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S C H O O L
C H I L D R E N in W e s t
G e r m a n y had a shock
when
they
opened
t h e i r school reports
this week to see w h a t
Sir had w r i t t e n about
them.
For the comments on
t h e i r performance in
classroom during
the
term had been compiled
and printed by a computer.
The ex p e r l m e n t is
being hailed by many
overworked teachers as
an educational advance.
They . claim teachers
usually don't find time
for more than stereo-type
remarks such as: "Could
A
R E P O R T S
C O M P U T E R
do better " or " His spelling is atrocious."
The
computer, however, has b e e n programmed to' c h o o s e
between 10,000 different
comments on a child's
work.
The reports are based
on data, homework, exam
marks and the child's
health and age—all of
which are fed into the
computer d u r i n g the
term.
No marks are awarded
because t h e
teachers
believe
reports
based
only on the computer's
comments a r e
fairer.
Reports for a class of
thirty children — which
used to take the teacher
two evenings to prepare
—can now be completed
by the computer within
thirty minutes.
But many parents of
the 20,000 children at the
sixty schools where the
experiment is being carried out a r e n o t so
enthusiastic.
They
complain the
school reports are too impersonal and there is a
greater risk of mistakes.
But one headmaster
DEVOLUTIONS
T H E
REFUGEES'
F A C T S about Cambodia
are harder to pick up
than screams from
a
padded cell.
Few people have been
allowed to penetrate the
wall of silence erected by
the communist Khmer
Rouge who took over
three years ago.
Now a book by former
F r e n c h Catholic missionary Francois Ponchaud, published today,
shows how o r d i n a r y
Cambodians h a v e lived
through a nightmare.
Ponehaud worked for
10 years in Cambodia until forced out. In Cambodia Year Zero (Penguin, 95p), he pieces together t h e ordeal of its
eople largely through
re eye-witness accounts
of refugees.
It is a grim tale: mass
executions; forced labour
for all in the countryside, children included;
brutalisation
of everyday life; sex before marriage is now punishable
by death.
Ponchaud's
critics
claim that the
testimony of refugees is unreliable and that the
American b o m b i n g of
Cambodia is to b l a m e
for
the state of the
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Amnesty International
has declined to compile
a report on human rights
in Cambodia, solely on
the basis of refugee evidence.
But the rulers of Cambodia refuse to provide
any Information themselves and if everyone
was
as scrupulous
as
Amnesty nothing would
be written about tire
country at all.
At least Amnesty also
refuses to
accept
as
gospel the stream of
propaganda put out by
Radio Phnom Penh while
Ponchaud's critics swallow it wholesale.
Ponchaud writes: " I
am
compelled to conclude, against my will,
that the Khmer revolution is Irrefutably the
bloodiest of our century."
And
even if 90 per
cent, of this book is discounted,
most readers
will be forced to agree.
DAVID
TATTERSALL
Deputy Foreign Editor
B Y
pointed out: "The comp u t e r s are probably
fairer. They remove the
risk of children getting
favourable treatment."
Computers are also being used to take over
tiresome tasks such as
preparing lists of children for v a c c i n a t i o n ,
drawing up time-tables
and so on.
Q There are no plans to
have computers report on school children in
Britain. Annual reports
from state schools, endof-term reports
from
private schools, and the
reports that get kids into
further education will remain the work of headmasters and teachers.
DENNIS N E W S O N
Brussels
rpROF/n
E V I T A, the £400,000
musical based on the
life of Eva Peron, looks
set to be a smash hit.
The
show Is already
virtually sold out until
the autumn with £250,000
taken in advance bookings and there have been
stories of tickets on the
black market changing
hands at £100 a pair.
All of which is g o o d
news for the backers—
or " angels " as they are
known in theatreland.
The
people prepared
to put money into 1 vita
ranged from housewives
and
businessmen
to
theatre impresarios.
COST
The
show's producer
Mr.
Robert Stigwood,
has a list of regular
"angels" all willing to
stake a minimum of
£500 in a show.
But the cost of putting
on Evita was so high
that Mr. Stigwood had
to go outside his regular
backers.
For their trouble, the
" angels " will get about
60 per cent, of the profits
to share between them
with the rest going t o
the producer. They were
Elaine Paige as Eviro.
also
given
first-night
tickets.
A spokesman for t h e
Stigwood
Organisation,
Mr. Bob Swash, said each
£500 unit might be worth
up to three or f o u r
times as much at the end
of the day.
" But musicals a r e
costly to run so there is
no guarantee how much
a backer will make, if
anything at all.
It's
rather like backing a
horse."
T h e backers' rights
only cover the West End
run. Fresh funds will be
raised when the show
goes to America n e x t
year.
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AS England and Pakistan prepare to meet at Headlngley today for the final Test Match in their series
Close-Up unravels the mystery of those oddly-named
fielding positions such as Silly Mid-On and Short
Third Man.
The names of the fielding positions have developed
through the years of cricketing tradition. They are
not
fixed
places —
Items subject
bowlers and
captains
to ivailtbilitf. make
delicate adjustments in the hope of
chance of being hit by
putting a fieldsman In
the ball.
the right spot to take a
Fielders close to the
catch or stop runs.
line between wicket and
Basically,
the
"off"
wioket are "fine." Those
side of the field la the
at right angles to it are
one on which the bats"square."
man holds his bat — the
Close-Up's chart shows
"on" or "leg" side is the
some of^ the positions
one where his legs are.
the eleven members of
Fielders far from the
the fleilding side — inbat are "deep" or "long."
cluding the bowler and
As they get nearer they
wicket-keeper — can take
become "short." And &
UP with a right-handed
they're very close they
batsman at the crease.
are ' "silly" — because
they
stand
a
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DAILY MIRROR, Thursday, May 3 1, 1979
PAGE 23
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0
UR children's children will grow
up in a highly intelligent, healthy,
loving world—thanks to t h e
silicon chip.
And even school time will be happier
and more carefree for the kids ... for the
classroom of 2001 will be in the home.
Younger children will learn the three
R's from computers—linked to the home
TV.
That is the forecast of Professor Tom Stonier, of
Bradford University, who has been studying the
chip's probable impact on our future way of life.
••School classrooms won't exist in their present
form." he forecasts. •'School will be mainly for Pun
and pleasure, sport and social activities.
••Children v/ill learn
n-,uch better in their own
home environment.
•Almost all subjects
can be learned either by
playing games with a
'home computer or by
matching films and TV
programmes.
"The chip will enable
today's
computer
us to develop electronic
memories do.
home-based education.
"Each grandmother
could be assigned to a
group
of two or three
'•Networks of teaching
toddlers for the first ten
and information systems
years of their education.
linked to the TV set will
provide access to vast
"There would be no
knowledge—greater than
formal lessons, b u t
anything that can be' learning would be in a
found in the city library."
child's home with one or
But electronic teachers
two friends of the same
won't be enough, he
age.
warns. "There must be a
"The combination of
human touch.
grandmothers and
"And that could be
c o m p u t e r i s e d TV
provided by the western
education will be so
world's most undereffective that tomorrow's
u t i l i s e d s o u r c e of
children will understand
e d u c a t i o n :
things which most adults
grandmothers!" he says.
would find difficult to
grasp today!"
"Grandmothers were
humanity's
first
Professor Stonier says
information storage and
that the older children
retrieval system.
would spend a little time
in f o r m a l
school
"They passed down the
surroundings learning
fruits of their wisdom and
how to work in larger
experience—Just as
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STIFF LITTLE FINGERS: =ortsr C r.h,
logy. new inciu;
new wealth.
main could become
a major producer of
energy—eve:: after the
North Sea oil runs out,'*
"We could develop
wave-powered electricity,
produce oil and other
cheap chemicals from
t< s e e .
o.a 1. m a k e our o w n.
automation has put *n csingle-ceil
protein for
come and there ;•• no •
cattle feed and go in for
it ran be s'opped.
coastal fish farming.
'The sooner we accept
that
micro-chip
technology has brought a
n ew
industrial
i: we can re-orgamse
revolution—and we adapt
By t h e n , h e s a y s ,
life properly there will be
to it—the sooner we can
almost all the industrial
a
marked reduction in
all be.jin to enjoy the
work will be handled by
crime, poverty and the
tremendous benefits that
intelligent
m
a
c
h
i
n
e
s
under-privileged. We will
groups and taking part in
after the turn of the robots.
the robots will bring.
be building a much.
specialised activities.
century.
"Our working week
happier society.
And
only
one
in
ten
They would continue
"Health services will
has
been
cut
bv
half
over
human workers will be
"I see an exciting world
their education through a
also be a big employer.
the last 150 years. But I
needed
to
produce
all
our
ahead. A world where
period of community
believe that in only
And
s
o
will
s
o
c
i
a
l
material
goods
such
as
knowledge
is wealth, but
service and then go to
another twenty or thirty
services, although
food, housing, furniture
human contact is
.university before taking
years it will be halved
hopefully
not
on
any
and
clothing.
precious.
up a career.
a g a i n , to less t h a n
large scale.
"At the moment there
twenty hours."
"The jobs that will
''The chip created
are
only
about
200
robots
In
f
a
c
t
.
P
r
o
f
e
s
s
o
r
never be taken over by
the robots—and the
While the machines are
w o r k i n g in B r i t i s h
Stonier predicts that in
machines will be those
doing all the work, the
robots, by doing our
industry," says Professor
involving
human
thirty years' time most
expanded education
jobs, will give us time
Stonier. "But there are
relationships." he says.
of Britain's workers will
system
envisaged
by
already an estimated
to appreciate each
be e m p l o y e d in
"This is why all forms
Professor Stonier will be
20.000 i n J a p a n e s e
education, health and
other and to care
of education will employ
producing new knowfactories.
welfare services.
half the labour force soon
l e d g e . new t e c h n o about veople...."
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DAILY MfRROfe, Thursday, MrvaryT^
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CLOSE-UP
CHILDREN,
HELLO,
Mr CHIPS
'SOLDIERSi
WITHIN a few weeks the Government Is
to p u b l i s h p l a n s for developing
Nobody dies in this war
TAKEN to its logical con- get all the job satisfaction detectors on his helmet, knock out a tank.
clusion, It could be the of dropping bombs with- back, and chest. If he is , Laser pulses are low
answer to the aims race, '. out the messy and expen- hit, his equipment emits
iwered, and even if they
t a man's eye, he would
Deep in the English sive side effects that can sounds something like the
TV war games you play a t b e p i h u r t ,
Countryside, a group of give war a bad name.
retired Army officers are
And all, as they say, the local.
• P e n t a g o n chiefs i n
setting u p . s h o p with a thanks to MILES the
think It Is
If a tank Is hit, a smoke Washington
range of weapons that Multiple Integrated Laser
a good idea that
•grenade billows, and a such
would aiJow forces to Engagement System.
they
have
already
spent
horn sounds. Guns are
meet, decide victory or
on MILES,
Instead of firing real Immobilised by a bulls £20,000,000
defeat —and live to fight
of wasting their
ammunition, which as the eye, so that nobody can instead
another day.
money on live ammuniSoldiers could stalk and glossy brochure admits claim it wasn't fair—or tion that they cannot fire
shoot other infantrymen, can "produce a different that he was quicker ©a at anybody without some
tanks would go up in reaction from the par- the draw.
3lltician kicking up a
s m o k e a n d a f l a m e - ticipants". weapons are
The laser transmitter Is
thrower could get that adapted to shoot laserfixed t o conventional
In Britain and 17 other
warm feeling of a job well pulse "bullets".
An Infrantryman, for weapons, and force-coded countries, MILES will be
done.
instance,
would
wear
tiny
so
that
a
rifle
cannot
marketed by a company
In the air a pilot would
called Miltrain, aptly
based at Middle Wallop,
la Hampshire.
They will act as agents
In 24 masterly pages, for the California based
PARLIAMENT'S o n l y
rising new orator, Neil they analyse what to do Xerox group, and the
Kinnock (left), today and w h a t not to do, British Army has already
shares his considerable advising readers to try carried out some tests.
Otherwise,' the gentleto limit themselves to
skill with the world.
i n t e r e s t i n g men Of Miltrain help to
He is co-author of a f i v e
And gainful employment
Labour p a r t y booklet minutes.
military experts
And they even claim for
called simply How to
to train foreign
that the booklet could aneeded
Speak in Public,
rmies and security
be of use to "the par- forces.
The other contributor, ticularly tongue-tied
"As a company spokesis Peter Coyte, a former suitor".
lained: "Just like
taxi driver who learns
That alone might be
his lessons in the Trans- worth 60p,
port Workers' education
different Held."
programme, a hard
DAY ID T H O M P S O N
ELLIS PLAICE
school.
Parliament
microelectronics for use in schools sad
colleges.
Dr. Rhodes Boyson, Junior Education
Minister, has told MPs that if the
money is available, the programme will
Include c u r r i c u l u m development,
teacher training and the development
end standardisation of software.
Yesterday, Prof. Tom Stonier, head of
the Department of Science and Society
at Bradford University, and an expert on
chip technology, said the Government
must spend at least £12,000,000 in bringing the chip into schools.
"Unless a headmaster makes certain
that his students can handle computers
he Is not doing his job," said the
E
"Children should be taught what a
computer is, and not given the impression that it Is a mysterious black oox.
We cannot afford technological illit-
eracy."
At home
'ORATORS
MlLES-equipped soldier, some of his
laser-detecting ' targets' are arrowed
Stonier believes the Government is on
the right lines with Its three-part prog-'
ramme.
"It must begin with teacher training,"
he said. "All teachers should go through
mlcrotechnoiogy courses. Borne areas
such as the sciences are more critical."
"We have to accept that there will be a
shift to home-based education." he
added. "Kids will be doing most or their
learning at home, through telephonelinked terminals and learning programmes played through television sets."
Stonier believes that Britain will
become the strong man of Europe in the
1980s if microtechnology is accepted.
North Sea oil wealth, he argues, is (be
result Of chip technology.
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S2,(KH) five years ago. And
subscriptions have had to be
raised from £5 to £7 this year.
With an annual budget of
£150,000, CAMRA could be
beading for disaster.
Tim Amsden, the chairman,
believes its runaway success
since 1971 has led to the
slump.
Brinkers think the battle'
for real ale instead of keg has
been won and have stopped
helping.
O t h e r losses h a v e n o t
helped.
Last year's fire at Alexandra Palace, London, destroyed CAMRA's hopes of a
financial killing with the
annual Great British Beer
Festival which was due to be
held there.
But CAMRA's biggest problems stem from overheads
which have soared since paid
staff took over from volunteers in 1974.
Now CAMRA branches will
have to bail out the national
organisation again.
CAMRA secretary Iain Bobson, 43, said: "We have been
victims of our own success
and we are doing something
about it."
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IT is eight months since the tragic death
of boxing champ Johnny Owen. But an
unseemly wrangle is being fought out
over his insurance pay-out.
Welshman Owen, 24, died after being
knocked out by Mexican Lupe Pintor in
a. world bantamweight title fight.
Owen was unmarried
and doubly insured. The
British Boxing Board of
Control promptly paid
out £30,000 to his parents,
who run a grocer's shop
in Merthyr Tydfil.
The main compensation
for Owen's death was
expected to come from
insurance arranged by the
World Boxing Council.
O.en's father Dick was
h o p i n g for a t l e a s t
£75,000. But he will get
nothing.
The WBC policy, taken
out with the American
Home Insurance Company, only provided for
the payment of hospital
bills or a lump-sum death
benefit.
Hospital fees for Johnny's 45-day fight for life
accounted for thi lot.
Johnny Owen—down for the last time
So If he had left a wife touch them. Boxers are a
End children, they would high risk."
have received just the
A World Boxing Council
BBBC's £30,000.
spokesman said: "You
could get to a point where
Now the British Safety
Council is urging a better so much money is spent
on insurance premiums
deal for the dependants of
boxers who are killed or that there's nothing left
for
the purse."
maimed in the ring.
Many promoters dont
The counci l w a n t s
promoters to pay a levy- - like the levy idea.
into a central fund to help
Mickey Duff says: "Of
fighters' families.
course I feel sorry when a
boy
dies in the ring.
Bo.ers could take out
private insurance. But the
" B u t I don't think
p r e m i u m s would b e there's enough money in
crippling.
the world to pay for that
A spokesman for the sort of loss."
British Insurance AssociTOM LYONS
ation says: "It's unlikely
that any company would
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THE Government's plan to have a
computer in every secondary school by
the end of next year seems certain to be
yet another failure.
The plan is expected to cost between
£3,000,000 and £5,000,000.
The Government will provide half the
money for installing a computer in a
ng to use computers
school as long as the local
education authority con- Industry has chosen the
acceptable programmes—
cerned pays the other wrong machines.
the so-called softwarehalf.
He describes the S80Z can be produced.
But there Is a snag. as "fairly obsolete" and
"Britain's strength Is In
The schools must choose points out that the much producing software and
b e t w e e n two Britis h cheaper Acorn is running this will become a major
machines, the Acorn, behind delivery dates.
export," says Pawsoa
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is helping
m a d e by R e s e a r c h both "British" machines Government
schools in this important
Machines, of Oxford, and are assemblies of Japan- field,"
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experts as almost obso- bought computers with- experts."
lete and the second is not out Government aid have
opted for two American
yet available.
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Commodore
In the new magazine, models—the
Micro Computer printout, PET and the APPLE.
editor Richard Pawson
It is on these machines
says the Department of t h a t i n t e r n a t i o n a l l y
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Department of Health
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A brand called Free
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20. Eut yesterday wouldbe-buyers were told supplies had been stopped.
Customs and Excise
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sew smokes were subjectto duty.
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II contains tobacco?
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except where the content
is herbal."
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was until we joined the
Common Market.
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taken out of bond, but
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So, most substitute fags
have been forced from
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Despite the tax threat a
Chinese importer is planning one more substitute.
Instead of tobacco It
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