REVIEW: Inaugural Lecture - Professor Bill Jones

Hope's first Inaugural Lecture of 2010 took place on Wednesday 10th February, as Professor of Politics, Bill Jones, gave his lecture entitled ‘The Greasy Pole'- Ministerial Promotion in British Politics.

Prof Jones entertained his audience with stories of politicians who'd risen to the top - some through talent and hard work and others through pure good fortune. Those who were too young to relate to his stories of 'Yes Minister' would have recognised identical scenarios from 'The Thick Of It', for as Prof Jones reminded us, this sometimes absurd world of British political ambition is indeed a timeless tale.

His delivery was always engaging, his content compelling and his anecdotes usually amusing. Most worrying though was his number-crunching analysis of why we get the ministers we deserve. In election year, that's something that should concern us all.

Click HERE to read the full text of Prof Jones's lecture.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 February 2010 )

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 )

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 )

Happy Chinese New Year!

Hope sends new year wishes to all of our Chinese students and to everyone at our partner university Sun Yat-sen in Guangzhou.

Here Hope students Mengmeng Wu, Kai Du and Hongru Li celebrate the new Chinese year of the tiger (with International Recruitment manager Nancy Cooke).

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 17 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 )

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