Adult Learners Week is a national celebration of life-long learning and the Learning Centre is holding events from 15^th – 17^th May. The main event will be the Author Talk on Wednesday 16^th May. Come and hear what inspired Steve Voake to become an author, how he finds his inspiration to write and how he creates characters for his books.

On Tuesday 15^th May Southampton Scrapstore will be running a creative workshop at 10am in the Learning Centre. Students will be making flags and banners on an Olympic theme, which will be displayed in the Learning Centre’s special Olympic display.

On Wednesday 16^th May the award winning author Steve Voake who was hailed as the “next J. K. Rowling” by the BBC will be speaking in the Learning Centre at 10am about his books and how he became an author after being a teacher in his earlier career. Stay in the Learning Centre afterwards to take part in a creative writing workshop, have a go at writing something of your own! Steve will also be interviewed by media students on CityTV.

On Thursday 17^th May the Learning Centre will be running a Treasure Hunt. Come to find the Learning Centre Treasure and win a prize! 1^st Prize £20 tokens, 2^nd £10 tokens.

For further details and to reserve your place at any of the above events please contact Alice Martin on alice.martin@southampton-city.ac.uk or call 8057 7239.

Alice Martin

Tags: Adult Learners, Author Talk, Enrichment, Scrapstore, Treasure Hunt

 https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk/Pages/Home.aspx

As many of you will be finishing your course soon its a good time to start thinking about your plans for the future.  The National Careers Service is a website that can help you.  It’s a one stop service that gives advice on courses and learning, planning your career and getting a job.  It includes some great tools to help build your CV, develop and action plan and give your skills a health check.

Carol Parker

Tags: Courses, CV, Employment, Interview, Job Searching, Jobs, Learning, Skills

A jobs notice board has now gone up in the Learning Centre and can be found next to the Careers section near the counter.  The jobs are updated every week and students are encouraged to take slips for jobs away with them. 

There are similar notice boards in the College Mall and over at the Maritime Centre in Woolston.

Carol Parker

Tags: Applications, Careers, Jobs, Learning Centre

Please continue to donate your books through Climate Week and beyond!

March 12^th marks the start of the second annual Climate Week. Climate Week is a national celebration of all the positive steps workplaces & communities are taking to protect our environment and hopefully inspire people. Over the last three years the Learning Centre has been working with the company Better World Books to recycle those books donated by City College staff and students, and unwanted/outdated textbooks from our collection.  Better World are very proud of the literacy impact of their company but their business model is also built around keeping books from landfill.  We thought, with the advent of Climate Week that we might pass on some figures showing the impact of our relationship with Better World.

In total we have sent them 1,061 books

Based on account averages, for every 1,000 Books they receive we:

• Earn £100
• Raise £33 for the National Literacy Trust (our chosen charity)
• Save 16 trees
• Save 2 metres cubed of Landfill Space
• Save 35,702 litres of water
• Save 3,298 Kwh of Electricity
• Save 646Kg of Greenhouse gases

If you would like to donate any books to this collection please place the items in the large collection boxes in College. They are situated in the Mall, second floor of the Austen building, and first floor of the Watts building – they are emptied regularly by our team.

Thank you!

by Nicola Hunt

Tags: Better World, Books, Climate Week, Environment, Recycling

 We have 8 copies of each new title specially written for you to read. 

Families, Mysteries, Suspense, Science Fiction, Documentaries, Adventures, Romance.

Something for everyone.

Available from the Learning Centre now!

Hurry before they’ve all gone!

Ann Langton

Tags: Books, Literacy, Quick reads, Reading