But the most radical was to take the university's highbrow public lecture programme and turn it into the type of mutual engagement she had in mind.
"We have assembled an incredible lecture programme and we have extraordinarily interesting people on board and we think we could put our arms around a school," he said.
It claimed that the passengers, who paid up to £13,000 each for the two-week trip, were "enjoying the regularly scheduled lecture programme" while they waited to be rescued or dislodged at high tide.
Check-lists of possible speakers for a lecture programme Fitzgerald is organising are kept on the outside flap of a dog-eared manila file; notes for a review are scribbled sideways on an official notice from BT; the year's appointments are put in, with many loops and arrows and squiggles, all over a series of small wall calendars.
His research interests includes synthesis and modification of polymers, nanomaterials/composites, functional polymers, drug delivery, wound management, tissue engineering, food preservation, etc., He has about 200 papers published in national and international journals, 18 book articles/chapters, and delivered 20 hours video-lecture programme, and prepared 18 course module.
In addition a formal lecture programme is delivered and library facilities are provided for independent learning.
The On-going Assessment forms from the lecture programme were collated so that each of the 11 categories could be evaluated for the lecture series as a whole.
A public lecture programme in Japan, on the topic of home-based end of life care [ 45, 46] was attended by 607 people, although the lectures were combined with regional public meetings on other topics.
But in his letter to the BBC, the Speaker said: "I would like to be reassured that the plan to remove all other original programming from the channel – including lectures, studio programmes and films – and reduce it to a bare feed of chambers and committees, is now also under review.
It has been suggested that physicians get most from CME if their learning is self-directed and derived from true-life clinical settings [ 32] difficult to achieve in a lecture-based programme, but more realistic with TBL.
