Welcome to the second alumni enewsletter of 2009. This edition comprises of four sections:
UEL Latest News, UEL Alumni Network including forthcoming alumni events in the UK and overseas, Engaging with UEL, and Career Development and Entrepreneurship.
The last quarter of 2008 was extremely busy for the Alumni Network with a wide variety of events, as you will have noticed in the last enewsletter. We started this year by planning our next batch of alumni events. So, as you will see in this enewsletter we’ve got lots of events coming up covering a wide range of subject areas – we hope there will be something of interest for you and we look forward to welcoming you back on campus if you are able to join us.
You will also read that we successfully conducted our first telephone fundraising campaign in February. The campaign raised in donations and pledges over £90,000 from our alumni network for the development plans of UEL. We are so proud of our alumni, who have proved to be a passionate and enthusiastic source of support for UEL
We’re currently expanding our programme of alumni volunteering. Our Employability Team is interested to recruit alumni who can assist in giving some form of careers advice to our current students. If you scroll down to the ‘volunteering and involvement opportunities’ you will see the ways you can get involved. Our students benefit hugely from the experiences of our alumni, so if there is any way you would like to help, then we hope we can use your talents!
Also, we’ve expanding our alumni case studies – so if you’ve got a story to tell and want to share it – then please contact us. Details of how to do this are in this enewsletter
Our membership of various social and professional networking sites is expanding all the time. I’ve listed the websites where the Alumni Network has a membership group, in this enewsletter so please join and keep in touch with us and your fellow graduates.
Finally – we’re sending out the next issue of Now and Then, so to ensure you get your copy delivered to you – let us have your correct postal address. If you’ve moved, or never received a magazine – please update your details on the alumni website – or email us directly at alumni@uel.ac.uk
I hope you will enjoy reading it. As always we look forward to receiving your stories, comments and suggestions.
Emma Cale
Alumni Development Officer
e.cale@uel.ac.uk
+44 (0) 20 8223 2222
We are delighted to inform you that a fantastic new facility for students, graduates and local entrepreneurs has been launched on our Docklands campus. Supported by East-End entrepreneur, philanthropist and UEL honorary graduate, Jack Petchey, an innovative business partnership between the Jack Petchey Foundation and UEL is now open. The Petchey Centre for Entrepreneurship was launched on 25th March by Jack Petchey, alongside our Acting Vice-Chancellor: Professor Susan Price, and UEL’s honorary graduate and Chair of London Development Agency: Harvey McGrath.
The unique centre, which combines enterprise development, teaching, research, mentoring and community outreach, is based at our Business School and Knowledge Dock, which was recently named as the only EU-accredited Business Innovation Centre (BIC) in London. Focusing on fostering young people's entrepreneurship, it has been set up with the support of a £500,000 donation from the Jack Petchey Foundation to UEL. The Petchey Centre for Entrepreneurship will be a hub of research into entrepreneurship and the wider economy, especially the regeneration of London and the Thames Gateway
Jack Petchey, who started out in business with a taxi service at the Royal Docks, said: “I am proud to support this fantastic new facility, which will give young people in East London access to all of the resources they need to succeed with their new enterprises.
Becoming an entrepreneur is an ambition in the heart and if young people already have the desire, we can help them transfer that into a managed, structured system here. The Foundation encourages young people to achieve great things, and I fully expect those who are using this Centre to have a positive effect on our community and our economy in the future.”
Jack Petchey and the Jack Petchey Foundation
Jack Petchey is one of the UK's most successful businessmen. Born in East London in July 1925, Jack came from a working class background with very few advantages. From an early age he showed the entrepreneurial skills that have aided his success. In 1999, Jack Petchey set up the Foundation, because he wanted to give opportunities to young people in London. Over the last nine years he has donated over £50million to schools, clubs and projects which benefit young people in London. In 2003 UEL awarded Jack with an honorary doctorate and in 2004 Jack was awarded an OBE.
For further information please visit www.uel.ac.uk/petcheycentre
Here at UEL we are leading the way in pioneering new education partnerships with schools and colleges. In March, students of our Cass School of Education and Communities celebrated winning the London Education Partnership Award at London's City Hall.
The students from our innovative Foundation Degree for Teaching Assistants, were recognised for building lasting education partnerships with UEL, schools in Barking and Dagenham and the Barking Learning Centre.
“I am delighted that UEL has won this award and many congratulations to all the students,” said Acting Vice-Chancellor Professor Susan Price. “We believe that we can achieve a lot more in partnership and we are committed to our work in Barking and Dagenham.”
The event was organised by the Greater London Authority and Jeff Jacobs, Deputy Chief Executive and Executive Director of Communities and Intelligence and Wes Streeting, National President of the National Union of Students and the Mayor of Barking and Dagenham, Councillor Emmanuel Obasohan were among speakers and guests.
Mayor Obasohan said: “Joint partnership working is great because one organisation or authority alone can’t do it alone. We need to diversify and understand each other.”
Another successful networking opportunity in forging further partnerships with schools and building on existing ones was the Headteachers dinner held on 11 March. Forty head teachers from schools around London including the boroughs of Westminster, Islington, Ealing, Newham, Enfield, Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge, Thurrock, Essex, Hackney, Waltham Forest, Greenwich and Tower Hamlets enjoyed the chance to network and find further opportunities of working together.
For further information please visit www.uel.ac.uk/education
The East London Theatre Archive (ELTA) will be free to access online for the first time today as part of a project spearheaded by UEL and funded by JISC, a joint committee of the UK further and higher education funding councils.
The Archive showcases genres that flourished in the East End including music hall, burlesque and alternative comedy, with materials dating back as far as 1827.
UEL together with our project partners have been carefully collating the materials for the ELTA project to ensure it reflects the history of East End theatre. The online database is free to access and will allow students, historians and theatre fans alike to delve into the rich history of the East End’s theatre scene.
The archive includes posters from events staged by political theatre company Cartoon Archetypical Slogan Theatre (CAST) at the Hackney Empire, documenting early gigs from the likes of Paul Merton, Julian Clary, Jo Brand and Steve Coogan. 19th century play texts, newspaper cuttings and play scripts are also featured.
Andrew McDonald, Director of Library and Learning Services at UEL and Project Director at ELTA said: “Despite often being in the shadow of its West End counterpart, East End theatre has made many influential contributions to the world of performing arts which are documented through the archive’s content. We have been able to preserve a valuable slice of cultural history so it can live on for years to come.”
View the website at www.elta-project.org
Following from the UEL Team Beijing trip to the Beijing Games last year, we have been continuing with our work alongside and in partnership with the 2012 Games. One major activity that resulted from the visit last year has been the promotion of UEL facilities for training camps and hosting during the Games. The School of Health and Bioscience has worked with colleagues in other areas of UEL to host a series of visits around potential hosting during and around the 2012 Games; including those from major international teams, various professional Olympic bodies and related organisations. We cannot reveal these names yet, however, if we are successful, the potential benefits to UEL include developing partnerships and relationships with a wide range of professional bodies and organisations during the Games.
The Games give an opportunity to raise the profile of Sport across UEL and develop better facilities for students, staff and alumni. To this aim, we are involved in the task of bringing about the development of student sports across the university and the construction of new sports facilities at Docklands. The new facilities are expected to include Badminton, Basketball, Netball, and Volleyball, Handball and 5-a-side football facilities internally and 5-a-side football, 6-a-side hockey, Tennis and Netball outside facilities. It is expected to be available in 2011, ready for the 2012 Games. In the mean time, we are working in partnership with Newham Borough Council to share and improve local sports facilities for our students, both for leisure and educational use. We have recently appointed a new Director of Sport to take such developments forward.
An important concern around the 2012 games is, of course the legacy aspects. This doesn't just include the wonderful sport buildings and facilities that we hope our students, staff and alumni will have access to post 2012, but the longer lasting social and health legacy. Staff in the School of Health and Bioscience chair the Newham Community Sport and Physical Activity Network (CSPAN), which brings together all the agencies involved and interested in increasing sport and physical activity participation in the Borough. The School also hosts Proactive East that is also has significant interests in community sports.
For information on the School of Health and Bioscience please visit www.uel.ac.uk/hab
A recent study aimed to explore and collect the views of older people who have had experience of mental capacity, on the nature and extent of their exclusion and what, in their opinion, needs to change in order to achieve greater social inclusion. It focused on capturing the views of older people living with dementia, people who had experienced a stroke, people living with learning disabilities and head injuries. The study involved a series of multimedia advocacy interviews conducted between April and May 2008 with a diverse selection of older people who have experienced a loss of mental capacity. Interviewees talked about various areas of their lives and how they have changed over the years. The findings highlighted in this report introduce interviewees’ views about their lives and experiences of social exclusion. The areas of exclusion and ways in which they can be challenged are also highlighted.
The multimedia advocacy approach is built around the way in which photos and other media have been popularly used to help us to share our lives and experiences with each other, for example with family photo albums, snapshots of holidays and more recently by flicking through our mobile phone image and video clip libraries. Multimedia advocacy can avail itself of tools and techniques to suit the individual, deploying digital photography and video, as well as microphones and computers with assistive devices such as switches or alternative keyboards as tools to help capture people’s communication, their likes and dislikes, preferences and choices. The multimedia advocacy process offers a platform for staff and service users or researcher and participant ‘subjects’ to work together, learn from each other, document the detail of day to day lives, celebrate achievements, communicate aspirations and share experiences and points of view
www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/research/rix.htm
Fun-runners, or runners getting ready for the London Marathon, are needed to join Team UEL at Newham's 10K run on Sunday 19 April.
Alumni who want to join the team should email newham10k@uel.ac.uk
For more information about the event, visit: http://newhamclassic10k.com/
Wednesday 22nd April 6-9pm, Docklands Campus
Presentations, topical discussions and tips and advice for our alumni and students. Followed by refreshments and networking
Speakers
Book your place at alumni@uel.ac.uk
Undergraduate and Postgraduate
Wednesday 29th April, 4-7pm and 27th June 12-4pm, Docklands and Stratford campuses
Information about Schools and courses for prospective students.
Would you like to volunteer at the Open Evenings and chat to prospective students about the course you studied and you current job? If you can offer any advice and informal guidance to our new students we would love to hear from you.
To participate, please contact alumni@uel.ac.uk
Thursday 30th April, 5.30pm, Docklands campus
How does one of the giants of the banking world see itself thriving in the new environment for business?
Guest Speaker:
Carl McNeice Head of International and New Business, HSBC
The HSBC International Team has been created specifically to service the needs and requirements of multinational business. They are comprised of a number of experienced managers with experience in both the UK market and also numerous overseas markets.
To book, please contact alumni@uel.ac.uk
6th May, 12pm ‘til late. Docklands campus
Celebrate the joys of spring at Mayfest 09, featuring free performances and fresh artistic productions on the waterfront. An exciting programme of events includes an art fair, exhibitions, music, dance, poetry and theatrical performances, bringing together the work of professionals, students, school and community groups in a celebration of culture and creativity.
If you wish to submit an event to the festival, please fill in this form and email it to Mark O'Thomas - m.othomas@uel.ac.uk
Wednesday 7th May, 5.30pm, Docklands campus
Does there continue to be differences in the business opportunities available to women, as compared to men? Are women’s business careers different and what are the implications for the rising generation of women in business?
Guests include:
Professor Marilyn Davidson, Co-Director of the Centre for Equality and Diversity at Work Manchester Business School
She has published over 150 academic articles and nineteen books, eg ‘Women in Management Worldwide: Fact, Figures and Analysis’ (with RJ Burke); ‘Individual Diversity and Psychology in Organizations’ (with SL Fielden). She is frequently quoted in the national press and makes regular appearances on national radio and TV.
Heather McGregor, Director of Taylor Bennett
Heather McGregor is an experienced journalist and regularly contributes to national newspapers and magazines; she is most famous for being ‘Mrs Moneypenny’ in the financial times. Heather joined Taylor Bennett, in 2000 and is now the company’s principal shareholder. She founded Unicorn Jobs in 2007.
To book please contact alumni@uel.ac.uk
Thursday 14th May, 5.30pm, Docklands campus
In the next few years, will London still be the leading place to do business? What opportunities will there be for young people who want to work for businesses in London, or to start their own?
Ian Barlow is Chairman of Think London, London’s foreign direct investment agency, the London Business Board and the 2012 London Business Network.
He is a senior adviser to KPMG and until April 2008 was the Senior Partner in KPMG’s London office. His clients have included BP and ABF both very significant investors in China. He is a Board Member of London First, the principal business organisation in London and of the China-Britain Business Council.
To book please contact alumni@uel.ac.uk
Friday 29th May, 6.30pm ‘til late, Docklands campus
Come back to UEL this summer for the end of year party for UEL students, alumni and staff. A chance to meet up with some old friends, lecturers and soon to be fellow alumni! The evening will feature African music and food. This event is jointly organised by the UEL African Development Society and the UEL Alumni Network.
You are welcome to bring a guest (tickets are limited to two per booking). Entry fee £5 per person. Please pre register you place by contacting alumni@uel.ac.uk
Thursday 4th June, Private View, 6pm-9pm, Docklands campus
The Visual Arts Degree Show celebrates the achievements of our students within Fine Art, Photography, Textiles, Graphic Design, Illustration, Animation, Digital Arts, Moving Image, Graphic Arts and Fashion. Alumni are welcome to attend the Visual Arts Degree Show Private View. Come along to meet other graduates, current students and UEL lecturers.
Food and drink available
Please register at alumni@uel.ac.uk
Wednesday 24th June, Private View 6pm-9pm, Docklands campus
The Architecture Year End Show takes place during London’s Architecture Week. This annual event showcases the combined works of each unit within the BSc, Diploma and Masters Programmes. This show also provides an opportunity to see work by our foundation Year 0 students. Come along to meet other graduates, current students and UEL lecturers.
Food and drink available
Please register you interest at alumni@uel.ac.uk
For more information about the AVA Showcases, please visit www.uel.ac.uk/avashowcase
Saturday 27th June, 6.30pm – 10pm, Lagos, Nigeria (venue TBC)
All UEL alumni living in Nigeria are welcome to attend the annual reunion. Please come along for food, drink and networking with fellow UEL graduates. The evening will be hosted by Anthony Dangerfield – International Support Manager at UEL
Please register you interest at alumni@uel.ac.uk
Alumni events in India (Delhi and Hyderabad). These will be happening in October (Delhi) and November (Hyderabad). If you are interested in attending, or know of any friends and colleagues (who are also UEL graduates) who might like to attend, please let us know.
Alumni events for our graduates from the Cass School of Education. To celebrate the opening of our fantastic new building and facilities for the Cass School of Education and Communities, we are hosting a reunion for all Education alumni in November. Would you be interesting in coming and are you in touch with colleagues and friends who would like to come? Please contact us, we would like to put you on the invite list.
Can you help our current students with their careers and employability?
Option 1) Becoming an assessor - The Employability Team at UEL recently organised four Mock-Assessment Centres to give current UEL students experience of the kinds of intensive interview, presentations, psychometric tests and group exercises they might encounter when applying for graduate level jobs. With over 40 students and 50 assessors from companies such as Credit Suisse, BT,Newham Council and UEL, the sessions were a resounding success and showed a clear benefit for both students and assessors.
If you or your colleagues are interested in sharing your business knowledge and experience with current UEL students by becoming an assessor at future events, please contact Laura Barkaway at l.barkaway@uel.ac.uk
Option 2) Offering Job Placements in summer 2009 - Over the last 3 years the Employability Team has grown its own supported paid Summer Placement Scheme. In its infancy the scheme managed to find 13 paid opportunities for our students over the summer from June to September. Last year Mark Faulkner from the Employability Team, managed to secure 37 paid opportunities for our students and is hopeful to increase the numbers for 2009.
If you or your company can accommodate a paid placement to offer current UEL undergraduate the opportunity to practice learned skills in the workplace and adding value to their academic achievements, please contact m.faulkner@uel.ac.uk for further details of the scheme.
Option 3) Getting Down to Business Week: Taking part in our assessment centres- The Employability team at UEL takes a broader view than most universities in preparing UEL students for careers. We aim to develop students' skills by offering interactive sessions rather than the traditional talk from the industry representative! Getting Down to Business Week, held during the week of 26 January 2009,offered a programme designed to raise the awareness of differing opportunities available in the finance sector, as well as offering tailor made assessment centres. Speakers from State Street Bank, Deutsche Bank and Anglo Irish Bank worked with our students from the Business School on a day's programme and provided them with valuable insights to prepare them for their future careers. Other workshops were led the Windsor Fellowship, Gradintel and the Shell Step Programme.
We will have more Business Weeks planned. In these difficult times we are aiming to offer as many preparation sessions as resources will permit.
If you would like to participate in our assessment process by offering to help with mock interviews, or if your company is in the position of having vacancies that need to be filled, we would really welcome your contribution. Please contact: m.richardson@uel.ac.uk if you are able to assist us in any way.
University of East London Alumni Network group on Facebook. Social networking for all alumni of UEL
University of East London group on Linked In. Professional networking for all alumni of UEL
UEL Alumni’s of the D A CH region on Xing. Professional networking for UEL alumni in Germany
UEL Indian Alumni Group Delhi on Orkut. Professional and social networking for UEL Indian alumni in the Delhi region
All of our psychosocial graduates will shortly be receiving our new newsletter dedicated to what’s happening in the department and giving you news and career relevant information. There is also a short survey in there, which we encourage you to send back to us. This is because we are keen to find out what you are doing now, and how you are getting on since graduating from the Psychosocial studies programme.
We would be delighted if our alumni can come back to UEL and help in some way by giving career advice or guidance to current students on the Psychosocial Studies programme. We would also like to develop an informal group of psychosocial studies alumni so that you can benefit from each other’s knowledge and experiences.
To see a copy of the newsletter online, please visit www.uel.ac.uk/alumni/groups.htm
Don’t forget that as a member of the UEL Alumni Network, you are entitled to a range of benefits, services and discounts. This quarter, we are highlighting on of our new benefits:
2-for-1 meals at hundreds of UK restaurants
With a Gourmet Society Dining Card you can enjoy fantastic savings at over 2,000 restaurants across the UK, from Michelin-starred establishments to everyday family favourites, country inns and city centre chains. The Gourmet Society Dining Card entitles you to 2-for-1 meals or 25% off your bill – including drinks – at the entire network of participating restaurants throughout the country.
Membership usually costs £53.50, but UEL alumni can join for the discounted rate of just £27.95 for a year with an extra 2 months free! To take advantage of this offer and check out restaurants in your local area, visit http://www.thegourmetsociety.co.uk using promotional code UEL.
Free 6 Month Dining Card Offer! Valid to 30/04/09
To celebrate the launch of the Gourmet Society Dining Card in the South of England, if you live in one of the following counties we'll give you a completely FREE 6 month Dining Card: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, East Sussex, Essex, Greater London, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, London, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Suffolk, Surrey, West Sussex.
To register for your FREE Dining Card visit www.gourmetsociety.co.uk/uelfree.
For a full list of benefits and services please visit www.uel.ac.uk/benefits
David Pairpoint
2008 MA Fine Art Studio Practice
Current Occupation: Artist
UEL student and graduate David Pairpoint worked for 20 years in a bank until he decided to shed the collar and tie and become a mature art student. Now studying for a Phd, he recently had a powerful exhibition at the New Cut Arts Centre called 'Hooray for Hollywood' which looks at the way Hollywood glamorises the most tragic of professions.
David Pairpoint, 64, of Flixton, near Bungay, is currently studying for his doctorate in fine art at UEL having first gained a degree and then a masters degree here.
“I worked at Lloyds Bank for 20 years before chucking the job in and went off to Norwich Art School to do a foundation course, which I then followed up with a BA in fine art at the University of East London and then went back 15 years later to do my masters degree and now I am currently working on my Phd - on a part-time basis.”
For me it came when my daughter came home from university and told me that she had come across these things called mature students - people of my age who had gone to university later in life. I had never come across this before but I quickly found out about it."
He said that although he didn't have his life changing epiphany until the age of 40, he has never regretted the change of career from reasonably well-paid bank employee to new artist.
“It took a lot of courage at the time - not only on my part but on the part of my family as well.” David's talent and hard-work are being recognised with the exhibition at the New Cut Arts Centre in Halesworth.
David's exhibition takes as its theme the way that iconic Hollywood images are used as part of our visual language in everyday life and makes a link between the way that Julia Roberts prostitute was portrayed in Pretty Woman and the way that the five murdered prostitutes were portrayed by the media while the search was on for their killer.
“In later life I have come to realise how much of my outlook on the world has been shaped by Hollywood and how the film industry portrays the world. It shapes our thinking without us really being aware of it.”
He said that film world has always glamorised the world of the prostitute and perhaps now needs to take stock and take responsibility for the messages it sends out.
(courtesy of Andrew Clarke - East Anglian Daily Times)
Wan Rosnah Ahmad
2006 MBA
Current Occupation: Director and Principal Consultant WRA Agency and Consultancy, Malaysia
Wan Rosnah studied her MBA from UEL at the Women’s Institute of Management in Malaysia. She is dedicated to encouraging and supporting women entrepreneurs in SME’s (small and medium sized enterprises). She has set up a group all about entrepreneurship and specifically for women who are operating businesses around the world.
Wan Rosnah is working on a variety of different and exciting projects, one of which is her company WRA Agency and Consultancy. The company is a management consultancy firm which specialises in the areas of corporate training programmes, business consulting and website design management. Wan and her colleagues have the expertise and knowledge to assist, develop and advise other business owners in the areas of marketing, set up and other related business consulting.
Recently, Wan was invited by the Centre for International Private Enterprise in Washington, USA to assist with the development of women’s communities.
For more information, please visit www.trainingwra.com and http://groups.google.com/group/women-entrepreneurs-in-smes?pli=1
Our first telethon fundraising campaign has been a huge success and has raised over £90,000 in donations and pledges from our alumni which will be invested in new development initiatives at both of our campuses.
Our first fundraising event ran for a whole month and it supports the Annual Fund, which was launched in November 2008. The Fund offers an opportunity for UEL alumni, staff, students, Governors and other friends of the University to help fulfil development plans for the university in the run up to 2012.
The money raised from the Annual Fund will go towards the following projects:
Dr Fariba Salehi-Kellaway, our Head of Development and Alumni at UEL said: “This has been a great first fundraising campaign and I’m delighted with the outcome. In addition, the funding will raise potentially over £135,000 after the Government’s fifty per cent matched-funding is added. We recruited and trained a fantastic group of forty five student callers who agreed to call members of the Alumni Network to ask them if they would like to donate towards the Annual Fund.
“The callers loved their experience and approached thousands of our alumni to raise the funds. Our alumni have proved to be a generous source of support for the university as we expected. Now the students can't wait to get involved in the next campaign and bring other students along too. Charlotte Tyce, our Annual Fund Officer, also worked with a lot of commitment towards the success of this campaign. Thanks to them all!”
Austin Nnajieze, who is studying International Law and Economy said:“Being able to take part in UEL’s first Telephone Fundraising Campaign and succeeding in raising funds for the Annual Fund is my way to leave a legacy behind.”
Cashael Mason Nwokeji is in her second year studying International Development Studies. She said: “It was a brilliant campaign and I really enjoyed fundraising for the university. It is fantastic that UEL is trying to meet the needs of students by enriching their student experience on our campuses”.
to all our donors who contributed to the Annual Fund during the telethon. We have had over 500 donors! There are too many to individually thank in this enewsletter, but please know that we really value your support to UEL.
A private physiotherapy practice based in Billericay is currently looking for 2 graduates to start work immediately.
E-Physio associates Ltd specialises in neurophysiotherapy working in East London, Essex, Kent and Herts. They have 2 vacancies for graduates to work along side our senior neurophysiotherapist Sue Davies and also to work as enablers for a long term patient.
Further details of E-Physio Associates Ltd and contact details can be found on the website www.ephysioassociates.com
New, independent economic impact analysis reveals that individuals with professional qualifications and membership stand to gain £152,000 in additional earnings, over the course of their career. A recent study also uncovers wide benefits to the public purse, as professionally qualified individuals deliver higher tax revenues for the UK Exchequer.
Led by the Chartered Management Institute, the research was commissioned by eight of the UK’s leading professional bodies and is based on analysis of data for six consecutive quarters of the Labour Force Survey.
Key findings include:
The report shows that professional training and development is a key lever of support for the Government’s Skills Strategy. Together, the eight Institutes deliver over 50,000 qualifications per year and, in line with Government plans to “ensure employers have the right skills to support the success of their business”, the majority of ‘students’ undertake qualifications while remaining in employment.
The report also highlights how professional qualifications are ‘open access’, ensuring that individuals are able to build transferable skills no matter what their previous qualification level has been. By demonstrating that professional qualifications are undertaken across a range of age groups, and are split evenly by gender, the study shatters the myth that professionalism is elitist.
Against this backdrop, the eight professional bodies are collectively calling for the creation of a Professional Skills Council. The aim is to create greater value for the UK Commission for Employment & Skills by raising demand for professional and higher-level skills across the 25 Sector Skills Councils and identifying gaps and shortages of professional skills across a range of industries.
Ruth Spellman, chief executive of the Chartered Management Institute, commented: “With 70 per cent of the 2020 workforce already in employment, the prosperity of the nation is dependent on up-skilling and updating knowledge. The creation of a Professional Skills Council would deliver significant value by simultaneously highlighting employer need, raising employer ambition and encouraging UK organisations to make strategic investments in the development of their teams. After all, if employers think competent people are expensive, they should take a moment to think about the cost of incompetence.”
The report, ‘An Economic Impact Assessment of the Consultative Committee for Professional Management Organisations’ can be found at www.managers.org.uk/qualspay
Why not invest in your future with membership of the Chartered Management Institute?
The Chartered Management Institute is recognised by Royal Charter as the professional body for managers in the UK.
University of East London graduates are guaranteed a saving of at least 20% for the first three years after graduation. In addition, we waive our normal application fee if you become an Associate (ACMI)– saving you another £45 when you join.
Belonging to the Chartered Management Institute puts you on a fast track to professional excellence, with rapid access to high quality up-to-date management tools and resources, helping you to prepare for the future.
With our online services just a few clicks away you can:
In addition, our branches run events throughout the UK to support your learning and provide networking opportunities.
In order to benefit from this offer please quote code C3522. You can apply online at www.managers.org.uk/apply or contact our membership team by email charteredmanagementinstitute@managers.org.uk or on +44 (0) 1536 207330 for more information.
Short professional courses in IT – Wireless, Linux, Java, Web, Networks, C++
£50 DISCOUNT for UEL alumni
If you are thinking of developing your career, looking to boost your qualifications or simply want to learn something new, why not take a short course in IT. At UEL we champion lifelong learning and offer a growing range of short courses designed to inspire and inform or act as a springboard for further study.
Our professional IT courses are at affordable prices and we are offering a £50 discount to all UEL alumni. Courses are delivered by expert lecturers who are vendor certified in the qualification they are delivering.
Start times
Most courses run evenings and weekends from 6.30pm – 9.30pm for approximately 2-3 months in Docklands campus. For start times and to find out more please contact us:
http://www.uel.ac.uk/uelconnect/short_courses/study
Email: short.course@uel.ac.uk
Tel: 020 8223 4368
Back to top...
© 2008
Apply for Membership
E-Newsletters
Services for
Graduates
Merchandise Order Form Graduation Ceremony
For a general description of these pages and an explanation of how they should work with screenreading equipment please follow this link:Link to general description
For further information on this web site's accessibility features please follow this link:Link to accessibility information
The following message does not apply to screenreader users:
You will still be able to access all the essential content of this web site, but it will not look, or function, exactly as intended.
