Educational Inclusion and Raising Standards

Michael Farrell, Education Inspector with the London Borough of Hillingdon Education Services, suggests that the term 'mainstream inclusion' should be replaced by 'educational inclusion' in order to avoid the implication that venues other than mainstream schools are inferior. He argues that the placement of pupils with SEN in mainstream schools should be informed by a consideration of the effectiveness of the venue in raising academic and personal and social standards.     

Restructuring support staff classification levels for academic health sciences library positions

Nonprofessional library support staff traditionally hold what are considered to be low-paying, nonchallenging positions. These negative factors make retaining creative and productive employees difficult. This article outlines the approach taken at the Medical College of Georgia's Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library to devise a structure of library staff positions that becomes progressively more demanding. A new nine-level Library Staff Classification Plan resulted. This plan also enables and encourages employees to acquire more skills and to accept more responsibility in order to qualify for higher-level library positions or to advance their present position to receive comparable rewards. The plan expresses the level of responsibilities expected, the employee qualifications desired, and lists representative duties across the spectrum of typical library tasks.