Liverpool Hope University News Feed http://www.hope.ac.uk Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:07:37 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.hope.ac.uk/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.hope.ac.uk Liverpool Hope University News Feed http://www.hope.ac.uk/frontpage-news/hope-professor-to-call-for-single-university-sector-watchdog.html 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. Full details of Professor Brown's speech are available at: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26 storycode=410296 c=2 (http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26 storycode=410296 c=2) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:08:38 +0100 http://www.hope.ac.uk/frontpage-news/shakespeare-lecture-series-continues.html 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 millsm@hope.ac.uk Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:29:14 +0100 http://www.hope.ac.uk/frontpage-news/inaugural-lecture-professor-bill-jones.html 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 events@hope.ac.uk Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:26:28 +0100 http://www.hope.ac.uk/frontpage-news/professor-bernard-jackson-featured-speaker-at-new-york-conference-2.html 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. Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:47:32 +0100 http://www.hope.ac.uk/frontpage-news/hope-signs-up-for-carbon-trust-programme.html Liverpool Hope's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gerald Pillay has signed the University Leaders’ statement of intent on sustainable development; ensuring that the University responds to and meets the challenges of sustainable development. To engage with the 5th Challenge, Hope is to be part of the Carbon Trust’s Higher Education Carbon Management Programme. An initial ten month ‘start up' phase will provide assistance so that the University can create a Carbon Management Plan (CMP). HEFCE, which funds higher education in England, has announced that institutions will be required to have a CMP by 2011 and will link the performance of the institution against its CMP to the capital funding it receives. Within the first ten months, the University is expected to develop its own carbon reduction targets based on their circumstances and ambitions in line with the targets set by the Climate Change Act 2008. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:10:17 +0100