LEARNING BY SHARING - ROBOTS IN SCHOOL AND COLLEGES

Discusses the difficulties of attracting students to engineering cours es at universities and colleges. Examines the case of one college in m id-Anglia which decided that, to attract more students to its courses, more sophisticated technology should be made available in schools; de scribes the basics of a project to share robots between certain school s. Reviews the benefits achieved so far and the aims for the future (i .e. closer links with industry). Concludes that a good start has been made, but further promotion of engineering is needed.