Everyone working in MIS will benefit from these detailed progress reports. The issue concludes with two shorter papers on topical subjects. As the incoming Editor, I am sure all readers of AXIS will wish to join me in thanking John Hornsby for the work he has put into AXIS during his period as Editor. As the old Chinese curse goes, we live in interesting times, and the role of AXIS in documenting some of the challenges we face, and of making available some of the work that has gone on at other sites, will I hope continue to grow. We are continuing to develop our WWW pages.
Usage is light but growing.
The Dearing Committee is to report by the summer of 1997 and HEI's need to make submissions to the Committee by Spring 1997. Stirling on a grey wet morning, with 24 eager folk from computing services around the UK, add three presenters from Oxford, Bradford and Leeds and simmer gently for three days. The result was a great deal of thought and discussion and a resolve to return home and try harder to communicate better to computer users. The course was lead by Carol Bateman, Paul Helm and Russell Warhurst, who together make a team which, as should be the case, is much better than the sum of its constituent parts. Between them they kept us busy from morning to night.