We picked up on an interesting piece by UCAS, (the Universities and Colleges and Admissions Service) which confirmed that the: “…number of UK-born university applicants for next September 2012 has dropped by almost 12%…” This is clearly the result of fees having increased up to £9,500 a year. Clearly the time has come for young ...…
Just a quick reminder to register for the 2012 BETT Exhibition in London. BETT, the British Educational Training and Technology Show takes place every year in January at Olympia in London. The event attracts more than 650 educational suppliers and around 35,000 visitors. The event brings together the educators, elearning specialists, global teachers and the ...…
Our most recent blog was about the continuing student protests – well, they continue, and hardly surprising considering the levels of cuts and the drop in UK university numbers. Yesterday, Wednesday 9th November 2011, saw continued student protests regarding course fees. After the 2010 student protests, there was speculation on Wednesday that the marches education ...…
The Chartered Institute of Marketing, (CIM) recently published a study titled: “Improving Marketing Effectiveness”. The reported mainly concluded that almost half of the companies they interviewed are still not using customer or marketing metrics to help inform board-level decision making. (For those that don’t know, CIM offers popular professional marketing courses and training, and is ...…
We just want to add a quick blog post that supports our recent post about the drop in university places which is resulting in an increase in demand for professional courses. The support is that recent research by AAT estimates that 55 per cent of the class of 2011 are expected to be either unemployed ...…