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Autumn 2009: CITE introduces new rates for Exams
Officer qualifications
For the fifth year
running, KC Education and Training - CITE's partner organisation - is
offering qualifications for examinations officers at all levels and has
introduced an exception package for the
2009-2010 season. Whether you are new to the exams officer role, an
administrator or an experienced exams office manager, we are able to
support you and your professional development with an exams officer
qualification tailored to your specific needs.
And with the new Diplomas
growing in importance, our team of specialist Diploma tutors will help
you through the critical responsibilities associated with collaborative
working and the role of exams officer.
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The Level 2
Introduction to Administering Examinations qualification is
available for the exceptional price of £195 + VAT. This
starter qualification includes everything you need to
successfully complete the qualification - a workshop day with
tutor support and full workbooks.
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The Level 3
Administering Examinations qualification is available for
£550 + VAT. Again, this includes a workshop day with tutor
support and full workbooks to ensure successful completion of
the course. Candidates successfully completing the Level 2
Introduction to Administering Examinations with KC Education and
Training only pay a top-up fee of £345 + VAT – offering two full
qualifications for the price of one.
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The Level 4
Managing Examinations qualification is available for £650 +
VAT. This also includes a workshop day with tutor support
and full workbooks to ensure successful completion of the
course. Candidates successfully completing the Level 3
Administering Examinations with KC Education and Training only
pay a top-up fee of £345 + VAT.
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For further details of
these exciting offers,
click here to go to the Exams Officer Qualifications page.

Autumn 2009:
CITE completes exciting

Curriculum development consultancy and
training on behalf of the British Council in Northern Cyprus
Jeremy Curtis, one of
CITE's Directors, has worked this year with the MEYAP team and the
Ministry of Education in Northern Cyprus on curriculum development
consultancy and training on behalf of the British Council. Jeremy and
his project team have focused on a total of seven vocational sectors:
accounting; finance; electric; electronic; hairdressing; beauty; and IT.
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Accounting and Finance team

Hair and Beauty team |
The project has included leading and supporting development of
employer engagement, revising occupational standards in IT, and
Accounting & Finance for the Year 11 curricula, and revising
occupational standards in hairdressing & beauty and electric &
electronics to inform Year 10 and 11 curricula.
Teams of teachers from North Cyprus Schools worked on revisions
to Year 10 and 11 hairdressing & beauty and electric &
electronics curricula, specifically benchmarking existing
modules, rationalizing the modules and writing module standards.
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Electrical and Electronic team

IT Team |
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Working with employers |
The project delivered development support and training for
the setting up of a new Internal Verification system in
secondary level TVET schools. Teams also carried out extensive
research into developing the Work Placement Scheme in IT,
Accounting & Finance, Hairdressing & Beauty, and Electric &
Electronics for secondary level TVET schools. |

Summer
2008: CITE's first Management candidate completes
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CITE’s first
Management Studies candidate – Liz Stevens – passed her BTEC
Professional Award in Management Studies with flying colours.
She collected her certificate from Jeremy Curtis, Director of
Cambridge International Training and Education.
Liz currently works
as Exams Officer at the Lancaster School in Leicester. |
Autumn 2007:
BTEC Level 5 Professional Award in
Management Studies
Cambridge
International Training and Education successfully delivered a pilot
blended learning programme
leading to the BTEC
Level 5 Professional Award in Management Studies and membership of the
Chartered Institute of Management on behalf
of one of its parent companies, KC Education and Training. Led by a team
of education specialists, delegates spent four days on a residential
course in London working towards Module 1: Managing Change, as well as
introductory workshops on Module 2: Personal Development and Module 3:
Leadership.
As a result of the course,
our delegates have been able to plan the management of change in their
organisations, supported by a personal development plan and new
leadership skills.
Middle and senior managers
now have the opportunity to develop their own skills as well as gaining
a valued qualification – meeting their own Continuous Professional
Development needs and benefiting your organisation with the ability to
tackle change effectively and efficiently.
Autumn
2007:
Integrated suite of
support qualifications for schools
Cambridge
International Training and Education are delighted to announce the
introduction of a fully integrated suite of support qualifications for
schools.
The qualifications are
offered in conjunction with
KC Education and
Training, our partner organisation,
as part of our commitment to your continuing professional
development.
The suite comprises the
following qualifications:
Summer
2007:
Mentoring in the
Workplace
 Cambridge
International Training and Education has just completed delivering the
BTEC
Level 3 Advanced Certificate in Mentoring in the Workplace for the
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation in the Middle East.
This highly successful
course, specially tailored to the oil industries, was delivered to 17 candidates
under the watchful eye of its two consultants
Kevin
Corrigan and
Howard Parker.
The course focuses on
three key elements:
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supporting
learners by mentoring in the workplace
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supporting and
advising individual learners
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monitoring and
reviewing progress with learners

Feedback from the candidates has been extremely positive:
"Thanks - I really
appreciate all the tremendous work running and organizing the successful
Advanced Certificate in Mentoring course."
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