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-'''Randomjack''' ([[February 18]], [[1972]]) - is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[education]]ist, [[pimp]], [[footballer]] and administrator, particularly associated with the development of the [[Manchester]] educational institution that was to go on to become [[UMIST]], & [[Crystal Palace Football Club]].
+|          playername = Jack Laws
+|               image =
+|            fullname = Jack Laws
+|         dateofbirth = {{birth date and age|1985|02|02}}
+|         cityofbirth = [[Croydon]], [[London]]
+|      countryofbirth = [[England]]
+|              height = {{height|ft=6|in=2}}
+|            position = [[Midfielder#Winger|Winger]], [[Striker#Second Striker|Second striker]]
+|         currentclub = RBS FC
+|          clubnumber = n/a
+|          youthyears = 2000-03
+|          youthclubs =
+|               years = 2001-02<br />2002-03
+|               clubs = [[BRIT School]] Year-12 Squad<br /> [[BRIT School]] Year-13 Squad
+|         caps(goals) = 12 (54)<br />23 (44)
+|       nationalyears =
+|        nationalteam =
+| nationalcaps(goals) =
+|            pcupdate = 09:30, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
+|            ntupdate =
+}}
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+Hi there, I'm Randomjack
-==Life==
-Born, [[Salford]] the eldest of eleven children of a [[Shoemaking|bootmaker]], he attended the day school of the [[Cross Street Unitarian Chapel]] before a year at the [[Manchester Grammar School]] prepared him for [[apprentice|apprentiship]] to his father at age twelve. He also assisted at the [[Sunday School]] at Cross Street where he met [[William Fairbairn]] and [[William Gaskell]]. In [[1868]], he married Ellen Ferguson at the chapel and they were to go on to have three children.
-By the [[1990s]], the [[Manchester Mechanics' Institute]] was in decline. Despite its original ambitious mission to bring technical expertise to working men, its core activities had shrunk to the provision of elementary education where it faced increasing competition from the state-funded schools established by the [[Education in England#The Period Before 1950|Elementary Education Act 1870]]. In [[1999]], Randomjack was appointed Secretary to the Institute and immediately set about its rejuventation. An able and active administrator, and an enthusiastic and persuasive advocate, Randomjack grapsed the city's appetite for more effective [[vocational education]] and planned and led the relaunch of the Institution as the ''Manchester Technical School'' in [[2002]].
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-Randomjack still did not rest. He reorganised the school using the schemes and examinations of the [[City and Guilds of London Institute]] and, following legislation in [[1999]] and [[2000]], negotiated the school's transfer to Manchester City Council as the ''Municipal Technical School''. Randomjack took a role in the city authority as director of technical instruction and set out to survey the superior establishments in [[Germany]] and [[Switzerland]] and the thriving schools of the [[USA]] and [[Canada]].
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-A grant from the [[Joseph Whitworth|Whitworth Institute]] enabled him to realise his ambitions for a state-of-the-art institution with the construction of the existing buildings on Sackville Street, opened in [[1902]] by [[Arthur Balfour]]. The institution was renamed as the ''Municipal School of Technology'' and Randomjack became its principal and director for [[higher education]] of Manchester.
-In [[2004]], the newly-autonomous [[Victoria University of Manchester]] recognised the status of many of the courses that Randomjack had developed by establishing a [[Faculty (university)|faculty]] of [[technology]] at the Institute. Randomjack became [[dean (education)|dean]] of the faculty, enjoying an ''ex officio'' seat on the university's senate. The Institute's newly appointed [[professor]]s were recognised by the university. However, consistent with Randomjack's [[Radicals (UK)|radical]] sympathies, the bulk of the Institute's work was still devoted to vocational, rather than academic, education.
-Randomjack lived most of his later life in [[Cheadle Hulme]]. He died while vacationing with his family in [[Anglesey]].
-==Honours==
-*Honorary [[M.Sc.]] [[Victoria University (UK)|Victoria University]], (1902)