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INTRODUCTION
Acknowledgements
The NSC in particular, wishes to thank the Mineral Industry Sustainable Technology Programme (MIST) of the government's Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) for fifty percent of the funding needed to research and produce this report. The remaining costs were entirely drawn from the NSC's own resources, which in turn are derived from the income sources noted in Appendix 3b. This was considered essential in order that the report is considered to be as objective as possible. The Mineral Industry Research Organisation (MIRO), administrator of the MIST Programme, is also thanked.
The compilers of this report are extremely grateful for the considerable degree of co-operation, encouragement and support from individuals and organisations in the industry, other industries, all sections of education, official and voluntary bodies.
They would especially like to thank Stewart Taylor for his contributions to the KS2 Exercise (Appendix 11), Peter Chapman (Foster Yeoman) for compiling a list of all the occupations current in his company, Felicity Jelly (Lafarge) for provision of guidelines used in-house and feedback report on events, David Weeks (Hanson) for his particular assistance in providing detail about current practice, the Earth Science Teachers' Association (ESTA) and in particular the ESTA primary group for helpful advice, Elizabeth Clements and the Quarry Products Association (QPA) for encouragement, access to internal guidelines to members and permission to use extracts from reports prepared for QPA by NSC, English Nature for authorisation to use of extracts from the Research Report 523 (prepared by NSC), all colleagues on the Joint Earth Sciences Education Initiative (JESEI) for permission to reproduce parts of that project, the many companies for which NSC has undertaken commisions for permission to reproduce extracts, members of the Committee of Heads of University Geoscience Departments (CHUGD) and the County Planning Officers Society (POS). Consultees and others assisting the project are listed at Appendix 2. The team engaged in the project itself is detailed in Appendix 3a.