Introduction The Faculty of Science and Engineering is committed to establishing mutually beneficial relationships with local schools and colleges. For the last two years the faculty has hosted a Science Day for schools during the UK National Science Week. Schools are encouraged to enter their projects in an exhibition with prizes donated by local industry. On Science Day schools visit the faculty and demonstrate their projects, and young people are encouraged to visit departments of interest to them to participate in some interesting activities. Due to the university's own work programme and the schools' own schedules it is not possible to sustain such activities other than as special occasion events.
Schools can run their projects in collaboration with appropriate departments.
These accesses enable the schools and colleges to collaborate effectively with the departments of their choice. The PTK project is essentially a framework for site constructions that fully integrate the Internet into the learning environment and schools provide a robust start point. The main communications tools are email, fax, WebChats, CUSeeMe and the Mbone. In PTK, learners are encouraged to pose three questions to themselves when using the web. These questions are based on the NASA 3Ws that were put forward during the LHST programme.