training

You cannot imagine the excitement that buzzed around the room when a couple of newly acquainted volunteering colleagues were chatting happily about school days and all the new ideas for learning – IT based edcuation courses and another who has just sat a degree using online learning.  Suddenly the William…

Oh my goodness I remember from so many years ago, or so it feels, the days before my office became fully computerised.  Unbelievable as it will seem to the everyday workperson, there was a time before computers and we used to record everything with pen and paper.  All those hours…

I’ve recently joined a ladies’ boutique gym, and have been popping down to avail myself of it’s circuit training and treadmill several times  a week.  At first I was pretty shattered at the end of three circuits plus 2 sessions on the treadmill.  Having nearly passed out after sitting the…

There is s world of difference between signing on with any old educational course and being rushed through an assignment at a time and looking through selecting the very best course and course provider that your funding can obtain.  For beefing up career based education training, then of course an…

As we all know, there are certain careers that need a constant training element and this is most effectively presented by way of e-learning tools.  The ease with which teams can be updated in their day to day operational role can never be fulfilled in the same way with a…

If you have a slow learner in the family it can be quite distressing all round.  You don’t always recognise a problem at the beginning.  It is often when the child becomes quiet and withdrawn, or the opposite, disruptive and attention seeking that problems with school work sometimes make themselves…

When we sign up for anykind of learning course, there is an expectation that the student is capable of applying themselves to the teaching methods presented throughout the course.  Some people can absorb a great deal of information straight off the board or screen – reading, comprehending and then being…

I have recently been visiting a group of senior ciizens who are in the mid term of dementia.  I have plenty of experience of the vagaries and cruel life sapping nature of this illness.  Both my mother and mother in law have sucumbed and it is dreadful.   The sadness is…

Having just come back froma really fab family christmas, I realise it was a tremendously educational and uplifting time.   We were staying in a very old cottage that the parents had bought when first married.  They have gradually done all the conversion and rebuilding work turning two tiny cottages…

I often wonder if there is a nice little secretarial post out there needing a part timer –  few hours a week would be a nice little way to keep in with other human beings and earn pocket money . . . . .   Of course, life is not like…