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ISSUE. 'UMBER 65, DECE.\4BER 1992

the College Newslettercademic Audit

P roftssor Robert Hill, Chairman ofthe AcademicAudit &view Croup,describes preparations for the 'Visit

ofthe CVC? Academic Audit Unit to King'sin November /993.

It is clear from the limited budget forhigher education and the example of the

research rating exercise that funding inthe higher education sector will onlygain maximum support when it isrecognised as excellent. There is,

therefore, a requirement that not onlyshould we, as a College, be certain thatwhat we do i excellent, but that weshould be able to demonstrate that thisis the case. If, at the same time, we candevelop the demonstration proceduresfor our own u e there is advantage to begained in carrying them through. Thescheme of academic audit allows us to

do this. An audit trail is a logical and

sequential path of enquiry which isdesigned to make clear the strengthsand weaknesses of an activity. The

CVCP, in 1989, realising that the binaryline was in the process of being

dismantled and that the 'new'universities already had a trongbackground of review, initiatedacademic audit within the universitysector. Since then the technique ofaudit has become accepted as aneffective means of internal and externalacademic review.

The CVCP cademic Audit nit will

be visiting the College in ovember

1993 in order to carry out the first of acontinuing series of academic audits. Inpreparation for this the Standing

Continued on page 2

The new College Christmas card - Snow atLouvecien nes - by Sisiey. See page 8 fordetails ofwhere to purclzase cards.

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Committee of Academic Board has setup an Academic Audit teering Groupand given the Group the brief toexamine the College's mechani m formonitoring and promoting academictandards; to assist Schools to identify

and evaluate strengths and weakne esin teaching, research and cholarship,and in organisation and management,and thereby to improve theeffectivenes of the College in relationto academic standard and performance.

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T he Review Group harecognised two tasks. Firstly,to develop in the College an

understanding of the nature of academicaudit and, secondly, to en ure thatsupport and advice, including thebackground information required foraudit, is made available to Departmentsand Schools.

Because of the differences in the waysin which Schools carry out theirteaching, academic procedures requireto be clearly defined and understood at

choollevel. However, theresponsibility for monitoring thatapproval procedures for degree coursesand course modules are applicable andin place lies with the Audit ReviewGroup. The College requires that theremust be comparability across Schoolsand between Boards of Examiners.This can only be done through aCollege-based acceptance of qualitystandards and by internal checking thatthe standards are being met by use ofinternal audit.

In order to establish an awarene s ofthe nature of the Audit proced urethroughout the College, the ReviewGroup has initiated a series of audits,initially of individual degreeprogrammes. The Audit Group of fourhas met with similar sized groups frompecific departments and asked a series

of questions to bring out all theinformation about why and how thecourse is run; how are student progressand degree award procedures carriedout; how are academic standardsmaintained; how is information fromstaff and students about the cour emade available and what use is made ofthis information. These initial visits areintended to establish a philosophy of

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audit trails, and are helpful in that theyallow the procedures for such visits to bedi cu sed and refined before beingemplo ed acros the whole College.

It is the intention that the members ofthe College udit Review Group(Profes or Richard Griffiths, the ice­Principal; Profes or imon Howell; the

cademic Registrar and myself) willlead separate audit teams 0 that anumber of staff will not only be auditedbut have experience as auditors. TheGroup consider that this is the best wayof bringing the concept of audit into theCollege and of preparing College for theAudit visitation.

Detailed Information

T he C CP udit nit will beasking similar questions aboutevery academic activity in the

College and eeking information fromcourse organiser and lecturers and alsofrom other members ofthe department,scrutinising external examiners' reportsand talking to students on the course.Essentially, they will be seekingdetailed information on the how andwhy of every academic activity and whatuse we make of that information. TheAudit team will visit for about threedays, having read the backgroundinformation that they will haverequested beforehand, and will speak toabout 200 College members. It isimportant that every staff member isaware of the rationale, nature and extentof audit.

The second a pect of audit is thepreparation offactual statements toupport the interrogative interviews.

The Academic Regi trar has establishedan audit office which will be assistingSchools and Departments with advice,support and statistical information,where this is required. Individualprogramme and module organisers willnot be left on their own but givenassistance from Departments, Divisionsand Schools. Part of the purpose of theinternal audits will be to ascertain thetype of information required to supportthe Audit review. As a follow-on fromthe reorganisations of the last sevenyears, and the move away from federaldegrees and Boards of Studies, largeparts of the College have beenreviewing their degree programmes and

revIsing or etting up course modules.The information is there but needs to bemade acce ible. We are not certain atthe pre ent time, that we have thecorrect College procedures for theacceptance of new degree programmesand course modules but thi is underconsideration.

The Colleges of London universityare the last of the 'old' universitie to beaudited by the CVCP. The completeround has taken almost three years.Once it has been completed the auditrole will be taken over by the HEFCE

and continued on a similar rolling basis.The CVCP audit is self-regulatory, withthe report on the audit passed to theCollege wh ich mayor may not make itpublicly available. It is expected thatthe HEFCE audit will have a directeffect on funding. The ResearchAssessment Exercise has shown thatgradings achieved early in the life of ascheme tend to continue with minormodifications. Let us make it clear tothe Audit team that we are indeed afriendly, caring College with highacademic quality and that we dounderstand where we are going and whywe are going there.

In thenews

Professor Conrad Russell

C ontinuing the column in which

we ill print a selection ofshort quote from ing' taff

who ha e appeared in print, on the radioor on tele i ion.

Paul BIod, ProfessorofsOma Ed tWn,

was reported in TIlt Indepmdm/ on thepublication ofthe boo EduaJ/ion:

Pulling tM RecordS/rai / which criticisethe Government' con tant shifts ineducation policy. Profe or Black said

that many distinguished authors had

contributed to the book because ofconcern that 'the national curriculum isin danger of being changed from ameans of improvement to an instrumentfor regre ion. '

CUr!' Pria, King Edward Professor of

M tCappeared on Radio 4's Today

programme on the occa ion of the

launch of celebration for the composerI [enry Purcell in the run up to his

tercentenary in 1995. Professor Price

outlined the range of activities thatwould be taking place to mark theevent, which is focused on the outhBank, including concerts, operas andworkshops.

Tom Sanders, &aderin Nu/n·/ion. In anarticle in The Independen/ on Sunday

reporting on a study of the health andfitness of Britain's young people, OrSanders commented on remarks madethat the general health of children had

improved beyond recognition in recent

history. He was emphatic that much of

the improvement is due to a better diet,

particularly in the first two years ofchildhood, which can largely determine

general health in later life.

Conrad Russell, Professor ofBri/ish His/ory.

Professor Russell has a seat in the Houseof Lords under his other hat as EarlRussell and takes a very active role inthe work of that House. He was heavily

featured in a Channel 4 CUlling Edge

programme about a peCts of the work of

the House of Lords. Together with

Lord Henderson of Brompton, the

programme showed how Lords can

introduce a motion to change existingregulations - in this case concerningbenefits to homele s people. Themotion was won after a division, but theGovernment decided not to act on italthough traditionally they respond

po itlvel to motion passed b theLord. This has rai ed an interestingcon t1tutional i ue.

Andn w: /hr, S ior Udurer in

Tlzeo/(}gicol Ed li . Following the voteb the Church of England ynod thatwomen can be ordained as prie ts, The

Indtptnd. Ion Sunday ran an articleabout where opponents of women

priests can take their faith, arguing thatnegative reason for converting to

Roman Catholicism and the OrthodoxChurch will not be accepted. Or Walkertated' nglo-Catholics are mi taken if

they think the Orthodox Church willaccept them with open arms. Beingagainst the ordination of women is notufficient or even good grounds for

joining the Church. You mu t want toembrace the Orthodox faith.'

Alia Colnnan, Professor ofGeograplry

poke on the Today programme aboutthe de ign and layout of Milton Keyne

and in particular the network of cyclepaths. The path have been the sceneof a number of assaults on womenrecently and Profes or Coleman arguedthat their layout can be especiallydangerous as they provide easy escaperoute for attackers.

Finally, for those soap opera fans amongyou, who were eagle-eyed enough to

notice that a couple of episodes ofEaslenders were filmed at the

Kensington campus? Michelle and

Sharon were enjoying a girls' night out

and discovering the delights of Queen

Elizabeth Hall.

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ews from

. ·C\\ Appointmcnt to Readerin Gcrman

·C\\ Prote sorship for Spanish

W illiam Rowe's appointmentas Professor of LatinAmerican Cultural Studies

has recently been confirmed, and will bebackdated to 1 August 1992.

ach year the ociety ofCon truction Law awardthe Hudson Prizeof£l,OOOfor

a paper contributing to professionalknowledge in the field of constructionlaw. Thi year's Prize has been won byDavid Ballard, an ex-student of theCentre of Construction Law. Hi paper,Poymen/ for mo/trials orgoods no/ yt/

incorpora/td in/o /ltt worh, was given atthe ociety's meeting on Tuesday 8December in the Great Hall.

At the same time, the Society's prizeof£IOO for the best dissertationsubmitted in 1991 for the MSc inConstruction Law and Arbitration waspresented to Miss Valerie Chapman, asolicitor with London RegionalTransport. Her topic was Htal/It and

saftty on cons/ruc/ion silts.

Miss Janet Weil also received theBickerdike Alien Book Prize of£IOO forthe best first year student of 1992.

Congratulations to Professor John UffQC, the Director of the Centre, who isnow Head of his Chambers.

Our Research Fellow for the currentacademic year is John Barber MA LLBCEng MICE FCIArb.

cntrc of (,on truction I" \and 1anagcmcnt

T he title of Reader in

German has been conferredon Or David Yeandle as from

1 October 1992.

Dr MiclzadJ Curtis

\ 01 k.')\\ agen grant for WarStudic.

T he Department of WarStudie has recently beenawarded a grant of £24,000 by

the Volkswagen Foundation to run aprogramme of training for scholars frompost-communist Europe.

The course will focu on securityproblems of po t-communist Europe,including economic, social and culturalorigins of ethnic ten ions, civil-military

relations and construction of newdefence forces in democratic societies,

confidence building mea ures andtransparency of defence organi ations.Junior and senior fellowships are to beadvertised. The programme's co­director are Or B Heuser, Or EHoloboff and Ms J harp.

entartDenother andoz Prizc in

PhdfmJcolo~

T he 20th Sandoz Prize inPharmacology has just beenawarded to Or Michael J

Curtis in the Pharmacology Group. Thisis the most prestigious prize in the Kfor young pharmacologi ts (under 35years old), and is awarded annually fordistinction in published research. Thesponsors are a leading Swiss-basedmultinational with a de erved reputationfor pharmaceutical innovation, whostipulate that the prize should beawarded competitively after peer reviewof the candidates' research output.

Mike is the third recipient of theaward in the last five years from King'sPharmacology Group, joining Clive Pageand ue Brain, and he will collect hisprize from Sandoz at a dinner to be heldearly next year at Queens' CollegeCambridge. The Prize is worth about£750 and, as yet, Mike is undecided asto how his bank manager will determineits use.

Or Curtis is a home-grownPharmacology graduate, who gained anupper second class degree at Chel ea in1979 and since that time has beeninvolved in research on the mechanismsand therapeutic usefulness of drugsacting on the heart. The citation of theprize award specifically mentions theimportant contributions he has made indesigning new methods for drugevaluation, and his work in identifyingnew ways that drugs can protect theheart against the effects of oxygendeprivation. Appointed lecturer in 1989,he has an active research group at theChelsea Campus, which includes twopostgraduate students who themselveshave prize studentships.

Robin HoultDepartment of Pharmacology

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Research

KC \\'ong Schobr. hip forChina

Applications for travel in 1993 should

be made by 31 January 1993 to ProfessorP A Mc 'aughton, Physiology Group.There is no application form, but a

curriculum vitae and letter stating how

the applicant would u e the Fellowshipto further his/her research should be

enclosed.2,500th annivcr ary of thee tabli hmcnt of Atheniandemocracy

Amid all the political upheavalcurrently going on in theBalkans and in eastern Europe,

1992-93 is being celebrated as the2,500th anniversary of the establishmentof Athenian democracy by the reformsof Cleisthenes in S08n BC.

The London programme ofcommemorative events was inaugurated

with a dinner at the Banqueting Hall,Whitehall; at which the guest speaker

was Betty Boothroyd, Speaker of theHouse of Commons. The celebrationswill culminate with the arrival of thetrireme 'Olympias' on the Thames inJune 1993. The trireme will be mooredat the Festival Hall pier, where it will beopen to the public.

Several universities have organised orare organising seminars and lectures

during the year on the theme of classical

Greek democracy and related issues.

From the King's side, Professor Averil

Cameron will be giving a talk on the

subject at the Athenaeum on 11 January.On 24 February, King's will be the

venue for a discussion by the Rt HonEnoch Powell MP and Or R Osborne(Oxford), organised by the Centre forHellenic tudies and and Anglo­Hellenic League. This will take place inthe Great Hall at 18.00 and all arewelcome to attend.

for repayment.

The cholar Loans are particularyuitable for Chinese students who are

applying for an Overseas ResearchScholarship, and who have no other

upport for a living tipend.For detail of other available

scholarship please contact allyPumford, Administrative ssistant(Recruitment) on extension 3044,

Cornwall House.

ews

ollowing the recent retirementof Or Abraham Lue thesescholarships will now be

administered by the tudent

Recruitment & Exchanges Office.However, members of staff with

potential applicants should write to OrLue at the following address:

18 Randolph Road, London W9 1AN.

F

Applicants should satisfy the followingrequirements:i) They must be of Chinese

nationality and under 35 years old;

ii) have a Master's degree and a pass inTOEFL with a score in excess of600;

iii) have gained admission to a post MA

or post MSc doctoral programmewith the award of a tuition

scholarship at a K university;iv) be recommended by their work

organisation in China and possessfrom them written consent foraccepting the award.

The Scholar Loan provides a livingstipend and medical insurance for amaximum period ofthree years, plus a

single journey economy class air ticketfrom China.

The Scholar Loan scheme is intendedto encourage sponsored students to

return and work in China. Students who

do return upon completion of theirstudy, and who are certified by their

work organisation to have madesatisfactory contributions to thecountry's development, will be deemedto have been relieved of their liability

\If P Ilution m mtorinchcme at KinO"

Pctcr Bakcr TravellingI· e1lowship, 1992-1993

L ondon is set to have a new air

pollution monitoring scheme,

based at King's. The capitalhas one of the country's worst smog

problems, and the new scheme, run by

the outh-East Institute of PublicHealth, will monitor and co-ordinatereadings on sulphur dioxide, nitrogendioxide, ozone, benzene, carbon dioxideand smoke. A particular appeal of the

scheme is that it is offered free to theLondon boroughs for five years.

The Institute has already examined

air pollution and health in the East

Thames Corridor, the tract of land thattretches from East London into Kent

and Essex. It identified 82 pollutinginstallations in the area, which a recentreport by the E'Ve1ling Standard cited ascorresponding with high levels ofrespiratory disease in the area.

The Institute integrates social care,public health medicine andenvironmental health informationservices, and will become part of King'sfrom April.

T he Fellowship wa

established in 1987 by familyand friend in memory of

Professor Peter Baker, cD, FRS,Halliburton Professor of Physiology,Head of the Department of Physiologyand Fellow of King's College London.

The Fellowship will assist a research

worker or research student in the Schoolof Life, Basic Medical and Health

Sciences, King's College London, who isunder 35 (at the time of holding theaward), to spend a period of up to three

months applying new methods to their

research, in another laboratory. Thevalue of the Fellowship is £1,500maximum, and may be used for travel,living expenses and the cost of researchat the laboratory to be visited.

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25 JanuaryAn ony Beevor (London)

The Cretan resls tance, 1941-45

Centre for Medical Law and EthicsRoe lB04 S and a 1300

25 Januaryp olessor R L.

Fe S ud es,

osp"a

Problems of gamete donation

Centre for Hellenic StudiesByzantine and Modern GreekSeminarsAll ee ings ondays 17.00, room B6

(ClaSSICS Oepartmen )

18 JanuaryMichael Jeffreys (Sydney)

Oral tradl ions in la e Byzan ium

Public Lecture

Royal Society of Chemistry LectureRoom 1B06, Strand at 16.30

26 JanuaryProfessor J F S oddart (Birmingham)

Molecular meccano - makingmolecules to order

The British Institute of HumanRights

e Thea re, Sad a 13 00

26 JanuaryPro essor Rod 0 ga • P 0 esso Ol

C I a sce. U I e soB 5 0

dv'se 0 e E ropean To re

Co I ee

The European Torture CommitteeSetting international custodialstandards

EventsThe Maxwell SocietyRoom 2C (Main Building). Strand a

14.00

11 JanuaryOr A Moreton Moore, RHBNC

Natural and synthetiC diamonds

18 JanuaryOarren Toulson, King's

Neural networks - teachingcomputers to guess

1 FebruaryProfessor Averil Cameron (King's), Lyn

Rodley (London). Andrew Lou h

(Goldsml h's)

The Byzantine Saint. discussion of he

recent book by Calla Galatariotou, TheMaking of a Saint, The Life, Times andSanctification of Neophytos theRecluse, Cambridge 1991

25 JanuaryOr R C Warren, UCL

Medical imaging - the inside story

8 FebruaryAmalia ANaniti (Oxford)

The rhythm of Modern Greek from alinguistic perspective

The Department of Nutrition andDieteticsPll, Kensington Campus, 17.15

14 JanuaryProfessor Roger Whi ehead of the

Ounn Nutritional Labora ory,

Cambridge

Is there adaptation In energymetabolism in undernourished andlactating women?

Centre for Hellenic StudiesSecond Runciman LectureNew Theatre, Strand at 18.00

4 FebruaryProfessor 0 Nicol

AD 1354. A fateful year for Byzantium

Humanities Computing 1993ProgrammeCommittee Room, S rand at 18.00

28 JanuaryOr Robert Dale (University of

Edinburgh)

Computer-based editorial aids:limitations and possibilities

23 FebruaryOr Manfred Thaller (Max-Planck­

Institut ur Geschichte, G6ttingen,

Germany)

Source oriented data processing: whatare 'specifically historical' computer

applications?

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Letters to the Editor oticeboard

Children in NeedDear Editor,

I have written in the past citing my

two 'normal' children as my in pi ration

for supporting those who are le s

fortunate through Children in. eed.

I write to thank those who 0

generously contributed toward our total

of£730 this year. This figure is all the

more creditable when the depth of the

recession is considered: we were only

£300 short of our total of last year

(£1077). In the year when the overall

total for the appeal was down by £6million, this is very good goingl

To my 'army' of collectors and tin

rattler . thank !

Donald FarrBiomedical Sciences Division

Letter from Basil CrowleyDear friend ,

Thank you all most sincerely for

coming to my retirement party, making

for me a memorable and emotional time,

and for the very generous cheque which

has now been safely deposited. I took aphotocopy which will be framed and will

hang in my hallway so that each time I

view it, it will remind me of yourgenerosity and kindness.

My special thanks to John Wornham

who made my entry into retirement

such a pleasurable experience and to

King's College for the happy times

spent in their employment.

Cheers everybody!

John Tyrrell's obituaryDear Comment,

Thank you for your fax of JohnTyrrell's obituary. To say that I am

displeased with the re ult is to put itmildly: several days of enquiries,

consultations, writing and re-writing has

mostly ended up in the bin, leaving only

a bald and incomplete list of facts which

any halfway competent clerical assistant

could have assembled from the files in

five minutes. If this is all you have

space for, then please remove our names

from the item; I for one (but I am sure I

can peak for Or Laird as well) do not

wish to be as ociated publicly with uch

a mean and pointless exercise.

Perhap when you have time you

could explain to me why, on the one

hand, you were able to pare a whole

page (J 000 word, plus another 100 of

introduction) for Alastair Pettigrew, a

man who took his own life for reasons

which have been the subject of much

scandalous speculation, but on the other

hand you can only spare 250 words for

John Tyrrell, who led a blameless

existence, gave his whole life to the

college, and was an in piration to

generations of students. Is the deciding

factor that Alastair (who was a goodfriend, and I don't begrudge him hi

page) died in service, whereas JohnTyrrell had retired? I can see the point

of this restriction for someone who

served the college for a short while

before leaving to do something else, but

John was emphatically not in this

category; also he was an Emeritus

Reader, and we have continued to

include his name in staff lists right up to

the present. Or do you perhaps have a

sliding scale: 1000 words for

administrators, 500 for professors, 250

for readers, and SO (if you're lucky) for

lecturers? I suppose that if the CollegeSecretary or the Academic Registrarwere to hand in their dinner.pail (perish

the thought!), Commenl would devote an

entire number to their achievements.

Perhaps in the next issue you will want

to print 'Or J R Silvester died of

apoplexY,18 Tovember, 1992' - that'll

do, don't bother with the rest.

Or J Silvester

Department of Mathematics

The Editor comments:

In common wilh our usualpraclia onobiluaries for former slaf/we restricted DrTyre"'s obituary 10250 'lI1iOrds andaskedforDr Silvester's commenls on tlte shortenedversion before prinling it. We made anexceplion by allowing350 words for JohnFreemon's obituary (see page 8) because hehadso recently leflthe College.

Evening Language ClassesFrom January 1993 he Language and

Communica ion Cen re will be holding

a new series 0 Evening Classes in

French, German, Spanish, I alian,Japanese and Greek, at hree different

levels: Beginner, In ermediate and

Advanced.

Each session las s 90 minutes and

takes place once a week starting at

18.00. Specially reduced fees of £100

per term are being offered to staff at

the College. Please contact Vanessa

Beard, ext 2485, for registration

details.

Advance NoticeThe next meeting of the Peter Baker

Dining Club, which is open to senior

members of the College, will be

Thursday 21 January 1993. The guest

speaker will be Professor Stewart

Sutherland.

Searching for lost alumniLorna Baird, the Alumni Officer at the

University of Strathclyde is searching

for lost alum ni, and would be grateful

if any Strathclyde alumni out there

would contact her at:

Public Relations Service, McCance

Building, 16 Richmond Street,

Glasgow G1 1XQ. Tel 041-5524400,

fax 041·552 6558

Maisonnette for salePurpose-built Warner-style

maisonette, near Upton Park tube

(District Line). 1 bedroom, 1 reception

plus modern 10 t conversion providing

additional reception/study. Large

kitchen/diner, own front/rear doorsand garden. Long lease, peppercornground rent, no chain. £38,995 ono.

Please contact Morris Berg, School of

Physical Sciences, Strand, ext 2267.

Home telephone number 081-552

9744.

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Christmas Mailing DatesDe ails 0 e Royal ail dell eryservice or e Cnns mas a d ewYear penods are gi en below :24 Dece ber one deli ery 0 y (la e

an sal)

25-28 Dece ber: no service29 December. one dell e only (la er

an us al)1 January' no service

T e Royal Mali recommends eollong as e la es pos ing da esor U C nstmas mail:

18 December: Second class le ers21 December: Firs class let ers

Lost & FoundFound - Strand Campus - Hallmarkedsilver pencil. To claim. pleaseelephone John Mongan on 071-873

2606

Central Research FundThe Central Research Fund has beeninstituted for the purpose of makinggrants to members of the University(other than present undergraduatestudents and those registered for ataught Master's degree) engaged onspecific projects of research, to assistwith the provision of special materials.apparatus and travel costs.Applications are considered each termand the next closing date forapplications is 22 March 1993.

Forms of application and furtherparticulars may be obtained from theCentral Research Fund Section,Senate House, Room 21a, MaletStreet. London WC1 E 7HU.

Tel 071-6368000. ext 3147.

Comment is the College's regu lar

staff newsletter, issued by the Press

and Publications Office (ext 3202)

three times a term Contributions for

the next edition should be received

by mid-day Friday 15 January, jf

possible on a 3.5" ~ac disk. Please

note the editor reserves the right to

amend items as necessary.

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ObituarieLeonard CottonWe were saddened to learn that

Leonard Cotton, former Dean of King'

College hool of :v1edicine andDentistry, and Senior urgeon to King'

College Hospita~ died on 9 'ovember.

A full obituary will be covered in

January's edition of Comment, along with

details of the College memorial service

to be held in Februaryl\1arch of nextyear.

John Freeman:v1embers of the College and of theUniversity of London will be saddened

to learn of the death of John Freeman

on October IB, 1992. John was amember of the staff of the Law School,

as Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer

and Director of Criminological tudies,

from 1967 until his early retirement on

the grounds of ill health in 1991. He

had a total commitment to the Law

&hool and to the College.

As a teacher and researcher, John's

primary interest lay in criminology. He

taught the undergraduate course in thatsubject, single-handedly, for many years

and participated significantly in the

specialised teaching in that general area

on the intercollegiate LLM. Having

studied Law and Psychology inTasmania it was natural perhaps that he

should develop an interest in

criminological and legal psychology.

A focus for his interest in juvenile

offenders was provided by the Institute

for the Study and Treatment of

Delinquency, of which he was Chairman

for many years. He was also at various

times Chairman of the Association ofLaw Teachers, and a magistrate in the

juvenile court for Inner London, and

was an inveterate traveller in pursuit of

his criminological interests.

The international dimension to John's

work is perhaps best seen in what may

be regarded as his most significant

achievement. He played a prominent

part in the formulation of United

Nations policy on crime prevention,

particularly in relation to the 'Beijing

Rules' on the treatment of juvenile

offenders, setting civilised standards inthis sensitive area, and the nited

~ations Declaration on Basic Principles

of Justice for ietim of Crime andAbuse of Power (19 5).

John died at the relatively earl age of60. Those who saw him recently willhave witne sed his battle with cancer

but not 0 many will know that he hadfought with thi illness for twenty year .

He married in July 1992 only a few

months before his death.

John will be sorely missed in the

College and University community.

Our deepe t sympathy must extend to

his widow Aurelie. A memorial service

will be held in the College Chapel in

January 1993.

Professor Robin :v1orseHead of &hool of Law

College Chri tmas Cards

T his year there are four

reasonably-priced College

Christmas cards available:Canaletto's Vitw from Somerset HouseGardens, Quinten Massys' Tit/! Madonnastandingwillt Cltild andangels and Sisley's

Snow al Louveciennes (new th is year, seefront page) are a1l65p each or £3 for five.

College crest cards are 35p each or £3 for

10. All excellent value for money!The cards are available from the

following outlets:

Strand: Porters' desk, Main Building

entrance

Kensington: Philomena D'Souza, Room

L6, Main Building

Manresa Rood: John Worn ham, Security

and Domestic Services Supervisor

Cornwall House: Porters' desk and KCLA

Office (Rooms MBIO and MBI5)