Saturday, October 26, 2013

Croydon Polytechnic

.Bombed Factory - Croydon (1941) > .

Britain 1940: The day that bombs rained down on Croydon .

Croydon School of Art
was established in 1868 above the Public Halls in George Street. 

Croydon Corporation (the governing body of the County Borough of Croydon) founded the Pitlake Technical Institute in 1888, which would later become Croydon Polytechnic, which had an initial intake of 162 students. 

In 1929, the Board of Education first highlighted the need for a new technical college to replace Croydon Polytechnic. In 1932, the School of Art was taken over by the Council to become Croydon College of Art

These two institutions continued to educate separately in and around Croydon until 1941 when the Polytechnic was bombed and gutted by fire during WW2, prompting plans to combine them on a new site in Fairfield, right at the heart of Croydon. 

It was not until 1948 before the plans for a new college could be revived when the Corporation drew up a Development Plan for Further Education. By then student enrolment had risen to over 4,000. The plan was to create a technical college, which would merge the Polytechnic and College of Art. Three years later, Croydon Corporation formally approved plans for a new college and in 1953 construction started at the college's current Fairfield site on the first of four stages.

The new Croydon Technical College (later known as Croydon College of Design and Technology) opened its doors for the first time in 1955 and was finally completed and formally opened by the Queen in 1960. In 1974 the College was renamed Croydon College and has remained as such on the main Fairfield site ever since.

timeline:
  • 1868 Croydon School of Art 
  • 1888 Pitlake Technical Institute, later became Croydon Polytechnic
  • 1932 Croydon School of Art renamed Croydon College of Art
  • 1941 Croydon Polytechnic bombed
  • 1948 plan to merge Polytechnic and College of Art
  • 1953 construction begun at Fairfield site
  • 1955 Croydon Technical College opened (later known as Croydon College of Design and Technology)
  • 1974 college renamed Croydon College

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Friday, October 25, 2013

DCI RSMS - Royal School of Military Survey

Royal School of Military Survey (DCI RSMS) is a joint services survey training facility associated with the Corps of Royal Engineers (RE) but attached to the United Kingdom Defence Intelligence and Security Centre (DISC).

The Royal School of Military Survey (RSMS) originates from 1833 when it was established at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich as a survey training branch. After a period of stability the school moved to a number of locations including Chatham, Fort Southwick, Ruabon and Longleat before finally settling at Hermitage, Berkshire in early 1949, when it was renamed the School of Military Survey. The Hermitage site (strictly speaking it is in Curridge) was home to 42 Survey Engineer Group (Royal Engineers) and maintained close links with the Survey Production Centres (Royal Engineers), abbreviated as SPC(RE), at Bushy Park, Teddington and Park Royal (which amalgamated at Feltham in the 1960s and went through changes of name to Mapping and Charting Establishment (Royal Engineers) - MCE(RE) - in the 1970s before becoming part of Military Survey, later absorbed into The Intelligence Collection Group (ICG). In 1979 a major rebuild at Hermitage provided the school with purpose-built facilities. As part of Military Survey’s 250th Anniversary celebrations in 1997, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II awarded the school the Royal accolade. In April 2006 the RSMS became one of four federated schools within the Defence Intelligence and Security Centre (DISC) along with the Defence Schools of Intelligence (DSI), Languages (DSL) and Photography (DSOP). To exploit the growing synergies between Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) and Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) all Geospatial and Imagery analysis training and education is now the responsibility of RSMS. The school consists of three Training Wings: Geospatial Information Management and Geospatial Exploitation, based at Hermitage, and Imagery Intelligence, based at Chicksands in Bedfordshire.

DEI - Destroying Education Intentionally

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Diminishing Educational Returns

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Regression to USSR 

Dumbing Down

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25-6-9 Is There a Stupidity Epidemic? - Fox > .

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