Roles and permissions

Hi Everyone,

I am developing a theme and before you close this post, I know this isnt the theme forum...

On my themes footer I have some icons which I only want my staff to see... I know I can do this with a simple php IF statement - but I want to do it with the criteria being if a user has a role of non-editing teacher or higher in a catagory called STAFF INFORMATION


I have looked at the has_capability() which I can sort of get working, but I need it to get the capability from another course, not the course which the user is currently on...

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance (I hope)

JR