African Studies Unit, University of Leeds

1966 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 532-534
Author(s):  
Margot R. Kettle
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Working Party ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University

It was evident early in the 1960's that a number of departments in the University of Leeds were developing independent programmes of study and research on African topics, and that it would be useful to strengthen this work internally and also to avoid unco-ordinated approaches to outside bodies for advice and financial support. Accordingly, after a working party had prepared a factual report on activities in different fields, the Senate established a Standing Committee on African Studies, which in turn set up a small secretarial and documentation Unit, to assist in the co-ordination, development, and documentation of African studies.

scholarly journals ‘Fuel Reserves for Aircraft’

1961 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-98
Author(s):  
J. D. Proctor
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Computer ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
Statistical Attack ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Selection Of

The Working Party on Fuel Reserves for aircraft recommends that a major statistical attack should be made by a qualified body with the aid of an electronic computer on the problem of how to rationalize fuel reserves. I C.A.O's Standing Committee on Performance did much to standardize the risk of an aircraft hitting the ground on take-off and on landing, hence increasing profitability without prejudicing safety. Might not I.C.A.O. set up a committee to tackle fuel reserves on similar lines?I think that even now, in advance of such a major undertaking, fuel reserves might be rationalized a little if certain information were available to flight planners and crews. For instance, Durst has given the accuracy of forecast mean equivalent head winds for a few routes (this Journal, 13, 288); if it were given for a wider selection of routes, perhaps the fuel reserve carried for ‘navigational error’ could be roughly specified as the extra fuel needed to cope with 95 per cent (say) of the errors expected in forecast M.E.H.W. The use of extra fuel enroute for other causes is much less frequent (on piston-engined aircraft anyway) and could generally be covered by change of destination or by use of fuel nominally carried for diversion.

scholarly journals Plus ça change: four decades of African studies bibliography

2001 ◽  
Vol 1999 ◽  
pp. vii-xix ◽  
Author(s):  
John McIlwaine
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
Perceived Needs ◽  
University College ◽  
Library Studies ◽  
University College London ◽  
The University

I had originally thought of calling this piece, with a startlinglack of originality, ‘Forty years on’. It is after all exactly forty years since my own existing interests in African bibliography became formalised when I followed the option ‘Oriental and African bibliography’ at the School of Library Studies, University College London, taught by J.D. Pearson, the Librarian of the School of Oriental and African Studies. I later came to teach thisoption myself, from 1965 onwards, and indeed to follow Pearson by becoming the second to hold a chair entitled ‘Professor of the Bibliography of Asia and Africa in the University of London’. And in 2002 it will be forty years since SCOLMA (Standing Committee on Library Materials on Africa) was founded, the body that has done most in the U.K. to respond to the perceived needs of African bibliography, and one with which I have been associated for many years.

scholarly journals Is there a way?

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Educational Software ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
University Management ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Learning Development ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
Development Laboratory

I am currently a member of a working party set up in my own university to look into a range of IT matters, including learning technology, with the aim of producing a mediumterm institutional plan. At many of the meetings I attend, I hear about the urgency of focusing our CAL effort, but the conviction around the table is often tempered by lecturers' complaints that the off-the-shelf courseware they have tried either does not work well, or does not fit their particular needs, or both. So a suggestion is made: we should move in the direction of developing our own high-quality educational software tailored to our individual requirements. And since these requirements are very diverse over the whole campus, we should establish a Centre for Educational Technology, a Courseware Resources and Advice Unit, a Virtual Learning Development Laboratory, an Institute for Computer-Based Academic Practice . . . call it what you will. It should be staffed by experts who can advise departments and produce for them, or help them to produce, the exact software they require. It should be supported by a battalion of technicians, and should not only be equipped with white-hot multimedia but also backed by sufficient financial resources to ensure continuous upgrades so as to remain in a permanent state of state-of-the-art. The bank balance is not as healthy as it might be (whose is?), but the university management must nevertheless somehow be convinced of the necessity of spending money on the project.DOI:10.1080/0968776960040301

SCOAD: its inception and aims

1988 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-17
Author(s):  
Julian Gardner
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Working Party ◽  
British Library ◽  
National Service ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Consultative Body ◽  
Library Collections

In response, to initiatives from the Association of Art Historians and from ARLIS/UK & Eire, the British Library Working Party on the Provision of Materials for the Study of Art was established. Its Report (1983) proposed the setting-up of a permanent consultative body. This body, the Standing Committee on Art Documentation (SCOAD), was set up in 1985, to survey, and consider the co-ordination of, the provision of art library collections and services in the United Kingdom and in particular, by the British Library, the National Art Library, and other specialist libraries with notable contributions to make to a national service.

Marine Radar Beacons

1977 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-134
Author(s):  
A. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Target Location ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Technical Committee ◽  
Operational Experience ◽  
Navigational Aid ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
The Military

In this paper the author sketches the historical development of radar beacons: the different types are classified in relation to code and frequency employed and the benefits and drawbacks of more recently proposed types of beacon are discussed.The paper was presented at a Marine Electronics Symposium sponsored by the Society of Electronic and Radio Technicians at the University of Southampton in July 1976.The military use of responder beacons before 1945 led to secondary radar systems, such as Rebecca-Eureka, Oboe, and IFF, giving facilities for target location at long range with an accuracy and identification not available from a primary radar system. The desirability of these advantages in civilian systems was recognized but the absence of military urgency and considerations of cost led to delay. Although responder beacons became an essential part of the Air Traffic Control System, extension into the marine field did not succeed until the U.K. Ministry of Transport Safety of Navigation Committee set up a Technical Committee and Working Party in 1962 to investigate the conditions governing the marine installation of responder beacons as a navigational aid. This committee recommended that responder beacons (alternatively called racons) should be set up to an agreed specification at selected sites around the UK coast, to become the first civil marine navigational racon system. The co-operation of the Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment, Trinity House, and Kelvin Hughes made possible the installation and operation of three racons—on the Liverpool Bar LV, the Kish LV, and St. Abb's Head LH—to provide operational experience on which the committee's recommendations were based, followed by the setting up of the complete system.

Formation and Development of the Pre-Professional Training System of Foreign Medical Applicants in Ukraine (Historical and Educational Aspect)

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 95-98
Author(s):  
Iana Proskurkina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Students ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Training System ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Effective System ◽  
History Of ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
History Of Formation ◽  
Educational Aspect

Abstract The growing number of foreign applicants looking forward to getting education in Ukrainian medical universities makes us find the ways how to improve and make effective the pre-professional training system of foreign medical applicants for further education. The article deals with the issues of the history of formation and development of the preprofessional training system of foreign medical applicants in Ukraine. On the ground of the electronic databases of the official websites of higher educational establishments, the data on years of opening first offices of the dean, departments and preparatory faculties for foreign medical applicants in Ukrainian medical universities are analyzed and systematized. Also the data on the setting up preparatory faculties at other universities who carry out licensed training of foreign students of the medical profile are presented. The data on the operating and management of such institutions in the system of the University administration are generalized. It’s revealed that during the years of its functioning the pre-professional training has changed, in particular the system was commercialized and the institutions involved in training foreign applicants have been reorganized. The modern trends in teaching foreign medical students at the preparatory faculties of the Ukrainian medical universities are displayed. Based on the analysis of the data it is concluded that the system of the pre-professional training of foreign medical applicants was set up in the 50s-60s years of the twentieth century. During this time, some positive experience in the preparation of future international medical specialists has been gained. The system of the pre-professional training of foreign medical applicants has been comprehensively improved and an effective system of managing foreign medical applicants has been created.

Set up and management of a Data Science faculty at Shiga University

Impact ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (10) ◽  
pp. 18-20
Author(s):  
Akimichi Takemura
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
Science Faculty ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
Global Understanding ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So ◽  
Undergraduate Class

Shiga University opened the first data science faculty in Japan in April 2017. Beginning with an undergraduate class of 100 students, the Department has since established a Master's degree programme with 20 students in each annual intake. This is the first data science faculty in Japan and the University intends to retain this leading position, the Department is well-placed to do so. The faculty closely monitors international trends concerning data science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and adapt its education and research accordingly. The genesis of this department marks a change in Japan's attitudes towards dealing with information and reflects a wider, global understanding of the need for further research in this area. Shiga University's Data Science department seeks to produce well-trained data scientists who demonstrate a good balance of knowledge and skills in each of the three key areas of data science.

Scottish Health Authorities Revenue Equalisation

1978 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. Forwell
Keyword(s):  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Individual Health ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Comprehensive Examination ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Urban Deprivation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Health Boards

A working party was set up by the Scottish Home and Health Department to consider the system of allocation of money to health boards. The system advocated (SHARE Report) is predictable from the NHS structure and the analogous report (RAWP) in England. The Secretary of State has announced his decision to accept SHARE in general principle. In principle, the Report is to be welcomed as a first step toward rationalising the distribution of health service money. However, work already published suggests the assumptions in SHARE require examination. SHARE would encourage individual health boards to plan for their own populations although thereby the greatest improvement in health services in Scotland may not be achieved. The SHARE objective of equal opportunity of securing access is open to various interpretations. Emphasis is laid on the recommendation in the Report for a comprehensive examination of the inter-relationship of social circumstances (in particular, urban deprivation), morbidity and mortality.

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