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The Comino Foundation is a United Kingdom-based educational charitable organization.〔Summary of financial position, April 2010 - http://www.charitiesdirect.com/charities/comino-foundation-312875.html (accessed: 22 February 2012)〕 It was founded in 1971 by, and takes its name, from Australia-born engineer and inventor Demetrius Comino and his daughter Anna.〔Darbyshire, Anthony, and Duckworth, Eric (2011), ''Demetrius Comino: A life and legacy of achievement'', Comino Foundation. - http://www.cominofoundation.org.uk/PDF/Demetrius_Comino_a_life_and_legacy_of_achievement.pdf (accessed: 22 February 2012)〕〔Trustees Annual Report 2008 to Charity Commission - http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends75%5C0000312875_ac_20080405_e_c.pdf (accessed: 22 February 2012)〕 Known as Dimitri to his friends, Comino founded Dexion, the storage system manufacturing business in 1947. Dexion is still marketed today as part of the Norway-based multinational Constructor Group and the Australia-based GUD Holdings. Following the 1968 public flotation of Dexion, Comino arranged income to establish the Comino Foundation. He wanted to support the development in the UK of a prosperous and responsible society by promoting approaches to learning which would lead to new understandings of the process of achievement. He was also committed to changing British attitudes to industry, particularly manufacturing. ==History== (詳細はEdward de Bono between 1976 and 1980. Comino also engaged in debate with Keith Jackson who was researching problem-solving at the then Henley Administrative Staff College and the Foundation part-funded Jackson for several years as a Professor at the Centre for Education Management at Bulmershe College of Higher Education near Reading. Comino was determined, however, to deploy his GRASP approach which came to the attention of Dr Eric Bates CBE who was Head of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Education Unit. This Unit part funded pioneering work on applying the GRASP approach in schools in Dudley and elsewhere. On his retirement from the DTI, Bates was persuaded by Comino to become the Education Fellow for the Foundation. In this role he deployed GRASP through several Comino Centres over the period 1977 to 2002 with a number of papers being written.〔GRASP papers - http://www.cominofoundation.org.uk/E1_Comino_Work.html〕 The relationships with these Centres stimulated other initiatives - for example, the STEM Leadership qualification〔STEM Leadership Qualification - http://www.edexcel.com/quals/workskills/stem/Pages/default.aspx〕 with the Centre for Science Education〔Centre for Science Education - http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/cse/〕 at Sheffield Hallam University and Intense Mentoring at Homeground,〔Homeground - http://www.localsolutions.org.uk/projects/Homelessness/homeground/〕 a centre to support homeless young people in Liverpool. Apart from the Comino Centres, the Foundation also funded the use of GRASP in training staff to develop advanced techniques to improve the development of children with motor disorders at the PACE Centre.〔PACE Centre - http://www.thepacecentre.org/〕 Work with some of the Comino Centres continues with the most recent being established at the RSA Academy in Tipton.〔RSA Academy - http://www.rsaacademy.org/about/comino-centre/〕 In parallel, Comino was also involved with discussions about 'anti-industrial' attitudes, and the Comino Foundation funded a fellowship which enabled Kenneth Adams CVO CBE (then director of studies at St George's House, Windsor Castle) to study and identify the causes of such views, producing a report "Attitudes to Industry in Britain" in 1979. This work stimulated a series of 50 consultations at St George's House, an early outcome of which was the formation of the Industry and Parliament Trust in 1977. It also led, in the early 1980s, to a Comino Fellowship being funded through the Royal Society of Arts, 'to change the cultural attitude to industry from one of lack of interest or dislike to one of concern and esteem'. This eventually led to a joint government/industry initiative to promote 1986 as "Industry Year",〔Sir Geoffrey Chandler CBE, (1985) "Industry Year 1986", ''Industrial Management & Data Systems,'' Vol. 85 Iss: 5/6, pp.6-10〕〔Anne Powell (1986) "The Industry Year Attack", ''Production Engineer'' vol.65. Iss: 1, pp.13-14.〕 with the RSA and the Comino Foundation providing core funding of £250,000 - which persuaded the Confederation of British Industry to raise £1 million and government departments to provide £3 million.〔 Using his wide range of contacts Kenneth Adams persuaded leaders of industry, with support from the Comino Foundation, to establish the Foundation for Manufacturing and Industry in 1993 and became its first Chairman. This organisation subsequently became the Institute for Manufacturing within the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Comino Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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