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Michael Kibby: An appreciation
Cemputeva Educ. Vol. 27, No. 3/4, p. 149, 1996 Published by Elsevier .v~'__-,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.~Ltd. u Printed in Otmt Bsttsin 0360-1315/96 SIS.00 + 0.00
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MICHAEL gmBY: AN APPRECIATION Computers & Education has been fortunate indeed to have Mike Kibby as its chief editor for the past six years. As he retires from the University of Strathclyde, where he headed the modestly labelled Centre for Academic Practice, he also leaves the editorial chair. He deserves our thanks. Mike brought to the duties of editor an extraordinary dedication. He believed that Computers & Education, f'wst as a Pergamon journal and then under Elsevier Science, had to he a proper academic pubfication, and he went to great lengths to ensure that this was so. With quiet determination rather than extrovert flamboyance, he let it be known that refereeing would be t o ~ h because the journal was going to be the best in its field, if not anywhere in the world, then certainly in the United Kingdom. While comparisons are sometimes odious, it has been apparent now for a decade or more that Computers & Educatkm has set a standard of academic content and technii~d quality that no other British journal could surpass, and that many of the U.S. and Eurol~an journals could not even match. We owe that to Mike Kibby and the conscientious support he commanded from referees, the publishers and, not least, the printers. Computers & Education in its 20 years, has had only two editors at the British end. Mike had a hard act to follow: Peter Smith of Queen Mary College had been editor for more than a decatie. Mike's successor has an equally diff'~ult task. DAVID HAWKRID~E Institute of Educational Technolozy The Open UniverSity Milton Keynes M K 7 6AA Enslad
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MICHAEL gmBY: AN APPRECIATION Computers & Education has been fortunate indeed to have Mike Kibby as its chief editor for the past six years. As he retires from the University of Strathclyde, where he headed the modestly labelled Centre for Academic Practice, he also leaves the editorial chair. He deserves our thanks. Mike brought to the duties of editor an extraordinary dedication. He believed that Computers & Education, f'wst as a Pergamon journal and then under Elsevier Science, had to he a proper academic pubfication, and he went to great lengths to ensure that this was so. With quiet determination rather than extrovert flamboyance, he let it be known that refereeing would be t o ~ h because the journal was going to be the best in its field, if not anywhere in the world, then certainly in the United Kingdom. While comparisons are sometimes odious, it has been apparent now for a decade or more that Computers & Educatkm has set a standard of academic content and technii~d quality that no other British journal could surpass, and that many of the U.S. and Eurol~an journals could not even match. We owe that to Mike Kibby and the conscientious support he commanded from referees, the publishers and, not least, the printers. Computers & Education in its 20 years, has had only two editors at the British end. Mike had a hard act to follow: Peter Smith of Queen Mary College had been editor for more than a decatie. Mike's successor has an equally diff'~ult task. DAVID HAWKRID~E Institute of Educational Technolozy The Open UniverSity Milton Keynes M K 7 6AA Enslad
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