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This paper uses the 1908 Oxford Report, a founding document for the Workers' Educational Association, as a window onto the internal contradictions of the university adult education movement, an issue that has been neglected by historians of education. Examining the early history of the WEA shows that while the movement was inspired by Oxford Idealism and set itself the aim of democratising higher education, it also drew support from people who intended to professionalise the university by introducing the principles of trained expertise and selection by merit. The confluence of Idealism and professionalism resulted in a ground-breaking but inconsistent educational programme outlined in the Oxford Report. This paper suggests that the attempt to simultaneously democratise and professionalise higher education was untenable and foreshadowed later tensions within the WEA movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The contribution and role of psychologists, psychiatrists or mental health practitioners in working alongside forced migrants may take many forms. The guidance on which this paper is based, came about when several members of the British Psychological Society (including those with lived experience and insight and those who had set up services); became aware of the need for good practice guidance for clinicians working with refugees, asylum seekers including forced migrants across Britain. These guidelines cover a range of areas where clinicians work with individuals in clinical contexts, schools, nurseries, colleges and within community organisations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the conference of the Association for High Speed Photography and Photonics held at the University of Westminster in Harrow, England in the autumn of 2001. Attendance of the conference; Lecturers; Recipient of the Rendell Award for the best paper submitted in the conference.

Two distinguishing features of the New Labour Government have been its focus on regionalism and the establishment of a department of state, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), explicitly dedicated to ‘cultural’ policy. This paper tracks the development of a new set of regional cultural organizations, the Regional Cultural Consortiums (RCCs). These were established to contribute to regional development and to deliver the DCMS's national policy goals. The paper examines the RCCs' remit, challenges, achievements and prospects, and locates these in wider debates about evidence-based policy and continuity and change in cultural and regional policy. Particular consideration is given to the RCCs' research and data collection activities and their role in developing a move towards improved capacity in regional cultural research and data collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper traces the origins and charts the development and reform of the Metropolitan Police Service since its inception in 1829. It explores how the growing complexity of London's government, accentuated by the creation of the Greater London Council in 1965, reopened the debate for local government control of the metropolitan police. Not until the creation of the Greater London Authority in 2000, however, were changes in accountability of the Metropolitan Police finally put in place with the creation of the Metropolitan Police Authority as a functional body of the GLA. The paper reviews the working of this relationship over the past five years and considers the MPA's role in securing accountability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper uses the Delphi method as a way of studying organisational and sector change. It provides a brief introduction to Delphi, its application to public management and its relevance to research on the transformation of social housing. It then describes an application to research on the future shape and structure of the housing association sector in England. The method is used to clarify areas of consensus and divergence, and to identify differences between types of association and key trends in sector transformation. Conclusions are presented on changing sector identity, governance, spatial level of operations, organisational scale and organisational form and on learning from this application of the Delphi method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides information on a meeting on advances in medical and forensic imaging organized by the Imaging Science Group and Medical Group of the Royal Photographic Society in London, England on February 21, 2005. Theme of the meeting; Features of the programme; Issues tackled.

As voluntary and community organizations in the UK (VCOs) expand their role in the provision of public services, they are under increasing pressure from governmental funders to improve their management and organizational systems - to “build their capacity.” This paper considers the theoretical and practical challenges posed by the idea of “capacity building.” It also looks at the challenges for VCOs of meeting the capacity building agenda while simultaneously retaining organizational distinctiveness and independence. Action research is proposed as a means to meet the challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The importance of encouraging small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to improve their environmental performance is now well recognised. This paper evaluates the contribution of the business-support network to the delivery of a range of services designed to encourage SMEs to adopt more environmentally sound practices by examining the work of an environmental non-governmental organisation working in the North West of England: Sustainability Northwest (SNW). SNW has attempted to catalogue, promote and co-ordinate the services provided by the business-support network in its area. The focus of this development has been the establishment of the Environmental Initiatives Database (ENID). This has provided further evidence that the bespoke, solution-driven services required by SMEs are not readily available. Furthermore, the increase in mutual awareness among members of the business support network, facilitated by ENID, appears to have done little to foster an atmosphere of greater cooperation and integration of services. In conclusion, the paper discusses possible reasons for this apparent impasse by outlining the rationale for a new initiative to enhance co-ordination among members of the business-support network: the Green Competitive Edge for the North West. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses several issues on auditing as highlighted during the 1997 Seventh National Auditing Conference at the Cranfield University School of Management in England. Power sees audit and audit research as having become unquestionably interesting with the growth of the audit society. Power maintains the validity of his initial claims. As audit practice extends into diverse fields, it maintains a commonality of approach. In each case there is a common systems structure and the audit process tends to concentrate on the integrity of organizational systems of self-audit.

This paper is a study of policy making and central-local relations in the 1930s. The North Eastern Housing Association was a government sponsored body set up in 1935 to build and manage houses on behalf of local authorities in the Durham and Tyneside special area. The paper questions conventional explanations of the reasons for establishing the Association, and draws attention to a number of features which differentiated it from conventional non-profit housing providers at that time. The process of establishing the NEHA is shown to have taken place alongside the production of legislation which failed to give housing associations in general the kind of central role in housing policy being sought for them, and in the face of known opposition from local authorities in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article previews the 26th annual conference of the Society for Reproductive & Infant Psychology that will be held from September 13-15, 2006 at Aston University in Birmingham, England. It includes information on the issues that will be addressed at various meetings and the deadline for the submission of individual papers and posters.

This is the second part of a paper based on one delivered at the AUA Annual Conference, Promoting Excellence in HE Management, at the University of Nottingham, 2-4 April 2007. It continues discussion of the application of employment legislation to university restructuring exercises, and in particular, the application of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (TUPE) Regulations 2006, which appeared in the previous issue of perspectives. The application of these rules to transfers of departments and courses between universities is considered here.[image omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 1399 account roll of the Paternoster Gild of York, missing since the 1880s, has recently been discovered amongst papers donated to the Borthwick Institute, University of York. These accounts, edited at the end of this paper, reveal the names of over 150 gild members from all over the city of York and beyond and allow them to be placed within their social context, showing members and their families receiving bequests in each other's wills, and revealing several of them as members of the later Corpus Christi gild at York. The accounts also demonstrate the extent of the gild's property ownership and give details of preparations and purchases for the elaborate gild feast. The gild was responsible for performances of the Paternoster play, and examination of the accounts allows revision of confused, earlier reports of their contents relating to the plays. It is now clear that two pageants from the play are mentioned in the accounts, supporting Johnstone's suggestion that the play was based on seven pageants, each one reflecting one of the seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer, matched against one of the seven deadly sins. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Five-a-side football has become the most popular form of football in England and the sport's national governing body, the Football Association (FA), has recognized that it must develop its role in this market. As part of its Football Development Strategy (2001), the FA has stated that it needs to develop partnerships with relevant public and private sector organizations. Against this background this paper has two aims. Firstly, the authors explore with selected stakeholders their views regarding the FA's role in developing five-a-side football through strategic alliances. Secondly, by drawing on the literature and their fieldwork, the authors present a framework for examining strategic alliance options that can be applied by national governing bodies of other sports. The results of the research study suggest that the FA should play a key role in developing the five-a-side football market and, through its network of County FAs, seek strategic alliances with stakeholders from the private, public and voluntary sectors. The framework presented by the authors assists the FA and other national governing bodies in the planning of strategic alliances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper was presented as the Eighth Annual Lecture of the Association of University Administrators on 12 October 2005 at the CBI Conference Centre, London [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the proceedings of the 145th Meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons. This meeting was held at Manchester, England on September 22-24, 2004. The research paper "Hearing Changes in Non-Enlarging Conservatively Managed Vestibular Schwannomas," presented at the meeting challenges the assumption that hearing will remain static in non-enlarging vestibular schwannomas, and therefore justify managing them expectantly as a means to preserve hearing. 1308 vestibular schwannomas referred to the senior author since 1977 were analysed to identify tumours treated conservatively.

Management Studies would much rather deal with success than failure. Its treatment of failure is consequently peremptory, defining failure in simple, financial terms. Yet, failure is complex. This paper looks in detail at the case of the National Centre for Popular Music in Sheffield, England. Though the Centre was an unmitigated disaster, individual managers were still able to interpret the part each played as successful. Why was the project outcome so much less than the sum of these individual parts? The dynamics of failure are intriguing. Understanding them would seem to be essential to understanding what brings about success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In common with most sport organizations, the English Football Association has come relatively recently to the issue of child protection. Abuses of various kinds have been known about in the sport for many years but, until the late 1990s, very little systematic work was undertaken to address them. The launch of a Child Protection Strategy by the English FA in May 2000 reflected recognition by those in authority within the sport that child abuse and protection were properly the subject of football policy and should become embedded in all aspects of the affiliated game. In addition to adopting child protection, the then-Chief Executive Officer of the FA made a commitment to evidence-based policy in his strategic plan for the game. In line with this commitment, the FA commissioned a 5 year study of the impact of child protection on the game, the first year of which constituted an audit of the state of child protection in the affiliated game. Data were collected through 11 Internet surveys, 32 club case studies, over 200 interviews with various stakeholders and an analysis of 132 case files for child abuse referrals. This paper sets out the context of child protection in sport more generally and the background to the FA's child protection research project in particular. It also presents selected first year results for key stakeholder groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hampshire LEA has carried out two longitudinal studies: from reception intake to the end of Year 2, and from the end of Year 2 to the end of Year 6. A total, respectively, of 161 and 114 schools and about 6400 and 4700 pupil records have been analysed. Test scores at baseline (entry to reception), Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 have been used, together with pupil and school level variables. Multilevel models have been fitted and show that schools differ along several dimensions, both by curriculum subject and by prior attainment of pupil. The research sought ways of communicating the results to head teachers in ways which were meaningful without destroying the underlying complexity of the relationships uncovered. The paper describes how this can be done, in ways which can assist the process of school improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents several summaries of the papers given at the 1990 Annual Conference of the Educational Television Association, held at the University of York. `The Implications of the Broadcasting Bill,' by Colin Shaw; `Resourcing the National Curriculum,' by Michael Scarborough; `Training Educational Producers,' by Paul Welliver.

Highlights the annual SCSE conference held on December 16, 1983 at the King's College in London, England. Theme adopted for the event; Number of people present; Attendance of people concerned with higher education and educational studies.

Highlights the annual conference organized by the Institute of British Geographers in Durham, England. Topics discussed during the event; Theme of the papers presented; Attendees of the conference.

This article announces the 2005 United Kingdom Administration Conference. The details for the conference will be held from September 5 to 7 at the Nottingham Policy Centre, University of Nottingham, are now available online at: www.nottingham.ac.uk/npc. Key dates are: Research student day (5 September) -- closing date for proposals: 24 June 2005. Contact Dr. Carole Johnson at carole.johnson@nottingham.ac.uk. Panels and streams -- closing date for proposals: 15 April 2005. Contact Sarah Staples at lqywsjs@nottingham.ac.uk. Individual papers -- closing date for proposals:24 June 2005. Contact Sarah Staples (as above).

This article presents information about the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Standing Conference on Studies in Education, held on January 5, 1954, in the Council Room at King's College, London, England. College's Principal Peter Noble had welcomed the Conference members. Conference secretary J.W. Tibble had presented a report on the work of the Conference Committee during the year. After that, executive editor of the "British Journal of Educational Studies" A.C.F. Beales reported on the journal. He recalled the policy which had decided the form and make-up of the journal originally, and also the suggestions made during discussion at the previous annual meeting. The Editorial Board felt that the spread of the main articles in this year's issue was better balanced than in the past, and that the contents of the journal were still avoiding successfully any overlap into the fields for which other specialist journals already existed. In the course of discussion on the report several positive suggestions for future contents were offered for the Editorial Board's consideration. A revised draft of the Standing Conference, previously circulated, was then considered in conference, amended, and adopted.

The article reports on the significant events that had occurred in the Textile Institute, the official publication of textile industry in England for the past ten years. The paper was able to formulate the policy of the editorial board which aims to ensure enough coverage of the happenings in the industry. The list of members of the publication grow rapidly which shows that many are interested to share their views. The policies have become subject of individual discussion on the leader page of the periodical. The opinions expressed by the people in the publication has been helpful to the council. It was reported that the main source of disappointment for the past decade was the paucity of the letters to the editor. Moreover, the space evolved into a more confined area in the paper.

The article reports on the cost of damage the fire incidents have brought in the textile industry in England. The journal of Fire Protection Assoc. (FPA), reported that textile industry have lost 11 million Euro dollar in 1971 due to the occurrence of fire in major textile manufacturing firms. There were 86 recorded fire in the year alone and each fire reportedly cost over 10, 000 Euro dollar respectively. According to FPA, the number of fire incidents in 1971 are nearly fourfold higher than the fire that happened in the previous years. The areas where the fires usually start include the storage area, preparation area and finishing areas. The common causes of fires are mechanical heat and sparks, smoking materials and electrical equipment or malicious ignition.

Information about several papers discussed at the Annual Meeting of the British Neuro-oncology Society (BNOS) to be held at Preston, England on June 25-27, 2008. During the event attendees discussed various topics including the standard mortality of patients suffering from central nervous system (CNS) tumours, research spending and imaginative approaches to clinical research.

The article discusses the contents of a manifesto issued by a committee consisting of weavers from Barnsley, England, which emphasizes the need to support the petition of the Birmingham Political Union for parliamentary reforms. The Barnsley manifesto, which dwells on working-class hunger, misery and exploitation, would, on the surface, seem to lend credibility to the composite version. But radicalism in Barnsley, as in many other northern towns, was deeply embedded; its motive force transcended short-term economic hardships. Before the visit of the Birmingham delegation, the Barnsley working class had long been involved in serious radical politics. In the early 1830s many Barnsley workingmen took part in the Owenite cooperative movement, the trade union and Reform Bill agitations and the "war of the unstamped." Joseph Lingard, father of one of the signatories to the manifesto, was the local distributor of unstamped papers. He opened a reading room where workingmen not only read the contraband literature but also held political discussions. Local agitation for parliamentary reform was revived as early as 1835 when a local Radical Association was formed. The Chartist Manifesto encapsulates mainstream chartist thought. It appealed to working class poverty and suffering, but did so analytically. It further explained that labor was the creator of all wealth, but most of this wealth was siphoned off by those who never worked.

The article announces awards given to some members of the Textile Institute, an organization of the textile manufacturers in England. The FNF Limited and Courtaulds Limited was awarded the Jubilee Award for the creation of FNF high-speed warp knitting machine. The Warner Memorial Medal was given to one of the leaders in the wool science and research, John Roy McPhee. The recipient of the Companion Membership award was Jan Alfred Lewando for his contribution in the industry.

The annual meeting of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists was held in the 2008 European City of Culture, Liverpool (UK). The Royal College of Ophthalmologists was celebrating the 20th anniversary of its founding. The congress scientific program included educational seminars; the presentation of courses and over 200 abstracts as rapid-fire papers; videos and posters; the highlights from the UK subspecialty meetings and the Royal College Eponymous Lectures were also delivered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a calendar of events relevant to comparative education worldwide from 1976 to 1977. A conference titled "Third World Conference of Comparative Education Societies" will be hosted by the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE) in London, England, from June 27, 1977, to July 2, 1977. The Sixth National Education Congress will be held at the University of Madrid in Spain from October 30, 1976, to November 2, 1976. The 11th annual conference of the British Section of the CESE will be held at the University of Leeds from September 17, 1976, to September 20, 1976.

The article discusses a paper related to the misunderstanding of the social position of farm laborers in Norfolk, England, by socialist agitators and trade union organizers during the early 1900s, which was presented at a conference of the Society for the Study of Labour History in 1976. To the socialist agitator and the trade union organizer the farm laborers have long seemed a serious problem. There can be no doubt that there are special factors, which made the farm worker's position very different from that of the factory worker. The numbers of men to a farm were relatively few, which made contact between master and man close and contact between workers rare. These factors have led historians and sociologists to classify the farm worker as a classic "deferential" worker. The vast majority of industrial disputes dealt with by the laborers union between 1906 and 1923 fall into the category of structural conflict. Even when men were in the union they often simply went and found work elsewhere. This is not to argue that the farm worker is some kind of vanguard industrial militant, but to point to the inadequacy of much of the method of labor history and industrial sociology, which equates class-consciousness and industrial militancy simply with the membership of trade unions.

The article presents information on a paper regarding the role which Primitive Methodists played in the development of agricultural trade unionism in Warwickshire, England from 1872 to 1875, which was presented during the conference of the Society for the Study of Labour History in 1976. Primitive Methodist influence in the union lay not in dual membership, but in individuals who played a specific role in both. A comparison of numbers of Primitives and unionists in villages near Leamington shows the average membership to be 20 and 95 respectively. Only 8 of 30 villages involved in agitation in early 1872 had a Primitive chapel. Of eight parishes where strikes were declared in February and March 1872, only two had a Primitive chapel. A paradoxical relationship existed between the fortunes of Primitive Methodism and unionism--the skills of Primitive preachers allowed the union to hold large inspirational meetings, but the pressures of union duties on these preachers gradually eroded their function for the sect, resulting in a loss of converts. Primitive Methodism was a forerunner in the formation of a rural working class consciousness, of which unionism formed a more advanced stage. The consciousness of a collective identity, of class as well as religion, formed in the process of asserting a working class sect, provided a basis from which trade unionism could grow.

Almack's, a mixed-sex establishment run by a group of female patronesses, was a popular meeting place for the aristocracy in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet, despite its contemporary appeal, the establishment has received little attention from historians. This article addresses this absence, exploring the varying, and often contentious, social, cultural and political functions and meanings the establishment held. Building on recent historiographical developments, this article demonstrates how certain aristocratic women were able to exercise power and influence at the heart of their class. In doing so, it considers the intersections between gender, urban space and political culture. It argues that the activities of the female patronesses were often highly contested, exposing the narrow, and often blurred, line between legitimate and illegitimate action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Measures to keep staff and patients safe (containment) frequently involve coercion. A small proportion of patients is subject to a large proportion of containment use. To reduce the use of containment, we need a better understanding of the circumstances in which it is used and the understandings of patients and staff. Two sweeps were made of all the wards, spread over four hospital sites, in one large London mental health organization to identify patients who had been subject to high levels of containment in the previous two weeks. Data were then extracted from their case notes about their past history, current problem behaviours, and how they were understood by the patients involved and the staff. Nurses and consultant psychiatrists were interviewed to supplement the information from the case records. Twenty-six heterogeneous patients were identified, with many ages, genders, diagnoses, and psychiatric specialities represented. The main problem behaviours giving rise to containment use were violence and self-harm. The roots of the problem behaviours were to be found in severe psychiatric symptoms, cognitive difficulties, personality traits, and the implementation of the internal structure of the ward by staff. Staff's range and depth of understandings was limited and did not include functional analysis, defence mechanisms, specific cognitive assessment, and other potential frameworks. There is a need for more in-depth assessment and understanding of patients' problems, which may lead to additional ways to reduce containment use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines commitment to the regional development of London as it emerged among individuals and groups interested in urban planning in the early twentieth century. Following a brief account of growth and reform in the capital during the nineteenth century, this article focuses on the development of debates about planning the metropolis in the first two decades of the century, exploring practical initiatives such as the Town Planning Conference held in 1910 and the production of The London Society's Development Plan for Greater London during the years of the First World War. London's associational culture was central in generating and hosting discussions about the future of the city during this period and the article provides an indication of the extent of overlapping memberships between groups such as the Royal Institute of British Architects, The London Society and the Town Planning Institute. In conclusion, this article suggests that the regional imagination, central to the later development of planning, was clearly visible in the programme of work undertaken during the First World War and that associational networks were an important part of early professionalization in planning in Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Information regarding The Legacy of Ten:8 Symposium that was held at the Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) in Birmingham, England on May 4, 2011 is presented. Topics include Ten:8 collective's context, practices, and origins, the legacy of the collective, and its contributions to photography. The symposium featured several speakers, including Derek Bishton, Brian Homer, and Eugenie Shinkle.

Information about the meeting titled "Understanding Congenital Nystagmus: A Research Workshop" that was held in Oxford, England in September 2005 is presented. The meeting was made possible by the dedication of the England Nystagmus Network. International scientist were interested in understanding and discussing the treatments of one of the most common forms of nystagmus in infancy and childhood.

The article presents an examination into early 18th-century English social and political history, focusing on the activities of the Societies for Reformation of Manners. Introductory details are given describing the origins and ideology of the social reform group. A review of the sermons issued by the Societies between 1696 to 1714 is given, highlighting indications of their political allegiance. It is suggested that despite the use of controversial rhetoric by its membership, the movement was supported and dependent on the existing political structure of the day and did not threaten the British monarchy.

The article presents abstracts on clinical health psychology topics which include the characteristics of foster parents, the effects of work-related traumatic incidents on the physical and psychological health of emergency nurses, and the psychological impact of prenatal procedures.

In this article the authors discuss the creation and the profile of the University of Bedfordshire in Bedfordshire, England. They state that the University of Bedfordshire has established its roots in the late nineteenth century. It also offers the brief profile of the university and its origin. According to the article, the University of Bedfordshire is a successful and well functioning institution with single management and a single brand working to a new University Plan.

The article discusses the highlights of the 2008 Annual General Meeting of the Family & Community Historical Research Society Ltd. held in London, England. Speaker Christine Seal addresses the issue of housing the poor in the north versus the south and compares the composition of workhouse populations in the unions around almshouses in 1881. Two speakers also discuss new education project, specifically the school log books.

Information on the topics discussed during the British Crystallographic Association's (BCA) 25th Annual Meeting at University of Kent, Canterbury is presented. Sir Roger Penrose became the Bragg Lecturer 2007 and delivered his talk entitled "Quasi-crystals and non- local assembly: a quantum theory foundations issue?" The whole programme was led by the chairmanship of Professor Lindsay Sawyer of Edinburgh University. The Exhibitors' Forum has become one of the must attend events at the meeting.

Editorial. Focuses on the themes of widening participation, quality and funding for higher education in England during the Conference held by the Oxford Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPS). Difference of British higher education from the European norms and the US model; Sustainability of a structure integrating an elite culture with a mass system; Shift of the British model towards the US or European model.

There are excellent accounts of the Jewish response to "trafficking" in women for prostitution during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but recent analyses of the white slavery phenomenon have raised new questions. This article concerns the response of Jews in England, and specifically the motivations and activities of those who founded the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women (JAPGW). The JAPGW set the model for initiatives carried out by Jewish communities throughout the British Empire and was a primary contributor to internationalisation of the issue on the part of the League of Nations after the First World War. The JAPGW's motivations were complex: they involved a particular religious outlook, the response to antisemitism and assumptions along lines of class and gender. In addressing "Jewish trafficking", Britain's established Jewish community sought to take ownership of what it meant to be a Jew in British society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is frequently asserted that national environmental movement organisations (EMOs) have, as an unintended consequence of their public relations strategies, a tendency to ignore local activists. Using a variety of research methods - participant observation, semi-structured interviews, a survey and network analysis of national, regional and local EMOs in London - we explode that myth. Although national EMOs cooperate mostly with other national EMOs, they do not turn their backs on local campaigners. On the contrary, several highly influential national EMOs (Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and Campaign to Protect Rural England) seek to involve grassroots activists. Local campaigners make surprisingly few demands on national EMOs, understand that national EMOs have resource constraints, and do not generally feel marginalised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During World War II, Bletchley Park, a former country house in Buckinghamshire, was the home of the British Government's Code and Cypher School. The small organization that arrived in August 1939 grew into a staff of more than 10,000 by 1945. The need for progressively larger and more complex accommodation necessitated a near-continuous building programme. Despite some demolitions and post-war alterations, many of the site's wartime buildings still stand. A recent programme of architectural study, landscape survey and archival research by English Heritage has provided for the first time a comprehensive overview of Bletchley's development. The sequence and functions of the standing buildings have been established, and ways in which their evolution related to the earlier (largely Victorian) landscaped park have been explored. Bletchley represents in its architecture the evolution of a cryptographic research centre from modest beginnings into a global signals intelligence centre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores some of the issues underpinning the development of a British Council funded Higher Education Link between the University of the Western Cape, South Africa and University College Chichester, England. The Link began in 1999 and finished in 2005. The focus of the Link was child protection. The initial emphasis was on developing national multidisciplinary child protection training programmes within South Africa. Latterly this has expanded to encompass the broader concept of child welfare, particularly children's well being and children's participation in both South Africa and England. For both partners the process has been challenging and transforming. The article reflects on the initial objectives of the Link programme and analyses lessons learned both professionally and personally for the South African and English authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides information on several activities of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs held in London, England from March through June 2005. Junior Members' Meeting; 2005 Biennial Dinner; Presentation of the Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal.