Hope Professor Calls for Single University Sector Watchdog

Roger Brown, Professor of Higher Education Policy at Liverpool Hope, makes a speech at the University of Portsmouth on Tuesday 9th February, in which he will argue that current university governance arrangements are “ramshackle” and should be replaced with a two-tier system in which separate “courts” represent staff and student interests.

Professor Brown will also advocate setting up a single watchdog for the sector, which would combine the regulatory functions of the Quality Assurance Agency, the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Office of the Independent Adjudicator.

Last Updated ( Monday, 08 February 2010 )

Shakespeare Lecture Series Continues

henry IV Hope's series of Shakespeare lectures continues on Tuesday February 9th as Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon-theologian of Westminster Abbey and Visiting Professor at Liverpool Hope gives his third lecture on Shakespeare's Kings and the Idea of a Christian Nation.

This week he will examine the play Henry 1V and the manner in which Shakespeare shows the effects of deposing a king on the quality of life in the country as a whole, through some of the play's comic characters. This is a unique opportunity to hear from someone who is an expert in the fields of literature and religion and whose work-base in Westminster Abbey provides a link with the past life of royal London.

The lecture will take place at The Creative Campus from 5.30pm to 6.40pm. For more information, please contact Professor Mary Mills on extn 2174 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Last Updated ( Monday, 08 February 2010 )

Inaugural Lecture - Professor Bill Jones

Hope's first Inaugural Lecture of 2010 takes place on Wednesday 10th February, as Professor of Politics, Bill Jones, gives his lecture entitled ‘The Greasy Pole'- Ministerial Promotion in British Politics. The Lecture will begin at 5.30pm in The Senate Room, HCA building.

The lecture will be an analysis of the factors present in the processes whereby politicians receive promotion from Member of Parliament to Prime Minister. It will also focus on a number of individual politicians whose careers illustrate how these factors work in practice. It is based upon widespread interviews with politicians, journalists, civil servants and academics.

If you wish to attend, contact the Corporate Events Team at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Last Updated ( Thursday, 04 February 2010 )

Professor Bernard Jackson Featured Speaker at New York Conference

Hope's recently appointed Professor of Law & Jewish Studies, Bernard Jackson, is the featured speaker at a New York conference on 'Jewish Family Law, the Agunah and General Issues in Jewish Law' next Sunday 7th and Monday 8th February.

The conference is organised by the Fordham Law School Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyer's Work, in association with The Jewish Law Association (of which Professor Jackson is the current Chairman).

On the first day, Professor Jackson will present the research findings and recommendations of the Agunah Research Unit at The University of Manchester, which he directed between 2004 and 2009. The Unit sought to find a solution to the problem of a wife whose husband refuses to co-operate in the Jewish divorce proceedings. A panel of leading American Rabbis will respond to Professor Jackson's presentation.

On the second evening, Professor Jackson will close the conference by delivering the Law School's annual Wolff Lecture, on the topic of 'Jewish Law and State Law: Some Comparative Perspectives from England'. This develops his earlier work on the controversy provoked by the Archbishop of Canterbury's 2008 remarks about English law and shari'a law, adding an analysis of the December 2009 Supreme Court decision which required the Jewish Free School in London to rewrite its admission rules.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 February 2010 )

Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL)

Registration will take place from Friday 15th January 2010 for new Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL) students.

mtl students The Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL) is a government-funded qualification which is designed to help Secondary and Primary school teachers extend their teaching skills and abilities.

Liverpool Hope University and other North West universities working with partner schools and local authorities as the North West MTL Partnership, have been commissioned by the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) to develop an MTL programme which will be offered in the North West of England.

For further information, please visit Hope's MTL website:

www.hope.ac.uk/education-news/mtl.html

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 January 2010 )

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