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|Dec 29, 2009
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|Oct 14, 2004
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|Gene Clater
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|Computer Aid, Inc.
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|Patent Citations (16), Non-Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (10), Classifications (10), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/618,231, filed Oct. 14, 2004, whose disclosure is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety into the present disclosure.
The present invention is directed to a system and method for process automation and in particular to such a system and method in which processes are entered through a Web interface and enforced on team members through a Web interface, and in which the Web interface comprises a dashboard indicating an expected status and an actual status of each task.
It was learned in manufacturing systems 20 years ago that Processes could be developed and perfected to produce results with an error rate of 6 Sigma or 99.97 perfect. These processes were expressed onto machines to manufacture using the processes, and thus modern manufacturing was created, which instantly eliminated those who were not using it from the marketplace as 6 Sigma error rate compared to even 90% process quality means the difference between 3,000 manufacturing errors at 90% versus 1 at 6 Sigma.
Up until now, the ability to use this technique of developing unique Processes and embossing them on to Information processing or people operations has not been successfully fully automated. Manual attempts have shown the promise that 6 Sigma can offer modern Enterprises.
Various techniques that seek to overcome the above-noted problems are known in the art. For example, United States Published Patent Application No. US 2003/0195799 A1 to Scholl et al teaches a combination of quality management with a process flow. Also, United States Published Patent Application No. US 2004/0143477 A1 to Wolff teaches project management from a set of templates. However, the prior art does not solve the above-noted problems.
It is therefore an object of the invention to provide such automation.
This Invention is constructed via an Internet based software system that automates the recording of Processes into a Process Library via its Process Configuration Manager, PCM. The recorded Processes can be modified via the PCM to reflect re-engineering as their use uncovers weaknesses and/or need for alterations to improve their effectiveness. The automated Processes can also be adjusted to fit special/new situations.
The Invention then implements its Governance Algorithms and sequences to guide assigned resources to carry out their work on a Project or other work Event according to the process's engineered steps/tasks contained within it. Using its automation to apply proven Process and monitor effectiveness via embedded Metrics in the Invention, empowers the Enterprise management to achieve lower errors and consistent Process results approaching the 6-sigma level of measured consistency and thereby achieve the required high level of On-Time/On-Budget Project successes it seeks.
In addition to building the Process Library via the PCM, installation of the Invention requires entry of the Enterprise's Organization structure (this represents the organizations within the Enterprise that will carry out the work Events fed into it; they are referred to as the "Managing Organizations" or MO's). Also, security information cross referenced to resources and their organizational authorizations plus all the information on the resources themselves is required. The Enterprise's planned Users of the Invention (called Customer Organizations or CO's) are also entered including sponsors, managers, executives and departments that will submit work Events to the system.
Once installed, access is made available to all MO and CO resources that will use it inside and outside the Enterprise via Internet or Intranet connections. Appropriate security sub-systems are built-in to protect the Invention and its Data Base from "hackers" or Enterprise personnel not authorized to use it.
Training is required and is provided for those who will set it up or act as Enterprise Process Engineers and for those who will interpret and act upon the Reports Metrics at the Tactical level.
In addition, authorized managers, project stakeholders and general non-technical users such as senior executives and others can use the near-zero-training required, Internet-friendly, Web Portals or Dashboards as they are referred to in the Invention, plus graphical reports, to avail themselves of the Invention's information
A cycle of use of the Invention begins when a trained resource uses the Invention to connect a selected Library Process to a Project or work Event activity. Upon making that selection/connection and pressing the "Save" function, the Invention launches its Project Validation Engine, PVE, to determine the first step to be taken from the selected Process.
Resources are assigned/connected to the Event from the resource pool entered from the systems Data Base using Invention functionality (per above setup actions). The Invention then guides and assures Process Conformance and Governnance of the assigned resources according to the steps, dependencies, rules and tasks prescribed in the selected Process.
Once launched, the work Event is managed by the Invention's Governance algorithms to manage the work flow of the resources assigned to the work Event via the Process and the PVE to assign steps/tasks as prescribed in the stored Process. This Governance spans all the effort needed to open, perform all steps/tasks and complete, or close, the work Event.
The Governance and enforcement over the application of the Process to the work Event and the associated byproducts of the Invention's internal algorithms automate other vital functions such as measurement, time accounting and automatic feedback loops to report issues for real-time Management action. Some of these features along with more specifics on above functionality implementations are as follows:
All resources using the Invention within one Enterprise operate as a common pool to the Invention with known Organizational and Security information for their control per above installation information.
The Invention provides a Web Portal or Dashboard for every authorized resource. It can display on the MO resource's "Dashboard" the steps/tasks assigned them. These work Event steps/tasks are in priority order with information on Event scheduling, escalation and priority for the resource to use thus further implementing the Invention's Process Governance features. Additional Dashboard displays based on work Event and Process Performance Metrics are available to all authorized resources and users.
Further use of the Invention's Process Governance algorithms occurs when a resource completes a step/task in the Process. At that point, the PVE automatically determines what the next step/task is and moves it to the resource's Dashboard with the appropriate priority order given the real-time information available to it from the other assignments pending for the resource per the Data Base at that point in time.
The resources, as they complete steps refer back to their Dashboards for their next assignment thus implementing the Invention's automated real-time dynamic work flow assignment features.
The Invention has logic that is aware that each step/task when completed requires the effort to be entered by the resource(s) that carried it out and confirmation of time remaining. Hourly time (or fractions thereof) must be entered by the resources as they complete tasks on a daily or weekly basis. Control reports enforce time entry completion such that for a selected time period all time data for resources and steps/tasks for all in process Events are available. Historical time entry is also available in the Data Base. Non-Event time can also be entered such that the Invention's time keeping data can be a directly interfaced to Enterprise Financial systems for Payroll, indirect time accounting and others if desired.
The collection of time expended and time to complete all Events' steps/tasks is critical to the built-in measurement algorithms of the Invention. At the core of the Invention, is the capability to improve Enterprise work Event success ratios and productivity by the accumulation of exact task time measurements against concise and precise Process steps/tasks as enforced by the Invention's Governance logic.
The Invention contains a powerful Metric Engine run on its own DataMart Data System or DMDS� that can deliver information to management through their Dashboards or via automatic emails or through Metric reports that are action reports about the performance of the resources on the Events according to anticipated results versus actual results occurring per latest time entry. This gives management the information they need to address Event problems such as: Events off-schedule, Events using more budget dollars then allocated, Events not performing according to plan/Process. In addition, hosts of Resource performance comparison Metrics for spotting resource behavior issues and others that directly increase Productivity are provided.
The further mixing and rolling up of these Metrics into specific higher level Process Metrics with exact performance and productivity targets built into the Invention's Logic creates operating/management information for not only Tactical Event management improvement at the Team Lead level, but Information for the highest levels of management as the Metrics reflect performance to span wider organization entities and resource grouping contained in the Invention's Data Base describing the Enterprise Organization structures (per setup information supplied at installation, see above).
In addition, these Metrics are key for improving the underlying Processes themselves which then fuels the Invention's Process Lifecycle automated built-in improvement system of modification to Library Process which in turn are applied at the next instance of the work Event connection to them. This is referred to as an example of an automated "Learning Loop" within the Invention, driven by standard known manual "Continuous Improvement" Best Practices.
The Invention has a rich implementation of functionality for issue/problem tracking and reporting. Although this is not a new idea, the way the Invention integrates it into Governance and Event execution monitoring is. As resources attempt to carry out the Process Steps per their Dashboards and issues occur they can, with a click of the mouse, immediately evoke issue reports crossed referenced to the step/task in a specific Event execution under a specific Process. Thus the Invention is able to not only report on all issues/problems immediately to Event sponsors and selected management (both done via integrated email and the Invention's Dashboards for these individuals), but this information is also stored for later Root Cause Analysis on the exact condition that caused the issue for further study by management. This information can then be added to Risk Data Bases associated with the Process and work Events for historical data for use in Risk Assessment.
Using this set of cycles within the Invention allows it to automate classical "Continuous Improvement" at four levels:
Since work Events are being executed according to Processes approved by appropriate management levels using the Invention's Governance techniques, steps/tasks can be added that resources have often forget, overlooked or simply not done in the past including proper Time keeping itself can be assured that they will be done or they will know why not via issue reporting. Some of the vital new steps/tasks that can be added to Processes to improve their efficiency and effectiveness of the Event completion process are as follows:
Since the Invention automates Process implementation via its PVE for the entire Enterprise, Global resource use and performance comparisons facilitate comparison of the effectiveness of resources globally. This information can "level the playing field" of cost vs. performance resource selection and improve resource selection for specific work Events versus standard availability and cost only parameters. Given Invention functionality as elaborated above also can facilitate taking proven "Mature Processes" that work in one region of the world and modify them to deal with known cultural differences, time zone issues, international law requirements and other differences in Process needed by the modern Enterprise dealing in Global business to support the Global Enterprise complexities of the not to distant future. Here the Root Cause Analysis and automatic "Continuous Improvement" algorithms of the Invention can pay huge dividends in resource use and completing work Events on-schedule, on-budget and delivering the consistency provided by its Process Governance on a Global scale.
The Invention's internal algorithms contain the logic to use operational data and performance data to form Metric trends that address the need for better estimates on Strategic Projects. Estimates guide funding, expectations and schedules on which the Enterprise can base its Strategic future successes. These projects then have a critical need and success requirement, i.e. Projects and work Events tied to Strategic Objectives representing the very life blood of the Enterprise. Given the historical Data Base that the Invention assembles as it operates this Data Base becomes available for this Strategic Project Estimating requirement and then uses its Governance and Metrics features to aid management in raising the odds to near 100% that these Strategic Projects will complete properly.
Once approved, Strategic Projects become work Events and the PVE cycle is launched to apply proven Processes to them. The PVE enforces the Governance of the Process implementation per the above descriptions resulting in management metrics and information available on management's Dashboards which operate like a "scoreboard" for management to use to guide them to guaranteed success with increased Productivity in all that is done under the Invention's Governance and PVE engine.
The Value proposition for the invention's features can be quickly seen in the following two examples and there are hundreds more that could be iterated:
Moreover the adverse affect of failed and late over-budget projects on achievement of Strategic Goals based on them can be significant. The Invention is targeted to help an organization radically mitigate project risks.
Other features of the Invention are the following:
Another statement on the uniqueness of this software Invention is not only that it can provide the Metrics to detect Events in trouble in time to "right the ship" and bring Project and work Events to a successful completion, but long term use of it and its automated continuous improvement "Best Practices" implemented via the built-in Process Lifecycle algorithms and historical Data Base lowers the "Risk Variable". This reduces the Enterprise Project failure risk by a huge percentage for as long as the Invention continues to be applied and improved through its "Learning Loops" reflected in the Process Library Processes and historical Data Base of past performance on work Events and Projects.
The present invention uses a designed "from the ground up" internal Architecture for implementing an OOP System Flow from UI Pages thru its "Action Processing Engine"�, which includes an Action Condition (AC) analyzer component and an Action Operation (AO) Decision processor. Business Objects (BO) are process by its "Action Processing Engine"�, as well as Data Management Engine to access full SQL DB with 100% SP processing according to rules from AO's and BO's and built in where appropriate. The process operates in reverse to genera rate the UI Page with Response. Due to this DB Design Engine approach other DB's like Oracle can replace SQL with system rewrite.
All the words on all of the Web Pages are on the Data Base so the Architecture assembles the entire Page for viewing from the data requirements needed dynamically based on Business rules, which also are all stored in the DB making for this powerfully flexible process to generate what it needs to display on the fly based on the data and conditions and Process being used. This design radically reduces support cost and makes it quite easy to plan for more versions as it evolves to further meet client demands.
No other Software system known to us in the World uses this Architecture driven Process approach, which implements 7 technologies and languages working together to create a dynamic data flow needed to support the parametric Process features.
The Architecture also supplies OOP methods in XML and XSLT for internal Page constructs and Transformations to make Pages "morph" to the demands of the data not the reverse as in most current technology on Web based system. By creating, a data driven system the Architecture is further enabling the flexibility to implement Process Automation as described above.
Page components like Grids, Buttons Actions and other components are generated on the fly by the Architecture allow for a tremendous amount of flexibility and scalability to the systems ability to deal with small Process Automation for a few Teams or a full multi-national corporations with 100's of Resources, Managing Organizations etc.
The uniqueness is not limited to its PCM (Process Change Management) but also to its Process Validation Engine (PVE) that processes the PCM Process Templates Dynamically from what every number of Resources are assigned tasks within it scope. Following processing the PVE determines "What's Next"� for each resource and to keep track of what's been done for reporting and evaluation later.
The PVE then sends instantly to the Resources "What's Next"� in the form of Process Steps/Tasks that appear on their Dashboard as "What's Next"� or in the proper order given the priorities and schedules of all their other assigned tasks. Their screens change dynamically as they display them so they are continuously and constantly doing the proper "What's Next"�. Again, this is new ground-breaking development versus the old style To Do systems that used Checklist and fixed Schedules not based of the Process needs of the moment, but the preconceived or static Process of the "Drawing Board" or even current Computer Schedule/List Systems, which show Project Schedules. They are not doing the appropriate "What's Next"�, based on the Process and conditions of the moment but on the ingrained steps put into the Schedules in a vacuum. Productivity and Quality are lost when the needs of the current Process are different from the pre-conceived Project Schedule and time is wasted either doing the wrong thing or trying to figure out "What's Next"�, as the invention does automatically from the Process alternate actions and its PVE Engine.
Thus, the present invention will change the nature of operations and information processing to produce higher Productivity and Quality because it is responding to today Process not last Years, last week or even yesterday's Project Schedule.
Three Levels are provided. The first is called Basic. It comes with a built-in Process for an IT department to use to Support a Software product with it and get full Metrics on what's going inside their support. This process can be implemented in a few weeks for a 50 person team and in a month for a very large corporation. The in-house IT people are shown how to use and manage the system through a wide range of Training Options. (even this Basic Process can be modified with PCM to make it even easier for an Organization to get started; this is supplied during Installation planning and Deployment. Optional Services are available for what ever amount of assistance client needs).
Once Basic is installed and Metrics are available, CAI Consultants help the client to evaluate the results and plan their own Process Improvements and further use of other features to improve their effectiveness. Then, when the client is ready they can move to Level 2—called Advanced to begin to use of their own new Processes and Improved process WITHOUT ANY CONVERSIONS OR LOST work from their use of Basic. In fact, their use of Basic has prepared them for Advanced. CAI also offers Training services for "Process Engineering" and "Configuration Engineering" should the client wish to use them.
Once fully on advanced, the client begin to consider moves like trying to implement 6 Sigma Process or CMM or other major steps forward in Process Development and implementation depending on the degree of Productivity improvement they want and the Quality levels they need. This offer will use the CAI schooling and Training Options are can be done in conjunction with other client activities in 6 Sigma or other Construction Initiatives.
A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be set forth in detail with reference to the drawings, in which:
A system model overview 200 is shown in
The end user's thin client connects to a server which performs the following functions. The end user can access some or all of the functions in accordance with that end user's level of permission in the system.
The functions include reporting 208, time entry 210, change management 212 and issue/problem management 214. They also include process engineering administration 216, which includes process control management 218, resource management 220, user management 222, estimating 224, and organization management 226. Of the above functions, time entry 210 through organization management 226 are implemented through a workflow engine 228 which provides task/event management.
Still another function which can be performed through the dashboard, if the user has sufficient permission, is system administration 230, including system management 232 and configuration 234, both of which are performed through a table maintenance engine 236.
The system further includes external data interfaces 238 for exporting data to, and in certain cases importing data from, databases external to the system. Those interfaces include financial export interface 240 for exporting data to an accounting system 242, project export/import interface 244 for exporting/importing data to/from a project management system 246, a call center export/import interface 248 for exporting/importing data to/from a call center system 250, and an e-mail send interface 252 for exporting data to an SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol) server 254 to control the SMTP server 254 to send e-mail.
All of the above functionality is implemented using a SQL 2000 database 256, or other suitable database.
The technical architecture for implementing the system just described will now be described with reference to
The technical architecture 300 includes the following modules: an HTTP/WAP interface module 310, a presentation module 312, a transformation module 314, an XML transaction handler 316, a business logic module 318, a data access module 320, and helper classes 322. Each of the modules will be described in turn.
The HTTP/WAP interface 310 allows the users' Web clients 304 to access the technical architecture 300. It provides a simple interface, including the dashboard, to be explained in detail below.
The presentation module 312 includes a process Main.Asp 324 and a process MainXMLHTTP.Asp 326. The process Main.Asp 324 receives requests from the users' Web clients 304 through the HTTP/WAP interface 310 and forwards them to the transformation module 314. The process Main.Asp 324 also receives XML responses from the transformation module 314, formats them into a desired format such as HTML or Javascript, and sends the responses to the users' Web clients 304 through the HTTP/WAP interface 310.
The process MainXMLHTTP.Asp 326 receives XML requests through the HTTP/WAP interface 310, forwards those requests to the transformation module 314. XML responses are received by the process Main.Asp 324, which transforms them and supplies them to the process MainXMLHTTP.Asp 326 for forwarding back to the users.
The transformation module 314 includes an action controller 328 and action objects 330. The action controller 328 receives requests from the presentation module 312 and returns XML responses to the presentation module 312. The action controller 328 transforms requests into XML documents, forwards the XML requests to the action objects 330, and receives XML responses from the action objects 330.
The XML transaction handler 316 handles XML transactions between the transformation module 314 and the business logic module 318.
The business logic module 318 includes business objects 332 and data access objects 334. The business objects 332 receive requests from the auction object 330 through the XML transaction handler 316 and pass properties to the data access objects 334, which formulate a query for the data access module 320. Results from the data access module 320 are received in the data access objects 334, which pass properties, record sets and the like to the business objects 332. The business objects 332 pass that information through the XML transaction handler 316 to the action objects 330.
The data access module 320 includes a database manager 336 and a database 338. The database manager 336 handles queries from the data access objects 334 to the database 338 and results from the database 338 to the data access objects 334.
The helper classes 322 receive inputs from the presentation module 312, the transformation module 314, the business logic module 318 and the data access module 320. The helper classes 322 include a validation engine (PVE) 340, XML utilities 342, an error manager 344, a lock manager 346, a grid manager 348, a session manager 350, a log manager 352, a cache manager 354, and a list manager 356. As explained above, the PVE determines which use should perform which tasks and in what order of importance.
Dashboard <<T2ActionObject>>
A user 702 uses a PCM template 704 to initiate and log an event in step 706, resulting in an event 708, and can update and track the event process in step 714. A manager 710 can approve the event in step 712, prioritize events in step 716, maintain and load units in step 718, and maintain the project log in step 720. A manager 710 can use security groups 722 to define event security in step 724.
Either a user 702 or a process triggered within the event 708 can generate event reports in step 726. Processes triggered with the event 708 and a task 736 (to be described below) generate merged output in step 728. A manager 710, in step 730, maintains an estimating matrix 734. The event 708 and the estimating matrix 734 result in the generation of a task 736 in step 732, which in turn leads to the generation of task reports in step 738.
Alternatively, a manager 710 can manually create tasks in step 740. A manager 710 can also schedule tasks in step 742, assign resources 744 to tasks in step 746, and prioritize tasks in step 748. A user 702 can view tasks in step 750.
A user or manager can record and recall time in step 752 and extract time in step 754. The extracted time can go to a time sheet 756 and an archive 758.
Information in the archive 758 (which will be described in detail below) can lead to the generation of an issue 762. A manager 710 can assign resources to the issue 762 in step 764. A user 702 can maintain and view the issue 762 in step 766. Issue reports are automatically generated in step 768. In accordance with the issue, a task can be generated or updated in step 770, and a notification generated in step 772 for a customer 774, a user 702, or a manager 710.
The information in the archive can also lead to the generation of a repair order 776. The repair order 776, in turn can cause the generation or updating of a problem task in step 778 or the generation of a notification in step 780 to a customer, user, or manager.
Another item that can be generated from the information in the archive 758 is a problem 782. A user 702 or a manager 710 can maintain and view the problem 782 in step 784. The manager 710 can maintain and view a repair order 786 to correct the problem 782 and can maintain and view a change request 790 in step 788. The manager can approve the change request 790 in step 794, in which case the change request is changed or updated in step 792.
The manager 710 can use step 796 to maintain and view a change order 798. A change order task is generated in step 800.
A maintain-jobcodes step 802 is used to maintain job codes 804. The job codes are associated with events 708 in step 806 and selected for tasks in step 808.
The archive 758 receives information from, and outputs it to, the tasks 736 and the timesheets 756. The archive 758 also outputs information to the events 708, the issues 762, the repair orders 776, the problems 782, and the change requests 790.
Events and tasks can be imported and exported in step 810 through a project management tool 812.
The managing organization 814 and the event type 816 are used to maintain and vie metrics 818. The metrics 818 are used in a metrics SLA 820. Metric reports are generated in step 824 in accordance with the metrics SLA 824, the events 708, and the tasks 736.
While a preferred embodiment of the present invention has been set forth in detail above, those skilled in the art who have reviewed the present disclosure will readily appreciate that other embodiments can be realized within the scope of the present invention. For example, mention of commercial software packages, platforms, and the like is illustrative rather than limiting. Also, any recitation of existing technologies should be construed as encompassing future improvements. Therefore, the present invention should be construed as limited only by the appended claims.
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Sunday announcements, school, July 6
Calvert graduate honored
Angela Belcher, principal of Crestwood Elementary, Swanton School District, Swanton, accepted the 2014 Hall of Fame School award June 17 at the OAESA 2014 Professional Conference Awards dinner at the Kalahari Resort in Sandusky.
The award is one of six awarded to elementary or middle schools in the state. The award was presented by OAESA President Kevin Gehres and Executive Director Pam Allvn.
Belcher graduated from Calvert High School in 1991, received her bachelor's degree from Bowling Green State University, her master's degree from Toledo University and her superintendent's license from Findlay University.
The award was accompanied with these comments from the OAESA Hall of Fame Committee: "'Learn, live and love' are the lessons being taught every day at Crestwood Elementary, led by an energetic, young principal in Angela Belcher. For these pre-K through second-graders, school is their 'safe place,' offering them the opportunity to make friends, have fun and most importantly receive an excellent education taught by dedicated staff that includes both beginning and veteran teachers. At Crestwood, the common goal is to educate these little ones to embrace life through learning…and loving. And the students have adult examples everywhere at Crestwood to demonstrate exactly what that looks like."
In attendance were Erik Belcher, Angela's husband; Ed and Rita Schwab, her father and mother; Crestwood second grade teachers Tiffany Hood and Izzy Smith; first grade teacher Brooks Brown; and guidance counselor Rob Gilson.
Committee to meet
Tiffin City Board of Education's support services committee is to meet at 8 a.m. Friday at the administration building.
Area students awarded at SkillsUSA
KANSAS CITY, Missouri – The team of Emily Woughter, Brittany Miller, Deanna Davise and Morgan Binkley of Vanguard Career and Technology Center was awarded a Skill Point Certificate in Health Knowledge Bowl during the national SkillsUSA competition.


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Statistics released by the Bar Standards Board have highlighted the dismal prospects for students hoping to obtain a bar pupillage, with the top providers failing to get even a third of their students into chambers.
BPP's London branch had the best record between 2011 and 2013 of students getting pupillages. However despite this, the figures show that 72% of its students starting the course in 2011, 2012 or 2013 are still yet to begin a pupillage.
And of those who began the course in 2013, only 17% have started in chambers.
The University of Northumbria was revealed as the worst at getting students to pupillage, with just 3% of students from those three years having started a pupillage. And out of those starting the course in 2013, none of its 48 students had commenced a pupillage yet.
Meanwhile at Cardiff University just 6% of students had obtained a pupillage, with just one of 51 students in 2013 starting their final level of training before becoming a barrister.
The University of Law's London branch and City Law School came joint second with 22% of their students starting a pupillage.
The statistics come as the bar regulator consults on changes to the bar training course, after barristers, pupils and students condemned the course as too expensive and poor value for money when responding to a review on training at the bar.
One of the changes the regulator has proposed is preventing candidates with a 2:2 degree from being accepted onto the bar training course.
The statistics published today showed that 26% of students starting a course in 2011, 2012 or 2013 had a lower second-class degree.
The University of Northumbria told the Gazette that six of its 2013 intake had obtained pupillages, but this had not been recorded by the BSB as the regulator's figures were based on those starting pupillages before 24 July 2015.
Its students started their pupillages in September/October this year.
Anna Banfield, director of bar professional training course (BPTC) programmes at BPP University Law School, said: 'We are pleased that BPP University Law School London has come out top in the comparison of students with pupillage.
'However, the pupillage statistics have to be read in context. In particular, it is important to take account of the number of international students who study the BPTC with the intention of returning to their home jurisdiction who do not seek pupillage in England or Wales. Across all providers the proportion of international students is variable year on year but is typically about 50%.
'This means that the pool of students competing for pupillage is significantly smaller than it may first appear.'
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Why would anyone consider a legal career full stop . Universities paint a very very different pictures than the reality of day to day practise . Family law gone , crime just took a kicking and PI about to be wiped out . There will not be any jobs full stop never mind graduates !!
I agree with everything written above. Over the years, when I have been asked to give advice to prospective lawyers, that advice has shifted from 'Be prepared for lots of hard graft and the very real possibility of disappointment' to 'Abandon the aspiration entirely; it really isn't worth it and besides, the chances are that you will never enter the profession.'
Sorry to be boring, but I too agree with all above postings.
We need to get the message out there before decent, aspiring young people make a huge investment in a sector which is dead on its feet.
We can start with the greedy "providers" who peddle their expensive courses displaying wilful blindness to the realities of oversupply of which they are well aware. They should be forced to explain the real likelihood of disappointment before taking the money.
And this was BEFORE George Osborne and his Insurance Industry financed cronies announced an increase in the small claims limit was once again back on the agenda. Little does this government realise how much tax they are kai-boshing to protect their overseas, tax avoiding insurance buddies. Would the last lawyer please turn off the light...
I went to Northumbria. I think their abysmal statistics can be easily explained. Virtually no-one on their BVC stand alone course intended to practice in the UK. The vast majority on the course when I went in 2005 barely spoke English. In the year I was there there was only two people that had a good standard of English and when I questioned this (we instructed them for an advice - so we had a full response from their full BVC course) I was told that the BVC abroad can add huge gravitas to a career, and as such because it was the cheapest their BVC was predominantly (98%+) filled with overseas students that never intended to stay in the UK. I do not think it reflects on the school.
The full data release showed the absolute and relative numbers of BPTC applicants and students from overseas, but there appears to be no data on students who sit the BPTC in order to return to their home jurisdictions to practise? I believe Hong Kong, Singapore, and maybe Malaysia recognise call to the English bar as qualification to practise, which makes me wonder how many BPTC graduates are not intending to practise in England and Wales.
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In early August, three students and one alumnus from the Wegmans School of Pharmacy attended the Phi Delta Chi's Grand Council national convention, bringing home two awards recognizing the Fisher chapter's service and professional projects.
The chapter received the "Most Improved Chapter Award" and the "100% Completion of Achievement Award." Both awards were given in recognition of professional, service, and social events the chapter completed in the spring 2013 semester.
"The award means a lot to us because our chapter is small and new. We are still trying to establish ourselves, so being recognized nationally is a big accomplishment," said Paige Nelson, a P-3 student and chapter officer.
Some of the events gaining the chapter recognition included the "Trick or Eat" Halloween food drive, where members collected 415 nonperishable food items for Foodlink and the St. Joseph's Neighborhood Project, where chapter members visit the non-profit organization twice a week throughout the semester to help organize their pharmacy and sort donated medications.
They also held a coat drive for Hurricane Sandy victims, health education screenings, and participated in the College's Relay for Life event.
The annual convention took place in Omaha, Nebraska, where 75 chapters from across the country came together for a week of meetings, discussions, and presentations. The Fisher attendees also had an opportunity to network with other chapters from nearby pharmacy schools, including the University at Buffalo, D'Youville, and Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Science.
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I have long maintained that the so-called "science" of global warming is biased and reflects a movement towards world governance, led by the U.N. After all, if this dire world-wide threat is to be stopped, the entire world must work and sacrifice together under central (read U.N.) control, although said sacrifice seems to be focused mainly on the U.S. and other "wealthy" nations like China and India. (Our share is estimated at $143 billion by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.) I did not anticipate the blatant fraudulent activity of major climate research facilities, called "Climategate", although I was not surprised.
The general sloppiness of much of climate research was graphically dramatized by the recent (September) announcement in the journal Nature Geoscience that previous estimates of glacial ice loss should be reduced by at least half. Those original estimates failed to account for a known phenomenon called glacial isostatic adjustment.
Large areas of the Northern Hemisphere were compressed under the tremendous weight of the great Ice Age glaciers that reached thicknesses of one mile. When the Ice Age ended and the glaciers melted, the Earth's crust began to rebound. That rebounding is still occurring. As the crust under North America rises, it pulls down other areas, including Greenland. (They were pushed up during the Ice Age.) Thus, the measured drop in the height of the glaciers is at least partially accounted for by this subsidence phenomenon. (I've always acknowledged that some long-term warming is occurring, just that it's much less than predicted and accounted for by natural cycles instead of "carbon footprints.")
Thus, the scary prediction of widespread coastal inundation is ... well ... all wet.
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I generally don't read non-fiction. I read to escape reality for a bit, not delve deeper into it. The exception is anything Fortean, anything relating to the paranormal or preternatural. Ghosts, UFOlogy, cryptozoology, demonology, etc. I've been reading them since I was old enough to comprehend them.
I was excited to receive The Haunting Of Twentieth-Century America, then, because this is the sort of non-fiction that I deeply enjoy. Billed as 'a journey through the shocking paranormal influences that shaped American history', I was anticipating an examination of 20th century events that shaped American culture.
Now if only that's what I received.
THOTCA is a book that puzzles me. I honestly don't know why it exists. I can't find even a hint of the stated goal within its pages. Instead of a work detailing how certain events influenced 20th century America, we have a collection of essays on a wide range of paranormal topics that have virtually no connection to each other. Some don't occur in America, many don't occur in the 20th century or have a great deal of influence on the century, and almost none have a single thing to do with 'hauntings' in any definition of the term.
Subjects covered vary wildly. For example, the first chapter deals with the Nazi fascination with the occult. From there, we go to a discussion of the paranormal history of New Orleans. Wait, what? The events in the first chapter don't occur in America and had no influence on American culture. The events in the second didn't happen in the 20th century, even if they did certainly influence the culture of New Orleans. The chapters in the book are really stand-alone essays on subjects that have little in common, if anything at all, and there's absolutely no 'theme' or common ground between them.
We have chapters such as No. 5, which covers the psychology of the subconscious. It doesn't seem to have any place in this tome at all and would be more at home in a psychology textbook for a college course.
That's really at the heart of the issue here, more than the subjects compiled. To quote a very good film, this thing reads like stereo instructions. When reading it, I felt like I was studying for a test. It's written with all the flair and panache of a textbook. What's more, like a textbook, it feels like a compendium of facts and tidbits from other sources. No new ground is broken, no suggestions or conclusions are presented from the authors; they simply regurgitate information gathered from other places and create essays out of it. It should come as no surprise that there's a 12-page bibliography at the end of the book.
I'm sorry to say that The Haunting Of Twentieth-Century America is a complete waste of time. Every topic covered in it has better, more entertaining articles written about them online, free of charge. Books have been written about every subject here as well, giving more information and likely in a more entertaining manner. Stick to those and skip this one.
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Pennsylvania can take pride in at least one area this year — how it has handled its moon rocks.
In case you didn't know, rocks from the Apollo 11 and 17 moon landings are on display at The State Museum of Pennsylvania in the alcove of the planetarium.
At a time when many of the moon rocks our U.S. astronauts brought back to Earth are unaccounted for — either lost or stolen — the Keystone State stands as an exception to a shameful track record.
As a criminal justice graduate student enrolled at the University of Phoenix, I participated in a class project to hunt down the Apollo moon rocks given to states and nations of the world in 1969 and 1973. I was assigned the task of tracking down the Apollo 11 moon rock given to Pennsylvania by then-President Richard M. Nixon and NASA.
While it might seem strange to give a criminal justice class the task of finding moon rocks, what ties it all together is that my professor is a retired senior special agent with NASA's Office of Inspector General.
Joseph Gutheinz Jr. led an undercover sting operation known as "Operation Lunar Eclipse," which recovered what is called the Honduras Goodwill Moon Rock, valued at $5 million on the black market.
The search for moon rocks has been a passion of his and something he has instilled in his students. Gutheinz assigned this project because he wanted his students to gain investigative experience without the danger involved in normal criminal cases.
It worked. This year is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 flight. This made the hunt for my moon rock more important, at least to me. Although my mom was only 16 in 1969 — far from me being born — it's a part of history that changed the lives of those who were alive at the time and those who followed.
The task of finding Pennsylvania's Apollo 11 moon rock started out a bit rocky, and I wondered at times if it even existed.
Many people I spoke with didn't know Pennsylvania was given a moon rock by Nixon. But five days into my search, I struck rock — well in this case, dust. Mary Jane Miller at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission dug through records and located information on my rock.
To my surprise, The State Museum had an Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock as well. I'd found two moon rocks.
Miller e-mailed me information showing that the Apollo 11 rock was given to Gov. Raymond P. Shafer by President Nixon. The moon chips are mounted in a Plexiglas bubble on a walnut base. The base also holds a small flag of the commonwealth that was on this flight to the moon.
The Apollo 17 Goodwill moon rock was given to Gov. Milton Shapp by NASA astronauts. The rock is suspended in a plastic sphere and mounted on a wooden plaque. A small flag of the commonwealth, mounted below, was carried on that flight.
With more than a third of the museum's staff recently laid off due to state budget cuts, it took me more than a week to get this additional information.
Most of the rocks my classmates have been able to locate are sitting on shelves in storage. Pennsylvania is an exception, with its moon rocks proudly on display for all to see.
These two pieces of history would be worth millions on the black market.
Pennsylvanians should stop by The State Museum to see these rare treasures, part of only 842 pounds of rock and dust brought back to Earth by the six manned missions to the moon.
Martinique Wilkins of Nevada is a graduate student in criminal justice at the University of Phoenix.


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