Some of the activities involved in university staff development are discussed in this speech. Trends toward larger institutions, greater accountability of students, and greater cost effectiveness are cited as influences on institutional changes. Those changes include new legal issues, new management skills, new courses and new approaches to…

In the past 20 years, linguistics has gained a prominent position in speech and language pathology in Britain, evolving into a new field, clinical linguistics. It includes three related areas of activity: training of speech pathologists/therapists; professional practice; and research. Linguistics and speech/language pathology have developed as…