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Educating Tomorrow's Engineers
In the UK we teach young people to become computer users and consumers rather than programmers and software engineers. This is creating a chronic skills gap in ICT. We need around 82,000 engineers and technicians just to deal with retirements up to 2016 and 830,000 SET professionals by 2020. On the plus side, the Government's proposal to include computer science as a fourth science option to count towards the EBac is welcomed. The Committee also welcomes the EBac's focus on attainment of mathematics and science GCSEs but is concerned that subjects such as Design and Technology (D&T) might be marginalised. A Technical Baccalaureate (TechBac) is being designed but if it is to be a success, sch...
The House of Wade Sherman
Guiled by an ambitious, highly successful dating service operator, a former Marine hero heads a most unusual cast of characters that creates a stupendous church for an equally unusual purpose. Bunglings galore; laughs from start to finish. Reviewer says "The House of Wade Sherman is a satirical, sometimes whimsical novel that gets across its message in compelling terms. The denouement, perhaps inevitable, is provocative and leaves food for thought . . . Dr. Carter's bold style and fine sense of timing infuses his story with life and suspense . . . literate narrative, pungent ideas and rich characterizations."
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Riding Buffaloes and Broncos
After his remarkable eight-second ride at the 1996 Indian National Finals Rodeo, an elated American Indian world champion bullrider from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, threw his cowboy hat in the air. Everyone in the almost exclusively Indian audience erupted in applause. Over the course of the twentieth century, rodeos have joined tribal fairs and powwows as events where American Indians gather to celebrate community and equestrian competition. In Riding Buffaloes and Broncos, Allison Fuss Mellis reveals how northern Plains Indians have used rodeo to strengthen tribal and intertribal ties and Native solidarity. In the late nineteenth century, Indian agents outlawed most traditional Native gather...
