also put to those Health Committee and the Joseph questioned thought this would be better questioned. This was not well received. Rowntree Foundation Inquiry into long- than the current system, but enthusiasm Some were clearly hoping for a short term care. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY RATED FIRST FOR RESEARCH IMPACT THE Department of Physics in all these fields and has Department influences the also featured prominently and Astronomy at Leicester been successful in international development in the Annual Report of The is rated top in an obtaining major funding to of Physics and Astronomy Particle Physics and independent research support its work. The by its research excellence. Astronomy Research review undertaken by the international dimension of The Impact Factor takes Council. Two Leicester Institute of Physics. the programme brings account of a department’s projects, ROSAT and This reflects the many distinguished size so that medium sized CUTLASS, were selected as continuing international overseas scientists to departments such as research highlights of excellence of its Leicester (including Leicester are not PPARC’s programme. programmes in Astronomy, Astronauts). disadvantaged. This really There are only seven such Astrophysics, Space Head of Department means that the contribution highlights in the whole field Plasmas, Earth Observation Professor Tudor Jones said: to national and of Astronomy, Astrophysics Science and Solid State “The Institute of Physics international research per and Space Geophysics - a Physics. survey has rated the staff member at Leicester is considerable achievement The Department is Department first for the best in the country” for a department of this involved in many Research Impact. This is a * The Department of size. international collaborations measure of how the Physics and Astronomy was

10 NEWS NEW ERA FOR DISABILITY ARTS CENTRE

THE Richard Attenborough been designed following close plans for an innovative Most activities are planned Centre for Disability and the consultation with people with modern building in which the to include a wide range of Arts is now taking up disabilities. ease of access, comfort and abilities. Some are residence in its new building. The £2 million Centre, which safety of disabled people are particularly designed for The award-winning Centre, received an award of paramount. people with little or no part of the Department of £730,000 of National Lottery People with disabilities are a background in the subject. Adult Education, reaches funding in 1995, was the focus of the Centre, which is Other courses are intended to completion shortly, and a new result of a country-wide open to everyone who would provide people with a route to programme of classes and competition organised in like to participate in a further training and events begins on 20 January conjunction with the RIBA. programme of integrated arts professional opportunities. 1997 in a building which has Architect, Ian Taylor, created education. Professional training courses are run regularly at the Centre, which in its new premises will be able to offer courses and workshops in music and dance CHAMPIONSHIP SALVER TO BE as well as the visual arts. The Richard Attenborough AUCTIONED FOR RAC Centre employs staff with specialist knowledge of the arts who have a real understanding and awareness of disability issues. As staffing levels increase it is expected that a growing number of full-time and part- time staff will themselves have disabilities. The Richard Attenborough Centre employs staff with specialist knowledge of the arts who have a real understanding and awareness of disability issues.

REFLECTION OF GENEROSITY: Dr Frank May presents Dr Hartley with the silver salver which has been signed The Centre has attracted by members of the 1975 Leicestershire County Cricket Club Championship winning team. attention from a number of leading figures in the arts A SIGNED silver salver commemorating “The prized salver has been in my world, and recent visitors Leicestershire County Cricket Club’s possession for a number of years and has include Adam Benjamin, Championship winning performance in been signed by members of the 1975 Artistic Director of Candoco, 1975 has been presented to the University - Championship team. the internationally renowned coinciding with the club winning the “It includes Chris Balderstone, Ken Higgs dance company which Championship for a second time. and David Gower among others. I am includes disabled and non- Cricket lover and prominent Leicestershire delighted to make the donation to such a disabled performers. Adam businessman Dr Frank May presented the valuable Centre which is doing a wonderful Benjamin is a member of the salver, signed by the 1975 team, to Dr job in raising the profile of Leicester Richard Attenborough Eleanor Hartley, Director of the Richard University as well as the city of Leicester.” Centre’s advisory committee. Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Dr Hartley added: “We wish to thank Dr Further information on Arts. May for his great generosity and his on- courses is available from Dr Now the salver is to be auctioned during going support for the Centre. We are Eleanor Hartley, Director of the opening season of the new Richard planning a series of events for the opening the Richard Attenborough Attenborough Centre building in Lancaster season of the Richard Attenborough Centre Centre for Disability and the Road. Fundraiser for the Centre and when this salver will be auctioned to raise Arts, telephone (0116) 252 University Council member Dr May said: funds for the Centre.” 2455.

11 NEWS School of Education SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SUPPORTS A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION

THE Coalition for Citizenship - a group of organisations which includes the University’s Centre for Citizenship Studies in Education - has written to key political figures including the Prime Minister, Labour Leader Tony Blair and Liberal Leader Paddy Ashdown asking them to support moves to promote citizenship education for children of all ages. “Recent events, highlighted by Mrs Frances Lawrence’s CAMPAIGN: Mrs initiatives, have led to an Janet Edwards and important debate about young Professor Ken Fogelman of The people and the role of schools Centre for in preparing them for adult Citizenship Studies life,” the letter says. in Education “This debate is welcomed by those of us who have been Citizenship Foundation, recognition include: The play their proper part in better promoting and supporting Community Service attention given to spiritual, preparing young people for a citizenship education for some Volunteers, The Council for moral, social and cultural complex world, with its many years.” Education in World Citizenship development in OFSTED’S contested issues, there needs The letter is signed by and the Institute of Citizenship school inspection framework; to be a sustained political Professor Ken Fogelman, Studies. SCAA’s initiative in setting up determination to Director and Janet Edwards, “It now does seem to be the National Forum for enable them to Deputy Director of The Centre recognised that formal Values in Education and develop coherent for Citizenship Studies in education should play its part the Community, and and appropriately Education at the University in promoting values such as continuing to consult resourced along with representatives of honesty, compassion, respect, widely, and the programmes of the other member responsibility and justice,” establishing of the Values citizen education organisations of The Coalition explains the Coalition. Education Council.” and activity for children for Citizenship - The “Indications of this The organisations of all ages, abilities and which are part of backgrounds.” the Coalition Professor CENTRE FOR CITIZENSHIP STUDIES and who have Fogelman feels IN EDUCATION signed the encouraged by THE University Centre was set up in 1991 to assist schools in letter say the responding to the proposals of the Speaker’s Commission on that they are responses Citizenship and the National Curriculum Council’s guidelines aware of many schools received from on citizenship as a cross-curricular theme. around the country where political leaders. The Coalition It operates in partnership with schools and other impressive citizenship is in correspondence with Nick educational institutions; local education authorities; the education takes place. Tate of SCAA and with Chris voluntary sector and other organisations working in the field “However, given the other Woodhead of OFSTED about of citizenship. Sponsors include Barclaycard and Esso UK. pressures on schools, and the the developments that they Activities include the encouragement of schools in fact that education for would like to see. addressing education for citizenship within and beyond the citizenship has not been a The Centre for Citizenship National Curriculum; the production of research and requirement, it is inevitable Studies in Education believes it evaluation publications; collaboration with teachers, schools that provision is uneven,” the is in a good position to be and other partners on the development of materials, activities letter continues. centrally involved in working and projects, school policies, and curriculum strategies; “Many young people are collaboratively to produce consultancy, in-service education, courses and conferences, deprived of the opportunity in curriculum guidelines and nationally and internationally, serving as a clearing house for school to develop the skills resources to assist schools in the recording, exchange and dissemination of information, and understanding necessary better preparing young people interesting practice, resources and publications. for full participative, for adult life through responsible citizenship. It is programmes of citizenship our belief that if schools are to education and activity.

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STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT GIVEN A WARM WILL IMPACT SCHOOLS WELCOME A NEW international agreement on develop research links, initially, in the research co-operation between following three areas: Leicester and Singapore could have I classroom organisation and an impact on school achievements. school effectiveness studies; Dean of the Faculty of Education I further work on mentoring and and Continuing Studies, Professor principalship training; Maurice Galton, signed the I studies of curriculum agreement along with Professor S innovation in association with Gopinathan, Dean of the School of the Curriculum Development Education, National Institute of Institute of Singapore (CDIS) Education (NIE), Nanyang Professor Galton said: “Initially, the Technological University, Singapore. co-operation will concentrate on The Memorandum of research in the area of classroom Understanding for Research Co- organisation and school effectiveness. operation builds on the many The School of Education at Leicester informal links between the two has conducted detailed research into institutions. The respective Deans of the use of grouping strategies in Education have exchanged visits, staff primary classrooms, while the School of the School of Education at of Education at NIE has expert Leicester have acted as external knowledge in the fields of direct examiners and consultants, and some instruction and whole class teaching joint research initiatives have been which is reflected in the high undertaken in the field of mentoring achievements of Singapore students and principalship training. The in international studies of school agreement, which will be reviewed achievement. after three years, places these “This collaborative project, which GATES OF LEARNING: Sarah Beauchamp and collaborations on a more formal has been given a high priority by the Janet Bradford from the School of Archaeological basis. National Institute of Education Centre Studies greet a visitor on the UCAS visit day. The two institutions intend to for Educational Research (NIECER) will involve exchanges of staff THOSE passing through the Charles Wilson between the two institutions Building foyer on a Wednesday in recent to develop appropriate weeks will not have failed to notice the instruments and conduct number of visitors registering for UCAS analysis, descriptive studies visit days. designed to provide These are applicants who have been information about the made an offer by departments taking current patterns of advantage of the centralised service organisation in each offered by the Admissions and Student country’s respective Recruitment Office. classrooms and a series of After registration the applicants and experimental studies their parents are given an introductory talk designed to test the by the Schools & Colleges Liaison Officer, effectiveness of grouping Jacky Wetzig, followed by a guided tour of strategies in primary the campus with undergraduate student AGREEMENT: Professor Maurice Galton and Professor S classrooms.” volunteers. As the numbers are large, 450 Gopinathan at the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding or more on most Wednesdays, growing larger as the weeks progress, the arranged their own individual luncheon Ancient History, have produced a mock programme is repeated in the morning in venue - The Asylum! Grecian arch in which to sit for reverse! The visit days conclude with a trip to the registration. After lunch, purchased at the various halls where students are on hand to show Mathematics & Computer Science have campus catering outlets, the applicants the applicants around the accommodation produced their own very splendid signs. visit their respective departments, whilst and facilities. Visitors have remarked on the relaxed, parents are offered a talk on Welfare and Mrs Jacky Wetzig said: “One department friendly atmosphere created on the ‘new Finance by the Welfare Officers Clare has been particularly creative. Technicians look’ visit days. Thank you to all the staff Taylor and Jean Baxter. in the School of Archaeological Studies, and undergraduate students taking part The Faculty of Social Sciences have acting on an idea from Janet Bradford of for making these days special.”

13 NEWS ARMAGEDDON? AT a time when the public is including Magnificent Microbes beset with worries about BSE, (1976), Health and the Human meningitis and E.Coli poisoning, Body (1986), Power Unseen five top-level scientists from (1994). around the country will be The fourth expert will be gathering in Leicester to discuss Professor Jeff Almond, Professor openly the threats posed by of Microbiology at the highly infectious micro- University of Reading, Member organisms and the possibility of of the Government Spongiform TOPICAL: Professor Herbert Macgregor, Department of Zoology, is the emergence of an Encephalopathies Advisory organising the debate. overwhelmingly infectious Committee, former member of “superbug” that will not MRC AIDS-Directed Programme The debate will take place in respond to current public health Steering Committee, and Lecture Theatre 1 of The New obtained from Professor practices and biomedical Chairman of the Virology Building on Thursday 27 Macgregor, Department of technology. Division of the International February 1997 at 7.30 pm. Zoology. Tickets are limited to With increasing fears that Union of Microbiological Admission, which is free, is by two per application. antibiotics may not for very Societies. ticket only. Tickets can be much longer provide the protection the public in the western world has grown to expect from diseases such as SMALL CLASSES – BETTER TEACHING, tuberculosis, this issue will be discussed at the University by BUT TEACHERS COULD DO BETTER some of the country’s most acclaimed microbiologists at a A STUDY by the School of schools, and arranged for double,” Professor Galton public debate on Thursday 27 Education has found that them to swap classes for two said. February. small classes lead to better half-days. Four state school The research, commissioned Professor Herbert Macgregor, teaching - but teachers fail to teachers were also observed by the National Union of of the Department of Zoology, take full advantage of the teaching half their own class Teachers, found that there is organising the event, which opportunities they offer. while a supply teacher taught were twice as many sustained will be a collaboration between Professor Maurice Galton, the other half. question-and answer sessions the University of Leicester and who led the in smaller the Institute of Biology, with research, classes, more sponsorship from Zeneca found that time was spent Pharmaceuticals. teachers in in teaching and smaller learning and Prestigious speakers classes ask less was spent more on routine tasks The debate will be chaired by challenging such as sorting Professor Harry Smith, former questions, out papers and Head of the Department of hold longer giving out Microbiology at the University question- books. of Birmingham. On the panel and-answer Teachers also will be Professor Sir Joe Smith, sessions, spent less time who was Director of the Public and give on discipline. Health Laboratory Service pupils more CLASS SIZE: A University study suggests teachers fail to maximise the However, the between 1985 and 1992. He is information opportunities afforded by smaller classes. differences also Chairman of the Board of about their between the Management of the London progress than those in larger The private-school teachers quality of teaching in the School of Hygiene and Tropical classes. had classes of between 11 and smaller and larger classes was Medicine. Class Size, Teaching and 15 and those in state schools not as great as it might have His fellow panellists include Pupil Achievement was a classes of between 25 and 35. been if the teachers had Dr Graham Boulnois, Director of study carried out by Professor All the private-school teachers exploited all the opportunities Target Discovery and Infection Galton, Dr Linda Hargreaves said after the exchange that presented by the smaller Research, Zeneca and Dr Anthony Pell, with the they would be unwilling to numbers. Professor Galton Pharmaceuticals; Dr Bernard assistance of Dr Mark return to state schools said: “This research does not Dixon, a former editor of New Lofthouse. because of the stress of mean that class size does not Scientist , current editor of They paired 14 expert teaching large classes. matter. It means we need to Biotechnology, and columnist in primary teachers, seven in “They would not have gone train teachers to make the The Independent, as well as state and seven in private back if you had paid them most of small classes.” author of numerous books

14 NEWS LOTTERY BOOST TO PRESERVE HERITAGE OF EAST MIDLANDS

THE University is to establish a new centre a vulnerable state, like the Liberty Statue to survey Britain’s outdoor sculpture as by J H Morcom, the crowning feature of part of a £470,000 grant from Lottery the Liberty Buildings on Eastern Boulevard funds. Leicester, and the statue of the Reverend The Heritage Lottery Fund Grant has Robert Hall by John Birnie Philip in De been made to the Public Monuments and Montfort Square. Sculpture Association (PMSA) to survey “The aim of the National Recording the wealth of Britain’s outdoor Project is to promote the public monuments and sculptures. enjoyment and knowledge of sculpture The survey will be spearheaded in the by providing digitally stored and East Midlands by the History of Art published information. At local level it Department, headed by Professor Alison is hoped that volunteers will help to Yarrington. The Department played an gather the data that will be processed important part in gaining the grant for the by the archive centre.” PMSA through its work in creating a Professor Yarrington said the History survey of Liverpool’s public sculpture of Art Department was renowned for written by Terry Cavanagh, a research its work in sculpture studies and is scholar in the Department. involved in other projects concerning PRESERVING HERITAGE: The two year National Recording Project the conservation and recording of Professor Yarrington and colleaguesLottery fundsfrom thewill help will catalogue public sculpture and sculpture - notably the Lincoln History of Art Department record and monitor public monuments commemorative monuments dating from Cathedral CD-ROM project, a multi- the 17th century to the present day. media guide to the Romanesque Professor Yarrington said: “This Heritage sculpture of the Cathedral as well as the PMSA’s cause to Lottery Grant will enable us to establish Henry Moore Foundation interactive guide promote public enjoyment and one of the twelve PMSA regional archive for visitors. appreciation of public sculptures and centres. It will record and monitor public The NRP archive will set old and new monuments, and to protect them from monuments and sculpture in public art in its historical context, neglect, vandalism and damaging Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, providing vital information for planning, maintenance procedures. This can be Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and conservation and the listing process as undertaken effectively only if the range Derbyshire. well as for education, research and local and condition of this rich national “In Leicester some of this sculpture is in history study. It will be a key asset in the collection is measured. CALLS FOR MORE WIDESPREAD MONITORING OF PEOPLE EXPOSED TO TOXIC POLLUTANTS

A NEW report published on 6 symptoms of other diseases. measured and attributed to determine links between December suggests a detailed However, new ways of specific pollutants. Unlike environmental pollutants and strategy for assessing how measuring exposure to classical methods for measuring health effects, such as nervous much human health is affected environmental pollutants using levels of chemicals which look system, hormonal and by chemicals in the ‘biomarkers’ are currently being at effects across populations, developmental disorders and environment and calls for more developed. biomarkers can be used to cancer. The report concludes rigorous monitoring of people Biomarkers are visible signs of measure exposure in in people. by describing currently available exposed to pollutants in the pollution in the body which The report reviews the use of biomarkers which can already workplace. The report, The Use provide information on the biomarkers to measure be used in environmental of Biomarkers in Environmental extent of an individual’s exposure to pollutants such as exposure assessment and makes Exposure Assessment was exposure to harmful chemicals metals, complex organic recommendations for future commissioned by the in the environment. For molecules and cancer-causing research and development. Department of the Environment example, when a person is chemicals and describes how Dr David Coggon, chairman and prepared by the MRC exposed to such substances, an biomarkers can be used to of the expert workshop that Institute for Environment and increased amount of the determine whether airborne, contributed to the report, said: Health based at this University. pollutant or its breakdown waterborne or dietary sources “These new developments in Links between chemical products may show up in are the most important for our ability to measure people’s pollutants and health can be blood, urine or body tissue. human exposure. exposure to pollutants will hard to detect because the Exposure may also lead to The report calls for further enable us to assess their health effects may be small and changes in the way the body development and biomarkers effects more reliably and target difficult to distinguish from the functions which can be for use in large-scale studies to controls more effectively.”

15 NEWS UNIVERSITY MUSIC TAKES A NEW TURN UNIVERSITY music is breaking Brahms, two of the world’s new ground in its winter-spring best-loved Romantic composers. programme. The Lindsays and friends For the first time in recent particularly feature these years the season will include composers in the culmination of opera, with a production at their concert series. Phoenix Arts by Robert Kenny of In January the Rogeri Trio Handel’s first stage work, Acis makes its first appearance in the and Galatea, set - not in evening concert series, while antiquity as in the original - but February brings the return to in an eighteenth-century village. the University of popular Moving some concerts to pianists Angela Brownridge and Leicester’s newest arts venue, William Howard. Music at Leicester University will March sees the spectacular be availing itself of the new return of Una May’s Afrikan- Richard Attenborough Centre in Caribbean Choir with jazz group PERFORMANCE: Lancaster Road. Selected Yamanu at the Gilbert Murray Popular pianist lunchtime concerts will take Hall, Manor Road Oadby, where Angela Brownridge place there, as well as Trio Caribbean-style food will be on Favori, a concert of classical sale during the interval. trios played on period Tickets and details of the instruments. programme, which includes SPOTLIGHT ON VIOLENCE In a variety of chamber, nine free lunchtime concerts orchestral and choral music and fourteen evening events, AND WAR AT LECTURE which celebrates the University’s are available from Anthony double Jubilee year, the concert Pither, Department of Music, THE Annual Sluckin Lecture only occur if members of season also commemorates the telephone (0116) 252 2781. 1996 was given on 28 society are in an accepting centenaries of Schubert and November by Professor frame of mind. Robert Hinde, Master of St He mentioned his own John’s College, Cambridge. involvement in the The annual lecture is held in Campaign for Nuclear memory of Professor Disarmament, and while Wladeslaw Sluckin, who was stressing that he is not a head of the Psychology pacifist, argued that KPMG Department until 1984. Like psychologists and society Wladeslaw Sluckin, Professor can and ought to take Hinde is one of the most measures to reduce or TAX AND distinguished and revered eliminate the acceptability of Ethologists, interested in the war among people. He cited PERSONAL FINANCIAL observation of animal and Finland as a culture which human behaviour. The topic has successfully reduced the ADVISORY SESSIONS of his lecture was “Violence number of gun-related toys and War”. purchased for children, and Introducing Professor argued that it is necessary to Hinde, the Vice-Chancellor, reduce the use of common Dr Edwards, described their terms in everyday language FREE INITIAL ADVICE is available on close association over many that have war-like personal tax, investment planning and any years while Fellows of St connotations. area of personal finance. Johns and warmly welcomed Professor Hinde was Professor Hinde to Leicester. thanked by the Head of the Professor Hinde outlined the Department of Psychology, For an appointment at KPMG antecedents of aggressive Dr Colley, who pointed out telephone David Norman on 0116 256 6000 and violent behaviours, and that Wladeslaw Sluckin the individual, group and would have greatly enjoyed societal factors involved. He the lecture. The lecture was KPMG - Accounts and Business Advisers distinguished aggressive warmly received by a Peat House, 1 Waterloo Way, Leicester LE1 6LP behaviour from engagement capacity audience which in war, which he argued was included members of a feature of wider scale Wladeslaw Sluckin’s family KPMG activities on the parts of and many of his former KPMG is a trading name of KPMG Peat Marwick which is authorised by the Institute of Charted Accountants in England and Wales to carry on investment business. governments but which can colleagues.

16 NEWS EYE DISEASE STUDY TO BENEFIT COUNTRY

RESEARCHERS carrying out an extensive Mr Deane the spread of study at Melton say the results will benefit said that eye disease, said the whole country. ideas being Mr Deane. The five-year Melton Eye Study, examined in The results of involving more than 1,200 local people Melton the study should aged between 55 and 75 selected at include the reflect the random, is now nearing the end of its first effects of a situation phase. good diet or nationwide to Research Fellow James Deane, of the smoking on give eye experts Department of Ophthalmology, has the further already been involved in interviews with development understanding more than 800 participants. and spread of what affects The research is the only study of its kind of cataracts. peoples’ eyes. taking place in the country. It is unique Early Mr Deane FOCUS: Mr Anthony Hall, Department of Ophthalmology, at compared with other ongoing eye studies indications said: “Melton work photographing a subject because it seeks to find a way to prevent from the was chosen for disease worsening. Eye studies being Melton study already seem to show the a variety of reasons. It is convenient for us carried out in Hertfordshire and Avon are benefits of healthy eating. but it is also very close to the national concentrating on the prevalence of “There does seem to be some evidence average in all sorts of statistical diseases. that good nutrition can protect against measures.” FOCUS ON HOLOCAUST

A LEICESTER public lecture rounded up and sent to audience heard a distinguished Dachau - the women were historian giving a harrowing separated and sent to Stutthof account of the ordeal of concentration camp. inmates in the Nazi ghettos His resistance to the Nazis and concentration camps. continued in the concentration They were told how the camp when he once more prisoners inhabited another refused to help with selection world, cut off from normal for extermination of the existence not only by physical weakest and sickest in the barriers but also by the camp. He went on hunger psychological dimension of strike and died. time. Even the Nazis were They were told that the impressed by his courage: they perception of time and the accorded him the unheard-of mental disorientation of the honour of an individual grave GUEST LECTURER: Professor Michael Marrus (centre), with Mr Steven length of each terrible day was Paulsson, Director, Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies (left) and and tombstone. a prime psychological factor Emeritus Professor Aubrey Newman. Michael Marrus, who is on prisoners. Professor of History at the Michael Marrus, the world- and the Holocaust and related internationally known scholar University of Toronto, is the renowned historian and subjects. In collaboration with and physician living in the author of The Holocaust in eminent scholar of the Robert Paxton, he published United States. They set up the History, widely regarded as the Holocaust, delivered the fifth Vichy France and the Jews in Elchanan Elkes Association for best survey of the historical Elchanan and Miriam Elkes 1981, which received a Inter-Community issues which the Holocaust Memorial Lecture at the National Jewish Book Award. Understanding to honour their raises, The Unwanted: University’s Stanley Burton His award-winning 1987 work, mother and their father who European Refugees in the Centre for Holocaust Studies The Holocaust in History, has was the leader of the Kovno Twentieth Century, and co- on Killing Time: Jewish been translated into many Ghetto in Lithuania. author of the authoritative Perceptions of Time During the languages. Professor Marrus’ Dr Elkes consistently refused Vichy France and The Jews. Holocaust. documentary history of the to help the Nazis select men On the day following the Professor Marrus is Professor Nuremberg War Crimes and women from the Ghetto Memorial Lecture, Professor of History at the University of Tribunal will appear in January. for transportation to Marrus gave a seminar open to Toronto and a Fellow of the The Memorial Lectures were concentration camps. the public on the Vatican on Royal Society of Canada. He established by the Elkes’ However, he finally Racism and Anti-Semitism on has written widely on the daughter Sara, who lives in accompanied the males in the Eve of the Holocaust. history of European fascism Leicester, and son Joel - an Kovno when they were

17 NEWS TOP FLIGHT SUPPORT FOR SPACE CENTRE BID

THE University and City of Leicester played host to important visitors associated with the National Space Science Centre bid. The Chief Executive and Chairman of the Challenger Learning Centre, Dr Vance Ablott, made a two-day visit to the University where he met the Vice-Chancellor, members of the University and people associated with the RISING TO THE Millennium bid. CHALLENGE: Dr Ablott, centre, with Dr Ablott also visited the Professor Alan Ponter site of the NSSC next to the of the NSSC steering Abbey Pumping Station in group and Mr Alan Leicester. He said: “I am very Wells, left, director of excited about Leicester’s space the Space Research project. I have seen the Centre. models and they look wonderful. Space is the future. If you ask people to A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE AND draw the future they will always draw pictures of the EDUCATIONAL EXCITEMENT stars. The centre and the Challenger Learning Centre THE Challenger Centre is part of Leicester’s multi-million pound bid for a National Space will help spark an interest in Science Centre which is currently in the final round of bids being considered by the science in youngsters.” Millennium Commission. Dr Ablott, who spent a The Leicester Challenger Centre will be the first such centre outside North America and number of years working with will establish a special education facility unique in Europe - an invaluable resource for Disneyland and Walt Disney schools, teachers and youth groups. Imagineering, led the design The University believes that this latest acknowledgement of its international standing for team for NASA’s Space Centre work in the field of space science will boost the chances of the proposed NSSC. Houston, a state-of-the-art The Challenger sites form an international network of high-technology spaceflight visitor complex at the Lyndon simulators for exciting hands-on experiences. They are located across the United States, B. Johnson Space with one in Canada, but approval for Leicester is unique because it is in Europe. Centre. The Centres were created after the Challenger disaster in 1986. The Founding The Challenger Centre is a high technology simulation of a manned spacecraft and Chairman of the its ground Mission Control. Participants, in groups of 30-40, take alternate roles as Challenger astronauts conducting experiments aboard the shuttle and as mission controllers Learning on the ground. The groups exchange places after approximately one hour. Centre, Teams are prepared for their mission by a ten-week classroom-based programme Washington DC, of study which will meet the requirements of the National Curriculum. also visited the In a typical programme, the crew ‘fly’ the spacecraft to land on Mars. Closed University. Dr June circuit voice and TV links connect the astronauts with Mission Control, and realistic Scobee-Rodgers and video simulations of the approach and landing are provided. her daughter, Kathie, who is The crew launch a probe, perform scientific experiments and observations, and are public relations director at a then programmed to return to Earth by ground controllers. The emphasis is on Texas university, also spent encountering and solving tough problems and learning how to use physics, biology, two days in Leicester. chemistry, ecology and mathematics in real-world applications. Student crews train for Dr. Scobee-Rodgers, the their mission in the classroom, with team assignments in navigation, assembly of space widow of the Captain of the probes and life support. Complementary training for teachers is provided. Challenger, Dick Scobee, had In three hours every pupil sees, feels, understands and, whatever their ability and discussions about the background, succeeds with exceptional tasks in exceptional circumstances. This simulated Millennium project and met experience of working in space prepares young people for their future by enabling them to with representatives of the work in teams, practice communication skills, co-ordinate the work of separate groups and University and city during her make decisions. visit. It is estimated that thousands of schoolchildren will take advantage of the equipment.

18 Council & Senate NEWS REPORTS FROM COUNCIL AND SENATE

THE BUDGET & eight weeks before the Easter BUCPEA guide on ‘Safe Sports ROUND-UP UNIVERSITY FINANCE break and four weeks after. in Universities’. Senate and Council have approved the University’s The Vice-Chancellor reported Disability Statement. This will on the outcome of the Budget ESTATES AND BUILDINGS CAREERS be submitted to the Funding for higher education. The cuts Among the many matters Senate has received a report Council in January in order to which would be imposed for reported by the Estates and from the Careers Advisory satisfy the requirements of the 1997/98 would be less severe Buildings Committee were the Committee outlining the Disability Discrimination Act than was forecast one year start of work on the Centre for importance of work experience 1995. ago. Much had been made in Space and Global to equip students with some of The appointment of two Government publicity about an Environmental Research, on the skills demanded by new Pro-Vice-Chancellors has extra £100m to HEFCE in each the site leased from employers in the changing been approved. Professor of the next two years. Wyggeston and Queen graduate employment market, Beeby and Professor Fearon However, this increase was Elizabeth I College; and the where there are more will take office on 1 August against a baseline of the completion and handover of graduates, few ‘graduate’ jobs, 1997 when Professor White Government’s prediction in the Richard Attenborough Centre and more graduates therefore comes to the end of his period November 1995 Budget for the building on Lancaster Road. embarking on ‘non-graduate’ of service. year 1997/98. At that time it The Committee has set up a employment. Senate has approved the was forecast that the funds working group on energy In this competitive market, introduction (from September available to the Funding management. students should understand 1997) of two new Master’s Council would show a cash that work experience enhances courses as follows: reduction of about £50m by the value of their academic STUDENT RESIDENCES MA in International Relations comparison with the sum results, extends their personal Council approved a and World Order made available for the year skills and broadens their recommendation of the MA in Medieval Culture: 1996/97. So there would in awareness of the range of Accommodation Committee to Evidence and Interpretations. effect, be a cash increase of available employment. provide a comprehensive just under £50m for 1997/98, a training programme for Sub- rise of 1.1%, well below the Wardens in the Halls of Government’s own estimate of Residence. This will be based inflation for next year. on the programme already The DfEE estimates of the operating very effectively for ‘efficiency gains’ (this is the Sub-Wardens in self-catering extent to which predicted accommodation. income fails to match Negotiations are continuing predicted inflation) for each of on the provision of a full the next three years are 0.5%, telephone service for student 2.5% and 4.5% respectively. residential accommodation. At This represents a total over the present the number of period of approximately 7.4% payphones is severely limited. reduction in real terms in the The new arrangements would predicted income for the provide a line to every room, university system from HEFCE with some increase in the and from fees for home and residence fee; but calls would EU students. be charged at less than the current payphone rate. ACADEMIC YEAR After extensive consultation, STUDENT SPORT Senate has approved new The report of the President term/semester dates for the of the Sports Association to period 1997-98 to 2002-03. An the Sports and Recreation extension of one week to the Committee indicated that there current three week Christmas had been an increase in the Vacation will provide students membership of most clubs, but with more time for study, work that the Cycling and Sub-Aqua and relaxation before the first clubs had been forced to close. semester examinations. A five The latter’s equipment was to week Easter Vacation is be sold. retained, which allows for All sports clubs were standardisation of the second reviewing their Codes of semester teaching period into Practice in the light of a new

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HIGHER DEGREES AWARDED AT LEICESTER

STUDENTS reading for Research; MSc Criminal Justice The degrees were conferred research and teaching Master’s and Doctorates Studies; MSc Public Order and by the Chancellor Sir Michael establishment. The expansion found years of study rewarded Information Management; Atiyah. of our remarkable range of when they collected their MSc Study of Security Pro-Vice-Chancellor distance learning courses is degrees on December 17. Management; MSc Finance; Professor Robin White said: particularly noteworthy with The University more than 2,500 staged the first students currently degree ceremonies enroled on courses of its Jubilee Year throughout the world. which celebrates 75 “The excellent years since the overall set of results foundation of the reflects both the ability University College in and application of our Leicester and 40 students and the years since the quality of the granting of the University’s teaching Royal Charter giving and learning, which the University its have consistently been own degree- very highly rated by awarding powers. the Higher Education A total of 528 Funding Council in its students receive rigorous subject-based their postgraduate quality assessments. degrees; this “The fact that a high represents an proportion of students increase of 21 per who read for a first cent per cent on last degree at Leicester year’s figures. MSc Marketing; MSc Forensic “The high standards of stay on for a second degree The first cohort of students Psychology. A significant academic achievement here is also a testament to the from the following courses number of those attending represented at these degree high regard with which the gained their degrees: MA in had studied on distance ceremonies confirms the University is held.” English Literature and Literary learning programmes. University’s status as a leading JOB SECURITY PRIDE IN THE POSTGRADUATE Stephen Hearnshaw handed in his Master’s dissertation, ENVIRONMENT an investigation into “predicting shoplifting”, at the University’s ONE of the University’s graduation Scarman Centre for the Study of ceremonies provided the second Public Order one week and started highlight of 1996 for a graduate work there in the research office on with an MSc in Security the following Monday morning. He Management and Information graduated with an MSc in Security Technology. In March, PC Bob Management and Information Knight was awarded an MBE at Technology, and is now working Buckingham Palace for Services to on a Department of Education and Susie Lamplugh Trust the Police Force for his Crime project on violence and security in schools. Prevention through Environmental Design. PC Knight, who has specialised in crime prevention FOOD FOR THOUGHT for fifteen years in London, investigated the reasons behind FOLLOWING the award of a degree in Marine Biology from the likelihood of criminal activity Swansea University, during which he researched the for his dissertation. His research feeding habits of whiting whilst working at MAFF suggested that there must be a Laboratories, Lowestoft, Leicester man Iain Staniland has balance between the attitudes of since become a Doctor of Philosophy at Leicester University. staff, pupils, parents, governors and the local community, and the Following his recent graduation, he is now embarking on a way to turn around a school with a poor record on crime and study of the feeding habits of fur seals on Bird Island, education was primarily through management and environmental South Georgia for the British Antarctic Survey. changes.

20 FEATURES PREVENTING SUE FOLKARD CRIME SUE Folkard graduated with an MA in CATHRYN Richardson received Professional Studies in Education. Her the degree of MSc in Forensic husband, Dr Geoff Folkard, Senior Psychology. Born and bred in Lecturer in Engineering at Leicester, Leicester, she had previously participated in the academic procession graduated from this University that preceded the awards ceremony. with a BSc (Hons) in Psychology To complete the family occasion, in 1995. She has recently daughters Siân (15) and Gayle (12) were completed work placement in the audience! with the Small Business and Sue achieved her MA by part-time Crime Initiative - a crime study over 3 years at the School of prevention initiative based in Education. Her dissertation related to the Leicester. Part of her work development of Information Technology in appointment she held Dance and entailed interviewing schools. Physical Education teaching posts in London, commercial burglars for an She is currently Deputy Headteacher at Byng Chelmsford, the Bahamas, South Africa and ‘offender survey’. Kendrick Central School - an 11-18 Guthlaxton College in Leicester. comprehensive in east Birmingham. Prior to this

NEW HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHED

A NEW history of the University has been launched to coincide with the Jubilee Year. The University of Leicester A History, 1921-1996 was published by the University last month. It was commissioned to mark both the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the University and the 40th anniversary of the granting of the Royal Charter. The History has been written by former University Librarian Brian Burch, O.B.E. who began work on the book at the end of 1995. The book was designed by Angela LAUNCH: Author of the new history of Leicester University Brian Burch, left, with the Vice-Chancellor, Dr Edwards, Chorley, Graphics Studio the Chancellor, Sir Michael Atiyah and Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council Sir Edwin Nixon. Manager. Emeritus Professor and through the local and success of the small team - After spells as Sub-Librarian Aubrey Newman acted as national Press. Principal Frederick (Medicine) and Deputy adviser to the project and “Alongside an account of Attenborough, Registrar Librarian, he was appointed Brian also received help and the more serious matters, Harold Martin and the University Librarian in 1982. advice from many other such as finance and handful of inaugural He took early retirement in colleagues, notably Emeritus government policy, I have professors - who between 1995 and is now retained on Professor Jack Simmons, tried to give an insight into 1945 and 1957, turned a tiny an associate contract. author of the earlier history of some of the lighter moments and impoverished College into The University of Leicester the University College, New such as Rag and sporting a University. A History 1921-1996. University 1958. achievements. “Their efforts made possible University of Leicester, 1996. Said Brian: “The task was a “Above all I hope it will the University’s growth and x,150pp. Illustrated in black difficult one but most remind present members of success since independence and white and colour; index enjoyable. I hope I have given the University of the which is described in the of persons named in the text. a fair picture of the enthusiasm and book.” Available from the University University’s achievements over determination of those who Brian Burch joined the Bookshop, price £9.95. the years, seen through the founded the University University Library staff as an eyes of the University itself College in 1921 and the Assistant Librarian in 1966.

21 JUBILEE FEATURE LEICESTER’S GREAT WAR HOSPITAL RIOR to the outbreak of Finally, each of the the First World War in Bulletin continues its Jubilee Year series with a report thousands of items needed to PAugust 1914, the War by John Hopkins on the University site as a military equip a modern hospital, from Office needed to identify hospital between 1914-1919. scalpels to sterilisers, and from suitable sites for Military teaspoons to operating tables, General Hospitals. These were Leicester, Leicestershire and Asylum as a military hospital. all had to be ordered, to be operated by medical, Rutland Asylum buildings on The subsequent weeks saw delivered, unpacked and nursing and ancillary members Victoria (now University) Road. a transformation that was found its proper place. By a of the Royal Army Medical The Asylum closed in 1907, little short of miraculous. massive and sustained effort Corps Territorial Force, and by 1914 had become, in With Astley Clarke’s that must at times have taxed established in 1908 in the words of one writer of the promotion and transfer, the even the strongest and most anticipation of a European period, ‘a derelict, damp- enormous task of restoring determined, the job was not war that had for long been ridden cobweb-haunted the old buildings to a only done, but done regarded as inevitable. maze’. habitable state fell to Lieut- superlatively well. When the Under pressure from Dr With a degree of foresight Colonel Harrison, who had first motor convoy carrying Astley Clarke who, in addition that was to inherited command of the 5th 127 men arrived on 2 to being a Northern General. An army of September, the Hospital was workmen - as many as 400 at in every respect complete, the height of the activity - fully staffed and equipped, descended on the site, and ready to play its part in installing electricity, the conflict, a conflict which telephones, fire hydrants, daily grew more bloody and drains, plumbing, bathrooms, destructive. toilets. Trees were cut down to let in light and air, windows ROM the very first days, it designed to confine asylum became horribly clear inmates were enlarged, and all Fthat the war was not to the buildings repainted inside be ‘All over by Christmas’. The and out. Hundreds of yards combined effects of machine- of boundary wall were torn guns, massed magazine-rifles, down and the material used and especially the sheer to build operating theatres, destructive power of high laboratories, stores, offices, explosive shelling, took a dispensaries, and a huge two- dreadful toll of life and limb. Part of the hospital’s first major expansion, open-air wards, built at FRESH AIR: storey dormitory block for the As early as October 1914, it the rear of the Fielding Johnson building,have featured crucial “up-and-over” implications doors. for nursing staff along the north- became all too clear that prominent local physician, was the future of higher education east side of the main building. casualties were to be far a Lieutenant-Colonel in the in Leicester, Astley Clarke had The kitchen equipment, greater than even the most Territorial R.A.M.C., the War commissioned a survey of the rusting and dilapidated after pessimistic had predicted, and Office had agreed to the buildings in 1913. With his seven years of disuse, was equally clear that the military location of such a hospital in close associate Dr Louise K. found to be beyond repair and medical services faced new Leicester. The original Harrison - also a Territorial was completely replaced. challenges to their skills. intention, however, was to R.A.M.C. officer - Astley Clarke Much of their experience had follow the pattern adopted had drawn up detailed plans elsewhere, and to requisition for the rapid resurrection of local schools, colleges and the old Asylum buildings, and similar premises capable of their conversion into a military being rapidly converted into hospital providing 520 beds. hospitals. Their careful planning was In Leicester, the prospect of rewarded when the War such a major dislocation of Office’s scheme was overtaken the educational system was by events on the Continent. wholly unacceptable, and the Within hours of mobilisation War Office’s proposals met being declared, the staff of with active and powerful the 5th Northern General resistance. A group, in which Hospital unit were encamped Astley Clarke and Alderman on what are now the playing Jonathan North were fields of the Wyggeston & prominent, put forward Queen Elizabeth I College, and Ward B1, situated on the first floor of the Fielding Johnson Building - now alternative proposals based on the County Council had rooms used by Safety Services/Department of Law. the conversion of the old volunteered the use of the old

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inadequate, were constantly breaking down, adding to the frustration. The whole project took over five months to complete, in sharp contrast to the ten weeks for the earlier phase. This was to be the last major expansion of the Hospital. In response to events on the Continent, in particular the bloody battle of the Somme in July 1916, there were numerous minor expansions of The hospital’s the accommodation, largely dining hall, now achieved by cutting down on the Council bed-space and putting up Room (hammer marquees. In late 1917, part beams in roof no of the Swain Street Union longer visible) Workhouse was taken over been gained in South Africa, War Office, promising that, if Road, designed to provide a and, on more than one where the hot, dry conditions the proposals were approved, further 500 beds. This time, occasion, the unfortunate were comparatively clean. In the entire cost would be met however, the War Office’s R.A.M.C. ‘other ranks’ were the heavily manured soils of locally and the work finished Barrack Construction turned out of their barrack Flanders, wounds became in 10 weeks. The offer proved Department was put in blocks in order to cope with infected with appalling irresistible and the deputation charge, and the experience of emergencies. rapidity. Bacterial infection returned triumphant. Work local architects and builders When the guns at last fell often set in within a few began immediately, using yet passed over. The result was silent on 11 November 1918, hours. In a day or less, more of the salvaged material. incompetence, muddle and rejoicing at the 5th Northern shattered limbs could be The new ‘open-air’ wards, as waste on a monumental scale. was necessarily short-lived. poisoned beyond hope of they were known, were fitted The five wards held 100 beds Ambulance trains continued to saving. ‘Gas gangrene’ with wood and canvas screens each, and were far too big for arrive at London Road Station became a new and repulsive - very like the ‘up-and-over’ convenient management. The until June 1919. Soon, enemy, and the surgeon’s garage doors of today - and knife had perforce to be were popular with patients at wielded ever more radically if least during the summer the lives of many were to be months. The work was saved at all. completed fifteen days before On 15 March 1915, Col. the promised deadline, and Harrison received orders to the workmen shared a bonus expand the hospital to provide of £150.00. an additional 510 beds. The old Asylum buildings were full, Y the end of May 1915, and the only prospect of the 5th Northern General finding the necessary BHospital consisted of the accommodation was either to Base Hospital on the revert to the original plan of University/Wyggeston and commandeering local schools Queen Elizabeth I College site, and colleges, or to erect new the North Evington War buildings. The latter course Hospital (the erstwhile Poor Open-air ward - interior. was even less to the War Law Infirmary, taken over on Office’s taste than the 16.3.15.), military wards in the annexe containing the nurse’s however, the unmistakable conversion of the old Asylum Royal Infirmary and Gilroes room, bathroom and toilets signs that the hospital was had been, and it was clear Hospitals, and the seven was put at the end furthest nearing the end of its life that only powerful persuasion Auxiliary Hospitals operating from the central services began to appear. First the would win the argument. by this time, altogether corridor, doubling the length North Evington and then the Plans were swiftly drawn up providing 2055 beds. But of water and drainage pipes, Auxiliary Hospitals were for ten single-storey wards of even this was not enough to not to mention the walking closed: at the Base Hospital, 51 beds each, on the site now cope with the ever-rising tide distance for many of the the numbers of beds were occupied by Wyggeston and of casualties. After some routine tasks. Instead of a reduced almost daily, until, on Queen Elizabeth I College. A official vacillation, a further central hot water supply, gas 4 August 1919, orders were deputation headed by major extension was carried geysers were installed which, received to close completely. Alderman North Went to the out towards Victoria Park in addition to being hopelessly The last patients left for other

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SPOTLIGHT this month reproduces, with kind permission, an article that appeared in The Times Educational Supplement. In it, Malcolm Bradbury talks to SUSAN THOMAS about the influence of the late Professor Arthur Humphreys who joined the former University College in January 1947.

RTHUR Humphreys expected me to be a teacher was my professor of but I had gone to university A English at what was thinking I was going to be a then called The University writer - an ambition that Ambulances leaving London Road station for the hospital (c.1916). College of Leicester. This was began when I was 13. By the the 1950s, there were only time I got there I was writing military hospitals, leaving only pathological laboratory at the 700 students and we were for Punch and getting things a handful of staff to clear the rear of the old Asylum stable housed in a former on to the radio, so now silent wards. block. The enormous 2-storey lunatic asylum. In its brief but eventful life, building put up as nurses’ The college had two the 5th Northern General quarters became the first Hall great claims to fame - Hospital provided a maximum of Residence for the University Philip Larkin had been of 5,170 beds, treating close College’s women students. Of the sub-librarian there on 75,000 cases of all kinds. this, however, and of the and C P Snow, who Of the total treated, 514 died great phases of expansion grew up in Leicester, of wounds or disease whilst at between the old Asylum and had been a student the Hospital, and a number Victoria Park Road, no vestige and knew people in are buried in the Welford Road remains. the Chemistry Cemetery. Department. The important thing for me was that this somewhat benighted university college, whose administration, syllabus and final examinations all came from outside, was an external college of London University. Arthur was one of the youngest professors in the country, perhaps Map of INFLUENCE: hospital, just over 30. He Professor Humphreys was one of the youngest professors in the country August had taught in 1919. Turkey and Belfast and there had been a certain I had a degree of Of the buildings used as the amount of opposition to his confidence. The one thing I Base Hospital, the Fielding appointment. knew for certain was that I Johnson Building, as well as The syllabus was dreadfully was never going to be a what is today ‘R’ Block of the old-fashioned and not really university teacher. Department of Engineering what I had hoped for. There I came from an upper are still in use. Remnants of were five language papers: working-class/lower middle the R.A.M.C. barrack block still old English, old Norse, old class home and though my stand in Wyggeston and John Hopkins is an Icelandic, history of language parents were deeply Queen Elizabeth I College associate administrator and and history of literature, committed to education, my playing fields, and there are formerly director of safety which stopped at Jude the father had left school at 14 the remains of one of the services at the University. Obscure in the 1890s. and neither of them had any operating theatres and a Nearly everyone else idea what university was like.

24 FEATURES FREE FROM A STUFFY SYLLABUS My expectations were entirely brought in all those angry based on books - of the young men including Brideshead Revisited type. Kingsley Amis, which Lucky Jim, which came out in encouraged me. my first year, was reputedly C P Snow showed Eating set in Leicester, but it was too People is Wrong to his late to influence me. friends and got it published. Arthur was extremely This happened around the helpful. He encouraged me time that Snow and Leavis to read modern English and fell out and it seemed to me then American literature, a time of divided loyalties - which were not on the with the Cold War in Europe, syllabus. His own work was and at home this other war on 18th-century culture and fought by fiction rather than he had written a book on by scientific method or Herman Melville (Moby Dick’s philosophy. creator). Arthur, it can now Arthur was very kind about be revealed, was the model my book. I never said that for my character Professor the main character was him. Treece in Eating People is And of course it wasn’t Wrong, my first novel. exactly. It was a kind of cloning of him and me - E was handsome and though it does seem very odd charming, with a mop to me now for a 19 year old Hof tawny hair. His to write a book about dress and manner were fairly someone double his age. But formal. I can see now that I did not know anyone else to he was slightly nervous of his go to. So the house in the students. book is his house and many But he was enormously of his mannerisms, scenes concerned that we should do from his tutorials and his a well and he embodied a party appear in it. Only his I came from an upper working- feeling for literary culture history is somewhat changed. class/lower middle class home and that I had not yet fully In those days there were though my parents were deeply imbibed. no ‘teenagers’, only school committed to education, my father He had written for F R leavers and ex-servicemen. Leavis’s Cambridge literary And at that time you were had left school at 14 and neither of journal Scrutiny, which in still in statu pupil-lari - the them had any idea what university was 1950 was ‘the new way’. teachers were your parents. like. My expectations were entirely Leavis had published The A faculty party was a little bit based on books - of the Brideshead Great Tradition and New like going to the home of a Revisited typeb Bearings in Modern British very respectable elderly Poetry and Arthur was deeply parent for your tea. Malcolm Bradbury involved in all this - although it was the opposite of what RTHUR Humphreys that literature needed to start our syllabus was all about. introduced me to the all over again. At that time I was deeply A new debate in In the summer of ‘55 I got absorbed in writing my first literature. Before the war the a Fulbright Scholarship to the novel. Almost everyone else argument had been between States. Arthur put me in on the course was going on the likes of Eliot and Auden, touch with a lot of people in to be an English teacher so the Anglo-Catholic versus the New York and the Mid West, writing was clearly a pretty Marxist. But after 1945 which is how I stayed in aberrant occupation. But I fascism and Nazism had touch with him, and went on got real support from Arthur collapsed so the people who to teach American Studies at and then I began to meet stood for the ‘good’ were the University of East Anglia. people from Oxford and Forster and Orwell - people Cambridge who were also for whom writing was a © Susan Thomas and Times Supplements Ltd. 1996. All writing. And the Literary humanistic activity without Rights Reserved. Reproduced from the Times Education Society - mostly through the any over-ideological Supplement (27.9.96). aegis of Philip Larkin - emphasis. Sartre was saying

25 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENTS FEATURES IN THE REGION

“BE transported in time and in twentieth-century music? Artstop by Michael Gilmore, Guest Editor space to Vienna in the All seems quiet on the nineteenth century...”. theatrical front in January, This line of publicity person show of still-life as a “visionary quality”. once the pantomime dames reminded me of an article in a paintings and self-portraits at Perhaps we are getting back and Prince Charmings have recent Sunday Times which the City Gallery, is a painter to the world of the Caffrey’s finished their cross-dressing discussed the marketing who has harnessed this power myth. and delightful buffoonery, but power of “a sentimental for her art. Her work is about The concert also features comedy does not disappear remembrance of things past”. “a mild form of exile”, Walton’s beautiful Viola altogether. On offer, from 13- The article used the example “decorated with memories, Concerto, 18 January, at the Little of the Caffrey’s beer mementoes and hidden Theatre, Leicester, is Tim commercial in which a young messages”. This is the other Firth’s Neville’s Island. man, with one sip of the beer, side of the nostalgia coin, Four businessmen are sent is transported out of a chaotic where the artist’s work itself is on a team-building exercise New York bar to the Ireland of driven by a desire to return to in the Lake District. Forced the myths, “a sepia-toned the past. She says: “I look for intimacy never bodes well rural idyll”. Ireland is not the and find echoes, fragments, and the out-of-condition only country able to market a objects, places and landscapes quartet manage to get product “on a yearning for a which take me back to that themselves shipwrecked and vanished past”. The publicity lyrical wild paradise which I marooned in fog on an for the forthcoming Halle felt such despair and regret at island in the middle of Concert at the De Montfort leaving but which I can never Derwentwater. We are Hall on 20 January is equally fully recapture.” The month- promised hilarious characters, effective. We are invited to be long exhibition begins on 18 shades of Tony Hancock, Les transported to nineteenth January, and if you want to Dawson and Frankie Howerd. century Vienna, “a city of explore further this nostalgic Then from the master of gaiety and elegance, full of dimension of your character, farce, Alan Ayckbourn, we are glittering ballrooms, why not join Susan Wilson’s offered Relatively Speaking, architectural magnificence, workshop on self- which will be running from colourful inns and beer portraiture, which will take 30 January to 22 February at gardens.” the concept beyond the Belgrade Theatre, physical likeness. Coventry. The plot goes Nostalgia Participants are invited to something like this: Ginny has “bring along an object fallen in love with Greg, and Perhaps music can transport which they feel is therefore decides one Sunday us even more effectively than important to them and to go to Buckinghamshire to the beer, after all a pint of reflects something of their confront her former lover and beer needs a copywriter’s personality”. RELATIVELY SPEAKING: boss Philip, to make it clear to Vintage efforts to give us the picture Vienna, of course is not Ayckbourne at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre him that their affair is over. of emerald green meadows the only place with a musical Meanwhile Greg, who thinks and craggy-faced fishermen, identity. At the Royal Concert and what will make this Ginny has gone off to see her whereas the Strauss waltzes Hall in Nottingham on 23 performance so special is the parents for the weekend, will transport us to the January, we are offered an soloist Yuri Bashmet, who has discovers the address where ballroom on their own, and evening of English classical gained a reputation as one of she has gone, and decides to even if you are not taken up music. Conducted by Vernon the most brilliant musicians to set off to what he thinks is her by the nostalgic vision, the Handley, the Royal have emerged from the parents’ house, in order to melodies alone will guarantee Philharmonic Orchestra former Soviet Union. So good declare his intention to marry that the evening will be a continues a Nottingham cycle is Bashmet that he has Ginny. At the same time, popular one. The programme of Vaughan Williams’ inspired composers to write Sheila, Philip’s wife, who includes the Overture from the symphonies. for him. The programme also would normally be at church Marriage of Figaro and includes Walton’s first work on a Sunday morning but this Schubert’s ‘Unfinished Very personal for full orchestra, Portsmouth Sunday isn’t, is there when Symphony’, which may serve Point. This piece takes its Greg arrives ahead of Ginny ... as a reminder that Viennese Vaughan Williams said that name from an etching by ... and so we finish not with music is by no means limited a composer ought to “make Thomas Rowlandson, which national identities, nor with to the waltzes and polkas of his art an expression of the depicts a scene at Portsmouth personal identities, but with the Strauss family. whole life of the community”, Harbour. The music’s mistaken identities in leafy Nostalgia is not just about and whilst his music has a very animated rhythms, changing Buckinghamshire in the 60s! sentimentality. The marketing personal quality about it, it time-signatures and harsh managers latch on to a strong does also express a national orchestration reflect power within our personality. identity. The Ninth Symphony Rowlandson’s bustling scene, Susan Wilson, a New is typical of his style, showing full of uninhibited characters - Zealander who has a one- what has been characterised an eighteenth-century vision,

26 We are looking for contributors to this section. If you wish to review the cuttings, please contact Barbara Whiteman on ext 2676. CUTTINGS WHAT THE PAPERS SAY ‘Trees of life run rings round in one accessible volume, a Hundreds of cuttings pour into the Press Office at creationists’ was the title given Library user’s fantasy. As the Leicester University from around the world chronicling to a book review in The Times Library moves into a new year, the activities of staff and students. GWENDA BOND Higher but here we are into however, the reality of one of from the Library reviews a selection of the cuttings genetics, not botany. its perennial problems goes from recent weeks. Reviewing New uses for new with it. (Did you know, by the phylogenies, C P Kyriacou, way, that, according to the PERHAPS, with the demise of skins, catching birds of prey Professor of Genetics, November issue of Museums the old year and the birth of and endangered species”. welcomed ‘a serious book on Journal, left-handed people the new, it’s timely to look at a Talking of endangered evolution, where the rigour of have a more holistic approach few ‘life and death’ issues species, even the English oak scientific experimentation is to problem-solving than right- highlighted in the latest may be jeopardised in our rush applied,’ but he succeeded in handed ones, interesting news tranche of press cuttings. to embrace the millennium. It his review in combining the for no less than 20 left-handed The Times had apparently seems that those ‘National scholarly with the cheerfully students out of 47 on the MA thought that it had cracked the Forest’ signs that have sprung honest and pragmatic. ‘For me course in Museum Studies here ‘whodunnit’ or rather the up on my route to work may the book was a gift from God, last year?) ‘whatdunnit’ of the extinction be a little economical with the because I had not updated my Anyway, let me revert to the of the dinosaurs. Andrew Kerr, truth. Two hundred new final-year undergraduate perennial Library problem of of the Geology woodlands are being planted molecular evolution course for how to prevent noisy users Department, took issue on the for the coming this disturbing the would-be Letters page. “Your article, celebrations -- but studious ones or those so Dinosaurs’ death mystery ‘national’? exhausted that they just want solved (News, last week) Botanists are to sleep in peace behind the expressed the opinion that the warning that our shelves. (Liz Wine, LUSU Vice- collision of an asteroid with most symbolic of President, told the Leicester Earth caused the demise of the trees and the Mercury that ‘four out of ten dinosaurs. Although the wildlife they students are currently working existence of an impact support are twelve and a half to twenty structure on the Yucatan under threat hours a week’ in order to peninsula is now doubted by from ‘genetic survive financially.) Perhaps an very few, it is more difficult to pollution’ by billions of foreign answer is offered from an prove that this impact caused oak seedlings, imported unlikely quarter. What the the mass extinction because they undercut the Daily Mail hailed as ‘the most event....There are many price of English acorns. revealing soccer survey ever’ credible scientists who believe Both The Times and the has been carried out for the FA that the main cause of Daily Mail ran the story, Premier League by John extinction 65m years ago was quoting Colin Ferris of Williams of the Sir Norman massive volcanic outbursts in the Department of Foster Centre for Football India.....The mystery is far from Botany, who explained Research, who compiled more solved; the jury is still very in The Times: ‘The than 20,000 responses to a much out.” oaks of Eastern questionnaire. Although the Too late for the dinosaurs, and Central survey revealed that 1 in every but everything still to play for Europe 8 fans is a woman and that in the battle for the lives of the have 70% of supporters feel safer in Northumbrian black grouse been all-seater grounds than they and the Black Sea sturgeon. isolated did in the days of terracing, The Hexham Courant ran a from some fans complain at the lack piece on Leicester graduate British of ‘atmosphere’ and would like Helen Ashworth, newly- oaks areas where they could ‘sing appointed North-east regional for up to and chant’ (according to the organiser for the World Wide four million Irish Times) or even ‘sing and Fund for Nature UK. Up in years. The life forms dance’ (according to the Daily Tyneside, Helen has helped that live on them have evolved semester. It arrived for review Mail) without upsetting other launch an ‘Eyes and Ears’ separately for about the same a week before I began, and supporters. So perhaps that’s campaign to fight the illegal length of time. When we plant saved me hours of library what we need in the Library -- trade in wildlife. She says, these trees, we expect our work.’ some kind of Library equivalent “It’s all about getting the wildlife will move in. But they Now there’s a thought: of a resurrected Kop. public to be more aware and may well not do that or be as exactly the right book at Life, death, perhaps watch out for people stealing happy as in forests stocked by exactly the right time, resurrection.....Happy New birds’ eggs, dealing in animal native trees.’ everything you need to know Year.

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STAFF DISTINCTIONS RESEARCH FUNDING GRANTS FROM OPPORTUNITIES EXTERNAL SOURCES Staff distinctions are published in the Bulletin after they have been before Senate/Council. Unless otherwise ANAESTHESIA Prof G Smith PROFESSOR CAMP has been elected as President of the European indicated, further Resident Medical Officer - Society for Dermatological Research for 1997/98. information on any Anaesthesia programmes with a There is still considerable DR I R BOWLER, Geography, was elected as the Chair of the controversy with respect to the 97- reference can be optimum means of anaesthetising International Geographical Union’s Commission on The patients for cardiac surgery in Sustainability of Rural Systems at the 24th IGU Congress in the obtained from the particularly the necessity to Hague. maintain a light level of Research Office. unconsciousness to avoid MR P HERRINGTON, Economics, served as a member of the Contact Mrs Maureen depressing the heart whilst providing excellent analgesia. In three-person Independent Commission of Inquiry into Water Strange (Ext 2759). this study, a comparison will be Supply in Yorkshire from March to May 1996. He has also been Please quote the made between a new intravenous appointed as a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons opioid agent, remifentanil, and an Environment Select Committee Inquiry into Water Conservation reference given. established opioid, fentanyl, in and Supply. providing the most satisfactory form of an analgesia during cardiac The University’s Consultant for anaesthesia. Another problem MRS K W SHIPTON, Faculty of Arts, has been awarded the Technology Transfer and Industrial which is not uncommon after Norman Hepburn Baynes Prize by the University of London for an Liaison is Dr Laurie Phillips. cardiac surgery is that of mild essay on The Cash Economy of 4th Century BC Athens. Appointments can be made degrees of renal failure and further through the LUCENT Office on Ext investigations will be undertaken DR J WELLENS, Geography, has been elected Treasurer of the 2437. comparing the use of a new drug levosimendan with dobutamine in Biogeography Research Group of the Royal Geographical UK RESEARCH COUNCILS ameliorating poor renal function Society/Institute of International Geographers. Staff are reminded that they after cardiac anaesthesia. should discuss the costing of all £25,641 (supp) BUPA Research Council applications with Budget Centre Managers at BIOCHEMISTRY least 5 days before the Dr P M Kilby submission date in order to ensure that appropriate provision The structure determination of has been made under the new S100 Beta Protein by NMR - research council funding £7,959 (supp) Wellcome Trust arrangements. The signed application and salmon-coloured CELL PHYSIOLOGY & RApp/93 form should then be PHARMACOLOGY submitted to the Research Office Dr N W Davies (Jan Davies or Keith Davis) for signature. Failure to do so may University Research Fellowship - result in the University’s Expenses yrs 4 & 5 authorisation being withheld. £15,282 (supp) Royal Society Please contact Maureen Strange on ext. 2759 for an appointment. CHEMISTRY Feb 1 PPARC (Particle Physics) Dr E G Hope NERC Small Grants Low Valent Metal Fluorides Mar 1 PPARC (Astronomy) £82 CLRC The following closing dates for other funding bodies are also CHILD HEALTH forthcoming. (This is not intended to be an exhaustive list). Dr C O’Callaghan Dr P Barry Authorisation should be obtained Syncroner Study from the Research Office at least 5 £1,000 Fisons Pharmaceuticals days before submission in these cases. EDUCATION Jan 27 Arthritis & Rheumatism Dr J Underwood Council Project Grants ESRC Centre for the Research in Action Research, Research Development, Instruction and Training Fellowships Lister Training. Institute Research Fellowships The objectives of the ESRC Centre Feb 15 Leverhulme Trust at Nottingham (director Professor 17 Royal Society Vacant David Wood) are to elaborate and Research Appointments exploit a theoretical framework for 23 British Heart the design delivery and evaluation Foundation Senior & International of systems to support instruction Fellowships and training.

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Dr Jean Underwood and Dr Susan MEDICINE & THERAPEUTICS single-chain fragments (ScFvs) combined with in-situ data, to Cavendish, Leicester University Prof D P De Bono against synthetic peptides - study the dynamics of the Kiro Shio School of Education, are contracted Studentship - Mr S Donaghue current in the region of the south United Kingdom pacing and to the Centre. The focus of this China Sea and its implications for cardiovascular event study The important role of apoptosis in current grant will be that of the regional climate. This work is (UKPACE) - Supplement on cash neoplasia development and also in modelling the process of change in closely related to on-gong work in limiting cancer therapy has only recently the professional development of been acknowledged. Many cancers the Earth Observation Science £115,188 (supp) MRC teachers. Research shows that are now believed to be the Group at Leicester in connection teachers are resistant to change Prof D P De Bono consequence of failed apoptotic with ocean atmosphere and that this finding crosses age interactions. Discretionary Chair Fund cell death instead of enhanced cell phase and subject boundaries. This growth, as was originally thought. £4,500 European Space Agency is an adaptive behaviour in the £5,068 (supp) British Heart In addition, emerging evidence majority of classroom situations but Foundation suggests that owing to varying POLITICS (SCSPO) there are times when change is apoptosis thresholds, treatments Mrs C Wilkinson beneficial yet it is very difficult to MEDICINE & THERAPEUTICS may induce apoptosis tumours bring about. In this project we are /LRI cells, but merely a cell cycle pause Needs analysis relating to drug particularly interested in identifying misuse in HM Prisons - Leicester Dr L L Ng Dr J Davies in their normal cell counterparts. those ‘trigger’ points which can Correspondingly, a major mode of cluster Vitamin C uptake of induce change. resistance to antitumour £19,095 H M Prison Service lymphoblasts in diabetic £73,613 (supp) ESRC via treatments may be sensitive to nephropathy and modulation of University of apoptosis induction (Fisher, 1994). glucose SOCIOLOGY Nottingham Undoubtedly, the elucidation of the Prof A M Phizacklea Mr N Furini £20,800 Wellcome Trust roles of the genes which express Disaffected young peoples GENETICS pro- and anti-apoptotic proteins MICROBIOLOGY & would have a major impact on the research Dr J H Ketley IMMUNOLOGY treatment of cancer. £254 (supp) Leicestershire TEC University Research Fellowship - Dr P J H Sheldon £30,000 Pilgrim Health NHS Trust Expenses yr 8 Research into low trauma SURGERY £8,995 (supp) Royal Society fractures PROF J LUNEC Prof P R F Bell GEOGRAPHY (£5000 from Merck Sharp & Ph.D. Studentship - Pratibha Renal Transplant Fellow Prof A C Millington Dohme) Mistry- Photobiology Project £55,902 (supp) Leicester General £20,000 (supp) Leicester Hospital Bangladesh Project Review Osteoporosis is a disease Dermatology The catastrophic flooding of the characterised by deficient bone Mr M A Jarvis Research Fund 1980s in Bangladesh led to a architecture resulting in a greater Effect of the nitric oxide massive push in terms of likelihood of fracture. The risk of precursor or L-argine on pig vein international research projects future fracture can be detected by PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY graft & anastomotic intimal aimed at controlling flooding in a new scanning system using very Prof A R King Dr D J Raine hyperplasia - Junior Research Bangladesh through small amounts of X-radiation, A rolling programme of Fellowship geomorphologic and civil called DEXA scanning. theoretical astrophysics research engineering type projects. £83,215 British Heart Foundation Conventional treatment of wrist £301,432 PPARC Alongside the engineering projects fractures does not include asking were two other projects aimed at the question why the fracture Prof D Llewellyn Jones integrating Environment Impact occurred in the first place. Visiting Fellowship for Miss Guan Analysis (EIA) into the planning However we now know that such Lei decisions created by river control fractures can be the harbinger of Miss Guan Lei, from the University schemes and by compiling a osteoporosis. Therefore we wish of Qingdao, People’s Republic of comprehensive geographic to study the prevalence of the China, has been awarded an ESA information system (GIS) facility to condition by DEXA scanning a Research Fellowship to spend six enable environmental monitoring limited number of wrist fracture months at the University of using satellite imagery to be patients, as it is thought likely that Leicester. Her research programme accomplished and to provide a a proportion of these fractures concerns the use of satellite data, spatial database for planning. All have resulted from the bone being the projects together form the weaker than normal. Knowing a Bangladesh Flood Action Plan patient to have osteoporosis, which is managed by the enables one to offer them IRONSIDES RAY & VIALS Bangladesh Ministry of Water appropriate advice regarding Resources. treatment. LEGAL ADVICE BUREAU The Environment & GIS Project £62,806 Leicester Royal Infirmary comprises both the EIA and GIS FREE INITIAL ADVICE is available on any area projects and is funded by the Royal ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY of Law. Estimates are available for Conveyancing, Netherlands government. The Project Review Mission is being Prof P J Gregg Probate, Personal Injury, Matrimonial and other undertaken by Professor Andrew Study of outcome in total hip & Legal matters. Millington (Leicester University) and total knee replacement surgery WHEN: Every Tuesday between 12-2 pm Dr John Soussan (Leeds University) £16,400 (supp) NHS Executive Trent to review both the GIS and EIA WHERE: Charles Wilson Building, sides of the project and to PATHOLOGY 4th Floor in the Framland Room reformulate the project for a further four years. Prof I Lauder HOW: For an appointment telephone £3,780 Royal Netherlands The study of ice-related proteins (0116) 2523334 Government via and inhibitor of apoptosis In emergencies call Ironsides Ray & Vials University of Leeds proteins and their role in cancer using intracellular expression of direct on Leicester 2515253.

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30 A.O.B. STUDENT LEARNING CENTRE A DAY TO REMEMBER STUDY WORKSHOPS DO you remember that scene in Apocalypse Now where Marting These friendly, interactive workshops are open to all interested students. Each workshop deals with an essential study skills topic, giving students Sheen and “cookie” go looking for mangos in the jungle? They get the opportunity to review approaches, share experiences, and learn some attacked by a tiger and the moral of the story is “never get out of new study strategies. the boat”. Well my new motto is “never take a day off”. I take a Effective Note Making Thursday 6 February 12.30 - 2.30 day off, drive to London and a lorry drives into me. I wait an hour Improving Your Reading Skills Friday 7 February 10.30 - 12.00 and half for the AA. I drive home. End of day off. My 90 minutes Essay Writing Tuesday 11 February 10.30 - 12.30 of immobility did give me the chance to observe the squeegee Thought Mapping Thursday 13 February 12.30 - 2.30 brigade at the traffic lights - they had even offered to do my Powerful Presentations Tuesday 18 February 10.30 - 12.30 windscreen for me despite the fact that my car was at the time Writing for Science Tuesday 25 February 10.30 - 12.30 underneath a lorry - I suppose a dirty window is a dirty window Essay Writing Thursday 27 February 1.30 - 3.30 whatever it’s attached to. Revision and Exam Skills Thursday 13 March 10.30 - 1.00 It was frightening to watch these children for two reasons. As Revision and Exam Skills Wednesday 23 April 1.30 - 4.00 they weaved between the moving traffic, some of them on Students can register for workshops by calling into College House and rollerskates, I feared for their lives. When they hitched rides on the asking at the Information Desk. backs of trucks I feared for their lives. Thinking about the amount For further details about the workshops or any of the other Student of fumes they were inhaling I feared for their lives. But as well as Learning Centre services please telephone 0116 252 2004. this, it was the whole Dickensian nature of their activity that suggested that there has been no progress in the last 100 years - LIBRARY CHANGES except perhaps the invention of the car. Their prematurely aged The Library’s Information Services section is being augmented by the faces so practiced at appearing nonchalant as they pile soap suds transfer of Brian Marshall, Collections Management Librarian. Brian will on a hapless motorist’s gleaming BMW, so indignant when their assume responsibility for English, his degree subject, and he is taking over immediately from Peter Woodhead. services are waved away. Working in cold wet clothes, on a diet of This move will, in time permit the Information Librarians to reduce the carbon monoxide and cigarettes, they might as well have been number of departments for which they are individually responsible and so working in a victorian mine. to increase the time they can devote to each subject. But lest you should feel too much sympathy for these modern day artful dodgers, I will leave you with one final image which encapsulates how far we’ve come and how far we have still to go - a young girl, walking between cars, sponge in one hand and in the NEW PRESENTATION other ..... a mobile phone. -Peter Allen FOLDER A new A4 folder with a 15mm gusset is now available from Press and Alumni Relations costing £1.20 each. It bears the University crest, Queen’s Anniversary logo and four images relating to the University. There is a pocket to hold documents and a space for business cards. National and local maps are featured on the back of the folder together with the Leicester; A City Full of Surprises logo. To purchase the folders please contact Pat Bone, Press and Alumni Relations on Extension 2415.

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PRIZE CROSSWORD 10 by Seivador A THREE-COURSE LUNCH FOR TWO IN THE CARVERY WILL BE AWARDED TO THE SENDER OF THE FIRST CORRECT ENTRY PICKED IN THE DRAW

1 2 3 4 5 6 Clues Across 1. Dear Divinity - fiction about a Medusa’s effect (13) 8 7. Malady said to be new complaint in America initially (9) 9. Pipe is weak and unreliable if broken (4)

7 8 10. Periodical’s piece about poem (4) 11. He was a healer - the work of an angel (5) 9 10 13. Heard of membrane, more than one (6) 11 12 14. Dishevelled vet ran in, we hear (6) 15. Number carried by a car, a bicycle, etc (6) 13 14 17. Design personal display (6) 18. Rover’s not rabid (5) 19. So-called free swimmer (4) 21. A strange plant (4) 15 16 17 22. The chosen sat on the conductor (8) 23. Master-barmens’ cocktail is disconcerting (13) 18 Clues Down 19 20 21 1. Hunt e.g. distributes paper with ‘I heal Art’ (13) 2. Border settler in Africa (4)

22 3. Quarrel associated with a liberal social system (6) 4. Whence to emerge, gaily? (6) 5. Riot could be fomented by them! (4) 23 6. No inns comfort straying Methodist, say (13) 7. Pique Ms Clark, given half a chance (9) 8. Exciting experience coming to river (9) 11. Naughty boy playin’ poker? (5) PORTRAIT VOUCHER COMPETITION 12. Nymph may metamorphose - into Princess? (5) Enter this competition and win a voucher to the value of 16. Agree to trick the scoundrel (6) £40, entitling you to a family portrait-sitting at Michael 17. Bull reportedly lacerated you, and me (6) Stockton Studio, Granby Street, Leicester. 20. Nap was there, with means of returning (4) Answer the following question: 21. A mother’s boy (4) Name a specialised portrait camera made in Sweden: PRIZE GIVEN BY LEICESTER UNIVERSITY CATERING SERVICES a) Nikon b) Leica c) Hasselblad Entries in a sealed envelope - clearly marked PRIZE CROSSWORD COMPETITION, C/O LUSU RECEPTION, PERCY Answers to Julie Franks, LUSU Marketing Office, no later than GEE BUILDING BY NO LATER THAN NOON ON 20.1.97 noon on Friday 17 January 1997. NAME: ______THE MENERVA EDUCATIONAL TRUST DEPT: ______ESSAY COMPETITION EXT. NO: ______(supported by The Times Higher Education Supplement) PRIZE CROSSWORD 9 SOLUTION The aim of the Menerva Trust is to encourage women’s Across 1 Carapace. 5 Grip. 9 Demur. 10 Swindon. 11 achievements in public affairs and at work. The Essay Handkerchief. 12 Artist. 14 Answer. 17 Newfashioned. 20 Competition engages students in the campaign. The first Centaur. 21 Agent. 22 Echo. 23 Reversal. Essay Competition in 1996, won by Barbara Spender of Southampton University, was awarded for the best essay Down 1 Code. 2 Rampant. 3 Paradisiacal. 4 Caster. 6 Radii. 7 illustrating how women have contributed positively and Pinafore. 8 Disconsolate. 12 Barnacle. 15 Whereas. 16 Charge. significantly to the development of society. The 1997 18 Wench. 19 Et al. competition focuses on: WINNER OF PRIZE CROSSWORD 9: WOMEN’S CONTRIBUTION TO INTELLECTUAL LIFE PAUL SMITH, ENGINEERING There will be three prizes: 1st £1,000 2nd £700 3rd £500 The Prize, a 3-course lunch for two in the Carvery, was Further details and an application form can be obtained from donated by Leicester University Catering Services. Barbara Whiteman, Press and Alumni Relations (2676). FESTIVE COMPETITION ANSWERS 1. Aladdin. 2. Buon Natale. 3.The night of January 5th/6th EPIPHANY CAROL SERVICE (counting starts from Christmas night, 25 December) Sunday 12 January, 6.30 p.m.St Nicholas’ Church, Leicester WINNER: Morag Clarke, Reprographics, won two bottles All welcome of Beaujolais Nouveau.

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