A School of Continuous Improvement prospectus sets out five kinds of picture-puzzle square and the University's decision to mark its own forms to them.
A prospectus from the School of Continuous Improvement rules on the corner of a tile, and on the forms that follow
Which kind of square is a wheel, a pole, or a passing van? The School of Continuous Improvement has published a prospectus that answers, and that invites prospective students to be assessed against the answer.
The brochure is led by Lecturer Dr Bram Ntuli, Convenor of Improvement Grand Rounds, with Senior Lecturer Dr Torun Ezeigwe, Director of the Master of Applied Measurement, Associate Professor Dr Casimir Beng, Lead of the Adaptive Metrics Lab, and Senior Lecturer Dr Fenna Okoro of the School of Emergent Priorities, Convenor of the Horizon Register.
A square that is still waiting is worth keeping a list for. It is a pleasure to find a prospectus with room for one.
— Dr Fenna Okoro, Senior Lecturer and Convenor, Horizon Register
The prospectus names five kinds of tile — the Whole, the Sliver, the Neighbour, the Lookalike and the Sky — and follows them through the three places the University learns, applies and keeps them: the Master of Applied Measurement, the Adaptive Metrics Lab, and the Horizon Register. Prospective students are invited to bring a square of their own to Improvement Grand Rounds.
On the strength of the sorting, the University has adopted a Tile Standard for its own paperwork. Every select-all-that-apply item on a University form is now marked to the tile ruling, and an item marked against it voids the application for that teaching period, with no ordinary override. Dr Beng said the Lab was glad to give a form something steadier to lean on, and that the rulings are held in the Indicator Commons for applicants to consult.
The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.orwhn3.