scholarly journals Bolgoda chat, crossing the borders in his own way: An interview with Emeritus Professor P A De Silva

2021 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 32-35
Author(s):  
Hirushie Karunathilake ◽  
◽  
Sanjeeva Witharana
Keyword(s):  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Heat Engines ◽  
Junior Staff ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
College Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

IPT gained university status in 1972. However, in 1966 we had received a status equivalent to a university, under the name “Ceylon College of Technology”. I remember one interesting incident from that time. The first vice chancellor was Dr. Upali Kuruppu. I was responsible for selecting Junior Technical Officers (JTO), and these were highly capable students who had missed engineering by a narrow margin. There were around 80 deserving candidates, and we were only admitting 40. Late Prof. Patuwathawithana and I (we were both young and junior staff members at that time), approached the administration to request an increase in the intake. Indeed, we had space to accommodate. There was a fear that, if we produced more, there will be no demand. The University of Ceylon was thus unwilling to increase the intake beyond 25 students. Finally, we managed to increase the JTO intake from 40 to 60. The JTO students were very capable. Prof. Patuwathawithana and I started to teach IMechE part II subjects to them. While I taught Heat Engines and Materials, he used to teach Thermo-machines etc. Some of them went on to become chartered engineers, and that too paved the way for the Ceylon College of Technology.

scholarly journals Accounting for the faculty differentials in the production of PhD graduates in a South African university

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Tanga ◽  
F. Megbowon ◽  
V. Nkonki ◽  
T. Rulashe
Keyword(s):  
Academic Staff ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Junior Staff ◽  
Positive Discrimination ◽  
Important Means ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Recruitment And Selection ◽  
The University

The ability of an institution to graduate students, also known as the throughput rate, is one of the most important means of an institution receiving a grant/ subsidy from the government. This article sought to interrogate the differentials in throughput rates of PhD graduates per faculty in a selected institution over a period of five years. Framed within the interpretive paradigm, a qualitative approach and a case study design were adopted. A non-probability purposive sample of 30 participants was selected the academic staff within the six faculties that make up the university under investigation. Data was collected through in-depth interviews and document analysis. Interview transcripts were analysed thematically and using the constant comparison technique. The major findings pointed to differentials in PhD production across faculties as emanating from variations in supervision approaches as reflected in the recruitment and selection of candidates, students’ composition, allocation of supervision load, preparation and orientation of candidates, mentoring of both students and junior staff members, as well as monitoring and evaluation of students’ progress. The findings also revealed challenges like lack of financial support for students, poor structural set-up of some faculties as well as “positive” discrimination in some faculties. These factors constrained the throughput rates in different faculties differently, resulting to a difference in PhD graduate production. It is concluded that there are some quality concerns resulting from the poor processes and procedures as well as the number of graduates from some staff members. It is recommended that the university harmonise its diverse PhD processes and procedures, and enlarge some faculties by creating distinct departments to provide requisite support and interventions to narrow the differentials and improve quality.

scholarly journals Interview with Paul Kay

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Tiago Torrent
Keyword(s):  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

<p>Paul Kay was one of the founders of the Construction Grammar. Together with the late Charles Fillmore, Paul Kay was responsible for shaping distinguishing aspects of constructionist approaches to grammar. In this interview, this history is revisited, and key aspects of linguistic theory - such as generativism and formalism - are discussed. The Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of California also discusses the turn of Berkeley Construction Grammar towards Sign-Based Construction Grammar. Paul Kay’s answers to the following questions couldn’t be more in tune with the theory he helped create: beyond simplistic distinctions, he sheds light on both the more general features of Construction Grammar and on the equally relevant peripheral anecdotes that paved the way for the development of the field in the last three decades.</p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>ENTREVISTA COM PAUL KAY</p><p>Paul Kay foi um dos fundadores da Gramática da Construção. Juntamente com Charles Fillmore, Paul Kay foi responsável por moldar os aspectos distintivos das abordagens construcionistas da gramática. Nesta entrevista, essa história é revisitada, e aspectos-chave da teoria linguística - como o gerativismo e o formalismo - são discutidos. O professor emérito de linguística da Universidade da Califórnia também discute a virada da Gramática de Construção de Berkeley para a Gramática da Construção Baseada em Sinais. As respostas de Paul Kay para as seguintes perguntas não poderiam estar mais em sintonia com a teoria que ele ajudou a criar: além das distinções simplistas, ele esclarece as características mais gerais da Gramática da Construção e as anedotas periféricas igualmente relevantes que abriram o caminho para a desenvolvimento do campo nas últimas três décadas.</p><p>---</p><p>Orignal em inglês.</p>

The Francis affair reconsidered

1995 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-184
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
The Body ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
Master Of Arts ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

Isaac Newton dedicated his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica to the Royal Society, founded by King Charles II and ‘flourishing under the protection of the most powerful monarch James II.’ Edmond Halley, but for whom the book would probably never have been published, personally presented a copy of it to the King in June 1687, being ‘assured that when the weighty Affairs of your Government permit it; your Majesty has frequently shewn your self enclined to favour Mechanical and Philosophical Discoveries.’ 1 During the previous month, by a curious irony of timing, one of the ‘Affairs of Government’ had been the prosecution of the Vice-Chancellor and Senate of the University of Cambridge, with Isaac Newton standing in court as one of the ‘men either of publick Character in the Body [that is, the Senate], or the Seniors of their Houses, or some way eminently known in the University’. 2 He had stood there as an opponent of the arbitrary demands of James II upon the University. The King sought to introduce into it, as a Master of Arts, a Papist, indeed a Benedictine monk, enjoying the royal confidence: one Alban Francis. Newton’s biographers have agreed that he played a decisive role in stiffening resistance to the royal policy, preparing the way for the trial of the seven bishops and the King’s downfall. 3

scholarly journals Breadth, ‘National Needs’, and Reimagining the Role of the University in Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-33
Author(s):  
Joshua Patel
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Educational Philosophy ◽  
Teaching Programme ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
College Of Technology ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
External Forces ◽  
The University ◽  
Pure Knowledge

A persistent critique of university histories is their lack of consideration for the influence of external forces. How did the political and societal pressures of the 1960s inform understandings of the contributions that students and universities should make to society? This article investigates how pressures that the universities contribute to the ‘national need’ informed the design of studies and the built environment at the University of Warwick. Vice-Chancellor of Warwick ‘Jack’ Butterworth in 1970 found himself and his university criticised for permitting an ‘oligarchy of industrialists,’ to subjugate the university and force it to mass-produce ‘capitalistic,’ managers. For Butterworth this was no coup but a reorientation of the purpose of a university towards public needs. At Warwick, a new university was imagined. Its environment and teaching programme stressed ‘breadth’ and spontaneity so that it might produce students armed with ‘pure’ knowledge to be ‘applied’ to practical issues of the day, particularly those found in industry. The nation needed such broad-minded, productive graduates in order to engender the prosperous liberal society. This educational philosophy is identifiable in Butterworth’s proposals for his business school, Warwick’s foiled attempt to merge with the local college of technology, and its unsuccessful early designs for halls of residence.     

Educational Service of the Tennessee Division of Geology, 1831-Present

1985 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-58
Author(s):  
Edward Luther
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Assistance ◽  
Field Equipment ◽  
University Of Tennessee ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The University

The Tennessee Division of Geology has a close, long-term relationship with the educational establishment in Tennessee that has changed in nature over the years but remains strong. Gerard Troost, the first State Geologist, was a college professor, as was his successor, James M. Safford, and, more recently, L. C. Glenn. From 1909 to 1923 the affairs of the State Geological Survey were overseen by a Geological Commission that included, ex officio, the President of the University of Tennessee, the Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, and the Vice Chancellor of the University of the South; then, from 1923 to 1937, the Division of Geology was administratively part of the State Department of Education. Since becoming part of the Conservation Department in 1937 the Division has served an educational function by publishing both scholarly and popular works on the geology of the state; by answering inquiries on every subject from paleontology to water-witching; by advising news media on geology-related stories; by giving talks to school, museum, and other groups; and by close cooperation with university geology departments on research projects. The Division has had a strong role in graduate education, particularly at the Master's level, by conducting field excursions for students, financing theses through student mapping projects, by loans of field equipment, and serving as informal thesis advisors. Long-term assistance to geology departments has also included part-time employment of professors as consultants, publication of studies by professors and students, and part-time teaching by Division staff members. Most of these forms of educational assistance have suffered in recent years, due to budget cuts and loss of staff positions.

The new Care Quality Commission inspection procedures

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (15) ◽  
pp. 938-939
Author(s):  
Alan Glasper
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Care Quality Commission ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

Emeritus Professor Alan Glasper, from the University of Southampton, discusses recent changes to the way in which the Care Quality Commission (CQC) conducts its health and social care inspections

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