Farewell to British Summertime

Hello to you all and welcome to the CIOBS blog.

The first blog since the clocks went back one hour last weekend. What do you mean "did they ?"

After our recent discussion about when the weekend starts, maybe we should start a "when does winter commence" debate.

On second thoughts maybe not, however there was snow in parts of Scotland yesterday and car windscreens have required to be de-frosted these last few mornings!!

Oh well let's just hibernate until spring.

"Get on with it" I hear you say. O.K. I will.

So what has been happening then?

The Glasgow District Centre dinner took place last Thursday and a great night was had by all. A substantial sum of money was raised during the evening on behalf of Erskine Hospital - a very deserving cause.

It was evening of great conversation and the after dinner speakers were highly entertaining and thought provoking.

I started the week in my home city of Glasgow, meeting with some new students and I did three presentations in the one day, well I did more or less the same presentation to three different groups.

By the time I got to the third presentation I was thinking I have said this already but to which group! I was told by the organiser who sat through the presentation three times that there was no repetition!

In fact we ended up working out a double act together!

On Tuesday I did it all over again, but to one group and this was in Edinburgh. I had it down to a fine art by then!!

Many people have asked about or commented on our new Professionalism and Ethics module, which forms part of the Chartered Banker syllabus, and I can confirm that this has now been launched and the workbooks are available. If you require further information, please speak to one of our Learning and Development team on 0131 473 7777.

I am sure there will be much interest in this subject and yes, it can be studied as a stand alone subject and is of relevance to anyone working in the financial services industry.

Michael (Did I put the clocks back? I didn't know anyone had taken them!)