17.07.2003
The University of Brighton will give honorary degrees to four citizens who have made an outstanding contribution to public life and to education at the university.
The citations will be made at ceremonies at the Brighton Centre on Thursday 31 July and Friday 1 August. The awards will be given to:
Baron
Ouseley of Peckham Rye in the London Borough of Southwark - Honorary Doctor
of Letters
Lord Ouseley (right) was the Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality
between 1993 and 2000 and is renowned as a fervent promoter of equality, equity
and diversity within organisations. Before joining the CRE, he spent 30 years
in local government becoming Director of Education and Chief Executive of the
Inner London Education Authority until its demise and then Chief Executive
of the London Borough of Lambeth in 1990. He was knighted in 1997 and ennobled
in 2001 for services to local government and community relations.
Lord Ouseley is the Managing Director of Different Realities Partnership Ltd, which specialises in organisational development, people management, executive coaching and the incorporation of fair treatment policies and practices within organisations. He has contributed to staff development seminars on equality of opportunity at the university.
He is involved with a very wide range of charitable and voluntary organisations including the Council for Ethnic Minority Voluntary Organisations, the Ethnic Minority Foundation and the Institute of Race Relations. He has been Chairman of: the Policy Research Institute on Ageing and Ethnicity at Bradford University; Kick It Out Ltd (the campaign to kick racism out of football); PRESET Education and Training Trust; the Princes Trust Ethnic Minorities Advisory Committee and the Caribbean Advisory Group for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Dame
Sheila Wallis DBE - Honorary Master of Arts
Dame Sheila Wallis (right), a graduate of the Chelsea College of Physical Education
(1964), has had an impressive career as a teacher covering 38 years, including
21 years as Deputy Head and Headteacher at Davison CE High School for Girls,
in Worthing.
During her time as Headteacher, Sheila introduced a significant number of initiatives which resulted in a 67% increase in pupil numbers and the GCSE pass rate increasing from 31% A to C pass to 75%. Under Dame Sheila’s leadership Davison CE High School’s many achievements have been recognised through numerous awards such as the International Schools Award, Beacon of Excellence Award and Sportsmark Gold.
Two initiatives (the Expert Trail and Cover Supervision programmes for the delivery of Continuing Professional Development) were followed closely by the Government and included in the White Paper "Schools Achieving Success".
Her commitments outside Davison included membership of the West Sussex Headteachers’ Executive and being invited by the Education Management South East Consortium to train candidates for the new national qualification for headteachers.
Dame Sheila has been honoured for her contribution to education in the local region and beyond, through being awarded the honour of Dame of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2002) and the Lifetime Achievement Award in the BT Teaching Awards (2002). Now retired, amongst other projects, she is currently working with a University of Cambridge colleague on two research projects concerned with learning development.
Judge
Michael Kennedy - Honorary Fellowship of the University of Brighton
Judge Michael Kennedy (right) was an independent member of the university’s
Board of Governors from July 1993 to August 2002. He also served on the board’s
Student Affairs Committee, Nominations Committee, Student Appeals Committee
and the Governance Review Group.
He has been particularly interested in the university’s work in student services and music, and is a member of the university choirs. He established close links with the Law Group within the Brighton Business School and was instrumental in forging links between the Law Groups of the universities of Brighton and Sussex and with the local branch of the Law Society.
Judge Kennedy was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, served in the 15/19 King’s Royal Hussars (1955-57) and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1961. He has been a Circuit Judge since 1984 and a Designated Civil Judge for Sussex since 1999. Judge Kennedy continues his close association with the university through a range of cultural and academic activities.
Professor
Norbert Lynton - Honorary Doctor of Letters
Norbert Lynton (right) became Professor of the History of Art at the University
of Sussex in 1975 having held previous academic appointments at Leeds College
of Art and Chelsea School of Art. He held a visiting professorship at the Open
University and was visiting tutor in painting at the Royal College of Art.
His own higher education took place at the University of London where he studied at Birkbeck College and the Courtauld Institute. He was the London Correspondent of Art International between 1961 and 1966 and art critic of the Guardian 1965-1970.
Norbert was Director of Exhibitions at the Arts Council of Great Britain between 1970 and 1975; a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery for fourteen years until 1999; and has been Chairman of the Charleston Trust since 1998. He has been responsible for many prestigious exhibitions and catalogues including, in New York, Mark Vaux in 1989 and Victor Pasmore in 1959 and in Japan, Ben Nicholson during 1992/93.
He was responsible for the British Council Henry Moore exhibition in Delhi
in 1987, for Picturing People in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Singapore during
1989/90 and for a further Henry Moore exhibition during 1991 and 1992 in Leningrad,
Moscow and Helsinki. Norbert Lynton is the author of many books on the arts
and has contributed significantly to the scholarly arts and architecture press.
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