Booklet listing brief details for short full-time postgraduation courses, including:
Full-time day courses, mostly lasting from 2-5 days:
Computer Aided Design for Part III Professional Practice in Architecture Students; Project Management for Students; Arbitrations; Site Appraisal and Project Design for University of Reading: Department of Land Management; Design and Connections in Structural Steelwork; Senior Architects Project Management; Atria Landscape: Design, Implementation and Maintenance; Building Maintenance; Urban Management; House Purchase - the Proper Way; Staff Development for Building Teachers; Urban Development Operations; Airport Economics and Finance; Bridge Design (BS5400); Urban Policy integration and Implementation; CIOB Final Part 3 Examination; Housing for Single People; Planning for Lorries; Public Transport Information Tecnology; Professional Negligence; Institute of Structural Engineers; Urban Design group: Annual Seminar; Maintaining Transport Infrastructure; Pilot Certificate Course for Para legals; CIOB Certificate of Competence in Site Surveying' CIOB Certificate of Competence in Computing; Use of Computer for Quantity Surveyors.
Part-time evening courses:
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; Certificate in Estate Agency; Cost Control and Building Economics; Limit State Steelwork Design; Tall Building Design; Construction Management in Practice; Writing and Technical Reporting for the Constrcution Industry; Professional Practice Up-Date for Planners; The Countryside - Threats and Opportunities; Planning for Local Services; Town Planning and Building Law; Building Maintenance; Structural Design for technicians; Planning for a non-working Future; Planning and Ethnic Minorities; Planning and Women's Needs; Foundation Design in reinforced Concrete; Composite Structures Design; Structural Timber Design; Designing Silos. Includes the Habitat Forum series.
Issue No.6 Price: 6d. Published by the Student's Representative Council.
Includes articles on: theft of Quintin Hogg's bust from the front window; chart success for students [redacted] formerly in the band the Abdabs [who later became Pink Floyd]; results of a poll of voting intentions of Poly students; elections for the Student Representative Council called off; need for more library seats; snoring; contribution of journalism students; perceptions of Africa; letters to the editor; Polytechnic Centenary Parade; Presidents views on college facilities; new course in Photographic technology; overseas students; Students Representative Council preparing a complaints pamphlet; history of the Polytechnic; career as a french lorry driver; horror films; NUS conference; fashion; Woman's Page including interview with Ethel Wood; Miss West London ; student pop group the Blue Wailers; Jaxx Club moving premises; father and son studying at the Poly together; raid on St Martin's School of Fashion for their mascot; allegations of a 'colour bar' [racial discrimination] at hostel used by Poly students; Shell International executives studying at the Poly; students from Goa; Poly seeking University status under the Robbins Report; sports reports [including a photograph of Britain's Olympic crew featuring [redacted]].
The newspaper also includes some advertisements.
Issue No. 3. Price: 6d.
Includes articles on: team at the Student fashion contest; rag week; journalism student starring in documentary about overseas students; Department of Management Studies getting extra staff and possibly moving premises; photography student raising money to travel to Amazon; visiting Buckingham palace; profile of a first year student; student breaks world hand-shaking record; Miss Poly; Padre's Course; Civic Trust; Beatle-mania [the Beatles]; profile of student [redacted]; most popular films at the Cameo Poly cinema with an interview with cinema staff; race-relations survey; catering at the Poly; recipes; sports clubs.
The newspaper also includes a large number of advertisements.
Vol 4 No. 2 Published for the Students' Council by the Newspaper Committee. Price: twopence.
Includes a preview of the Christmas dance (swots); N.U.S. reports; editorial on the need for a student newspaper; article on teenage girls at the Poly; opinion on London from a Jamaican student; the Cult of the Beard; account of the first assignment set for the new Journalism course; Institute gossip; International Students Day; letters to the editor; new clubs formed (gliding and radio) and reports from sports clubs; advertisement for the Cameo Polytechnic [cinema].
Correspondence and advertising copy for course advertisements in newspapers and other publications. Includes short courses in radio, film, television, photography and video, including Training in Radio Journalism for Afro-Caribbeans and Asians, as well as Cultural and Community Studies Unit courses including Playspace.
Includes a copy of Free Transformer: New Lifestyle for Changing Times Quarterly No 15 (Summer 87) containing adverts for courses in alternative medicine, health and healing and personal growth.