Well that's another week drawing to a close here at CIOBS. It maybe that some of you are attending our Burns Supper in London tonight. The largest Burns supper in the world I am told. What an organisation we are. Oldest Banking Institute in the world and the world’s largest Burns supper. If you are going along, I am sure that you will have a wonderful evening. I hope you like haggis! Unfortunately I will not be in attendance, however our Chief Executive, Simon Thompson, will be there along with some other CIOBS luminaries.
What a week it has been once again with our Academy taking place at Heriot-Watt University here in Edinburgh. A big thank you to all the students, lecturers and the staff at Heriot-Watt.
Wednesday of this week brought another group of students to Drumsheugh for a Chartered Banker Introductory Day. This was a most enjoyable session and there were a few "nuggets" in there. Those attending know what I mean. The wonderful Raymond Brown appeared at one stage and the students loved him. Pity about the rest of the day when they had me in attendance.
Raymond has been working very hard this week with amongst other things the assignments for both UK Financial Services and Investment. These are new subjects within the Chartered Banker Qualification. The workbooks are now available for these subjects.
Today sees many students passing through Drumsheugh for the on-line examinations. As always good luck to you all.
Podcasting continues on a weekly basis, so if you wish to hear myself or Raymond wax lyrical about serious stuff then this is the place to go. http://www.ciobs.org.uk/about/what_podcasts.cfm.
There is one podcast where we are both involved. Two for the price of one!
I was just thinking with this being the first blog in over a week that I have not written much recently, but then again neither has Rabbie Burns.
Well I must get on now and get something to eat maybe a credit crunchie or something. ( Well it is topical)
Have a lovely weekend
Michael (The bard of CIOBS or should that be barred from CIOBS)
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Learning & Development Manager
Senior Learning & Development Manager
The Academy is the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland (CIOBS) function which has the dedicated aim of supporting students throughout the period of their studies. Whilst we obviously communicate in rather more formal ways, this 'blog' allows us the opportunity to pass on little snippets of information from time to time.
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Hi and welcome to the CIOBS blog!
As our heading says, this is just a chance for us to expand the ways in which we communicate with our students.
It may be breaking news; confirmation of information previously provided; updates on courses; news of events, etc. etc. It may even be trivia!
But whatever the communication is, it is especially for you, our members!!
Michael Downey
Learning & Development Manager
Raymond Brown
Senior Learning & Development Manager
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- CIOBS Academy
- Edinburgh, SCOTLAND