NCUP through its affiliation to HEPI has pleasure in extending the following invitation to all members: 2018 HEPI Annual Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, Tuesday 27th November 2018 from 6 p.m. Global Africa: Nelson Mandela and the meaning of decolonizing knowledge and universities – problems and opportunities Professor Ihron[…]
Read More »Professor Janet Wilson’s coedited collection of essays (with Dr Gerri Kimber), Re-forming World Literature; Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Short Story, was published in April 2018 by Ibidem–Verlag Press in their Studies in World Literature series. It features articles by renowned Mansfield and modernist scholars like Enda Duffy, Maurizia Boscagli,[…]
Read More »Professor Kenneth Eaton of the Centre for Professional Practice has received a Publons Peer Review Award 2018 in the category of Clinical Medicine. He was placed 91=. out of 10,000 peer reviewers, in this category, on Publons’ global reviewer database, determined by the number of peer review reports performed during[…]
Read More »Professor Janet Wilson (University of Northampton), Vice-President of NCUP, was recently an invited keynote speaker at a three day UGC and ISSR (India) sponsored international seminar held from 11 to 13 July in India on “Modern /postmodern literature in English: the urge for becoming”. Her topic was “Vulnerable Bodies: Post-9/11[…]
Read More »Professor Emeritus Rosemary Davis CBE, a Life Member and Fellow of NCUP, originally trained as a teacher at Goldsmiths College, University of London, specialising in Early Years and Primary Education. She became a headteacher of three separate schools for children aged 4 – 7 years, adding qualifications from Cambridge and[…]
Read More »Recently, Professors Terence Davis and Janet Wilson, President and Vice-President of NCUP, made contact with the Higher Education think-tank HEPI and discussed ways of working with them in future. HEPI’s administrator, Sarah Isles, informs us that NCUP members can access their publications and reports on tertiary education which are produced[…]
Read More »Alison, Professor The Baroness Wolf of Dulwich, addressed the National Conference of University Professors (NCUP)and other guests at a lunch at the House of Lords on 16th May. The topic of her talk was ‘British Universities as International Institutions: Are They Under Threat?’ Baroness Wolf pointed out that the British[…]
Read More »NCUP Council member, Professor Christina Preston was on the Steering Committee of the 2nd Future Ed Tech Conference held in London on June 15-16th. Professor Margaret Cox (Immediate Past President of NCUP) also spoke at this very large Future Ed Technology 2-day conference in London. She chaired a Round Table[…]
Read More »Roger Watson Professor of Nursing University of Hull Most professors are seasoned workaholics and the concept of ‘spare’ time often does not exist. I’m no exception and that is not a badge of honour; it’s a distraction from family life and from other interests. My spare time – such as[…]
Read More »Prof Patricia Reynolds, Professor Emeritus, King’s College London Seven members of NCUP led by President, Prof Terence Davis OBE, and Immediate Past President, Prof Margaret Cox OBE, tackled the theme of ‘Transformation in Education’ at the recent 15th Innovations in Education Colloquium. The international Colloquium was generously hosted by the[…]
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