Category: IT Training

Oh how I well remember testing out many of e-learning courses that were being considered to become mandatory around the department from when I served as a junior civil servant.  They were quite basic tests at first but although we all groaned about having to spend time logging on and doing them, they were actually…

When my family were very much younger, we lived up in Scotland – father was serving at a base up there and we followed.  I was too young to go to school then – trailing behind my eldest sibling jealously.  There was certainly an interesting lesson to be learnt with the language – although in…

When I was growing up we used to visit Scotland a lot from down south – wherever we were living apart from the overseas postings.  Dad had been in the forces and we moved around a lot.   Our annual holidays to remote farmsteads and mobile caravan parks would fill us with glee as soon as…

There are some things about living in the middle of nowhere that can be slightly less of an advantage than others.  When you consider the logisitics of getting several dozen children into school every day, particularly in the worst of weathers, there is often a case for abandoning this mad exercise and adopting an online…

When we take up a career, whether fully structured such as nursing, medical, legal etc., there are particular forms of training that are an accepted route to that much desired post.  Going through school, students are helped to select the right examinations to achieve the grades in the right subjects to take them on to…

I remember from years ago, the urge to brush up on my French language skills.  My father was always keen on self improvement and enrolled at our school for evening classes in French conversation.   I was so envious – but in fact, he struggled desperately because his school boy French hadn’t been improved upon from…

There are very few things in life that are as important as getting a good rounded education.  Well, after eating, being housed and clothed anyway.  Going to school has been a fundamental right available to every child in this country for years.  There are social problems in some areas and there are some dreadful parents…