Tradition,Pathways and the Renegotiation of TAFE Identity in Victoria

The territorial imperative is as blind as a cave fish, as consuming as a furnace, and it commands beyond logic, opposes all reason, suborns all moralities, strives for no goal more sublime than survival.

—Robert Ardrey (1972), The Territorial Imperative, Fontana

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A Set of Minitools for Education in Control System Analysis and Design

Summary Minitools are software tools that have been especially designed and implemented for use in education and on small industrial problems. They offer limited capabilities if compared to full-grown commercial systems but are much easier to learn and to use. Three such programs are introduced in this paper: DESolver for differential equation solving; Frequency for frequency response analysis and design; and BDE Sim for simulation and frequency response analysis from block diagrams. BlockSim, which is more a tool for implementation than a minitool, is also presented briefly. The four programs run on Macintosh and IBM compatible PCs. All programs are in the public domain; on the IBM PC a GEM desktop is needed to run them.     

‘Saving the nation's children’:1 teachers,wartime evacuation in England and Wales and the construction of national identity

The teachers in charge[of evacuation]are performing national service of the highest importance. … The successful maintenance of the morale and the steadying of nerves of the civil population will be worth several battles to the nation, and in the early critical days of a war this will depend largely upon the teachers, to whom the children and their parents will look for guidance, inspiration and support.