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Professor Richard Criffiths, College Vice­

Principal and Chairman ofthe Course

Approval and Review Sub-commillee,

discusses the work ofthe Sub-commillee.

long with most of my othercolleagues working at the coal­

face, within our Departments, I

am at times exasperated by the new

procedures for course approval producedby CARS (the Course Approval and

Review Sub-Committee). The time­scales appear long, and yet alongside

this the time given to Departments toprepare submissions, in order to meetthose time-scales, is uncomfortablyshort. The forms, too, appear to demandfar more in the way of detailedinformation than those that preceded

the new dispensation.

In CARS, however, I and my

colleagues are forced to see all this from

a different perspective.Continued on page 3

King's College School ofMedicine and Dentistry and the College's School of Life, Basic Medical and Health Sciences are two ofthe parent

bodies ofthe new Centre for Epilepsy at the Maudsiey Hospital and the planned Institute ofEpifeptology at Denmark Hill, whose work is

generously supported by King Fahd ofSaudi Arabia. Here the Saudi Arabian Ambassador (left), is seen after presenting a cheque to Dr Ted

Reynolds, Chairman ofthe Centre and Director ofthe Institute, on 29 November. Patients Lucy Dent-lones (left) and Hamet Compston

gave the Ambassadorfiowers and books about epilepsy, and receivedfrom him toy mother and baby camels. See story on page /2.

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An articlc In TIre Indepen ent revealed

that allcrgie ~uch a~ asthma ha"e

bccome the mo t common

environmental illne c 0 We tcrn

countrlc and their frcquenc~ continue

to gro..... Pro/e!sor H nn h Cou 'd,

/'ro/cHoro/ Bwm ic ,\oi'nces. aid that

atmo ph n pollutan~. hou'>C du t mite ,

pollen, food and fun '3.1 pore arc ome

of the principal rea on behind the ri e.

The changing role of the RAf wa the

ubject of an article in TheSundO) Times.

Proposal for redUCing It trength from

90,000 to 75,000 by 1995 were

announced in thc Option for Change

Rc iew in 1990, and now numbers are

planned to fall to 70,000 or Ic~~. Dr

I'hilip Sabin, Senior Lecturer in the

Department 0/ W r StudIeS, de~eribed how

"ulnerable this section ofthc armed

forces \Aas fecling. "I hc air force's

problcm i that a lot of It~ capability i

for h igh-intcn ity \\arfare - whcre you

arc bombing people and shooting dO\A n

aeroplane,. It can bc argued th3.t we

h. vc wo much of that and nO[ enough of

the mher thing we no\\ Il(;ed. like

infantr) battalions, for operations in

Bo,nia, "orthern Ireland or el cwhcre.

/'rv/essor Ted Grant, Ilead v/the

/)ejJartment 0/ Physics, \\ a~ irncrviewed on

}'ou and Yours on Radio 4 about

microwave hcaring - the ensation

experienccd somctimcs by pcople who

live near high-powcred radar transmittcr ,

d uc to the pu!si ng of thc microwave.

..\ 'postural \\a) meter' wa. the focu of

a report on /\'erc;s Room South liast. The

de"j e IS the \\ork of DrMike Ilurle;,

R search Fello " Physwth rapy Croup, who

u e. it to a e phy~iotherapy

rehabilitation in patient~ with arthriti

\\ ho uffer mu~cle function dcficits.

The programme wa abo irnere ted to

~ec if there would be a role for thi same

dc" ice In as'>esing elderly people at risk

from fall;.

'1 he lack of govcrnrncrn action over

re arm of re~trictlve practices in the area

of the retail price of books \\ as the

subjeet of an articlc in The Independent on

Sunday. The .... ider issue of re~trictive

practice~ in general was also examined.

l nder the present sy~tem, ProfeHor

Richard Whish, Professor 0/Lo~,explall1ed that director of companle

operatl ng restrictive practices ace no

punishment for a fir t offence. Only if a

compan i brought to court a econd

time could they face impri onment for

contempt, but by then the re trietive

practice could have been varied

sufficlentl . for it to be regarded a a new

agreement - and the whole proce s must

begin again.

An article in the oni h Daily R£cord

investigated the problem of rogue

tattooi ts who are spreading blood

poi~oningand di ea e uch a Hepatiti

13 and HI by their unhygienic

practice. Professor Norman Noah, Head 0/the Department 0/Public Health and

Epidemiology, KCSMD, who produced a

booklet on guidance on hygenic kin

piercing for tattooi~ts, acupuncturist

and ear piercer, reinforced the findings,

ack no .... ledgi ng that there have been

documented ca cs of hepatitis which

wcre tran mitted through unhygienic

tattooing in other parts ofthe world and

that at least three outbreaks of Hepatiti

B have been traced back to a tattooist.

One of them whom infected 30 people

,n thi countr).

In the run up to the publication of hi

book You Don't Ilave to Diet! Dr Tom

Sanders, Reader in Nutrition, has taken

part in various debate on the issue of

weight los eq ualling good health and

the misconceptions urrounding

dieting. Virginia 130nomley, the Ilealth

ccrctary, sparked off a heated debate

with her remarks that there were LOO

many overweight people in Britain

tOda . In The Sunday Times Or Sanders

pointed out that an increasingly

sedentary lifest le and fast food culture

had contribu cd to the nation weight

gain, but that the Government's

definition of obesity wa an arbitrary

one. lie also lent support LO larger

people by aying that you can be fit and

fat - look at Paul Gascoigne and lan

13otham. The health risk of obesity pales

into in ignificance when compared with

making, he aid. Or anders also

appeared on Watchdog, the BBC I

con umer affairs programme, evaluating

the effecti eness of three mail order

diets which had been tried

un ucces fully by a viewer. He

explained why each would not help

people lo~e weight.

den ing hat London CnIver It)

procedures, and, as de olutlon

de eloped, those of the Colle e , ""ere

until recentl more lax that tho e

exerted by mo t other univer Itie .

~uch could be done, when all el e

failed, b Chairman' action. AcultUre

had emerged whereby everything wa

ultimately po ible, e en if one had

mi ed those boa that exi ted.

~ot onl is it important, as the

College develop their own procedure,

for them to try to make the e procedure

as stringent as tho e of other

univer itie ; it is al 0 true to ~ay that the

con iderable change that 11 igher

Education ha undergone In recent

year, and the greater empha i placed

upon the a e ment 0 academic

tandards, have meant that the ba!>ellne

ha moved ever upwards. Cniver!>iue

are con tantly forced to demon trate the

valid ity and good practice of e ery

aspect of their procedure~. Impll it in

this i the need for their con tiLUent

departments and division to how a

coherent level of forward academic

planning, and for the central bodie to

demon trate, by their proced ure . that

due care is being taken to examine. and

if neces ary refer back for amendment.

the submi ion that comc bc ore them.

It is for thi reason that our new form,

on the model of tho e in other place,

req uire so much detailed information

about aim, re our e , ~tructures,

as e ment.experti e,etc.ltal 0

explains, in part, the length of the time-

cale involved in our new proced ure . It

has alway been rare, in other

un iversitie , for degree programme to

be validated in one academic year for

commencement in the following

October. There has alway , however,

been the pos ibility of special ca es

being made; and our new procedure

offer the opportUnity for accelerated

procedures being ollowed, If a special

ca e is made to, and accepted by, the

Chairman of the tanding Committee.

( ote that it would not be rea onable for

AR both to admini ter the pre Cnt

proccdure ,and to decide on the

exceptions to them.)

\\'h " it I a ed, do he procedure

neverthele have to tart 0 earl in the

a demlc year conccrned? Thi i or

two rea on :

i) To meet the deadline for the

CCA handboo , and or the

College pro peCLU . Thi i

partieularl important, becau e in

the pa tome entfle have

appeared in both. '" Ithout thepro ramme haVIng been approved.

The pre umption appears 0 ha e

been that appro al \\a a mere

rubber tamp. CAR ha had

dl ficultie with thi~, in that on a

number of occa ion we have ound

that programme hich pre ent

problem have already been

adverti~ed,and ~tlJdent are alread

being admitted. :\0 procedure can

allow a comminee\ hand to be

forced in this wa\.

il) To allow time for programme

which ha e presented problems.

and which have had to be referred

back, to be re-~ubmilled. Ifour

procedures did not allow for this,

not only would \ve not be doing our

job properly, but also our ver

procedure would alert :\uditors to

the possibility that we were a mere

rubher-stamping committee.

The time- cak for approval of

individual cour e-units ha abo cau ed

some angui h. [n order to meet CAR's

dead IIne of its February meeting,

I epartmen have had to have propo als

ready for their chool :\cademic

Committee by the cnd of the

\1ichaelma Term. Thi does cause

enou problem, if the new propo al

are to he discussed properl within the

Department, a a part of academic

strateg . It means that people must tart

thinking about th i from the moment

that they reLUrn for the new academic

year, often amid the tUrmoil of new

commitment. The member of CAR

are aware of thi problem (both a

individual from within Departments.

and al 0 because strong submissions

have been made to them about it). The

problem i a ain that of what happens if

a course-unit ha to bc referred back for

rc-subml sion. Taking that into account,

and also the fact that mo t Departments

wish to be able to offer their student

the course choice for the next academic

year in about pril, the timetable has to

follow omething like the present

scheme. Howe er, at a recent meeting

C R decided that all these criteria

could be met if, in future years it u ed

I :v.larch meeting as the deadline, thus

allowing Departments to ubmit

propo al to their hool after the

Chri tmas vacation (though naturally, for

thi ear, the deadline remains

February, a everyone i already

\ orking toward that).

cr- n -ndl

Thi i an illu tration ohhe fact that

CAR will continually be reviewing its

procedure for succeeding years in an

attempt to make them more user­

friendly while at the same timemaintaining their underlying aims.

:"othing is perfect; and our initial

attempts to grapple with the problem of

the preceding free-for-all may well

de erve modification. For this rea on,

we welcome any po itive submis ions

with regard to our procedures, and

consider them carefully at our meetings.

AliI ask, is that nobody will propose

reintroducing extensive powers for

Chairman's action! It was very

thankfully that I renounced all such

powers, which seem to me a recipe

for chao .

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Applications are invited from members

of the Univer ity by the following

clo ing dates:

10 January and J J April for

Re earch Grant application

I ~arch for Postgraduate

tudentship application for the

1994/5 ses ion

For further particulars and application

form please contact the Central

Research Fund and cholarships

ection, Room 21a, enate Hou e,

~alet Street, London WCI E 7HU. Tel

071-636 000 ( tudent hips ext 3042

and Central Re earch Fund ext3J47).

Bill Rammell

General ~anager,Students' Union

ni taffwill be run by Eunice

Wilkin who i ba ed on the fir t floor of

the ~acadam Building. Initially the

cheme will run in term-time only, but

i likel to extend to the vacation. With

tudy commitments arying between

departmen ,and undergraduate and

po tgraduate level it i hoped to ha e

tudents a ailable at mo t time .

tudents will only be allowed to work

a maximum of 17 hours per week 0

their tudies hould not be affected nor

will they have to pay income tax or

national in urance. Pay is by the hour

and at a basic rate of £3.20. Th i cou Id

rise depending on the nature of the

work. The Bureau will not take theusual high percentage which agencies

charge: it will cover its administrative

eosts only.The scheme has been ucce sfully

operating in the tudents' nion for

some time with tudents employed in

the bar, shop and as ecurity taff.

0, if you want a temp either for an

hour, or a da or two, to do that awkward

job you keep putting off contact Eunice

Wilkins on extension 3569 between

9.00 and 16.00.

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niSloJ/. the Students' UnionEmployment Bureau, was

formally launched on 24. ·ovember. King's is onc of the first

Collcgc~ in the cou ntry to e~tablish such

an agency and is hoping to emulate the

success of similar schemes in America

and at the University of Wales, Cardiff.

It has been establi hed with the dual

aim of meeting the casual labour

requirements of the College, and

providing a mu h needed ~upplement to

tlldent grants. From time to time most

department have a task which need

performing but it has eemed

extravagant to employ a temp. "ow

help i at hand in the form of a tudent

with a few hour to spare.

How does it work? The Bureau ha a

register of tudent who have indicated

that they want to undertake temporary

",ork. They are interviewed b the

Bureau and detail are kept of their age,

skills, qualification and previou work

experience. This will en ure a student

i' mJ.tched aecur:ltely to a job.

A comprehen ive range of skills i

available from basic clerical to more

advanced keyboard skills through to

sil er service waiting.

Professor Robcrt 11111Chair, !\cademic :\udit Re iew Group

tu i nt

be helpful to u to receive a broad

external View of how we look from the

outside. We await the report with

intere t.

For the pre ent I would like to thank

my colleague, all 105 of them, and the

60 tu den , for taking part in the

exerci e. I hope you found it interesting.

I would al 0 like to thank Kate

Quantrell and Loui e "adal of the Audit

Office for their in aluable collection and

collation of the information ent to the

H EFCE Audit Office and for their

organisation of the visit. The auditor

also a ked the Principal to thank the

organiser for the smooth running of the

visit.

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he College wa vi ited b

three auditors from the

HEFCE Division of Quality

Audit between 16 and 19. '0 ember. In

all 105 staff and 60 studen met the

auditors, with a small number of taff

appearing more than once. Interview

were arranged between the panel and

about eight staff covering a particu lar

area or topic and these lasted for 4­

minute. The first day was taken up

with questions on the management of

the College and its activities; the econdday with groups of staff, probationer,sen ior lecturers, admission tutors, etc

from the areas of Education, English,

Mathematics and Clinical ~v1cdicinc and

the final day on Examination~,

Academic Services, and Strategy

Committees. In between the auditor

spoke to Personnel. Teaching

Committees, CAR and the Audit

Review Group and had their lunche

talking to some 60 tuden .

The auditors were well prepared. It

was clear that the information sent to

them by the Academic Audit Group ofthe Registry had been well received and

read. The format of each discu sion was

similar to that used by our own College

Audit Teams, in that topics were raised

and followed through in a logical

fashion. It was also quite clear that the

auditors were somewhat mystified by

the interactions between College and

Senate House, a view that ha some

support in College. We felt that, on the

whole, we were given a reasonable

opportunity to answer, explain and,

where necessary, defend the College

procedure.

A draft report on the audit will be

received from the HEFCE toward the

end of January. The College will

respond to it and a fir t report will be

sent back sometime later in the year,

this report will be made generally

available in the College. An academic

audit deals with procedure - doe the

College have procedure? do we use

them effectively? are they understood?

is there feedback? what happens if

things go wrong? Over the last few years

much of the way in which the College is

managed has been changed and it will

an unlver itie in the C

obtain a i mlicant ra Ion

o heir Income from

prlva e ource, includin throu h

donation rom heir alumni and ta . I

Y.'e could do the ame, we could

upplement our meagre Government

gran and und actIVities for which

IIEFC und cannot be used.

I am chalTlng a taff committee,

composed of repre entative from eachschool and from all grades of staff, which

ha been e tabli hed to upport the

development campaign. It has two main

ta k . One i to ad ise the Trustee of

the Development Tru t - who will

have sole authomy over the use of

money ral ed - on taff wishe about

the \\ay In which their gifts should be

u ed. Thu the) will have to con ult

thclr colleague about the ways in which

thc fund hould operate. Thl links with

their other ta k, which is to develop

Idea about raIsing gifts for the fund and

to act a amba s ador for it to their

colleaguc . Any mcmber of taff who

fcel that the \\ould like to contribute to

the work 0 the group are very welcome

to Join It.

The overall strategy is to raise funds

In two way. One is from donation of

our own taff for pecilic purposes which

those staff feel will improve their work

in the College. The other is to rai e

much larger funds from alumni.

ucces with the lirst exercise will

erve a a helpful lever in calling on

alumni for the second.

The ommiuee is proceeding

cautIOusly, and the timetable is

Continued on pagl 6

[lame " \-10rg3n

Director of ".xternal I{elatlon

7/ze Kzng's Ini/la/iu gruup piClured a/ a

recent mee/lng. From Iti//o ngh/ CharJol/e

Rou.'cM, Dr feur .\"unn, Professor Pe/er

Saunders, /Jill Coldl, K Brumfield, Joe

M y, Josephine Bell and Professor Paul

Block .1faxlne P rlndge and I)m/essor

7un) CueS! re Iso m.mbers 0) /he group.

con ulcatlon hat all ~ra eo- ca -- eel

ron I, abou he ne' to I pr e he

abric and 0<.: la I .htle. Wherea

Impro ement to our ph Ical and ocial

en ironment arc; an entlrel, proper

ou let or developm'rH und .

Inve tmen in ba IC m int nance I not.

'r ou lA 111 be plea ed to IC:lrn. hOlAe er. in

thl context that the I', tate Department

arc prepanng a ten year plann 'd

maintenance programme for the College

propertle ,

Havin e tahli hed our priori le . we

mu t no\\ turn to deH:lopmg the mcome

o reabe them. Pro e or Paul Blae ,

ch:lIr of the King's fmll /IU group, wme

(right) ahout their appro ch [0 taf

"Iving. I h3ve been truc dUring the

con ultatlon period by the numher 0

ta f lA ho have aid that in recent year

the) have 10 t the ecllng of being

members 0 a College community. Ihope that by working togetht:r [0

a.:hle\·e our development OhJectl\e \ve

lA ill begin to redls ()\t:r:i sense of

communlt).

here can be e .... people In

Colle e \vho remain unaY.'are

hat the Colic e ha recently

e tabli hed a Development 0 lice Y.'lth

a brief to increase the College' Income

from private source. For thi inItiative

to be uece ful, It mu t be OIA ned b

the College communit . A a lir t tep

tOward thi objecti e, the Development

Oflice ha recently completed a

con ultation exerci e lA Ith members of

the community 0 determine the advice

to be given to Tru tee 0 the King'

College London Development I ru t

regarding the di bur ement of fund,

The con ultatlon wa carned out

u ing a variety of method.)o \gne\\.

the Development Director, addre~ cd

public and departmental meeting

which then dl cu sed prlomle . c.;ome

parts of the administration and om:

hool \Vere urveyed by means of a

questionnaire urve . 'Iho e members

of staff who were mi ed b, these

mean were reque ted to make an IIlput

through Developmen/ Xews and an article

in Comment.

It is not possible, given this

methodology, to report tatlsticallyon

the re ults ofthe con ultation. That

aid, there was a surprising degree of

unanimity about the major heads of

expenditure for which the College

hould Initially seek private upport.

upport for the provi Ion of more

postgraduate scholar hip wa very

strong among academiC members of

taff, ince the e would both help

IndIVidual tudents and a sist

departmen in rai ing their re ear h

rating. he method of election 0

the e students may, however, be more

controver ial ince a number of

individual and department expre sed

some d i tru t of existing mechanism.

There is al 0 wide pread su PPOft or

pecilic library purchases and the

provi ion of more computing facilities,

particularly terminals in halls of

re idence,

It became clear on the fir t day of the

In i ue 72 of Comment the la t two

words of the article about thei':ightingale Institute were inadvertently

omiued. The last paragraph hould have

read:

'Thi i a marvellous new venture for

the College and for the School of Life,

Basic Yfedical and Health cience, and

for the students of the Institute who will

benefit from studying in a

multidi ciplinary learning environment.Jill Macleod Clark and jenny Wilson­

13arnett are encouraging taff from theInstiwte LO liaise with their colleagues

throughout the College.'

In the la t issue of Comment the prize

giving in the School of Physical Sciences

and Engineering was wrongly headed

and captioned; the prize was for

hemi try and not for Phy ic . We

apologi e for this oversight.

Professor Grant

Profes or Ted Grant, Head of theDcpartmcnt of Physics, has beenreappointed as a member of the

l\."ational Radiological Protection Boardby the lion Tom Sackvi lie, joint

Parliamentary nder Secretary of tate

at the Department of Health, for

anothcr term of four years.

six year. lie edited a recent book for

the Commi sion, published by

lJ:"E CO, which pre ented an

international comparative study of

phy ics examination for university

entrance.

Professor Black

At a recent meeting of the International

Lnion of Pure and Applied Physics in

Tokyo. Paul Black, Profe sor of cience

Education. was elected Chairman of the

International Commission on Physics

Education. This is one of the 19commi sions et up by the Lnion. Its 13member are drawn from 13 different

countric . Professor lllack has bcen a

member of thc ommlsslon for thc pa t

Or Clive Bush

Reader in American Litcraturc

Department of English

t lion ur

Festschrift, and past and preent

graduate tudent of Professor Ylouram.

many of whom now have teaching post

at universities throughout13ritain.

The proceedings were opened b

Profes or janet Bately of the Engli h

Department which ho ted the evenl.

Robert Lee spoke of the unique and

pioneering contribution Eric Ylouramhad made LO the teach ing of !\mericanliterature in the post-war period, and he

also recallcd with affection Dr HowellDaniel who died earlier thi year and

\\ ho had long been a colleagu<; of

Professor Ylouram at the old In~titute of

L nited tates in TavisLOck Square.

In his reply Profe or 'v1ottram spoke

not only of the pleasure the occasion had

given him but of thc fact that the tribute

of former studcnts in the form of a

contribution LO continuing cholarly

investigation gave the occasion a pecific

and worthwhile authcnticity.

(From Ie/t to nght) Professor I~n'c MOl/ram and Dr Clive Bush

reception for the pre entation of

a Festschrift to Profc sor Eric

Mottram was held in the

Blackwell Room on the evening of

Friday 3 December. Profes or Ylottram,

who reeently retired from King'

College after 30 years of service, and is

now Emeritus Professor in the Engli h

Department, was presented with a book

of essays by former students, edited by

Robert Lee of the niversity of Kent,

and entitled, A Permanent Etcetera: cross

culturalperspectives on post-war America.

Representatives of PluLO Press who

published the volume were among the

guests.Present at the reception were

Profes or Barry Ife and Trud i Darby of

the School of H umanitie , Profe sor

janet Bately and members of theEnglish Department, contributor LO the

Professor Pau I Black

CES

developing more slowly than originally

envisaged. This is becau e it i e ential

that staff who may contribute have

confidence that their contribution will

be used for purposes that the value. It

must al 0 be clear that taff donations

are not being u ed for purpo es whl h

should be met by the normal College

budgeLS. To secure the e condition. the

Committee is exploring e eral idea

raised during the taff consultation LO

establi h feasibility and co l.

The Committee will also need LO

discuss with Trustees waY5 in wh ich

they can so administer fund rai ed to

meet expectations of various donors. Agood precedent was set by a imilar fund

set up in Chelsea College cveral year

before the 1985 merger. The balance of

this fund, which i over 0.000. will bc

the first substantial asset of the new fund.

The Committee ha decided LO name

this new exercise 'The King's

Initiative. To sum up. the Initiati e

already has a basis LO start modest

expenditure and is eeking ways LO

fo ter staff confidence that we can all

contribute LO our mutual advantage. Jnthese ways, the Initiative can be well

placed LO create an example which willstrengthen our hands in seeking much

larger donations from ou ide the College.

B n

ictured below are the econd

intake of enior Re earch

Fellow on the Programme on

Po t-Communi t ecurity tudle

together with member of the

Department of War tudie, who run

the cour e. The PPC upporled by

olkswagen and the f-oreign and

Common\ eallh Office.

Thi year's Senior Research fellows

are from Moscow, Budapest, Prague.

Kiev and Vilniu . One of the group,

Audrius l3utkevicius (fourth from the

left) only managed to ecure his place on

the course after negotiating the

complete withdrawal of Ru ian troop

from the newly independent Republic

of Lituania: he was Lithuania' fir t

po t-independence Defence Y1 ini ter.

Butkeviciu qualified a a phy ician

and worked in several ho pital before

being elected to the upreme Council of

the Republic of Lithuania in I 90.ln

198 he founded the Lithuanian Exiled

Club, arranging a n umber of expedition

into iberia to bring deported

Lithuanians home.

On the PPCSS he will undertake a

re earch paper examining current Baltic

ecurity is ue using the re ources

offered by the various ~trategic ;wdie;'

in titutes, archives and libraries in

London, a prospect which excite him

greatly.

eggie the LIOn. \Ia COl of

King' College, celebrated hi

70th birthday on 10

December. To commemorate hi

birthday and rai e fund for hi repair

(years of patching up and damage at the

hand of eCL and Imperial College

tudents have le t him \\jth badly

damaged back leg and a length of cable

as a rail), King's student have produced

The Official /lislory 01 Reggie Ihe /-ion, abooklet ba ed on exten i\'e archive

re earch.

llis eventful life includes television

and newspaper appearances. leading

marehe on Parliament and Fleet treet,

being presented to 1-1 \1 the Queen.

gored by elephants, dropped into the

Thame . kidnapped ountless time and

hung from a lamp-po, t. Ilis story is a

'tail' of courage in the face of lorr) -load

of eCL students and rotten vegetable.

The Officio/flislory 01 Reggie Ihe Lion is

available from the KC!.. L shop 111 the

\lacadam Building. lrand or from

imon Chapman, Rag Officer, KCL L'at a co t of £ 1.50. All proceeds go to the

Reggie Repair fund and any over to this

year's Rag charitie .

Phone Iloward Dawber on 071-242

2959 or , imon Chap man on 071· 36

7132 for more derails.

he College's PostgroduoteProspectus has won an •Award

of Merit' from the Higher

Education Information Services Trust

(HEI ), and the King's &port was

shortli ted (from 68 entries) for the 1993

Higher/KPMG Award for uni ersiry

annual reports. Next year we are aiming

to win first prize for both!

ollowing the publication of the

Directory 01Experts, the Press

and Publications Office has

produced Expert Opinion, a booklet

designed to help members of staff when

speaking to the media.

The booklet is divided into three

section; the first deals telephone

enqu iries from journalists, the second

concern radio interviews, and the third

how what to expect and how to cope

with television appearances.

It ha been distributed to all tho e

li ted in the Directory 01 Experts, senior

officer and senior administrative staff.

We have a limited number of copies left,

so if you would like one, contact

Melanie Gardner on extension 3073.

111' II dPenfriends in the UkraineThe College has been contacted

indirectly by a teacher in the Ukraine

where I 0 19 year old tuden wi h to

write to penfriends in the K. They

write excellent English which they want

to practise and they want to know about

life in England of which they have very

limited knowledge. There are

opportunities to visit the kraine,

although the krainians have great

bureaucratic and financial difficulties in

coming here. Write in the first instance

to: Daniel Kuzyk, vul Striskaya 27n,Drogobych, Lvov Region, Ukraine, CIS.

Holiday Villal"erja - beautiful Spanish coastal town.

wnning mountain views. Spacious villa

sleeps 6. Available for cheap winter and

summer lets. Tel 0734867292.

U pport a re arch project entitled 'do

for migrating

mu le precur or cell In t; 0 and In

t.11 ;. Total gran, , 17.

Centre for Defence Studies

OrC mlth._?-,OOO 16.17approx)

P ugh hare Fund oward the co

of producln a ne" letter on 'orth-

outh ecuflty and de ence I ue.

Centre for Educational Studies

Prof 0 C John on, I

rLeverhulme Tru t) to support a

re earch project entitled 'Cognitive

Acceleration for Enhancing Learning rn

hooI. lathematics'. Total grant,

114,

Centre for Heat Transfer & Fluid

Flow Measurement

Or :'-1 Yianne kl, 9,990 (Ford Motor

Co Ltd), C \ E project:developmenr of

mathema lcal model of2 troke 4

stroke engine intake POrt flows.

Centre for Medical Law & Ethics

£250.000 ([~uropean Commission BJO\.kd­

I Programme) to undertake a project on

. he moral and legal I ue ari rng out of

the care of PV patients In Europe'

Centre for Mental Health Services

Development

\1r J Jenkrns, £10,000 (:"orthampron

and Keuenng Ilealth Authorities,

toward the cost of providlllg practical,

developmental as i tance in all aspects

of comprehen ive community mental

health services; £ I0,000 (Warwickshire

Inter-Agency Group) to undertake an

as essment of the needs of mentally

di ordered offenders in relation to their

care treatment.Total grants, £25,000.

Centre for Philosophical Studies

Prof 0 Papineau, ,0 0 (Briti h ociety

for the Philo ophy of Science).

ontributlon towards research staff co ts.

Chemistry

Prof M Robb, - ,456 ( ERC) to

U pport a re earch project entitled

'development of \1C CF and MM B

method With applications to the

modelling of chemical reactivity'. ProfC

n Reese. 144,436 ( E RC) to support

re earch rudie on the chemical

synthe IS of oligo- and poly- nucleotides.

Total grants, 179, 92.

Computer Science

Or A Poulovassilis £70,959 ( E RC) to

ur>P0rl a re earch project entitled

'advanced active databases for transport

engineering research'.This grant was

jointly awarded to Or C mall (Birkbeck

College), Or B G Heydecker ( 'CL) and

J f'lI tIf h

I It "ere IIn ed to a re"lonal rm

control trea 1 he tre on he

reduction 0 Con ent ,nal F r~e m

Europe rCFE ~I 'ned 11 • ber

I 0 ave c n iderallc mpc J -or an

R M.\ in Europe re ullng In the WEL:

atellite Centre.

An immedla eta k or the \\ EL:

atellite Cen re I to r:lln European

exper~ in the interpretation u

photOgraph taken from pace. to

compile and proce openIY:l\:lilable

data and to make It a"ailablc to member_ tate . Thi would be \\ Ith the \ iew 0

verification of arm con rnl agreement.

crlSI monitoring :lnd environmental

monitoring. I)r J ,:1nl ha been

contributing to the dev 'Iopm 'nt of the

Centre in the e area and eel-. that to

begin \\ ith it mi ht be better t

e,tabli h a number 0 le \1\ 'Cl that

the III ernatlOnal community could gel

u ed to the Ide:l of be III '\\3tthed rom

,pace alld that the rc,ultlllg dal3 could

be shared With a nu mbcr of eOllntrle..

Once a number 0 R \1 \s have becn

e>tabllshed. for example, ill the PaCific

region, In the \,1 idd le Ea,t, thc Ind lan

ubcontinent and In I.atln '\merica, a

basi for an 15\1:\ could be estahhhed.

r he grant listed below were

received 111 the quarter ended

I October I :.; Detail of

grants under £5.000 are not given, nor

are exten~ions of exi~tlnggrant or tho e

\\ hich are confidential, but the amount

are included in the total for the

department or unit.

Age Concern Institute of

Gerontology

()r J skham, £24, 4 (Joseph Howntree

Foundation) to support a research

project entitled 'attitudes of older

people to income, taxe , social security

benefits and the economy'.

Anatomy & Human Biology Group

Or G E Jones, £10,000 (Royal ociety).

Contribution toward research expen es;

£24,917 (Muscular Oy trophy Group) to

1 c

Dr 8Jlupm ro J som from IAt Dtp rim I

of or SI us Itos oke. In Iltt

conctplof Umud.· lions 1nl Mm

sOltllitt monilonng ogtncy (IS:"':'.) fur

StfJUol,to ond Itos fJilrill litIS pk'Ufor

Comment oUllining lite most rec I

devtlopmtnls in litis oreo

n 27 June I I the We tern

European Cnion (WEL)

committed them elve to

e tablishinga WEL; atellite Centre. In

. ovember of th IS year It \\as decldcd

that the Centre hould be et up at

TorreJon near :'-1adrid In pain \qth a

budget of 3 .25 ECC million for the

initial three year experimental phase..\

number of companie from the nine

member state of the WE L ~ubmltted

bid for eq ulpping the \\'E C atelllte

Centre. Of these the FALCO..

consortium con i tlng of II European

companle , led by a CK company. the

Cray y tern, won the bid. Or Jasanl

was selected by the Cray Sy tern . a a

consultant on arms control and peace­

keeping agreement and also to train the

interpreters at the Centre to interpret

satellite images.

The first seeds of the concept of

international participation in verification

of treaties were own by France in 197

when it put forward the concept of an

international satellite monitOring agency(I MA) to the . nited . 'atlons ( " '). Or

Jasani, tOgether with a Canadian legal

consultant, prepared the final report on

the implications of an I MA. The report

was submitted by the Governmental

Expert Group set by the Cnited

l ation's General embly.llo"ever,

over a decade ha gone by and an I :'-1A

is yet to be established.

Political difficultie faced b the L;:"

in establi hing an I MA prompted Or

Jasani to propose a regional satellite

monitoring agency (R M ) in 19 3.

With the fragmentation of the oviet

nion, and the changing global political

climate an establishment of an

international or a multinational sy tern i

now more important than ever before.

An RS A would be an attractive idea

Or A Poulovassilis (KCL), King' has

been allocated £70,959 of the tOLaI award

of£220,9 2,ToLal grants, £74,009,

ClassicsTotal grant, £59,674,

Developmental Biology ResearchCentreOr S M H ughes, 4,4-1 ("'1 RC),

Training Fellowship,

Division of Life Sciences

Or J R Ma on, £4 ,572 ( ERC) to

support a research project entitled

'the potential of directed evol ution for

the con truction of novel biocaLaly ts',

This grant was awarded jointly to Or 0 JLeak, and Or 0 A Widdowson (I mperial

College) and Or J R Mason, the total

award being £268,114,

Prof M Black, 7, 00 Ecu (£6,000 approx)

(EEC) to support a research project

entitled 'germination and dormancy

breaking of secds', TOLaI grants, £54,972,

Electronic and ElectricalEngineeringOr l' G Clarkson, £4 ,324 (Leverhulme

Trust) to support a research project on

the implemenLation & applications of

the temporal noisy-leaky integrator

neuron model. Or J 0 Robert on, ProfC

W Turner, Mr J Watkins, £133,382

(SE RC) to support a research project

entitled 'advanced active antenna for

millimetre-wave integrated circuits', Or

I 0 Robertson, Or A A Reza7.adeh,

£82,318 (SE RC) to su pport a research

project entitled 'processing of novel

dielectric strucwres for microwave and

millimetre-wave integrated circuit ',Or

A A Rezazadeh, £120,898 (SE RC) to

support a research project entitled

'swdy of novel HI3T structure for high

temperawre applications', Or, ] 1

Aghvami, £ 12-, -7 ( ERC) to upport a

research project entitled'media acces

control protocols for indoor wideband

radio communication " Or I 0Robertson, Or A A Rezazadeh, £72,379

(SE RC) to upport a research project

entitled 'novel circuit technique for

monolithic microwave power amplifier '.

Or l' G Clark on, Prof JTaylor

(Mathematics), £96,13 (SERC) to

su pport a re earch project entitled

'optimal represenLation of cia

structure using pram nets', Or A 1-1Aghvami, £] 21,357 ( E RC) to support a

research project entitled advanced

modulation & channel coding

techniques for fuwre cellular mobile

system', ProfC W Turner £66,65

(SE RC) to support a re~eareh project

entitled 'novel ultra 'onic air-borne

tran ducer', Prof C \\' Turner, 2, 60

( E RC) to upport a re earch project

entitled 'supercond ucting cavity backed

microwave antenna', Prof C Davies,

Or W G Chamber, £95.7 6 (SE RC) to

upport a research tud) of chaotic and

pseudochaotic ignals rom di crcte-time

electronic system ,Total grants,

£1,171,219,

GeographyProf JThornes, , ,000 (EEC, via

L' niversity of I3ri tol) towards the COSt of

printing the final executive summary for

\1EOALL' I. Or 'vi Frost, £40,400

(ESRC) to support a re earch project

entitled 'development pre sure & land

use change in non-metropolit:ln urban

areas', This grant wa jointly awarded to

Or JShepherd (Birkbeck College) and

Dr:vl Fro t (King's ), £,40.400 of the

total amount awarded has been allocated

to King' , IJrof JThornes, 200,000 Ecu

(£ 153,846 approx) (l~ LC) to su pport a

research project entitled 'med iterranean

land degradation & insLability

medimoo', Prof A ,\11 \\lames, 100,000

I':cu (£76,923 approx) (E EC) to upport

a research project entitled 'integration

and vulverahility of migrants to southern

europe',Total grants, £2 4,049,

HistoryTotal grants. £241

Mathematics

Prof P C "':est, 34,000 Ceu (£26.074

approx) (EEC) to upport research on

'new methods in quantum field theory:

infinite symmetric in tatistical

mechanics and string theory', Prof JTaylor. Or VI 0 Plumbley, £91,563

(SE RC) to support a research project

entitled 'dynamic bchaviour of networks

of. piking neurons', TOLaI grant

£150,028,

Nutrition and Dietetics1'OLaI grants, £2.875,

Pharmacology GroupProfP Jenner, £15 ,297 (MRC) to

support research on the effect of

reduced gluthathione levels on oxidative

stress and the integrity of the nigro­

striatal pathway, Dr A Gib on, Or I

\lcFad'l..ean, J)r JTlIcker. '1:141,949

'vi RC) to sUPPOrt research on cellular

mechanisms by \ hich endogenous &

exogenous nitrate relax non-va cular

mooth mu cle, Profl' Jenner,£104,572

("'1RC),Training Fellow hip,Total

grants. £620,923,

Pharmacy

TOLaI grants, £ 112,041.

PhilosophyProf R M ain bury, £68,189 (British

Academy), Postdoctoral Fellowship,

PhysicsOr M Holwill, £111,802 (SERC) to

upport a re earch project entitled 'a

dynamic study of bend propagation

mechani ms in eillia', Or A MMainwood, £24, 71 (SERC) to support a

research project entitled 'theoretical

modelling of point defects with multiple

configurations in silicon", Or L Oissado,

7,700 Ecu (£5,746 approx) (EEC) to

su pport a research project entitled

'fracLaI de cription of charge relaxation

in polymers', OrCGabriel,$16l,5602

(United Slates Air Force) to support a

re earch project entitled 'compilation of

the dielectric properties of body tissues

at microwave freq uencies', Prof R M

11 ill, £40,243 (SERC) to support a

research project entitled 'the modelling

of electrical degradation and

breakdown', Prof RE I3urge, Or PCharalambous, £26,359 (SERC) to

support a research project entitled

'advanced zone plate nanostructures by

E-beam fabrication', TOLaI grants,

£425,653,

Physiology GroupOr 0 Sugden, £8,840 (Royal Society),

Contribution towards the cost of

research consumables,

Randall InstituteProf R M Simmons, £18,078 (SE RC) to

su pport a research project entitled

'nanostructures for the optical trap

technique', Or M Peckham, £10,000

(Royal Society) to support a research

project entitled 'myosin mutations in

mu cle', TOLa] grants, £28,07 ,

Thermal Biology Research UnitOr R P Clark, £14,000 (Rank Prize

Funds) towards the support of the

Thermal Biology Research Unit.

7'otal amount awarded in the quarter,

£3,573,2 4,

Total number ofawards in the quarter(including extensions), 73,

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Late Antique and Medieval StudiesSpecial Palaeography Lecture16 December

00"'" ' 806, S:'aro Ca""pL:s, '7 30 :0

'900e In es ,ga ,on 0 1 Ro anesque

scnbes, scnp and scr· ona c 050­c 80

IC ae, G IC, "9's Co ege ~o"oo

The 1993 McDowall Lecture inPhysiology

16 DecemberTne e ea re, S rand Ca p sDe ails 0 be announcedCon aCl Depa men;a Secre:aryPf)yslology, 0 07 -873 2t. 75

Centre for Late Antique andMedieval Studies Lecture27 January

Roo 806, S:raro Campus, 7 30 ;0

'900

Touns repor s rom aples c 200how did V,rgll become a magIcIan?,oth cFar and, U Ivers Co egeo 00

British Institute of Human RightsLecture

25 January300 '0 14 00, ew ea re, S rand

CampusThe leas 0 these - sla ery and childlabourhe R Hon Lord A cher 0 Sandwell

QC, For erly Chairman 0 Amnes yerna Iona' (Br IS Sec 10 ) and Vlce­

Chairman 0 he An .-Slavery Soc'e y

Centre for Philosophical StudiesLecture26 January

7 5, 00 B06, Strand CampusPhJlosophy and Amlcalln elltgenceGrounded Symbols The Problem 0

Re erence In the AI Con exOr Dere Long, UC

Maxwell Lectures

Held In Room 2C am Buddingbe ween 14.00 a d 500

10 January

Chaos, Meteorology and CltmateOr P Read

17 January

as or or ax ell? (Ltgh nmg &AifnOspner cs)D C B~' e

24 January

S'ars. Bo sand V'deo- ape Plas as0 1 e U'll erse)

Jr IC"e':e

Centre for Hellenic Studies andByzantine & Modern Greek StudiesSeminars to be held at 17.00, RoomB6. Classics Department, StrandCampus

17 JanuaryByzan me heres/ology a neglec edgenreA er Cameron, lng's

24 January

The adaba map an arr-hlstoflcalle

Robin CormacK, Cou aUld

31 JanuaryTelling he Gree personal storyex ualt choices and cultural

cons tram sAlexandra Georga opoulou

Centre for American Studies

Seminar20 January

6 15, Room 27C, S rand CampusCltn Eas woodOr Edward Ga:la'en . University 0

Age Concern Institute of

Gerontology Research Seminar17 January

540. Se inar Room 3/8, Cornwallouse Annexe

Elderly homeless people In London

aureen Crane, Age Concern Ins I eo Gerontology

I

Obiw,lf!.--_------

Professor D B ScottBernard cott, who died recently, was

succe sively Lecturer (1947) and Reader

(1953) in Mathematics at King's before

hi departure in the early 'sixties for the

then new niver ity of Sussex. He

maintained links with the College for

many years afterwards, regularly

attending the geometry seminar at

which his harp mind and quick wit

were much in evidence. Bernard was a

man of taste, both in mathematics - as

can be een in his textbook on

mathematical analysis written with his

former colleague at King's, the late Rex

Tim - and in hi other interests, which

included music and chess. I t was while

playing ches that he suffered a heart

attack, from which he did not recover.

M J Laird

Department of Mathematics.

Tire foll(}fJ;,ing lribute was mode by former

Principal, General Sir John Hackell:

'During my even year as Principal at

King's College, from 1968-1975, [relied

very greatly on the academic and

admini trative skills of Peter Shaw in

the management of the College's affairs.

H is efficiency, integrity and loyalty were

beyond praise, and his friendship was of

the highest value. It is a source of deep

regret to me that in convalescence from

recent illness [ have been forbidden to

undertake the journey from my home

here in the Cotswolds, through a wintry

countryside, to attend his memorial

ervice, [ hould always remember with

gratitude what he did in the work which

brought u together. He will be much

mi ed.'

of enior and junior members - mature,

adult, open, friendly'. [fthat King's

College till exists today, de pite all the

upheavals and upsets and uncertaintie

of recent times - and [ believe that, in

all e sential ,it urely does - can there

be any more telling tribute?'

'Peter haw wa~ e ,(;ntially a 'College

man'. And a mo t unlhual academic

admini trawr. For a ,>tart, of course, he

\\a, a fir. t-cla.,., '>cholar (hi" holar hip

'lapscd perforcc', a, Sydney Fvans. the

form<:r Dcan. put it. 'but never

langui~hing'). lie cominued to gi e

distinguished lectures, in,ide and

outside the College, and the Ili wry

DepartmelH made him an honorary

lecturer in recognition: a mandarin, not

a ;manager', in the omemporaryargot

of our trade....

'In what way is wday" King's

indebted to yesteryear' counier' ... Let

me mcntion ju tone bndmark of that

era from wh ich the Collcge in general

and thi' Chapel and its Choir in

particular continue to derive ignificant

b nefit. The \1 u ie Departmcnt in

King's, wda acknowledged as one of

the finest in the coulHry, with a lu trous

internatiol131 repuL'ltion, was e,>tablishcd

'irtually from crateh in 1964 under the

acute and di cerning e~..: of I I' Shaw.

Incidcntally, Pctcr 'hall vIa. a regular, if

undemonstrative, attender at Chapel.

'It i. ea ier the,e days to point w the

tangihle record of Peter _hall ..,

incumhency: ne\\ floor, addcd w the

suuthern end ofthi building; thc

premi'>e. at Drury Lane, nO\\ the

Randall Institute; dcvelopment. at

Dulwich where wda the. ir James

Black Foundation flourishcs; the Strand

Building; the \-bcadam Building; the

1966 and I 71 ext..:nsion at Kin ·'s

ollege Ilall; and much mor..:.

'What of the intangihle? Peter Shaw,

;,ald • ydney Evan'>, ;ha,ed hi, li eat

King'~ on one cardin:tl conviction, that

the College I a In ·Ie ,ociet ' made up

memorial st!rutCi?for I P (Peler)

Sha • Sec la oflite College from195210 1977, was he!. in lhe

College Ch pe! on 23 i\'o'U!mber. Slephen

H rrow,jormed) AssiSI nl Academic

Rr.gislrar, who worked wilh Mr Showform ny years. gave an apprecialion fromwhiclz Ihe folloflZing extracts ore drawn.

Copies ofthe fulltcxl are available fromStephen lIarrow.

I

Colloqul

26 JanuaryOn variationsJonathan Ounsby, UniverSity 0

Reading

Institute of Advanced MusicalStudies Colloquium19 JanuaryRoom G01, Music Oepartmen ,S rand Campus, 17.00-18 30Puccini's musical idiomJulian Budden, Florence

27 JanuaryApplicattons of molecular SlmulatlonsProf C R A Callow, Royal Ins!1 u ion

Pharmacy Departmental ResearchSeminarsTo be eld in Room 18, an esa Roadbe ween 6.15 and 1700, WI hrefreshmen s served rom 16 00.20 JanuaryThe investigation of chiral activesubstanes - regulatory perspectivesOr L GOring, Upjohn Limlled

Centre for Medical Law and EthicsSeminarsRoom B04 a he S rand from 300

o 4.0031 JanuaryWhy Eugenics is wrong has U opla

arrived?Pro essor S ephen Jones, CL

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yr.­note rh

nghtt

omment i intended for all

members of the College - not

just academic staff - and we

are keen to hear new from non­

academic staff in the same way that we

do from academics: ie if you or your

colleagues have achieved a particular

uccess in your work, or in your

professional or other training, please let

us know, especially if there is a

photograph to illustrate the item. We

are also looking for appropriate stories or

light-hearted anecdotes connected with

your work for the College (nothing

scurrilou , please!) and for information

about key new posts and post-holders.

We do not publish personal details such

as engagements, marriages or births, but

we will try to carry brief obituaries for

people who have died while in the

College's ervice, or shortly after leaving

King's.

r

lease don't forget to send our

detail for the second edition of

What's on a/ KIng's to the Press

and Publication Office by 22

December. This edition will bepubli hed at the end of January and will

cover e ents up to and including August

1994. If you have any queries please

contact the Office on ext 3202.

ea 0

Greetinto allCOmtneJltreader

In accepting Km fahd' I tOr

Reynolds, who I Pre Ident 0 the

International Lea ue a am t Epdep

explained that epllep ,'a ect at leas

tWO per cent 0 all population m the

world, without raCial, cia or eographlc

boundaries. 'Deep seated Ignorance and

prejudice abo tit remam,' he said.

'The wonderful thing abou hi

generous donation from audl Arabia is

that it send a very POSI Ive I nal

throughout the world. I IS candalou

that in Britain and elsewhere we allow

people with one particular condition to

spend a lifetime feeling mJ under tood

and penalised. Amazm Iy, people with

epileps are often genu mel frightened

to be 'found out'. In the CK we raise

more mone for leprosy than for

epilepsy, despite the fact that there I

not a smgle case of leprosy and there are

over a million people who will

experience epileptic serlure at ome

time in their lives. Epileps) i, the most

neglccted of all disease, b OClet, and

therefore medical serVices, re'>earch and

teaching are adly lackJllg.'

I n spite of the advances made in the

treatment and management of epilepsy

over the past decade, it ha remained

hard to find pecialist help and virtually

impossible to find all the necessary

disciplines at one centre. At the Centre

for Epilepsy, however, many different

peciali ts are available, from

neurologists, neuro urgeons,

neuropsych iatrists and paed iatricians to

counsellors and educationalist, and

special links have been ,et up with

commun ity and primary care services,

including the academic department of

gcneral practice at KCSM D, enabling

the Centre to deal with ncwly­

diagnosed, long-term or intractable

:"H or private patient With epilepsy.

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Sa pit:/ure and cap/ion on Iron/ page

he world's firstlnslllute of

Epileptology to be linked to a

university is to be established

under the auspice of the College. The

Institute will be based at Denmark Hill

and will promote re earch and teachmg

programmes with the aim of mcrea ing

under tanding and improving the

treaunentofepilep y in the CK, Europe

and the world. Plan for the InSlllu te

have been boosted by a second generous

donation of£IOO,OOO from King Fahd of

Saudi Arabia, which wa pre ented on

29 'ovember by the audi-Arablan

Ambassador, His Excellency Or Ghazi

Algosaibi, to Or Ted Reynolds.

Consultant eurologist at the Bethlem

Royal, Maudsley and King's College

Hospitals. King Fahd had already given

a previous £ 100,000 to help set up the

Centre for Epilepsy, of which Or

Reynolds i Chairman. and which i

already offering a completely co­

ordinated package of resources for

patients with epilepsy and related

disorders. The new donation will go

towards the £5,000,000 needed to

establish the Institute.

Two of the College's School ­

KCSM 0 and the School of Li fe, Basic

Medical and Health Sciences - are

among the six organi ations which are

associated with the Institute and the

Centre: the other being the Maudsley

Hospital, King's College Hospital, the

Institute of Psychiatry and t Piers

Lingfield, and the College is therefore

very much at the centre of the new

venture. Between them these

institutions have a national and

international reputation for scientific

investigation into the treatment and

causes of epilepsy; its medical and

surgical treatment and the ed ucation of

children and rehabilitation of adults with

epilepsy.

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