Training is of great importance within any organisation. Whether it is trying to improve existing skills, establishing new ones, or providing an introduction to innovative software, training will always be necessary, and is essential for the education and development of staff.

In September and October, Liverpool Chamber of Commerce will run a series of courses designed to train staff in different aspects of their work. Some will serve as a way to expand one’s knowledge of common programmes; others will be vital for those hoping to progress up the company ladder. Details about each seminar are listed below. Follow the links for more information and to book online.

September 2: Assertiveness Toolkit – The Art of Being Confident
September 7: Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace
September 14: First Aid at Work
September 20: Microsoft Word 2007 Intermediate – Advanced Course
September 23: Microsoft Excel 2007 Intermediate – Advanced Course
September 27: Negotiation Skills
September 29: Successful Presentation Skills
September 30: Microsoft Outlook 2007 Intermediate – Advanced Level
September 30: Chartered Institute Purchasing and Supply Level 2 Certificate
October 7: Using Competitive Dialogue Effectively

All of the seminars will take place at the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce at Number One Old Hall Street, Liverpool, Merseyside. Start times, durations and fees will vary between the courses.

Each of these seminars will provide a detailed insight into a specific area of business. They feature definitions, breakdowns and examples of each subject, and will give those who attend the chance to practice the skills they have learned.

Whether it’s learning the art of negotiation, improving your skills on Microsoft Excel, or simply ensuring that your work environment is safer, your knowledge and experience of the subject will increase, and reach higher standards, after attending these courses.

They will provide unique, detailed and extensive training. And remember: every organisation, every member of staff, will always require training.

For more information, visit the Liverpool Chamber website

Love To Learn In Liverpool - The LILA Hosting Experience

Have you got one spare room or more? Would you like to earn some extra money for it?

You can earn up to £115 per week by hosting international students.

LILA are a language school based in Liverpool city centre and they are looking for more hosts in your area. They teach English to students from all over the world and they want to experience our way of life by staying with local people.

Dawn from Aigburth has been a LILA host for six years. She says “Hosting is a great opportunity to meet people from all over the world and the money I get for doing it helps pay for my holidays each year!”

Most of our hosts are recruited through word of mouth, so if your family, friends or neighbours have a spare room and are keen to meet people from overseas, then tell them about LILA and get them involved in this great opportunity.

If you are interested please contact Ruth on 0151 707 0909 or visit the school for a chat.

LILA
47 North John Street
Liverpool
L2 6SG

info@lilalovetolearn.com

www.lilalovetolearn.com

Wednesday 2nd March 5.30-8pm, Liverpool Chamber

Tough economic times require new approaches.

MBAs from the University of Liverpool offer you time to think in an ever changing business environment, time to dedicate to your success and discover how global expertise can benefit both your business and your career.

Our MBA Open evening in Liverpool’s Chamber of Commerce is an ideal opportunity to find out more, join alumni, current students and directors of study.

Register your attendance at www.liv.ac.uk/timetothink

Fast Track Events, in association with Cardinal Heenan Sports College is very proud to present: The Masquerade Ball 2011

What:
An evenings entertainment, dinner and meeting of some people behind some of the best businesses in Merseyside!

Bring your wallets, this is a fund raiser people - we’ve got great raffle prizes from hotel stays, to  laptops, and did I hear anyone mention a silents auction - no, because it’s silent! SSSHHHHHH!

Where:
Racquet Club, Hargreaves Buildings, 5 Chapel Street. Liverpool L3 9AG

http://www.ainscoughs.co.uk/Racquet-Club

When:
16th February 7.30 - 12.00pm

How do we get in?
Tickets are £35

Please email us: fasttrackevents@hotmail.co.uk with your details, or contact us via phone 0754 5888 488 and we’ll get them to you.

By Snail mail:
Fast Track Events,
6th Form,
Cardinal Heenan Sports College,
Honeys Green Lane,
Liverpool L12 9HZ

What are people wearing?
Well, lots of people have asked, it’s a ball, a modern one - with Masks! LBD’s are perfect, and fella’s - you can’t go wrong with a suit can you! Why?

Well, here’s the thing…
We’re a group of students from Cardinal Heenan High school in Liverpool. To be quite honest, we’ve got qualifications coming out of our ears. We’re 15 years old and have already sat our GCSE’s, we’re working on our A Levels as we speak. We can potentialy finish our college life a year early!

Our school, along side ‘today starts NOW’ has given us the opportunity to run a live enterprise project. Well, we wracked our brains…what could we do?! We’re young, and we love to ’socialise’ so we wanted to do something which involved having some fun.

We knew we had to raise money for the school. Our school would love to build a television studio - see, not only do we have great ambitions, so does our Headmaster!

We decided that if it was going to be social, an events company was needed and here we are, Fast Track Events, and, as we wanted to meet lots of business people, and knowing they love a good event as much as the next person, we thought we’d create it for you! If you catch us earwigging whilst you’re eating please pay no attention. Business from up and down the country have helped us, we’ve got some great raffle prizes, thank you kindly, and a silent auction (all very posh!)

Please support a local school, more importantly, local enterprising students. Come meet some great like minded business people, a great opportunity to dress up, wear a mask, eat some great food and enjoy yourselves! From the Clever kids at Cardinal Heenan!

Students from Liverpool John Moores University are asking for the support of the local business community to help their Marie Curie fundraising event be a runaway success.

They are organising ‘A Night At The Races’ to be held at The Palm Sugar Lounge on 3rd February 2011 from 7pm till late.

The theme of the evening is a race night with a total of eight races running throughout the night projected onto large screens.

A fashion show is also arranged to take place showcasing lines from designers such as Roxie O’Dell Couture.

Upon arrival guests will be greeted with a champagne reception and there will be a Thai buffet provided by neighbouring restaurant Chaophraya served by waitresses during the event.

In tandem with the fashion show and horse racing a raffle will be held with prizes on offer including two tickets for the Grand National, a £100 voucher for Slater Menswear and a £50 voucher for Powder Room hairdressers and makeup artists.

Funds raised on the night through the raffle and horse racing will be donated to Marie Curie. 

To make sure the night is a big success, they need your help.

Could your business donate prizes for the raffle? These could be goods, services, treats, vouchers - anything at all.

Plus, could your company sponsor one of the eight races? Sponsors will have one of the races named after them, the opportunity to name all of the horses running in that race and have their presence as a sponsor announced on the night along with a mention of their services – all in return for just £50.

Tickets are just £15

If you would like to attend, or think your business can help, contact:

Rebecca Lewandowski
T: 07908958989
E: R.L.Lewandowski@2009.ljmu.ac.uk

Wirral organisation plan second Anglo-Indian teachers’ conference as Business Secretary Vince Cable celebrates education links with India

Business Secretary Vince Cable praised Britain’s links with India this week as he welcomed a major deal announced between Indian education company TutorVista and Pearson, publisher of the Financial Times and Penguin Books, which is acquiring a controlling 76% stake in the Indian business.

The Business Secretary announced the deal from New Delhi as he leads a delegation of 50 British companies in India, one of the world’s most dynamic economies, to strengthen the partnership between the two countries and co-chair trade talks.

Dr Cable said: “Education is an area of huge potential in India and will be a driver of future growth. Forty percent of India’s population is under the age of 15 and the Indian Government is committed to educating 500 million people over the coming decades.

“The UK has a very strong reputation around the world for education and UK firms have a great deal to offer. Education and skills are a key theme of this visit and that’s why I am here in India with firms which are successfully expanding and actively seeking out opportunities overseas.”

The news will be welcomed by Wallasey enterprise the Aspire Trust, a social enterprise which provides services and expertise to a range of clients and customers from Merseyside to Delhi. 

Last summer they hosted the first Anglo-Indian Head Teachers’ conference in Merseyside, after being approached by Eduexcellence, an organisation based in India which promotes international education by encouraging a culture of constant learning and sharing best practice.

Dr Nick Owen, Director of the Aspire Trust, consulted UK Trade & Investment North West, who put him in touch with their staff in Delhi.  The UKTI team helped to secure visas for the staff from Aspire to enable them to make the trip to India to meet Eduexcellence, and helped them to make the right contacts overseas.

The first visit to Delhi led to the All Our Futures conference in Merseyside in June 2010.  Fifty teachers from across the Indian subcontinent flew into Liverpool to meet their English colleagues and examine issues common to both societies with the aim of finding shared solutions.

The event was such a success that a second All Our Futures conference is scheduled for this year, in partnership with Eduexcellence, a spin off enterprise from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.  In addition, a third professional development and training seminar, Opening Doors, is also planned in June, in partnership with Planet Multimedia who design and manufacture educational materials.  Aspire is hoping for over 150 delegates in total for both events which will again be held in Merseyside.

Dr Nick Owen says, “While our Indian colleagues may come from vastly different social, cultural and economic backgrounds, we all have one thing in common – the desire to prepare young people to cope with, and achieve in ‘all their futures’.

“When we were asked to organise the conference we wondered how we could possibly talk about secondary education in a rural school in India compared with somewhere like Wirral, but it became clear that although the contexts are different, the issues facing schools across the world are fundamentally the same.  We are very much looking forward to continuing our work with India, and using All Our Futures to develop international education links, and we are grateful to UK Trade & Investment for their support in making this happen.”

India’s government invests $40bn each year or three per cent of GDP in education, while Indian consumers spend more than $40bn on private educational institutions and services.

The UK’s bilateral trade with India is currently worth around £11.5bn. Exports have continued to grow since the July visit with latest figures showing a rise of 35% in UK exports to India in the year to October.

Extending Working Life
Liverpool Hope University
Continuing Professional Development

“We cannot safely assume that other people’s minds work on the same principles as our own”

Dates
Course 1 - 15th February & 10th March 2011
Course 2 - 24th March & 19th April 2011
Course 3 - 3rd & 24th May 2011

Venue
Liverpool Hope University, EDEN Building

Time
9:30 am - 4:30 pm

Cost
£550.00 - 2 day course
£450.00 for two or more participants

Extending Working Lives

Following the publication of the Dept for Work & Pensions recent report on ‘Extending Working Life – changing the culture’ Liverpool Hope University is offering a new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) short course programme on this theme.

It is designed for all those who have an interest in this important feature of work-life balance, as western economies and societies enter a new phase of their relationship with the business of work, retirement and ‘the third age’.

EWL will be run as a two full-day programme over one month.  The gap between the two days will allow participants to consider and work on some of the issues presented in the first day.

The second day will offer participants the opportunity to develop their own EWL plans, both personally and for the organizations and groups which they represent.

The style of learning will be highly interactive, with a mixture of teaching, group work, personal work and task activities.  EWL will be delivered by staff from the Faculties of Sciences & Social Sciences, Education and Hope Business School.

The cost of the programme is £550 for the two full days programme (£450 each for 2 or more participants from an organization), including refreshments and sandwich lunch each day.  The course will be delivered in the new state-of-the-art Eden Building on the University’s Hope Park Campus, Taggart Avenue.

Learning Objectives

The programme will enable participants to:

• Consider their own attitudes and approach to the boundary between extended working life and ‘the third age’.
• Understand the wider psychological, health, demographic, social, financial, political and legal contexts of 21st century working life.
• Chart a personal and organizational course through the changing landscape of extended working life.
• Work together in assessing personal mini-projects on their responses to the challenges faced.
• Set a strategy and action plan for the ways in which they and their organizations respond to the issues raised by both the Extending Working Life report and its direct implications for them.

Programme Outline

Day One
9.30  Arrivals & coffee
10.00  Why work longer?
11.00 An Ageing Population
12.00 Not the mid-life crisis?
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Positive Stories on Extending Working Life
14.45 A Model Retirement
15.30 Setting course, not setting sun
16.15 Closing activity
16.30 Depart

Day Two
9.30  Arrivals & coffee
10.00 When I’m 64?
10.45 Focus Groups.
12.00 Better HR, not better HRT!
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Presentations.  Each group has time to present their findings and suggestions, with time for Q&A.
15.30 Stepping down gently – Final presentations on options; panel Q&A and setting personal action plans
16.30 Depart

For further details  or to book your place, please contact: Sheila Hayes 0151 291 3396 hayess@hope.ac.uk

Local workshop leader Beccy Williams has been in touch with details of the activities she provide for local schools. She concentrates on highlighting environmental issues and the many opportunities available for recycling materials.

Beccy says: 

We have bountiful resources freely available to us that are often overlooked, even considered a problem to be got rid of; But with a little imagination these can be transformed into desirable assets…

I have been working with schools and community groups around the UK since 2004, delivering creative recycling workshops transforming household waste into beautiful and useful new objects using everyday tools and household appliances, as well as helping to expand the possibilities of existing equipment through new working methods and applications.

My workshops are practical, informative and fun. Their core focus is recycling and reuse, and broaden participants’ understanding of industrial recycling proccesses, but most workshops are developed with the school to enhance cross-curricular learning and can incorporate particular curriculum areas to enhance creative learning, for both pupils and teachers.

Further down this email you will find more details and photos from previous workshops.

If you would like to discuss any upcoming projects, or find out more about the work I do, you can email me at : beccywilliams@yahoo.co.uk, or feel free to give me a call on : 0151 222 5824 or 07904 08 96 08.

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Do you have science, technology, engineering or maths skills you could share with your local community?

A scheme supporting young people in schools is looking for ambassadors from the local business community.

The STEMNET project www.stemnet.org.uk which engages people with Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths (STEM) aims to help young people by enhancing and enriching the school science and technology curriculum with their skills and enthusiasm.

They are currently undergoing a campaign in Greater Merseyside  to encourage more people to become STEM Ambassadors.

Ideally they would like to recruit around 300 volunteers to meet regional school needs from the business community who have a STEM background.

Involvement is not too onerous, volunteers only have to register online and support one event per year (although there are no barriers if they wish to do more!).

To register with the scheme is: visit https://db.stemnet.org.uk/register.cfm and select Greater Merseyside as your preferred Ambassador administrator.

STEMNET Aims

• To be a recognised leader in enabling all young people to achieve their potential in STEM by: Ensuring that all young people, regardless of background, are encouraged to understand the excitement and importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in their lives, and the career opportunities to which the STEM subjects can lead;
• Helping all schools and colleges across the UK understand the range of STEM Enhancement & Enrichment opportunities available to them and the benefits these can bring to everyone involved;
• Encouraging business, organisations and individuals wanting to support young people in STEM to target their efforts and resources in a way that will deliver the best results for them and young people.

Wednesday, 26 May 2010

12 noon – 2 pm

Liverpool Hope University celebrates European SME Week with a Networking lunch for local businesses

Join us to hear Professor David Weir, Head of the Business School, share his views of “Enterprising Universities”.

David Weir has fifty years of experience in enterprise, has been involved in large and small organisations, started many businesses and has both made and lost money. 

He will talk about the responsibilities and opportunities of Universities, students and employers in developing enterprising organisations and enterprising people.

There will also be the opportunity to:

• View the new Capstone Theatre
• Meet our Enterprising students from the Enter-prize Competition
• View the artwork of our final year students

A free Continental Lunch will be provided.

There is no charge for this event.

Venue
Creative Campus
17 Shaw Street
Liverpool
L6 1HP

To book your free place or for more information please contact Becky Hoare: hoareb@hope.ac.uk / 0151 291 3480/3005.

Please book your place by Tuesday 18 May.
 

Liverpool Vision are sponsoring this event.