PAGE ff DAILY MIRROR, Thursday, June 29, K"8 CLOSE-UP ^EDUCATIONS SCHOOL REPORTS BY pointed out: "The com- CHILDREN in West puters are probably Germany had a shock fairer. They remove the risk of children getting when they opened favourable treatment." their school reports A COMPUTER Computers are also be- this week to see what ing used to take over do better " or " His spell- comments are fairer. tiresome tasks such as Sir had written about ing is atrocious." Reports for a class of The computer, how- thirty children — which preparing lists of child- them. ever, has been pro- used to take the teacher ren for vaccination, grammed to' choose two evenings to prepare drawing up time-tables For the comments on between 10,000 different —can now be completed and so on. their performance in comments on a child's by the computer within Q There are no plans to classroom during the thirty minutes. have computers re- term had been compiled work. port on school children in and printed by a com- The reports are based But many parents of Britain. Annual reports puter. on data, homework, exam the 20,000 children at the from state schools, end- marks and the child's sixty schools where the of-term reports from The ex p e r l m e n t is health and age—all of experiment is being car- private schools, and the being hailed by many which are fed into the ried out are not so reports that get kids into overworked teachers as computer during the enthusiastic. further education will re- an educational advance. term. They complain the main the work of head- They . claim teachers No marks are awarded school reports are too im- masters and teachers. usually don't find time because the teachers personal and there is a for more than stereo-type believe reports based greater risk of mistakes. DENNIS NEWSON remarks such as: "Could only on the computer's But one headmaster Brussels DEVOLUTIONS rpROF/n E V I T A, the £400,000 musical based on the THE REFUGEES' life of Eva Peron, looks set to be a smash hit. FACTS about Cambodia are harder to pick up The show Is already than screams from a virtually sold out until padded cell. STORY the autumn with £250,000 Few people have been taken in advance book- allowed to penetrate the country. ings and there have been wall of silence erected by Amnesty International stories of tickets on the the communist Khmer has declined to compile a report on human rights black market changing Rouge who took over hands at £100 a pair. three years ago. in Cambodia, solely on Now a book by former the basis of refugee evi- All of which is good French Catholic mis- dence. news for the backers— sionary Francois Pon- But the rulers of Cam- or " angels " as they are chaud, published today, bodia refuse to provide known in theatreland. Elaine Paige as Eviro. shows how ordinary any Information them- The people prepared Cambodians have lived selves and if everyone to put money into 1 vita was as scrupulous as also given first-night through a nightmare. ranged from housewives tickets. Ponehaud worked for Amnesty nothing would and businessmen to 10 years in Cambodia un- be written about tire theatre impresarios. A spokesman for the til forced out. In Cam- country at all. Stigwood Organisation, bodia Year Zero (Pen- At least Amnesty also Mr. Bob Swash, said each guin, 95p), he pieces to- refuses to accept as £500 unit might be worth gether the ordeal of its gospel the stream of COST up to three or four eople largely through propaganda put out by The show's producer times as much at the end Sre eye-witness accounts Radio Phnom Penh while Mr. Robert Stigwood, of the day. of refugees. Ponchaud's critics swal- has a list of regular " But musicals are It is a grim tale: mass low it wholesale. "angels" all willing to costly to run so there is 4 PHILISHAVE DE-LUXE (HPI 139} executions; forced labour Ponchaud writes: " I stake a minimum of no guarantee how much for all in the country- am compelled to con- £500 in a show. a backer will make, if clude, against my will, MAINS SHAVER WITH THREE FLOATING side, children included; But the cost of putting anything at all. It's brutalisation of every- that the Khmer revolu- rather like backing a HEADS 12 BLADE CUTTER AND HAIR TRIMMER. tion is Irrefutably the on Evita was so high day life; sex before mar- that Mr. Stigwood had horse." CURRYS USUAL PRICE £21-95 riage is now punishable bloodiest of our century." T h e backers' rights by death. to go outside his regular And even if 90 per backers. only cover the West End SPECIAL 0 1 ^ 0 5 Ponchaud's critics cent, of this book is dis- run. Fresh funds will be claim that the testi- counted, most readers For their trouble, the raised when the show OFFER mony of refugees is un- will be forced to agree. " angels " will get about goes to America next reliable and that the DAVID 60 per cent, of the profits year. American bombing of to share between them Cambodia is to blame TATTERSALL with the rest going t o PAUL QUADE for the state of the Deputy Foreign Editor the producer. They were City ISPORTi A GUIDE TO THE GAME OF CRICKET AS England and Pakistan prepare to meet at Head- BRAUN CASSETTE lngley today for the final Test Match in their series FOIL-HEAD BATTERY OPERATED SHAVER WITH Close-Up unravels the mystery of those oddly-named fielding positions such as Silly Mid-On and Short HAIR TRIMMER AND SLIDE-OVER COVER. Third Man. CURRYS USUAL PRICE £8-95 The names of the fielding positions have developed SPECIAL FTF 95 through the years of cricketing tradition. They are Items subject not fixed places — bowlers and captains OFFER BF (BATTERIES EXTRA) to ivailtbilitf. make delicate adjust- ments 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." Currys man holds his bat — the Close-Up's chart shows "on" or "leg" side is the some of^ the positions Fielding positions for a right handed batsman: 1. Bowler. 2. one where his legs are. the eleven members of Wicket Keeper. 3. Slips. 4. Leg Slip. 5. Backward Short Leg. Fielders far from the the fleilding side — in- 6. Square Short Leg. 7. Forward Short Leg. 8. Silly Point. THIS IS JUST A PART OF OUR LARGE RANGE OF PERSONAL CARE APPLIANCESbat . are "deep" or "long." cluding the bowler and 9. Cully. 10. Silly Mid Off. II. Silly Mid On. 12. Mid Wicket. THEY'RE ELL BACKED BY OUR 7 DAY EXCHANGE OR MONEY-BACK PLAN, 12 MONTAs Hthe y get nearer they wicket-keeper — can take 13. Square Leg. 14. Backward Point. 15. Point. 16. Cover. GUARANTEE AND CURRYS PRICE PROMISE OF UNBEATABLE VALUE. become "short." And & UP with a right-handed 17. Short Extra Cover. 18. Extra Cover. 19. Oeep Extra Cover. they're very close they batsman at the crease. 20. Mid Off. 21. Deep Mid Off. 22. Mid On. 23. Oeep Mid are ' "silly" — because On. 24. Short Fine Leg. 25. D.ep Fine Leg. 26. Short Third OVER 480 BRANCHES NATIONWIDE LOOK IN YOUR PHONE BOOK. Man. 27. Third Man. 28. Long LEG. 29. DEEP Square. Log. they stand a good DAVID BRADBURY 10. Deep Mid Wicket. II. Long On f2. Long Off. DAILY MIRROR, Thursday, May 3 1, 1979 PAGE 23 C0Si€ludIitg ©ur series on the am UR children's children will grow up in a highly intelligent, healthy, 0loving world—thanks to the 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 logy. new inciu; home environment. new wealth. •Almost all subjects main could become can be learned either by a major producer of playing games with a energy—eve:: after the 'home computer or by North Sea oil runs out,'* matching films and TV programmes. "We could develop "The chip will enable wave-powered electricity, us to develop electronic today's computer produce oil and other home-based education. memories do. t< s e e . cheap chemicals from "Each grandmother c o.a 1. m a k e our o w n. automation has put *n single-ceil protein for could be assigned to a TVTE come and there ;•• no • cattle feed and go in for '•Networks of teaching group of two or three it ran be s'opped. coastal fish farming. and information systems toddlers for the first ten 'The sooner we accept linked to the TV set will years of their education. that micro-chip provide access to vast "There would be n o STAY technology has brought a Crime knowledge—greater than formal lessons, but n e w industrial i: we can re-orgamse anything that can be' learning would be in a By then, he says, revolution—and we adapt life properly there will be found in the city library." child's home with one or almost all the industrial to it—the sooner we can a marked reduction in But electronic teachers two friends of the same work will be handled by all be.jin to enjoy the tremendous benefits that crime, poverty and the won't be enough, he age.