Category: Education

TWO students have won bursaries from Butterfield Bank and gained top grades at A-level. Elizabeth Wray achieved two A*s and an A in Biology, Chemistry and Maths and Jessica Webb received two As and a B in English Literature, Religious Studies and French. Ladies’ College pupil Miss Wray has achieved a place at Durham University [...]

FROM September business and HR professionals will have the opportunity to study towards an MSc Management with Human Resources with the GTA University Centre. Run in conjunction with Bournemouth University, the two-year part-time course is being launched this Thursday (12 August).  Prospective students and employers will have the chance to find out more about what [...]

A special assembly was held at Vauvert School today to celebrate the efforts of walkers who took part in the 40th World Aid Walk. Each year the World Aid Walk Committee recognises several individuals, groups and schools who have made an extra special contribution to the event.

According to the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) 82% of parents say the recession has increased the financial strain of university costs, in an annual survey published last week. With Guernsey students and parents also feeling the pinch of studying costs, local training provider the GTA University Centre is reminding people that there is now [...]

Sponsorship from Guernsey Electricity means Elizabeth College student Christopher Galpin will be attending the Smallpeice Trust low carbon energy challenge at Newcastle University. The world is facing up to the challenge of finding alternative energy sources and this event encourages young people to the study power that can be derived from the environment such as [...]

ON Tuesday 13 July, Amanda Rogers from the Institute of Direct Marketing will be in the Island to launch the IDM Certificate in Digital Marketing in conjunction with the GTA University Centre. The course, which will be held over two, three-day sessions, is aimed at those who implement digital campaigns as well as those who [...]

THREE local professionals have recently gained Chartered MCIPD status having studied towards an MA in Human Resource Management with the GTA University Centre in conjunction with Bournemouth University. Michelle Arundale, HR business support at the Medical Specialist Group, Hayley Gaudion, HR consultant at Focus HR Solutions, and Mary Hurrell, HR manager at Guernsey Post, studied [...]

A GUERNSEY contracts manager has been rewarded by the Chartered Institute of Building. Maarten Angenent, contracts manager with Geomarine, was nominated by the College of Further Education for his outstanding performance on the CIOB’s Level 4 Diploma in site management and has just been awarded a bronze medal. ‘I was really pleased to be nominated [...]

An employee at Deutsche Bank in Guernsey has been awarded a Master of Business Administration degree (MBA) by the University of Warwick. Head of Business Operations for Deutsche Bank’s Fiduciary Services Division in Guernsey, Jayne Wallbridge, has been awarded the MBA by the renowned university’s business school after a total of four years of studying. [...]

IN a workshop to be held next month, the GTA University Centre, in conjunction with the Commerce and Employment Department, will take on the issue of IT misuse in the workplace. The half-day workshop, which is aimed at HR professionals, employment lawyers and directors with strategic responsibility for risk, will be led by three expert [...]