Author: Nikki
Civil Service Or Apprenticeships Focused E-Training Courses
Posted on June 17, 2019 by Nikki - No Comments
Young people today have rather too much choice in how they set about getting a career. The schools are geared up entirely to getting every single student into university – not for the good of the student but for the good of the school league tables and reporting. The government has various means of getting in to be a civil servant – graduates can apply for the fast track scheme in which they are taken on my one ministry and work their way up through junior management posts – not really helpful to my kind of civil service career, I was one of the plodders who got there on merit! Training courses though for all ivil servants are better than most of the ordinary office based ones. They are expensive but streamined. also available today are specialist e-learning courses for candidates to take in preparation to apply for apprenticeships and national civil service careers. The gov web site has all sorts of interesting pages about training and study at work and how to find the right course to get the right job. This is a most useful feature and should suit/
With Such Online Learning, You Still Need Mnemonics
Posted on May 7, 2019 by Nikki - No Comments
We tend to pride ourselves on our way being the ‘right way’ to do everything. Having been born and raised in this tiy country, I’ve never really had any reason to question how our education system works. I could indeed have made much more of my early opportunities – studied just that bit ore when the maths teacher was striding across the classroom, chalk in hand and desperatly warbling. I can remember a mnemonic for trigonometry which of course involve Sin, Cosin & Tangents. So . ..The Sign of a Public House means the Tanning of a Poor Boy and the Cause of a Broken Heart. I think we take that as Sin = Perpendicular over Hypotenuse; Tangent = Perpendicular over Base and finally, Cosin = Base over Hypotenuse. It was so helpful to me for the brief period we touched on that element of maths. Today of course, I can sign up for any number of frantastic online courses and have he world literally at my fingertips.
Career Ideas Flood In From TV Programmes
Posted on April 10, 2019 by Nikki - No Comments
It can be so daunting when youngsters are just beginning their upper school career – lots of exams to be encountered and no idea why they’re doing this or that! Online training courses are becoming much more available for all ages, not just the youth of today. With so many career options for them to choose after their mainstream education has been completed, TV is often a source of ideas and inspiration, daytime gaes shows not counting here – but the crime genre and anything with law and order. Many a young person could well decide to work towards becoming a police officer; there are exams needed as well as voluntary work as a community officer who spends time with the real officers and gains experience of life on the beat. Police work particularly relies on comprehensive understanding of data systems, electronic learning and and how to extract information to do the job adequately and expertly. Learning these understanding skills early on will enhance any career later.
Encouraging Students With Varied Learning Options
Posted on March 7, 2019 by Nikki - No Comments
Going for the higher grades for GCSEs is often a real challenge for a youngster. Things ar so very different to how they were decades ago when these formal examinations were originally set up. There were two exam levels but of course, no e-learning or online resources. We were able to choose which scheme for each subject. GCE O level was the preferred one – offering the chance to go on to take A levels if university placement was sought. Those not able to manage that level could opt for the less demanding CSE; the top marks were equivalent to the bottom two of a GCE. Today the options to top up a student’s level of knowledge or exam passing ability are many and varied. Online learning schemes and teaching courses at home are fantastic and give a child that boost in self confidence to sit that higher level paper!
Early Forms Of Career Based Training
Posted on February 12, 2019 by Nikki - No Comments
How well I remember my poor old dad going off to night school to retrain in his chosen career. Having been in the forces, he became an apprenticed aircraft engineer on aircraft carriers. A very dangerous occupation and one that had very specific training at the time. After he left that life behind, he became a rep for a brewery – a very popular job for some men quite probably, but it was only a comfortable stepping stone for dad. He had other ideas. He wanted to combine his talent for sketching with illustrating and doing technical drawing. So after working all day he would go to night school twice a week to learn the essentials. It obviously worked – he was able to get a job at the very important aircraft factory that was building the marvellous supersonic aircraft that defined our country for a few short years – I am so proud he was able to make his contriution to that exciting project.
Cricket Banter Made A Good Education Appear Worthless
Posted on January 2, 2019 by Nikki - No Comments
I was listening to a ‘warts and all’ interview of a celebrity on radio the other week. Coming to the programme after the start, I was initially unclear as to the subject of the frankly syrupy banter going around the studio. It took me a few moments of light concentration to catch the voice – I am very good at that as a rule. Having got my first clue, I listened on to a quick run down of the candidate’s education – he elaborated rather on having been a bad boy at school – obviously a fee paying one. I say obviously – no one at state school would have been so full of ego to try some of the apparent capers. It turned out to be the very well known and popular cricketer from the 1980s I had first thought of. Funny raconteur and good sportsman in his day but a rather less effective advertisement for going through the privately educated route to anything – other than stardom!
When Imitating The top Brass Needs Helping Hand
Posted on December 29, 2018 by Nikki - No Comments
For the most part, families who know their place in this world have no difficulty in deciding their route to the top educational establishments. Generally in the grand scheme of things, there wil be a scattering of top army brass, an MP or two and one or two very popular minor aristos to keep the name circling high. These fmilies have for generation after generation educated their children at one of a select few pre prep schools, before little Mini Me goes up to the next stage of prep and finally the biggie – Eton or Harrow. The long term view is that you only get the best if you pay for the best. A consultant can help many families who are not exactly in that upper league. They have a nose on every angle of education in this country and can suggest alternative routes that can achieve the same but cost far less.
E-Learning For The Career – Art For The Love Of It
Posted on November 19, 2018 by Nikki - No Comments
I have a youngster amid my extended family and she’s now soaking up learning and education like asponge. For most of her teenage years, she has been sitting in the corner of the room quietly sketching anyone and anything attracting her immediate attention. Rather like a war reporter. She has a very impressive gallery of pictures nd filled sketch pads. Everyone assumed she would major in art and has never really thought about another stream of learning. Now that she’s in her gcse year and results of ‘mocks’ are the instrument govening her next stage, she has suddenly gone into over-drive with wanting to bone up on other subjects. Realising that art is a luxury subject and not taken very seriously by schools, she has taken to revising the core subject big time using e-learning and online education courses. Her whole ethos has changed and she’s keen as mustard to get the highest possible grades in all!
No Blue Stocking Needed For Blue Sky Thinking
Posted on October 2, 2018 by Nikki - No Comments
A few years ago there was a trend going around the younger up and coming members of the business community for snappy slogans and attaching ‘themes’ to companies and products. If you went to a modern university then it was referred to generally as ‘red brick’, rather than old stone portal. Anyone hoping to score top marks with brilliant ideas that were far reaching and stimulating would be described as ‘a blue sky thinker’ and in a way it pigeon holes us for that period in time. Any women who succeeded in business after going to a prestigious fee paying school for example would universally be referred to a ‘the blue stocking type’ – despite having worked jolly hard to gain her qualifications through knowledge and how to apply it. Gaining additional qualifications for any vocational direction is much easier today with e-learning and online courses that are very job specific.
Shorthand Typing Skills Gradually Fading Away
Posted on September 24, 2018 by Nikki - No Comments
So many times you read about an actor being interviewed and amongst their little witty throw away lines they mention that they never planned to become an actor. Lots of the older ladies had mothers who insisted they took a shorthand and typing course first – almost as a punishment for wanting to do something as risky as become an actress. There are countless ways that being a short hand typist must have given great security to folk who were just starting off on their career ladder. The initial training could be beefed up with the next grade up, as I managed. I did Pitman’s elementary, intermediate and advanced typing whilst at school. Until fairly recently, when men suddenly decided that having a laptop meant they could dispense with a secretary . . . there was always a good lucrative means of earning an income. Now, men do their own correspondence – all via email and sadly, rarely a business letter is sent anywhere !