Focus on Polytechnics is published twice a year for students, careers teachers and advisers by the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics.

Includes feature on the use of videos by Polytechnics, praise from HRH Charles, Prince of Wales, Focus on students (including PCL students), Education for the European Community (including PCL Language Dean Maud Tyler and the Computer centre for the Disabled) and Polytechnic news In brief (including the PCL archives and BBC adaption of a novel by lecturer Mike Phillips)

Includes:

Preface: by Mary Commons, August 1984.
The Polytechnic: History of the Polytechnic, The Polytechnic Today, Polytechnic Policies, Funding, The Students' Union, Management Structure, Committees
Matters relating to your employment: Notes on consultancy, equal opportunties, loans, maternity leave, personal accident insurance, Health & Safety, Staff development
Information You may Need in Your Work: Buildings and sites, communications, placing orders and making bookings, finance office procedures, publicity, reprographic facilities, learning support services, short courses, course approval and validation, information technology, research, student welfare.
Facilities and Services for personal use: Bars and restauarnts; car parks; counselling, advice and medical services; first aid; library; nursery; opportunites for study; recereation and sport.
Supplementary Information: Court of Governors - present membership; executive structure; academic structure and links with the executive; Polytechnic policies [anti-racist, computing, equal opportunities, research, staff development]; faculties and schools; finance office; first aiders; restauarnts and bars; van schedule; who's who and where [staff list].
Map of Polytechnic building locations on reverse.

Comb-bound volume, 82 pages.

Smoke Magazine, Issue 18.

Cover features: See Everyday London through our eyes; Interview with Tom Greenan; The Resurgence of punk fashion. Articles include: Disaster tourism needs to stop ; Could you give up meat to save the planet? ; Merry Music: it's a no from me ; Thegrad: Get closer to employers ; Cartoons: An adult's best friend ; When's Black History Month again? ; Everyday London - images ; Tom Grennan chats to Smoke ; 7 Boutique cinemas in London ; Drawn in colour, Degas from the Burrel ; Book review: The Lover, Marguerite Dumas; English quirks you better get used to; Don't miss Tsunami [restaurant review] ; Fast fashion: nightmare or dream? ; Timeless Punk.

Includes a list of staff within the School of Communication, Cultural and Community Studies Unit. Events are organised by subject including: Afro-American Studies, American Studies, Literature, Philosophy, Elements of Marxism, Music and the Handicapped Adult, Women's Studies, Soho Poly Theatre Club, Exhibitions.

The cover shows the PCL Production of 'The Zoo Story' and 'Dorothea Quarry' from a PCL exhibition.