AmazeYourself Delivery started

Our first cohort is underway on the AmazeYourself Project. Training is every Wednesday evening from 6pm to 7:30pm, and covers Legal & Governance, Marketing, Selling & Finance in 4 sessions. We're using the CETLE teaching room to deliver the training, as it provides a good learning environment and comes with the AV equipment we need. It's also quite handy for the kitchen and cups of tea! (And slightly bizarrely some Honeynut Cornflakes, Cornish pasties and 2 bottles of wine - one feels someone has been living in there recently!)

Praise Indeed

Here is some feedback from students who took the Social Policy and Social Work module "Working in Organisations", which was created with funding from the CETLE. It makes good reading even if I do say so myself! Congratulations Robert Gunn for putting such a good module together.

"The Working in Organisations module has opened my eyes to the use of not-for-profit organisations with today's society. The module has taught me many valuable lessons concerning the establishment and co-ordination of such an organisation."

"Unlike most other modules, Working in Organisations enabled me to exercise an ability and interest that is often suppressed my many other assessment methods. The module has matured my patterns of thought, relative to my future."

"Before the working in organisations module I was unsure about what I would consider myself to be doing after graduating this coming summer. However the module has given me vision and belief in that I now know that my future lies within the management or even the creation of an organisational structure."

"Since handing in my dissertation my focus has been radically different than prior to attending the working in organisations module. I have also concentrated upon applications for summer internships and potential employment within both not-for-profit and profitable organisations."

Proms Mayhem

With only five days to go the CETLE is absolutely chock full of York Proms staff and volunteers beavering away in last minute preparations for the big day. It's great for the CETLE to be so full, and it's very satisfying to see that York Proms has gone from an idea being talked about round a table to a multi-thousand pound event which has captured the imagination of the City as a whole! We're getting calls from the council telling us how professional the team have been, and everywhere you go in town you can't help spot the white figures on the green background hanging from every surface. It's going to be a spectacular day.... if the preparations go to plan that is!