Dunne Peter UK pdunne@preston.ac.uk

I teach at Preston College, a large Further Education college in the north of England. The college caters for students aged 16 years and over and offers a very wide range of vocational and academic subjects. I am currently teaching Advanced Level Physics and Physics for Forensic Scientists but I sometimes teach electronics, mathematics and other subjects. Because the college is large and has to provide courses at university level we have reasonably well resourced laboratories with good access to computers. We teach the new Advancing Physics course that is supported by dedicated textbooks and CD roms. I run a range of extra-curricular activities and have developed a cosmic ray laboratory over the last few years. This involves a group of about 8 students who learn about particle detector physics and build cosmic ray detectors.

The college web page is at www.preston.ac.uk

The cosmic ray website is at www.preston.ac.uk/cosmic