Mostrando 2158 resultados

Lythe was Professor of Economic History, 1962-1976, Vice-Principal, 1972-1976, and Honorary Archivist,1977-1980, at the University of Strathclyde.

Lythe graduated with an MA from Selwyn College, Cambridge after which he was employed as a lecturer at the University of Hull. In 1935, he moved to Dundee School of Economics. During the Second World War he served in the RAF. After the war, he continued working at the Dundee School of Economics where he pioneered the teaching of economic history, publishing in 1950 the groundbreaking book 'British Economic History since 1760'.

In 1962, he was appointed to the first Chair of Economic History at the Royal College of Science and Technology in Glasgow. In 1963, there were only four other lecturers teaching alongside Lythe in the department. After the College gained University status in 1964 becoming the University of Strathclyde, Lythe strove to develop the department, for example introducing political history. In 1974, he obtained approval from the Senate and Court for a new degree course in Modern History. A new Chair was created and the department renamed the Department of History.

Lythe was appointed the first Dean of the School of Arts and Social Studies and served in this role for nine years. In 1972, he was appointed Vice Principal of the University. He retired in 1976. In 1977, he was appointed Honorary Archivist in which role he collected and established the University's historical collections. He served as Honorary Archivist until 1980.

In addition to his appointments at Strathclyde, Lythe was a founding member, in the 1960s, of the Abertay Historical Society. He also produced booklets on the history of Walkington, the village in which he grew up. He was a member of the Scottish Local History Council, Hamilton College of Education, the Scottish Field of Archaeology, and the Scottish Universities Summer School Committee.

He died in 1997.

Selected publications:

• 'British Economic History since 1760', 1950
• 'The Economy of Scotland in its European Setting 1550-1625', 1960
• 'The Economic History of Scotland 1100 to 1939', 1975
• 'A History of Dundee School of Economics', 1981 (Co author)

Scottish writer and author of the novel 'The Dear Green Place'.

Leading advocate of critical pedagogy.

The School of Further Education (SFE, later known as the Scottish School of Further Education) was established at Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow, in 1966. It was the exclusive, national provider of basic, in-service training for further education teachers, leading to the award of a Teaching Qualification (Further Education) and entitlement to registration with the General Teaching Council for Scotland. A purpose-built facility for the SFE was opened on the Jordanhill campus in 1973, incorporating a library, offices and audio-visual support as well as an interconnecting multi-storey hostel to accommodate students during the residential blocks of their course.

The Teaching Qualification (Further Education) course, which initially had three intakes each year, was of the ’sandwich’ type, consisting of two 8-week (later 10-week) blocks of full-time attendance at the SFE and two terms of supervised teaching practice in the trainee teachers’ own further education colleges in between. The course fees and subsistence costs were covered by the students’ employers. In 1986, the TQ(FE) course was revised and extended over five consecutive terms, each term incorporating a period of full-time attendance at the SPE. The revised course, which had two intakes per year, now included 276 hours of distance teaching/learning activities and 24 hours of tutorial visits to students at their place of employment. In 1994, the course was rewritten in terms of competencies and restructured for a modular pattern of delivery.

From session 1973-1974, the SPE also offered basic training courses for teachers of nursing, midwifery and other professions supplementary to medicine, and ran short courses and conferences to meet specific needs among further education staff. In 1988, with the agreement of the Scottish Education Department, the Governors of Jordanhill College changed the SPE’s name to the Scottish School of Further Education (SSPE).

In 1989, the SSPE introduced a flexible programme of modular, credit-bearing courses for continuing staff development in further education, leading to the award of certificates, diplomas and degrees in ‘Post School Education Studies.’ The Curriculum Advice and Support Team (CAST), set up at Jordanhill College of Education in 1985, was assimilated into the SSFE in 1987.

In 1993, Jordanhill College merged with the University of Strathclyde to become Strathclyde’s Faculty of Education. The Jordanhill campus was retained by the University, and the SSPE remained there as a distinct department of the Faculty of Education for the next ten years. In 2003, a restructuring of the Faculty of Education into five large departments saw the SSPE subsumed into the new Department of Educational and Professional Studies with effect from 1 August that year.

The Directors of the SFE/SSFE were William M. T. Mason (1966-1970), Dennis R. Griffiths (1970-1972), James Stark (1972-1983), Stuart M. Niven (1983-1997), David Taylor (1997- 1999), Ian J. Finlay (Head of Department, 1999-2001) and Anne E. Nicolson (Acting Head of Department, 2001-2002).

An independent, international academy founded in 1982 with the mission to advance knowledge of occupational and environmental health, prevent disease and save lives.

Charles Edward Donovan was an evening student in 1956-1957 on the Glasgow School of Management Studies Management Diploma Course, which was jointly run by the Scottish College of Commerce and the Royal College of Science and Technology. He obtained certificates in Economics, Human Relations and Psychology, Introduction to Management Principles, Analysis Techniques, Job Evaluation, Merit Rating and Incentives, and Work Measurement.

Donovan started a career in personnel at Rolls Royce in Glasgow. He moved to British Airways in 1958 and, in 1966, moved to the gas industry. In 1977, he was appointed Director of Industrial Relations at British Gas and, in 1981, Member for Personnel of the British Gas Corporation.

John Booth Davies was Director of the Centre for Applied Social Psychology at the University of Strathclyde from 1998 until 2011.

Gustav Jahoda established the Department of Psychology at the University of Strathclyde in 1963 and was Professor of Psychology from 1964 until 1985, before becoming Emeritus Professor.

Professor John Paul was one of the founders of the bioengineering unit at the University of Strathclyde and was head of the unit from 1977 until 1992. He was a pioneer of hip joint replacement technology. He was president of the International Society of Biomechanics from 1987 until 1990 and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Sir Thomas Martin Devine was head of the Department of History at the University of Strathclyde before becoming Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from 1992 until 1993. He served as Deputy Principal of the University from 1994 until 1998. He was knighted in 2014. He has held the position of University Research Professor in Scottish History and Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (RIISS) at the University of Aberdeen, as well as holding the position of Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh.