Newsletter - Online
Issue 4
September 2002

Contents

Editorial | Articles | Subject Centre News & Events | Information & Notices

Editorial

Editorial
Professor Philip Martin, Director, English Subject Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Articles

What will English Be?
Rick Rylance is Professor of Modern English Literature and Dean of the School of Arts and Letters at Anglia Polytechnic University. He is the current Chair of the Council for College and University English (CCUE). Here he gives an extensive survey and consideration of the future of English in higher education.
Now Read This
Dr Jo Gill of the University of the West of England and Dr Alan Brown of the University of Gloucestershire raise some fundamental questions about what, and how much, students of English read.
Using the Full Range
In the first of two articles for this Newsletter, Dr Martin Coyle, Chair of English Literature at Cardiff University, offers a personal reflection on marking ranges.
Mission Impossible?
Dr Sean Matthews, Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia, discusses the changing role of the British Council, looking at its work in support of the subject community in the UK and abroad, and reports from the major, Council-sponsored, regional conference in Budapest, ‘Transmissions: Theory, Research and Teaching in British Literary and Cultural Studies in Europe’.
Why do Lecturers use C&IT in their Teaching?
Frances Condron, Project Officer of ASTER (Assisting Small Group Teaching through Electronic Resources) reviews the outcomes of the project.
The Ghosts of TQA
In the second of two articles for this Newsletter, Dr Martin Coyle, Chair of English at Cardiff University, rattles some ghostly chains.
Prize Winning Student Essays

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Subject Centre News & Reports

Our New Website
Dr Michael Hanrahan, Project Officer: C&IT, and Mr Brett Lucas, IT Project Assistant, both of the English Subject Centre, King’s College, University of London
Examining External Examining
Jane Gawthrope, Manager of the English Subject Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London
Part-Time Teaching: Developing a Generic and Subject-Specific Pathway to ILT Associate Membership
Dr Siobhán Holland, Project Officer, Academic Liaison and Research, English Subject Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London
Further Work on English Graduate Careers
Jane Gawthrope, Manager, English Subject Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London
Curriculum and Teaching Survey
Jane Gawthrope, Manager, English Subject Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London
The English Subject Centre’s IT Project
Dr Michael Hanrahan, Project Officer: C&IT, English Subject Centre, King’s College, University of London.
Student Book Reviews
Michael Warren, Lisa Shahriari and Sarah Lock present their reviews of English texts.

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Information and Notices

The Windmills Programe
Behind the Acronym: RSS
C&IT in English Roadshows: Autumn 2002
English: The Condition of the Subject
Our International conference - July 2003

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