READERS with long memories, especially former students of King Alfred’s College, the forerunner of Winchester University, will surely recall Martial Rose, principal of the college from 1967 to 1984. He died on January 30 after a short illness at the age of 98. Dynamic, creative, bold and inspiring, he did more than anyone to lead the institution through stern, challenging times in the late 1970s when higher education and teacher training were going through major reorganisation. Less ably led and less adaptable institutions in Southampton and Salisbury simply foundered. Not so King Alfred’s. Under Martial Rose’s guidance KAC successfully reinvented itself as a liberal arts college offering BA as well as BEd degrees and developed the firm foundations of what is now the innovative, research active and highly respected University of Winchester. It is entirely fitting that the university library bears his name.
Gareth Young speaking in Birmingham at a Young Teachers Consultation Conference in 2019
LauraYoung
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My husband, Gareth Young, who has died of an undiagnosed cardiovascular condition aged 46, was a teacher and trade unionist who had recently become deputy general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union.
He was born in Solihull to Mike Young, a local government officer, and Sandra (nee Robinson), a civil servant, and attended Smith’s Wood school in Solihull, a challenging experience that inspired him to dedicate his professional life to education and equality of opportunity and sparked a passion for lifelong learning.
Literary festival is poetry in motion A RECORD number of people have entered competitions at a Hampshire literary festival which is causing a stir all around the world. More than 3,000 pieces of work have been submitted for the 2004 Annual Writers Conference in Winchester next weekend. Conference director Barbara Large has been receiving scores of letters every day. Entries have been posted from as far afield as Hungary, Turkey, Kenya and the US. Writers send in their work under assumed names so judges can consider entries without prejudice. Pseudonyms being used this year include Dolly Daydream, Dyson Vortex, Gladys Glampot and Maureen O Shannigans.