§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) which individuals and others have received support from the microelectronics education project: what was the scale of that support for the financial years 1980–81 and 1981–82; and to whom commitments have been made for 1982–83;
(2) if he will list in the Official Report those projects that have received support from the microelectronics education project with an indication of the scale of that support for the financial years (a) 1980–81 (b) 1981–82 and (c) those to whom commitments have been made for 1982–83.
§ Mr. William Shelton[pursuant to his reply, 27 April, c. 266.]: In response to the undertaking I gave on 27 April details of expenditure and commitment under the microelectronics education programme are given in the following tables. List A shows, for 1980–81 and 1981–82, individuals and others receiving support and the titles of the projects. List B gives the same information in respect of contracts signed for 1982–83; further commitments are under negotiation.
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Expenditure Individual or Institution Activity FY 1980–81 £
FY 1981–82 £
City of Birmingham West Midlands RIC and Teacher Training — 44,981 City of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Northern England RIC — 18,389 City of Manchester Manchester and Lancashire RIC — 20,534 Leeds City Council North and West Yorks RIC — 12,234 Leicester County Council East Midlands RIC — 15,188 Hertfordshire County Council Chilterns RIC — 36,672 Inner London Education Authority Capital RIC — 16,814 Essex County Council Eastern Counties RIC — 12,573 Metropolitan District of Liverpool Merseyside RIC — 9,559 West Sussex County Council Southern Counties RIC — 8,363 The New University of Ulster Northern Ireland RIC — 30,075 Welsh Joint Education Committee Wales RIC — 27,583 Council for Educational Technology Provision of Word Processors for RICs — 264,786 Council for Educational Technology Conference to inform Regional Teacher Training Co-ordinators of recent developments — 25,797 — 709,998 Teacher Training (TT) Council for Educational Technology Pilot Teacher Advisory Support Courses 114,089 — The Open University Teacher Training Materials — 18,229 The New University of Ulster Courses for Teachers and Advisers 40,870 — Consortium of West Midlands LEA's Courses for Advisers 9,633 — Consortium of West Midlands LEA's One Year Course for Teachers at Birmingham University 185,011 108,526 University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) Two courses to introduce teachers to the electronics element of "A" level physics syllabus 4,601 — UMIST Course for teachers on practical workshop experience in electronic technology — 2,298 North Cheshire College In-Service Courses for Head Teachers 2,450 — Consortium of London and Kent LEAs Short course on use of computers for teachers at Thames Polytechnic 49,537 — Brunel University TT in Microcomputer Aided Design 14,446 5,343 London Borough of Bexley Pilot Courses on Computer Appreciation and Application in schools 3,160 1,652 Science and Technology Education in Merseyside In-Service Teacher Courses — 5,000 Bedfordshire/Hertfordshire LEAs Three short courses for teachers 25,382 14,622 Welsh Joint Education Committee Pilot courses of In-Service Training in Welsh LEAs 48,133 39,096 Salford University In-Service Microcomputer Training Scheme for Teachers 1,850 — Cumbria County Council Pilot Part-time In-Service Courses — 1,284 Council for Educational Technology Additional equipment for Regional TT — 290,213 Hertfordshire County Council Chiltern TT Programme — 33,327 Ulster Polytechnic Northern Ireland TT Programme — 3,061 Welsh Joint Education Committee Wales TT Programme — 41,497 Plymouth Polytechnic SW England TT Programme — 4,738 Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council South Yorks TT Programme — 2,792 Cleveland LEA North of England TT Programme — 6,896 Manchester LEA Manchester and Lanes TT Programme — 4,550 Liverpool LEA Merseyside TT Programme — 12,900 Leeds University Electronics/Technology and Computer based learning — 6,665 Bradford College North and West Yorks TT Programme — 815 Essex LEA Eastern Counties TT Programme — 14,237 Sunderland LEA Northern Counties TT Programme — 10,100 Gloucestershire College of Art and Technology SW Region TT Programme — 3,239 College of St. Mark and St. John Plymouth Courses in Advanced Programme Design 71,115 9,700 College of St. Mark and St. John Polymouth Investigations on Teaching with Microcomputers as an aid (ITMA) — 44,377 520,277 685,157 Curriculum Development (CD) Council for Educational Technology (CET) Reprint of Users Specification 32 (A Guide to the Selection of Microcomputers) 976 — CET Information Leaflet 854 — CET Survey of LEA Software Provision 17,165 12,603 CET Preparation of a Paper on Software 2,042 — CET Glossary of Terms — 425 CET Information Leaflets — 1,500 CET Catalogue of Audio/Visual Materials on Microelectronics — 500 98W99W
Expenditure Individual or Institution Activity FY 1980–81 £
FY 1981–82 £
CET Reprint of Information Sheet — 540 University Collge Cardiff Editing 5 "Apple II" Programme — 656 University College, Cardiff, Dr. Thorne List Processing Software — 1,283 New University of Ulster To interface a "Lightpen" and Speech Synthesizer for BBC Microcomputer — 1,373 Birmingham LEA Birmingham Educational Computing Centre to prepare six posters — 1,500 Birmingham LEA Evaluation of Minnesota Software — 1,500 Welsh Joint Education Committee (WJEC) Word Text and Information Processing Curriculum Development Project — 12,705 WJEC Microelectronic applications in the teaching of Business and Office Studies — 2,465 Dorset Institute of Higher Education Preparation of a Word Processing Reader — 500 Dorset IHE The Electronic Office: A Reader — 500 Geographical Association Package Exchange (GAPE) Travelling expenses to attend meetings — 96 Loughborough University GAPE Curriculum development project preparation of nine packages — 5,730 The Open University (OU) In-Service Training Materials 6,349 24,503 OU Use of Cyclops Device — 1,600 Consortium of West Midlands LEAs Work on Joint Schools/Industry Computer Managed Mathematics 8,691 — London Borough of Havering To convert J11G/CAL to RML380Z and Apple Microcomputers — 7,892 London Borough of Havering National Distribution Service of MECC Apple Software — 3,165 London Borough of Havering Notes and Materials for Careers Education and Guidance — 1,948 Minicomputer Users in Secondary Education (MUSE) Support to help handle information and advisory service for school 13,340 36,255 MUSE To make material in MUSE software library more widely available to school 4,111 — Digitalent Ltd: Dr. Helyer To produce prototype exploded view computer — 4,025 Digitalent Ltd: Dr. Helyer Boolean Logic Demonstrator — 2,300 Schools Council (SC) Extension of computers in the curriculum 85, 074 290,992 SC Production of Modular Courses on Micros 3,095 4,922 SC Microcassette Work: Brighton Polytechnic — 2,224 Techmedia Ltd. Production of course materials for teacher training — 121,598 Techmedia Ltd. (Phase II) In-Service Training Course Material for BBC Microcomputer — 134,450 National Computer Centre (NCC) Preparation of a document on standards relating to Educational Computing 8,000 — NCC Standards for Educational Computing — 51,362 Imperial College Computer Centre Feasibility Study in classification of Software — 1,652 Imperial College CC Provision of Bibliography Service to MEP — 1,463 Leeds University GCE Science Package — 5,088 Leeds University TV Service BBC Micros Video — 1,521 Liverpool LEA Health Service Software — 1,550 Liverpool LEA Mail Order Software — 1,550 J. F. Hewitson, Oundle Conversion of a Biology Computer Assisted Learning Program to BBC Microcomputer — 500 Advisory Unit for Computer Based Education (AUCBE) Hertfordshire CC Resource material to support use of 'Route' in environmental studies — 968 AUCBE Hertfordshire CC Sale of copyright of Word Processing Package — 3,000 Hertfordshire CC To produce teacher training and physics materials — 424 University of Southampton Consortium Information Project — 3,182 University of Southampton Hand held learning aids — 4,403 University of Southampton "Bigtrak" Plus — 2,246 University of Southampton "Bigtrak" Video — 998 University of Southampton "Bigtrak" Video — 2,000 Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) Ten Videotapes — 80,000 ILEA Purchase of tape stock and cassettes — 50,000 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 10 Radio/Radio Vision Programmes 561 13,439 BBC To transcribe a computer programme — 336 BBC Research Paper for Radiovision programmes — 1,000 Newcastle Science and Technology Education Centre (NESTEC) To design materials to demonstrate computer aided design — 200 NESTEC Computer Aided Design Materials — 550 King Edward VI Fiveways School, Birmingham Software from Mini to Micro Computer 4,909 — King Edward VI Fiveways School, Birmingham Software from Mini to Micro Computer — 54,086 College of St. Mark and St. John Program Design and Development 15,000 — College of St. Mark and St. John ITMA Contract for 81–82 — 66,566 West Sussex IHE Explore High Resolution Graphics in Maths Teaching; 1,689 — Walsall LEA Work on Remedial Reading, English as a second language and low achievers in Secondary Schools 23,503 — 100W101W
Expenditure Individual or Institution Activity FY 1980–81 £
FY 1981–82 £
Durham LEA Secondment of Teachers to develop software 5,131 3,014 Sheffield Regional Centre for Science and Technology Release of Teachers for one day a week to prepare teaching materials 11,342 6,866 Royal Grammar School: Guildford One day conference on Microcomputers in Education 300 — University of Surrey Collation of information on activity in schools and colleges on environment sensing through microelectronics circuits — 178 Mrs. Schofield Computer Based Toys for Special Education — 4,490 Doncaster LEA Control Technology Training Packages — 490 Netherhall School: Cambridgeshire Development of Teaching Pack for BBC Acorn Microcomputer — 4,842 Mr. Weston: Clwyd To select 30 sets of slides and prepare an index and teachers notes to each set — 851 Mr. Weston: Clwyd To prepare a module suitable for use in CS and 'O' level Computer Studies Courses — 1,689 Mr. R. Green Innovation Case Study — 75 Audio/Visual Consultants: Loughborough Modular Control Kit in action — 6,095 St. Helens School: Cambridge The use of "The Spanish Main" (A Computer Program) in the Junior School Classroom—A Case Study — 100 St. Helens School: Cambridge The use of "Hunt the Thimble" (A Computer Program) in the Primary School Classroom—A Case Study — 100 Mr. Ellingham: Marcliffe CJI School Managing the Micro within the classroom environment — 300 Mr. R. Jones Edit booklet with provisional title—"Five Classroom Case Studies" — 800 Mr. H. Blackmore To prepare notes for use by teachers and pupils together with overhead projector masters — 483 South Tyneside LEA To produce materials suitable for use by teachers with children aged 6–11 and remedial classes — 5,225 Mr. A. Redhead To amend and provide copies of 7 Physics programs (for GCE classes) — 2,000 Houghton CP School The use of "Subtract Teacher" (A Computer Program) in the Junior Classroom—A Case Study — 100 James Fawcett The use of "Hangman UK" (A Computer Program) in the Primary Classroom-A Case Study — 100 Imperial College Computer Centre To develop three Computer Assisted Learning Programs — 1,900 Imperial College To produce a video cassette for in-service training — 2900 Dr. Harris: University of Bath Project on awareness training strategies in micro computing — 3153 Mr. D. Tee To encode 2 program packages to be used in TT (Primary) — 150 St. Aidans School: Carlisle Use of microcomputers in pupil investigative learning — 5379 Mr. W. R. Woods Production of not less than 6 computer programs and assoiated documentation — 6025 British Petroleum Educational Service To produce publication titled "Microelectronics Handbook for Teachers" — 5400 Mr. T. Timbrell To provide materials for use with CSE and "O" level classes which will explain the principles of calculating wages and the use of computers for payroll purposes — 1132 Mr. J. Sams To write a report on a computer studies course at Wilson Marriage School — 300 Ms. P. Fiddy Consultancy for primary age pattern recognition program — 25 Centre for Educational Services: Bristol Polytechnic To produce 3 video tapes — 5175 Manchester Polytechnic To produce 200 copies of the document "Preliminary survey of courses and research projects in the field of microelectronics education in the UK" — 477 Homerton College Software Development — 2371 Surrey LEA To produce 2 video programs — 4600 Mr. B. Gam: College of St. Mark & St. John Single board computer prototype — 146 Mr. J. Temple-Fry Program packs for BBC microcomputer — 170 Mr. A. Johnson To develop overhead transparencies in electronic control — 500 Ms. J. McGarry To edit course training package on BBC microcomputer — 1955 Mr. D. Walton To prepare specifications for spelling and maths packs — 185 Mr. G. Hay To develop Prestel map software — 300 The British Library Preparation of a microcomputer based bibliographical information retrieval package — 1500 Mr. J. Dodridge The use of micros in primary maths teaching — 160 Ms. J. Petty The use of micros in language teaching — 160 Mr. P. Davies The use of micros in primary science teaching — 160 Mr. R. J. Burstow Biology and Home Economics module for RML 380Z microcomputer — 877 Royal Society of Arts/National Computing Centre Teacher training material for business studies — 14752 University of East Anglia The consortium information project — 13465 102W103W
Expenditure Individual or Institution Activity FY 1980–81 £
FY 1981–82 £
Infosound, Blackheath To provide instruction cassettes on use of TXED and RML 380Z microcomputers — 3450 Ms. J. Rodgers Production of computer programme documentation for 2 packages in the series "Language skills in English" — 741 Chiltern Consortium To produce 3 video tapes and teachers notes on computer managed learning (CML) — 2285 Mr. Mullen The use of micros in primary humanities teaching — 160 Mr. A. Bent To produce documents and slides to support BBC local radio broadcast — 625 Global Education Systems To produce 11 tape/slide sequences — 10000 Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Use of IEE publication "Electrical systems News" to disseminate MEP information — 1000 Mrs. S. Hewer To produce program(s) to teach number/gender for French to 11–12 year old pupils — 487 Mr. D. Chandler To write specifications for 4 computer based programs — 2245 Mr. G. Thorpe To prepare in-service teacher training materials for MEP regional training use — 450 Leeds Polytechnic To prepare 3 video tapes — 6943 Mr. B. Rudling To write a set of teaching notes on data structures to be used by teachers of "A" level computer science — 550 Barnsley LEA Preparation of 2 teaching packages — 3610 Mr. Walton: Newcastle Polytechnic To produce a set of slides to be used with pupils of "O" level business studies for the purpose of illustrating the electronic office — 510 Mr. C. Forecast To encode 2 programs for the primary database "Your facts" and "Facts file" — 500 Mr. K. R. O'Shea To write an article entitled "Using the micro for data capture in physics lessions" — 100 Mr. D. Thompson: Welbeck College To prepare scripts and materials for 3 videotapes on the "Microprocessor as a clocked logic block" — 998 Mr. K. R. Simmonds: Cowes High School To write a case study entitled "Developing microelectronics within craft, design and technology" — 370 Mr. P. F. Nicholls Production of an MEP in-service training package on control technology — 2,171 Mr. D. Gaskell Production of an MEP in-service training package on control technology — 7,147 Worldwide Pictures (London) To produce 4 video tapes using material already made by Standard Telephone & Cables — 32,200 Council for Educational Technology Purchase of Prestel frames for MEP information service — 1,150 Mr. J. Sams To prepare an article entitled "A point of sale package- for computer awareness" — 385 Mr. G. Thorpe To prepare an article entitled "A method of monitoring using a microcomputer" The cost of MEP participation in the information technology — 400 Council for Educational Technology The cost of MEP participation in the information technology conference "Educating the information generation" Cambridge 6–9 July 1982 — 3,493 IBM Sale of the copyright in the 9 modules of the information society — 3,600 Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic To produce 2 video tapes and 3 video cassettes — 11,100 Humberside LEA To design and encode 5 programs — 2,450 Mr. R. W. Brice To prepare a set of teaching notes and OHP masters for use with 'O' level and CSE computer studies pupils — 400 Mr. A. Fendley To prepare edited teaching notes for video tapes — 1,000 Infosound London To design and provide one fully worked out colour conceptual of the "Home" poster — 1,150 Bedford LEA To provide first materials in Arts Graphics and Design — 1,500 Mr. A. Hoskyns To develop an interface for PET microcomputer — 3,415 St. Helens College of Technology To produce a word processing package to run on PET microcomputers — 1,450 Shell Centre for Mathematical Education: University of Nottingham To provide course material for a short in-service course — 2,958 Ms. R. Poulton: Upwood School The use of 'Animal (A thinking program)' in the primary classroom—a case study — 100 212,132 1,250,963 Special Education (SE) Council for Educational Technology (CET) Preparation of proposal for work in SE 15,000 — CET TT courses in the field of SE — 7,045 Hull University Computer assisted learning package for the deaf — 1,759 Newcastle Metropolitan District Two electronic devices to aid severely handicapped children — 4,000
Expenditure Individual or Institution Activity FY 1980–81 £
FY 1981–82 £
Newcastle LEA Special Education Microelectronics Resource Centre (SEMERC): Newcastle — 2,863 Redbridge LEA SEMERC: Ilford — 25,430 Manchester LEA SEMERC: Manchester — 30,643 Avon LEA SEMERC: Bristol — 31,946 I. McEwan To prepare a portfolio of software and documentation to be used with hearing impaired children — 173 The Open University Us of Microcomputer with synthetic speech output to aid the blind — 4,929 Bradford LEA To produce a device for use by communication impaired children — 653 Walsall LEA Survey of SE Activities in the West Midlands — 1,014 Group for Technology & Disability, Bucks. Special Education Newsletter — 793 Godfrey Thompson Unit, Edinburgh SE Consultancy for North of England — 500 Mr. K. Anderson To write an article entitled "Microcomputer Control of a Tape Recorder for Computer Assisted Learning Programs Using Speech" — 150 Mr. K. Anderson Computer Software for Educationally Sub-Normal (M) Pupils — 2,111 Birmingham LEA SE Work in the West Midlands area — 10,780 King's College, London SE Consultancy for South of England — 500 Kirkby Springfield School Special Education programs — 8,881 15,000 134,170 Totals (£) Administration 81,000 175,416 Regional Information Centres — 709,998 Teacher Training 570,277 685,157 Curriculum Development 212,132 1,250,963 Special Education 15,000 134,170 878,409 2,955,704 104W105W
MEP Contracts for Work in 1982–83 (at April 1982) List B Individual or Institution Activity Cost £
Regional Information Centres Northern (Newcastle LEA) Staff and running costs 35,000 South Yorkshire and Humberside (Doncaster LEA) Staff and running costs 37,856 Merseyside and Cheshire (Liverpool LEA) Staff and running costs 35,200 East Midlands (Leicester LEA) Staff and running costs 42,320 West Midlands (Birmingham LEA) Staff and running costs 65,100 Wales (Welsh Joint Education Committee) Staff and running costs 37,027 Chilterns (Herts LEA) Staff and running costs 59,975 Southern (West Sussex LEA) Staff and running costs 35,075 South West (Bristol) (Avon LEA) Staff and running costs 30,551 South West (Plymouth) (Devon LEA) Staff and running costs 10,280 Northern Ireland (New University of Ulster) Staff and running costs 39,250 427,634 Teacher Training Cumbria LEA Part-time in-service courses on 'Computers for Education' and 'Electronics and Control Technology' 640 Birmingham LEA Teacher training in Control Technology, Communications Technology, the Computer as a Device and Computer Based Learning 110,100 Queen's University: Belfast Teacher training in Computer Based Learning 20,000 Ulster Polytechnic Teacher training in control Technology, communications Technology and the Computer as a Device 40,000 Leicester LEA Teacher training in Electronics, Office Studies and Computer Based Learning 60,000 Liverpool LEA Teacher training in Control Technology, Communications Technology, the Computer as a Device and Computer Based Learning 60,000 North Tyneside LEA Teacher training in Computer Based Learning 16,000 Sunderland LEA Teacher training in Electronics 15,000
Individual or Institution Activity Cost £
London Borough of Kingston Teacher training in Computer Based Learning and Office Studies 30,000 London Borough of Croydon Teacher training in Electronics and Computer Studies 30,000 University of Leeds Teacher training in Electronics Technology and Computer Based Learning 30,000 Welsh Joint Education Committee Teacher training in Electronics and Control Technology, the Computer as an Instrument, Computer Based Learning and Electronic Communications 60,000 471,740 Curriculum Development Loughborough University Preparation of teaching packages in geography 4,357 Netherhall School, Cambridge Development of teaching packages for ACORN microcomputer 3,470 Schools Council Microcassette work at Brighton Polytechnic 776 Welsh Joint Education Committee Word Text and Information Processing project 11,420 Cumbria LEA St. Andrew's School, Carlisle: information retrieval system 1,173 Homerton College, Cambridge 20 modules of teaching material as required by the Director, MEP 22,500 Royal Society of Arts Preparation of teacher training material for business studies 39,000 University of East Anglia Consortium information project 38,899 London Borough of Havering Conversion of JIGG/CAL material to RML 38OZ and Apple microcomputers 3,7000 Hertfordshire County Council Chiltern Consortium to produce tapes and teachers' notes on computer managed learning 2,000 Hertfordshire County Council Development of Microcontroller at Heronswood School 800 University of Southampton Consortium information project 16,980 University of Southampton Development of hand-held learning aids 9,760 The Institution of Electrical Engineers, London Use of "Electronic Systems News" to disseminate MEP information 3,000 University of Leeds Production of GCE science package 9,691 Open University Project on use of Cyclops device 4,000 Nottingdale Technology Centre, London A school instrumentation package 8,845 180,371 Special Education Borough of Knowsley Kirkby Springfield School: production of special education programs 5,500 Hull University CAL package to assist linguistic developments in the deaf 6,970 Kirklees LEA Huddersfield Polytechnic: project on teaching the severely sub-normal 15,430 Newcastle Metropolitan District Development of 2 electronic devices to aid severely handicapped children 3,361 Newcastle LEA Staff and running costs of resource centre, Newcastle 16,000 London Borough of Redbridge LEA Staff and running costs of resource centre, Ilford 16,000 Manchester LEA Staff and running costs of resource centre, Manchester 16,000 Avon LEA Staff and running costs of resource centre, Bristol 16,000 Open University Project on use of microcomputers with synthetic speech to aid blind schoolchildren 10,659 University of Edinburgh Special education consultancy for the north of England 4,000 King's College, London Special education consultancy for the south of England and Wales 4,000 K. Anderson, Goole Preparation of software for ESM(M) pupils 5,700 City of Birmingham Development of concept keyboard 12,050 131,670 TOTALS: Regional Information Centres running costs 427,634 Teacher Training 471,740 Curriculum Development 180,371 Special Education 131,670 1,211,415