‘Something you Learn to Live With'?

This paper provides a discussion of some of the ways in which gender relations in school influence the day‐to‐day lives of women teachers. In particular, it focuses on life in the staff common‐room, staffroom humour, ‘women's’ work and women's careers using in‐depth interview data and documentary evidence that were collected while conducting a broader study of a comprehensive school.     

School assignment,school choice and social mobility

We estimate the chances of poor and non-poor children getting places in good schools, analysing the relationship between poverty, location and school assignment. Our dataset allows us to measure location and distance very precisely. The simple unconditional difference in probabilities of attending a good school is substantial. We run an analysis that controls completely for location, exploiting within-street variation and controlling for other personal characteristics. Children from poor families are significantly less likely to go to good schools. We show that the lower chance of poor children attending a good school is essentially unaffected by the degree of choice.     

Commonwealth Media

TELEVISION COVERAGE OF THE 1983 GENERAL ELECTION by Barrie Gunter, et al. (Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1986—$37.95)

COMMUNICATIONS: THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE UK TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY edited by Manus Egan (London: Macmillan/Dedham, MA: Artech House, 1986—price not given, paper)

GEOGRAPHY, THE MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE edited by Jacquelin Burgess and John R. Gold (London: Croom Helm, 1985—price not given, 273 pp.)

TELEVISION, SEX ROLES AND CHILDREN: A DEVELOPMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ACCOUNT by Kevin Durkin (Milton Keynes, UK: Open University Press, 1985—148 pp.)

HEALTH EDUCATION AND THE MEDIA edited by D.S. Leathar, et al. (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1981 and 1986—602 and 262 pp.)

THE DESIGN DIMENSION: PRODUCT STRATEGY AND THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBAL MARKETING by Christopher Lorenz (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986—167 pp.)

LANGUAGE AND THE NUCLEAR ARMS DEBATE: NUKESPEAK TODAY (London: Francis Pinter, 1985—244 pp.)

STUDENTS IN THE PRESS: 1955–75 by Michael Clarke (Dept of Sociology, University of Birmingham, PO Box 363, Birmingham BI5 2TT—L5.00, 185 pp.)

TEACHING THE MEDIA by Len Masterman (London: Comedia, 1985—L14.00/6.95, 341 pp.)

LAW AND THE MEDIA edited by Stuart M. Robertson (Ottawa: Canadian Bar Foundation, 1984–86—$38.00 for five paperback volumes)

TELLING TALES by John Fraser (Toronto: Collins, 1986—$19.95, 218 pp)

A FUNNY WAY TO RUN A COUNTRY: FURTHER MEMOIRS OF A POLITICAL VOYEUR (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986—$19.95, 217 pp.)

CHINS AND NEEDLES: POLITICAL CARTOONS by Andy Donato (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1986—$10.95, paper, 206 pp.)

PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE LAW by Christopher Du Vernet (Vancouver: International Self-Counsel Press, 1986—$7.95, paper, 150 pp.)

FROM COAST TO COAST: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF RADIO IN CANADA by Sandy Stewart (Toronto: CBC Enterprises, 1986—$12.95, paper, 191 pp.)

INSIDE SEVEN DAYS: THE SHOW THAT SHOOK THE NATION by Eric Koch (Toronto: Prentice-Hall of Canada, 1986—$19.95, 350 pp.)

KOOKS AND KUKES, COUNTS AND NOACCOUNTS by William C. Heine (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986—$24.95, 200 pp.)

THE NEWSMONGERS: HOW THE MEDIA DISTORT THE POLITICAL NEWS by Mary Anne Comber and Robert S. Mayne (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1986—$22.95, 178 pp.)

THE MEDIA, THE COURTS AND THE CHARTER edited by Philip Anisman and Allen Linden (Toronto: Carswell, 1986—$45.00, 488 pp.)

THE JOURNALIST'S LEGAL GUIDE by Michael G. Crawford (Toronto: Carswell, 1986—$35.00, 288 pp.)

HENRY MAYER'S “IMMORTAL WORKS:” SCHOLARLY, SEMI-SCHOLARLY AMD NOT VERY SCHOLARLY AT ALL: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH INDEX, 1940–1985 by Murray Goot (Canberra: Department of Political Science/Australian National University, 1986—price not given)

COMMERCIAL MEDIA IN AUSTRALIA: ECONOMICS, OWNERSHIP, TECHNOLOGY, AND REGULATION by Allan Brown (Manchester, NH: University of Queensland Press, 1986—$43.50)

ABORIGINAL INVENTION OF TELEVISION: CENTRAL AUSTRALIA 1982–1986 by Eric Michaels (Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, GPO Box 553, Canberra ACT 2601—price not given, paper)

GIRLS AND TELEVISION by Patricia Palmer (Social Policy Unit, Ministry of Education, GPO Box 33, Sydney 2001)

AN AUSTRALIAN FILM READER edited by Albert Moran and Tom O'Regan (Sydney: Currency Press, 1985—A$24.96)     

On-chip collection of particles and cells by AC electroosmotic pumping and dielectrophoresis using asymmetric microelectrodes

The recent development of microfluidic "lab on a chip" devices requiring sample sizes <100 μL has given rise to the need to concentrate dilute samples and trap analytes, especially for surface-based detection techniques. We demonstrate a particle collection device capable of concentrating micron-sized particles in a predetermined area by combining AC electroosmosis (ACEO) and dielectrophoresis (DEP). The planar asymmetric electrode pattern uses ACEO pumping to induce equal, quadrilateral flow directed towards a stagnant region in the center of the device. A number of system parameters affecting particle collection efficiency were investigated including electrode and gap width, chamber height, applied potential and frequency, and number of repeating electrode pairs and electrode geometry. The robustness of the on-chip collection design was evaluated against varying electrolyte concentrations, particle types, and particle sizes. These devices are amenable to integration with a variety of detection techniques such as optical evanescent waveguide sensing.