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Faculty of Communication Aut '86-Summer '88

Correspondence and advertising copy for course advertisements in newspapers and other publications. Includes short courses in radio, film, television, photography and video, including Training in Radio Journalism for Afro-Caribbeans and Asians, as well as Cultural and Community Studies Unit courses including Playspace.

Includes a copy of Free Transformer: New Lifestyle for Changing Times Quarterly No 15 (Summer 87) containing adverts for courses in alternative medicine, health and healing and personal growth.

Cultural & Community Studies Unit, American Studies, Short courses Advertising Autumn '83-Summer '84

Correspondence and advertising copy for course advertisements in newspapers and other publications. Includes short courses in Eurythmy, Psychology and Film, Women's Studies, American studies, Black Women in Britain conference, exhibition programme, strategies for Socialism, Playspace, London Thriller and Writers' Workshop.

Dissent: produced by students of the Centre for Communications

Magazine produced by PCL students. Includes articles on Magic by Lee Francis, the Dole by Colin McGhee, Veganism by Elen Jones, Red Ladder Theatre by Pamela Baldwin, The Black Panthers by Ancent Kaolki, the Aetherius Society by Steve Lavers, Radical Alternatives to Prison by Elen Jones, St Edward's House monastery by Michael Keep.

Staff Handbook

Includes:

Preface: by Mary Commons, August 1984.
The Polytechnic: History of the Polytechnic, The Polytechnic Today, Polytechnic Policies, Funding, The Students' Union, Management Structure, Committees
Matters relating to your employment: Notes on consultancy, equal opportunties, loans, maternity leave, personal accident insurance, Health & Safety, Staff development
Information You may Need in Your Work: Buildings and sites, communications, placing orders and making bookings, finance office procedures, publicity, reprographic facilities, learning support services, short courses, course approval and validation, information technology, research, student welfare.
Facilities and Services for personal use: Bars and restauarnts; car parks; counselling, advice and medical services; first aid; library; nursery; opportunites for study; recereation and sport.
Supplementary Information: Court of Governors - present membership; executive structure; academic structure and links with the executive; Polytechnic policies [anti-racist, computing, equal opportunities, research, staff development]; faculties and schools; finance office; first aiders; restauarnts and bars; van schedule; who's who and where [staff list].
Map of Polytechnic building locations on reverse.

Comb-bound volume, 82 pages.

"Going Local?" No. 2

Front cover feature: Decentralising instutitional racism. Articles include: 'Opening time' (Islington/Editorial) by Edward Pilkington [opening of Islington's first neighbourhood office by Neil Kinnock]; The paradox of patch (Patch Social Services) by Peter Beresford; Challenging Training by Nina Dawes; Sharing Power: popular planning and the GLC by Hilary Wainwright; 'Treating them all the same' - decentralising institutional racism by Herman Ouseley; Job and industry - an area based approach by Alison West; Sacrificing the Unions - who shot NALGO? by Ivan Beavis; Area committees - first stage to decentralisation? by Nick Bailey; Update - Tower Hamlets by Gillian Beckett; Getting the show on the road - local Housing in lambeth by Shelagh Shannon; book reviews.

"Going Local?" No. 9

Articles include: Round-up: Reading; Basildon by Jan White; In search of excellence: lessons from America's best-run companies by Martin Tomlinson; Review of 'PEP Guide to Local Housing Management' by Dept of Environment; Community social work: the aims and some of the issues by Chris Melotte; Patch-based social services: in the news again by Peter Beresford; Decentralisation in Lambeth by Wendy Hayhurst and Mark Howarth; Metropolitan Housing Trust by Tony Shoults; Community Councils in Glasgow: the first ten years by Tom Duncan; Black needs, black concerns by Sabes Sugunafabefan; Review of 'Breaking with Bureaucracy' by Robin Murray; Councils in crisis: a strategy for change by Danny Burns.

School of the Environment: Short Courses

Booklet listing brief details for short full-time postgraduation courses, including:

Full-time day courses, mostly lasting from 2-5 days:
Computer Aided Design for Part III Professional Practice in Architecture Students; Project Management for Students; Arbitrations; Site Appraisal and Project Design for University of Reading: Department of Land Management; Design and Connections in Structural Steelwork; Senior Architects Project Management; Atria Landscape: Design, Implementation and Maintenance; Building Maintenance; Urban Management; House Purchase - the Proper Way; Staff Development for Building Teachers; Urban Development Operations; Airport Economics and Finance; Bridge Design (BS5400); Urban Policy integration and Implementation; CIOB Final Part 3 Examination; Housing for Single People; Planning for Lorries; Public Transport Information Tecnology; Professional Negligence; Institute of Structural Engineers; Urban Design group: Annual Seminar; Maintaining Transport Infrastructure; Pilot Certificate Course for Para legals; CIOB Certificate of Competence in Site Surveying' CIOB Certificate of Competence in Computing; Use of Computer for Quantity Surveyors.

Part-time evening courses:
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; Certificate in Estate Agency; Cost Control and Building Economics; Limit State Steelwork Design; Tall Building Design; Construction Management in Practice; Writing and Technical Reporting for the Constrcution Industry; Professional Practice Up-Date for Planners; The Countryside - Threats and Opportunities; Planning for Local Services; Town Planning and Building Law; Building Maintenance; Structural Design for technicians; Planning for a non-working Future; Planning and Ethnic Minorities; Planning and Women's Needs; Foundation Design in reinforced Concrete; Composite Structures Design; Structural Timber Design; Designing Silos. Includes the Habitat Forum series.

Cultural and Community Studies: Courses, Conferences and Activities

Includes a list of staff within the School of Communication, Cultural and Communication Studies Unit. Events are organised by subject including: Afro-American Studies, American Studies, Literature, Philosophy, Elements of Marxism, Music and the Handicapped Adult, Women's Studies, Soho Poly Theatre Club, Exhibitions.

The cover shows the PCL Production of 'The Zoo Story' and 'Dorothea Quarry' from a PCL exhibition.

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