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It has become fashionable in both academic and policy discourse to suggest that the latter provides a way of explaining differential access to education, employment, housing, health and welfare facilities, and so on (Ratcliffe, 1999). External constraining factors, particularly institutional racism and individualised forms of discriminatory behaviour, are said to account for the fact that minorities fail to acquire their full citizenship rights. Sometimes, minorities have been seen as undermining their own interests by a process of self-exclusion.

Investors in People (IIP) is a major governmental initiative aimed at local economic regeneration on a considerable scale and with huge financial backing. Examines the potential long‐term benefits to be gained by organizations achieving the IIP standard, and advises on the creation of a sustainable action plan according to four vital guiding principles. Argues that the alignment of HRD activities with strategic organizational goals, necessary to achieving the standard, will be facilitated by the involvement of managers in their programme roles, leading to their “ownership” of the change process at an early stage.

Much of what we know about the status of different populations in the educational system is gained by understanding the factors that facilitate or restrict student progress in the educational pipeline. The educational pipeline as an analytic model places access to and opportunity in higher education in a larger social and institutional context and examines the steps leading to the successful completion of college as part of a larger, more complex process. Namely, it helps us to understand the process – as a whole and in stages – by which the many are reduced to a few on the path leading from the earliest years of schooling to post-college outcomes.

Hugh Africa, Council on Higher Education (South Africa)

Hugh Africa returned to South Africa in July 1994 after an absence of 30 years. His deep involvement at all levels of education – from basic to university – covers almost four decades. After obtaining the B.A. and B.A. (Hons) degrees from the University of Natal, he completed the M.A. degree at the University of Leeds and received his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. He also holds a Natal Teacher's Diploma.

The prayer against the Poultry (Hygiene) Regulations which we briefly mentioned in the editorial of our last issue, was lodged as a result of activity by the Environmental Health Officers' Association. Incidentally it is the first occasion as far as we can recall that a prayer has been lodged against any of the rash of food regulations of recent years, and reflects the strong feelings of the public health inspectorate.

This is the collection of papers read at the 1967 Melbourne symposium which had, as the main theme, design, economic and operational aspects. These are further summarised in two categories, the design and operational aspects of the fatigue problem in general aviation and transport aircraft and, of unusual interest, the economic aspects of the fatigue problem as it affects both operators and manufacturers. Altogether this covers the structural load measurement and analysis, design and certification programmes of a wide range of aircraft. At one extreme are the several papers on helicopters such as “The application of Ti‐6A1‐4V to fatigue loaded components”, “The fatigue and fail‐safe programme for the Lockheed 286” and also among light aircraft, “The design and certification for executive type aircraft”, “Agricultural aircraft flight loads”, “Typical spectra and some observations on airworthiness” and “The New Zealand light aircraft fatigue meter programme”. At the other extreme, there are papers on “Design and philosophy and fatigue testing of the Concorde” and “Fatigue design and test programme for the American SST”.

W.E.B. Du Bois proclaimed the colorline as the problem of the 20th century; in similar fashion, the problem of the 21st century could be characterized as the “wealth divide” or more clearly, the challenge of extreme economic disparity alongside broad socio-cultural diversity. Women-of-color scholars have used various concepts such as “the matrix of domination” (King, 1988), “intersectionality” (Collins, 1991), “borderlands” (Anzaldúa, 1987) and critical race theory (Crenshaw, 1995) to demonstrate that the “problems of the 21st century” are related to rapidly expanding diversity alongside stubbornly persistent economic inequities across race, ethnicity, gender, class, language, citizenship and nation. Extensive technological, economic, political and social changes, along with immigration, have coalesced to produce a global community of great diversity and interpenetration. Unfortunately, this global community continues to be fractured by extreme disparities in wealth, divided into “have” and “have-not” societies (Chua, 2003).