Micro Academy is a creative company with four areas of production:

1. Making computer programs that use the power of colour and gestalt to solve personality profiling and other problems in art and psychology.
2. Color Academy, a website inviting and providing answers to frequently asked questions about colour in all areas of culture.
3. Colour bibliography library.  It assembles educational books on living, cultural and aesthetic aspects of colour.
4.  A small tutoring unit.

Ethos

Micro Academy's ethos of mentoring students to achieve their full potential is basic to its premier software product, the ProMICAD System for Empowerment, published by Lifetime Careers, Wiltshire.  This is kept updated.  It identifies the best aspects of a person’s character and shows how they can be developed to excellence. It draws attention to good features and talents that have not been recognised. In this way it boosts morale, and gives a person confidence to change for the better.    To have a better understanding of what goes on in a student’s mind, the designer of ProMICAD spent some years studying medical psychology Post Grad. at London Un.  He discovered, for example, there were thousands of Psychological tests that told you what was wrong with you and how bad it was, which he considered counter-productive.  Regretably, no test concentrated solely on what was specially good about a person, potential or latent talents.  This is precisely what ProMICAD is all about.

Research Funding
In 1996 Micro Academy provided a bursary to Kingston University to fund a programme of research into the Use of Computers in Art Education. The student selected did well and her supervisor advised a transfer from M.Phil. to D.Phil.  Later, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, (OJJDP) in Washington, USA, offered to discuss sources of funding for any US group wishing to evaluate the system with young people in (or at risk of entering) the Juvenile Justice system.  Links were also made with a number of universities, especially Reading and Manchester Metropolitan University, in order to encourage scrutiny of our work at the highest level. Further bursaries for investigating the short and longer-term effectiveness of proMICAD were planned.

MICAD Research Programme
Micro Academy has now established Professional, Standard and Basic language versions of the ProMICAD System for key user groups up to degree level. Research areas include: • delinquency prevention and youth development • community care • offender assessment • rehabilitation of prison inmates and offenders • market research • business management training • psychological diagnostics.