Our Students
Because of the way in which our courses work we not only get students from similar backgrounds to those studying at other colleges but who prefer distance learning, we also have many students who can only study by distance learning. These following naming-no-names profiles indicate the sorts of people who enrolled with us during 2004.
"A" enrolled on a CIM course with us. He works as a manager for an established Maltese conglomerate with which he wants to build a career through professional competence. He is extremely time-pressured, with a demanding job and young family, lives outside the conventional network of CIM colleges, and so is a classic example of a person who needs to study by distance learning.
"B" enrolled on a CIPS course with us. She works as a buyer for a government department in south-east England and has a few modules left to complete her studies. She has elderly relatives in care over 100km away, and herself has health problems, too. Her time is apt to sudden interruption, and she wants to do a few modules, not an entire programme, so she is also well served by distance learning.
"C" also enrolled on a CIPS course with us. She is a junior manager in a supermarket in southern England and has studied with us before. She wanted to continue studying with her tutor through the rest of her modules. This is easy for us to do as each of our tutors has one-to-one and not one-to-class contact with their students.
"D" enrolled on a CIM course. She's working in customer service for a large utility in Scotland. Her concern was to be able to squeeze her study into a short burst in between two long-term commitments. Something which we could help her do.
These stories are typical of our students. In some way, many students' motives reflect the reasons why people choose to study by distance learning.
