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  • Academic Administrator
    May 21, 2013

    £37,382 - £44,607 per annum

    Applications are invited for the role of Academic Administrator at Worcester College, Oxford. The post will be responsible for leading and managing the Academic Office, which is responsible for the coordination and administration of the College’s academic activities and student-related matters. The department’s work is varied and stimulating, and pride is taken in the delivery of high levels of service to academic staff, undergraduates, graduates, prospective students and alumni.

    We are seeking a creative and practical manager, qualified to degree level, who possesses significant experience in the area of academic administration. There is the requirement to assimilate complex information and regulations, as well as to evaluate and improve on existing processes through first-hand knowledge of other academic management systems. The ability to establish relationships with individuals at all levels is essential, as is a proven record of people management in the academic support environment. In addition, excellent administrative, office computing and organisational skills are crucial to success in this varied and intensive role. Experience of the Oxford or Cambridge collegiate system, as well as in admissions/outreach activities, would be advantageous. 

    Further particulars and information about how to apply may be downloaded by following the links below. The closing date for applications is noon on Thursday 20 June 2013, with interviews anticipated to take place during the week of 1 July 2013.

    Worcester College is an equal opportunities employer.

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    Download Application Cover Form

    Download Recruitment Monitoring Form

  • The Merchant of Venice: the Buskins Garden Show on the Worcester College Lake
    May 16, 2013

    Full details are available from: www.shakespeareonthelake.co.uk

    Tuesday 4th - Saturday 8th June, with evenings performances every day at 8pm, and matinees on the Thursday at 2.30pm and on the Saturday at 12.30pm.

    Tickets £12/£8 concessions (students & under 18s)

    In the case of wet weather, the production will take place either in the College Chapel or the College Hall.  Since these venues have a smaller capacity than the gardens - although equally stunning - only enough tickets as these venues can accommodate will be sold online prior to each performance.  If the weather is fine, extra tickets will therefore be available and will be sold at the Box Office shortly before each performance is due to begin.

  • Fixed-Term Lectureship in Law
    May 10, 2013

    Applications are invited for a fixed-term lectureship in Law at Worcester College, tenable for one year from 1 October 2013.  The lecturer will be required to teach Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and EU Law for up to 10 hours per week during term for the College. The lecturer will also be expected to assist with the administration of law studies at Worcester College, including participation in the admissions process and undertaking the pastoral care of students.

    The successful candidate will have a single or joint honours degree in Law. Stipend will be in the range £20,638 – £23,212 p.a., according to qualifications and experience. The lecturer will be entitled to the use of a teaching room in Worcester College, and to senior common room membership, with free lunches and dinners.

    Further particulars and information about how to apply may be downloaded below or obtained from the Academic Administrator, Worcester College, Oxford, OX1 2HB (academic.administrator@worc.ox.ac.uk, tel: +44 (0)1865 278342). The closing date for applications, including receipt of references, is noon on Friday 7 June 2013. Informal enquiries may be made to the Academic Administrator.

    Worcester College is an equal opportunities employer.

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    Download Application Cover Form

    Download Recruitment Monitoring Form

  • Press Release, 25 May 2012
    May 25, 2012

    Worcester College Oxford announces the endowment of The Asa Briggs Fellowship in the Humanities

    The Provost, Fellows and Scholars of Worcester College are delighted to announce the endowment of the Asa Briggs Fellowship in the Humanities, thanks to an enormously generous benefaction from John Sainsbury (Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover, KG), an Old Member who has already given significant  support to both the College and the University.

    Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs of Lewes, celebrated his ninetieth birthday last year, but he still remains active as a historian and writer. Having served at Bletchley Park during the war, he was Fellow in History at Worcester College before becoming Professor of Modern History at Leeds, founding Professor and Dean of the School of Social Studies and then Vice-Chancellor at Sussex, and Chancellor of the Open University. He returned to Worcester as Provost in 1976. His historical writings, ranging from many books on the Victorians to the authoritative history of the BBC, are extraordinarily well known and highly regarded.

    Provost Jonathan Bate explained the nature of the Asa Briggs Fellowship: “Asa Briggs is a true polymath – he took an Economics degree by correspondence simultaneously with his History degree and for a time he taught all three elements of PPE at Worcester, so it seemed to me that a fitting tribute would be a Fellowship in ‘the Humanities’ as opposed to a specific discipline: it will reflect his own extraordinary academic range, between history, economics, the history of political thought, public policy and for that matter Victorian literature and even, in a sense, via his work on broadcasting, the new field of ‘media studies’. We do not know how disciplines will evolve, and in what Humanities areas there will be the need for endowed tutorial fellowships in thirty, fifty, a hundred years’ time. Thus the Asa Briggs Fellowship in the Humanities will endure and evolve, with the capacity to be reassigned to new or needy disciplines when an existing holder retires or leaves.”

    Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover, KG, said that he was especially keen not only to honour the former Provost and his friend but also to give support to the Humanities at a time when their funding was under great strain.

    Lord Briggs said: “I am deeply honoured by the outstandingly generous endowment of this Fellowship in the Humanities by my old pupil and friend John, Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover, K.G., to whom the College owes so much. I love Worcester College dearly, having spent 25 years of my academic life there: first, ten years as a Fellow from 1945 to 1955, and later, as Provost from 1976 to 1991. I am still writing and I shall follow with interest the evolution of the Fellowship which reflects my own span of interests.”

    ENDS

    For further information, contact:

    Coleen Day
    Director of Development
    Worcester College
    Oxford OX1 2HB
    Coleen.Day@worc.ox.ac.uk
    Tel. 01865 278346
    Fax 01865 288322

  • Press Release - 28th February 2012
    February 28, 2012

    NEW LECTURE THEATRE AND KITCHENS – MAJOR DONATIONS AND APPOINTMENT OF ARCHITECTS

    Worcester College is pleased to announce that plans for a new lecture theatre and kitchens are moving forward.   In February 2011 the College, together with the Royal Institute of British Architects, launched an architectural competition that attracted over 100 submissions.    Rick Mather Architects, whose most notable projects in Oxford include the magnificent expansion of the Ashmolean Museum, two academic buildings for Keble College and an auditorium for Corpus Christi, are now working with the College on this exciting project, which will transform its facilities for the benefit of fellows, students, staff and visitors.

    This has been made possible by the enormous generosity of two Old Members.  Firstly, Sir Timothy Sainsbury, a supporter of the College for many years, had the foresight to recommend the architectural competition and agreed to fund it through the Headley Foundation.  The Foundation has continued to support the project by pledging a further £1.5m.  Sir Timothy said: “Rick Mather has produced a brilliant design, which blends well with the existing college buildings.  It provides all the facilities that we hoped to obtain, including as a bonus, a link to the Junior Common Room”.

    A second major donation came from HRH Raja Dr Nazrin Shah, the Crown Prince of Perak, who studied PPE at Worcester in 1976.  He holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University.  His Royal Highness has donated £5m, the largest single gift in the history of the College.  HRH Raja Dr. Nazrin Shah said: “ I am very pleased to be able to help the College with this project, which I understand will be a major element in marking its 300th anniversary.  I look forward to playing a continuing role in the life of the College”.

    Provost Jonathan Bate said: “This building will give us the opportunity to host events and high profile lectures that will bring Worcester to the heart of Oxford’s public intellectual life, while new catering arrangements will add further to our terrific sense of community. The College is extraordinarily grateful to these most munificent of donors, and I wish to express my personal thanks to my predecessor, Dick Smethurst, for fostering these relationships.”

    The College is currently working with local planners and anticipates that building will commence in early July 2013.  In the meantime, fundraising continues as the overall target for the project is in the region of £10m.

  • The Wigmore Benefaction and the University Teaching Fund
    August 12, 2011

    The preservation of the tutorial system is a shared priority for the College and the University and as Oxford faces a series of steep budget cuts in the years ahead the importance of securing funding, particularly for academic posts has become a real priority.

    Barrie Wigmore, who came to Worcester in 1964 to read PPE, and his wife, Deedee, saw an opportunity through the creation of the Oxford Teaching Fund to endow in perpetuity three tutorial Fellowships in History, Economics and Philosophy.  Their donation of £3.6 million, combined with £2.4 million from the Teaching Fund, amounts to a total gift of £6 million.

    The College is immensely grateful to the Wigmores for their gift and for their enthusiasm for and continuing support of the College.  This is a superb benefaction.  As Barrie (a former pupil of the recently retired Provost Richard Smethurst) said “Deedee and I are delighted to be able to support the College and Oxford in this way, in the hope that future generations of students will be able to benefit from its incomparable tutorial system”.


    Barrie and Deedee with recently retired Provost Richard Smethurst (centre) signing the contract

  • Election of New Provost
    June 30, 2011

    Jonathan BateThe College is pleased to announce the election of Professor Jonathan Bate as Provost, to take office in the summer of 2011 on the retirement of Mr Richard Smethurst, who has been Provost since 1991.

    Jonathan Bate, born in 1958, was educated at Sevenoaks School and St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature. After completing his doctorate, he was a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was appointed King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool in 1990. Since 2003, he has been Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick.

    Well known as a critic, biographer and broadcaster, Jonathan Bate has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA. Among his books are a biography of Shakespeare, Soul of the Age, and a history of his fame, The Genius of Shakespeare. He is on the Board of the Royal Shakespeare Company and was chief editor of the RSC edition of Shakespeare’s Complete Works. His biography of the poet John Clare won Britain’s two oldest literary awards, the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Prize. His one-man play for Simon Callow, The Man from Stratford, is currently on national tour. A Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, he was made CBE in the Queen’s 80th Birthday Honours.

    Commenting on his election Jonathan Bate said “I am surprised, honoured and delighted to be asked to lead one of Oxford’s loveliest and friendliest colleges through the challenging years that everyone in higher education is about to face. My top priority will be the preservation of Oxford’s distinctive tutorial system, while ensuring that access to the College is available to students of high potential, whatever their background. To achieve that goal we will need the support of all the College’s Old Members and friends, as we plan a campaign of renewal leading up to Worcester’s tercentenary in 2014.”

    Photograph by Eamonn McCabe.

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