UK Courses
One of the joys of going back to work after a short break for say, child care or other caring responsibilities, is the chance to really settle into a long term career for quite a few years that remain. When we first leave school and […]
When I was away on a holiday recently, I had the chance to attend what were called enrichment lectures. Very interesting they were too. I learned lots about Admiral Nelson and various other admdirals and sea captains. I also learned a great deal about the […]
Online learning trends this year – With the growing competition every day, employers seek to train their employees with every possible means available. The use of the web, the internet is a huge bonus for employers. They have started adopting different means which are the […]
I was watching a couple of those wonderful home and property programmes on a daytime lifestyle tv channel. I had been looking for a particular online training course for pilates but got side tracked. It’s incredible how many of my pals watch this sort of […]
I well rememeber when at school we had to choose between history and geography and later, between sciences and the commercial subjects. It seemed jolly hard to choose the first ones. I loved both history and geography and have since growing up and being out […]
Just at the moment many of us over 65 year olds will be remembering back 50 years to the most exciting thing that could possibly have happened in this world. No, not the introduction of social media and f b posts; not the Spice girls […]
I was happily meandering through a very historic village that’s quite near me, on a walk with some pals. We were chatting away and very nearly had an embarrassing mishap by almost bumping into and knocking over a lady who was sat in the middle […]
Knowing our Ps and Qs . . . . . . a strange phrase which doesn’t actually seem to have a difinitive explanation but generally is taken to mean watching one’s language when out socialising and with family. This is all part of the rich […]
There really isn’t anything better than being amongst friends and colleagues when there are training courses to be undertaken. I remember the days of moving en-masse from our usual office block in town, to another one miles off, with all the time, cost and […]
We of a certain age are very familiar with the old style classroom scenario – teacher up the front of the class, chalk in hand and chalk board rubber in the other. One particular one was really excellent at writing behind her with her right […]