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It’s not easy being green

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“It’s not easy being green” a colleague says this morning.  Wrong.  It is easy. 

Director of Learning and Skills

Not to abandon private cars, holidays or the other life-changing things – they are difficult for most.  But to turn a light off, shut down a computer, turn the heating down a degree, empty your car boot of rubbish, drive 5mph slower?  Easy. 

These are all marginal changes that accumulate to major savings and help the environment.  And none of them impinge upon personal freedoms or cause any great inconvenience. 

ATG occupies a large, air-conditioned, well-lit building.  It needs to if it is to provide comfortable premises suitable for its excellent courses.  We will work to reduce our energy consumption this year.  By every one of 82 staff making their own marginal saving.  We can feel proud of the environmental impact and share in the financial benefit.

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Director of Commercial Development

Director of Commercial Development

I have been out and about recently and one of the conferences I attended was from LSIS (Learning and Skills Improvement Service) normally at conferences I am itching to go at lunch time conscious of the work I have back at the office, however this one I was gripped. 

The title was “Embracing Innovation” and being a secret geek that got me all fired up.  I realised very early on that even though we are pushing on with our e-strategy, we have still a very long way to go.  I started asking myself a lot of questions.

  • What about students visiting ATG through 2nd Life?
  • What about letting prospective students ask tough questions about our quality through Facebook?
  • Why not question why we sit students down in a classroom, is this how they like learning?
  • Books, Google will have all books EVER printed on-line by next year, WOW.
  • Our learners have changed, so should we?

Anyway enough blogging, and back to my Blackberry for some bite sized learning experiences.

Matt

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