Category: IT Training

There is one particular advertisement on mainstream tv currently that is pretty inspiration and for quite a different reason to the one you’d expext.    One of the major banks has developed a training scheme for young people nearing the end of school.  Their online courses and mentor based education side helps to encourage yougsters to…

With so much resting on those finals at school to get students to the next level of their education, it’s understandable if they start panicking and thinking they’re not going to make it.  Some young folk get themseles worked up into such a stew of anxiety, you could think their lives absolutely depend on those…

I know of a couple who run a web based business – they do all kinds of marketing and designing web sites is only one small part of their remit.  They also train companies how to make the most of their online prescence and unusually, they are able to point out where various colleagues within…

We all need to get up to speed when it comes to learning new tricks and work practices.  I recall vividly years ago, our then boss decided the best e-learning method for we ladies in admin to learn our way around a keyboard was by playing solitaire on our desktop computers for half an hour…

Some of the stranger things about our private education system is that firstly, the schools are known as Public Schools.  This is nonsense of course – they are no more public than Buckingham Palace, although each and every tax payer in the land and the wider environs of it do actually pay huge sums towards…

With the need to keep improving the education provision for all children, the Scottish system does seem to be achieving great things – as they have historically.  Their whole ethos differs and it is possible to keep up with the scottish system via e-learning and excellent courses in IT training.  In many sectors of industry…

We have a great choice of educational establishments in the UK and many parents worry themselves to death almost if their little prince or princess doesn’t meet the qualifying minimum needed to enter any of the public schools – the creme de la creme for all the most important families.  However, there are some truly…

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…