Good morning and welcome to the North-East London Polytechnic. The North-East London Polytechnic, which we often call as NELP for short is one of 30 polytechnics in England and Wales. As you know, at a polytechnic, you follow broadly similar courses of study to those at universities, although many polytechnic courses are strongly vocational. That is, they lead directly to a career, and you may well spend a considerable slice of your time actually working on placement in industry or any other work area as a part of the course itself. Some of these courses are the so called "sandwich" courses, typically two years' polytechnic study, one year in industry, and a final year back at the poly before your examinations. Another feature of polytechnic life is that there is a very large choice of courses. For example, at NELP you can study Manufacturing Systems Management specialising in computer-aided design, or Business Studies with the option of adding German to the course.