ABSTRACT
As a basis for the preparation of the feasibility study only two very general assumptions and the size of the eventual student population were available to use as guidelines. Once an institution places significant reliance on resources developed from original works by its academic staff it can become a hostage to fortune if, simultaneously, it does not make agreements concerning the use of that material. Because the preparation of written work is so easily carried out away from the premises of employment on cheap material readily available, it is impossible to prove that such work is done during the normal hours of employment. Much educational television material, even that produced for the Open University, is in the nature of being peripheral to the main course of training and, as such, has a very minor function in what it sets out to achieve.
