DR GLADYS MODWYN CICELY HARDING - FORMER SLGS TEACHER, LECTURER AND FIRST FEMALE VICE PRINCIPAL OF FBC GONE (AGE 96)

MADAM GLASYS MODYN CICELY HARDING (nee VINCENT) PhD, passed away peaceful  at her residence  in Croydon , Surrey, UK. (Aged 96)

 Dr Gladys Harding was a former  teacher at the Sierra Leone  Grammar School in the early 1960s. Students who were in school at Fourahbay Road  and Murray Town between 1961 to 1964 may remember her. She was our English and Latin teacher, a replacement for Mrs Yarnold who taught Classical Latin and Greek and English. Mr Yarnold retired from Milton Margai Teachers College and Mrs Yarnold also had to go. However, Mrs Harding soon left to do her Masters in the USA shortly after and on her return to Sierra Leone, became a Lecturer and later, the First Female Vice Principal at FBC. But she kept a link with the Grammar School and supervised Oral English at the then Jiont School Certificate/GCSE Examinations when Sierra Leone started assessing the GCE West African School Certificate Exams under Dr Davidson Nicol’s headship. Dr Harding then became a Lawyer and obtained her PhD when she was 80 years old. She lived in Croydon Surrey in the UK. She was the elder sister of the late Dr Christian Vincent and late Mr Arthur Vincent and their sister Adela Johnson (née Vincent). She was an AWOGAN having entered the Annie Walsh in 1932. She was a great inspiration to many; one particular mentee being Dr. Nemata Majex Walker (nee Kai Kumba) of 50/50 womens’ equality group, author of “From  Valley to Hilltop”. https://commonwealthwomensvoices.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/nemata-majeks-walker/

My deepest condolences to her daughters and family. Funeral arrangements later.  May she Rest In Peace.

P.S: In the 1968 book Freetown: A Symposium, edited by the Historian Professor Christopher Fyfe and Dr Eldred Jones, Dr Harding wrote Chapter TEN (10) “Education in Freetown” Tracing Education all the way back to 1791 when the Sierra Leone Company supervised the Colony, even before colonisation by the British Government and the Church Mission: ‘The Society for Missions to Africa and the East’ later known as the Church Missionary Society. A very informative and educational piece. Other contributors include Justice COE Cole, S A J Pratt etc.

THE WORLD'S ECONOMY IS IN CONFUSION - WHO KNOWS THE REALY TRUTH?- NOT EVEN THE GREAT ONES!1

Keynes v Hayek: Two economic giants go head to head

Lending rates hit all time highs.

Banks are squeezing households by record amounts with high interest rates on overdrafts, mortgages and credit cards, despite the Bank of England base rate being at an all-time low.

Figures from the Bank of England (BoE) show that the gap between the interest being charged on the average mortgage and the central bank’s base rate of 0.5 per cent are the highest since records began in January 1995 Photo: REX FEATURES

 

Figures from the Bank of England (BoE) show that the gap between the interest being charged on the average mortgage and the central bank’s base rate of 0.5 per cent are the highest since records began in January 1995.

The average lending rate on overdrafts is 19.5 per cent, also the highest since comparable records started.

Credit card holders are also being hit. The average interest rate being charged on credit cards is 17.3 per cent, the highest for 11 years, the BoE said.

Experts accused banks of profiteering at a time when lending rates should be low. The BoE’s base rate has been at its current low rate for three years.

Lord McFall of Alcluith, the former chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, said that the public are losing trust in the banking sector.

  

WHO KNOWS THE REAL TRUTH?

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14366054

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Economists - John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)

Keynes is perhaps one of the best known of all economists. This is hardly surprising for two main reasons. The first is that his work was perhaps the most important work that had been done for decades and changed the whole face of post-war economic policy. The second, more flippant reason for his fame is that he is perhaps the only economist to have a whole branch of economics named after him. Though it would be nice to argue that Milton Keynes was named in tribute to the work of two great economists - Milton Friedman and John Maynard Keynes - it would be totally untrue! So Keynes remains the only person to be honoured in this way.
His main contribution to the economics debate of the time was in putting together a coherent critique of the existing classical economic theory that dominated policy-making circles. Keynes' father was an economist and his mother was Mayor of Cambridge for some time.
Keynes went to Eton (as a scholar) and then went on to King's College Cambridge to study Classics and Maths. He worked for a short time in the Civil Service but didn't like it much, and so left and went back to Cambridge as a Fellow. In 1911 he was made editor of the Economic Journal - Britain's foremost economics publication.
He was a varied character - not at all the stereotypical economist of people's assumptions. He married a Russian ballerina and was for much of his time a member of the Bloomsbury Group - a group of intellectuals whose ranks included well-known names such as Virginia Woolf, E.M.Forster and Bertrand Russell. He speculated considerably and as Bursar of King's College made the college very rich! He also acted as an advisor to a number of companies. In the Second World War he made his peace again with the Treasury. As a result he was instrumental in providing the framework for post-war economic recovery.

Economists - Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)

Hayek, like Friedman and most other Monetarists was a great believer in free markets. Also like Friedman Hayek was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. This was given jointly with another economist called Myrdal in 1974 - just after Friedman received his Nobel prize. However, there the similarity ends - initially. Hayek, as you can guess from his name is Austrian and so is often considered as being a part of the 'Austrian school'. He was a passionate opponent to Socialism and along with another economist called Ludwig von Mises formed the Mont Pelerin Society. This society was pledged to give individuals the freedom to make their own economic choices and campaigned to make people aware of the dangers of Socialism.
Hayek was born in Vienna and from 1927 until 1931 was Director of the Austrian Institute for Economic Research. However, he was then drawn to the English-speaking academic world initially at the London School of Economics, but then at the University of Chicago from 1950 until 1962. Here the Monetarist connection becomes clear, as the Chicago School of Monetarists at Chicago University was where Friedman was based.
Hayek returned to Austria as a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Salzburg in 1969. For more details on his work and theories follow the links below.