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Making a break: the report on the TARDIS project - Davies, Brent; Kerry, Trevor; Hart, John; Catmull, John; Hansford, Susan; Dilley, Robert; Lewis , Bryn
This paper records the experimental approaches to school calendars and to school organisation that were tried by schools in the Time and Resource Distrubution in Schools (TARDIS) project, funded by the Funding Agency for Schools.
It particularly considers the five-term year and alternative ways of managing school plant to maximise the use of school buildings and resources.
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Responding to the vision of the information society: first steps towards a national virtual university. - Karran, Terence; Pohjonen, Juha
Executive Summary
1. There is confusion, both in academic circles and the public more generally, about the definition of a virtual university. Hence in considering such an option, it is worth looking more fundamentally at the contexts for higher education, and the functions of a National Virtual University equipped to meet the needs of the 21st Century.
2. The increase in the use of ICT has caused a radical increase in demand for higher education globally, and increased access to higher education via the use of ICT. New suppliers in the form of private and corporate universities, now compete with universities in...
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Future gazing: education for a changing world - Kerry, Trevor
This paper looks at the developments that will shape schools of the future. The view is longer-term - not five years but twenty years. The paper argues that schools have to keep pace with society, which changes faster than schools as institutions do. It argues for a more innovative approach to considering the education future and draws out some implications of change for the future shape of schools.
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Surviving the future: changing education in a changing world - Kerry, Trevor
This paper examines the trends that are driving education and schools as we move into the 21st century. There is some empirical data relating to students' views of the future
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The evolving role of classroom support - Kerry, Trevor; Kerry, Carolle; Beeson, Sue; Crouan, Louis
This overview of the developing role of the classroom assistant/member of support staff has three main themes. First, there is a discusion of the support role in relation to professionalism and the teaching profession. Second, the work looks at how support staff may tackle barriers ot learning in classrooms. Third, a case study of one LEA's practice is developed.
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Plowden: mirage, myth or flag of convenience? - Kerry, Trevor
This paper is a critical analysis of the Plowden legacy. It concludes that the Plowden Report was each of these things to respective audiences, but concludes that the story of Plowden is a 'sad story of an ill-deserved fate'
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Academic freedom: a research bibliography - Karran, Terence
A generic bibliography containing over 1000 references (books, journal articles, monographs, conference papers, reports, etc.) on the subject of academic freedom in higher education, from various countries (Australia, Canada, Europe, the UK and the USA, etc.) which cover (inter alia) the genesis and history of the concept, intellectual and artistic freedom, the legal interpretation of academic freedom, individual and institutional academic freedom, the responsibilities and duties associated with academic freedom, etc.
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On the merits of the Gaussian Mixture as a model for oriented edgel distributions - Assheton, Philip; Hunter, Andrew
The aim of this report is to establish the credibility of the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) as a model for the distributions of oriented edgels of rigid and biological objects in noisy images. This is tackled in two stages: first, the response of the Soble filter to noisy pixels is analysed to show that the result holds for smooth ridid objects. Second, arguments are presented to support the proposition that the model can also effectively capture the added uncertainty introduced by natural shape variation, as found in images of biological objects. The result has particular application in the extension of...
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Steeple Row: opportunities for enhancement - Marquez, Carlos
This research report was commissioned by East Cambridgeshire District Council and undertaken as research consultancy under by the Liveable Cities Research Group. It was produced as part of a wider urban design project aimed at improving the public spaces around Ely Cathedral in the City of Ely. The scheme, which particularly investigated the spatial design problems associated with the juxtaposition of the rear of High Street shops with the close surrounding the Heritage site of Ely Cathedral, was a participatory design initiative which sought to draw local people into the design process. This was done through a series of consultations...
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Quality Assurance in medical regulation in an international context - Allsop, Judith; Jones, Kathryn
The review examines quality assurance in medical regulation in seven countries: Australia (New South Wales); Canada (Ontario); Finland; France (Appendix One); the Netherlands; New Zealand and the USA (New York State). The aim is to describe how doctors’ continuing competence is maintained and assessed, how poor practice is detected and what action is taken. The introduction sets out the methods and defines
key terms. Detail on the countries can be found in each chapter.
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Key health & lifestyle areas: current rates & past trends
(For Government PSA targets arising from ‘Choosing Health’
white paper priorities) NSMC Report 12 - Kane, Ros; McVey, Dominic
This paper is part of work contributing to the independent National Review of healthrelated programmes and social marketing campaigns that was first announced as
part of the Public Health White Paper ‘Choosing Health’. The work was undertaken
by the National Social Marketing Centre and was published in June 2006.
The discussion and consultation that fed into the development of that White Paper had highlighted a number of concerns. Two of particular relevance to this work were:
• A growing realisation that continuing with existing methods and approaches
was not going to deliver the type of impact on key health-related behaviours
that was needed.
• Other comparable countries...
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Architectural paint research: exterior investigations [Major refurbishment, conservation and re-presentation programme of English Heritage Osborne House] - Crick, Ian [writing as Neilian C.]; Smith, Michael Geoffrey
As the premier historic property of English Heritage Osborne House was the focus of a major refurbishment, conservation and re-presentation programme. This coincided with the vacating of the property by the King Edward VII Convalescent Home for Naval and Military Officers in 2000.The research was primarily focused on the exterior of the property and on selected buildings and structures sited within the surrounding parkland. Over successive redecorations the intended colour palette for the house and associated buildings and also for the estate had been lost and was based upon ubiquitous mid green and modern white. In addition the house itself...
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Research into the decorative history of the painted surfaces of St. George the Martyr with particular attention to the identification of the earliest colour palette - Crick, Ian [writing as Neilian C.]; Smith, Michael Geoffrey
The present church of St George the Martyr, Southwark, London originates from 1736 when it was built to replace the previous C14th building. Subsequently, there have been several alterations; the most major being those undertaken in 1855 and 1897. This research project aims were to identify the earliest surviving decorative scheme, to record the full decorative history for the selected interiors investigated and to provide the client with an historic colour scheme to facilitate redecoration. The methodologies suitable for this investigation required an equal balance of primary and secondary sources, namely published and unpublished literature, on-site investigations and cross-section paint...
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Major refurbishment programme; investigations of the early paint schemes and decorative interiors [St Pancras Chambers, Euston Road, London] - Crick, Ian [writing as Neilian C.]; Smith, Michael Geoffrey
This iconic late 19th century building is currently being refurbished. The research undertaken by Crick Smith was to clarify the decorative history of the interior, its archaeological development and historic significance of the surviving interior decorative fabric. From the vast archive of period and later publications little factual evidence of interior decorative information exists. Therefore the investigations into the history and development of the decorative phases have been largely concluded from on-site investigations and cross-section analysis. To achieve valid conclusions an extensive series of paint samples was required. Meticulous cross referencing of the collective data enabled correlations to be drawn...
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Raising aspirations - Hay, Chris
This research project, funded by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), aimed to investigate the feasibility of establishing an architecture centre in Hull. This was done through an analysis of the social, physical and economic situation, the development of a programme and the legal and financial structures appropriate to support it, by: analysing perceived need through interaction with Local Authorities, community groups, educational providers, and regeneration agencies such as Citybuild and Yorkshire Forward; identifying and engaging cross sector regional partners in order to demonstrate that an architecture centre in Hull was viable; analysing existing architecture centres and...
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