South London News

From chamber maid to office manager – local woman wins ‘Learner of the Year’ award

30th June 2008
A South London resident is celebrating after she was crowned ‘Skills for Life Learner of the Year’ at the 2008 Skills for London Awards, held in June at London’s Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.

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Top Award for TBG Learning

20th June 2008
Independent training company TBG Learning, which has seven centres across London, has been named ‘Provider of the Year’ at the 2008 Skills for London Awards, held on 4th June at London’s Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.

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Improving Skills in South London

18th July 2007
South London residents are being offered the chance to learn basic computing, improve their English language and get advice on finding work or further training at TBG Learning, an independent training company on Lyham Road, SW2..

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TBG's spectacular ALI inspection result has been immediately followed by significant success at the Quality Improvement Agency (Q.I.A.) Star awards.This year's Star Award nominations event was held on 31st October at the Battersea Evolution Centre.

3,000 individuals from around the country had been nominated for a Star Award. They had been nominated by their learners, colleagues and managers.

Two members of TBG Learning staff were nominated:

Abi Osho, nominated for the Outstanding Leadership Award and John Turner nominated for the Outstanding Basic Skills Practitioner Award.

The initial 3,000 nominees, who included people from FE colleges, community based providers, private sector providers, employers and adult educations institutions, were short-listed to 10 nominees per award category. Abi and John were both short-listed.

There were 18 award categories and two areas of recognition, the winner, and those who were highly commended.

Dame Kelly Holmes and Krishnan Guru-Murthy presented the awards.

Abi was highly commended for outstanding leadership , which she is extremely pleased about.

John's nominee was a learner, which speaks volumes, particularly as this was John's second nomination. Unfortunately John didn't receive an award on this occasion.

Both Abi and John said it was a great evening and they were extremely happy to have been short-listed out of thousands of people across the country.

ESF First Steps ESOL learners' visit to British Museum 8th August, 2006

Our ESF learners enjoyed their first outing which was a trip to the British Museum.As you can see from the photos the Greek and Egyptian exhibits proved to very popular on what was both a fun and educational day.

Global Music Festival

On Wednesday 16th August TBG Learning South London held a Global Music Festival as part of Global Music Month. The event was organised by the South London Entertainments team.

Bill Rammell Visit

"Bill Rammell Minister of state for Life long learning, Further and Higher education" came to visit TBG South London on Thursday June 29th.

Mr Rammell enjoyed a detailed tour of the building, which involved visiting and talking to a number of learners both adults and young people in their learning environment and sharing their experiences across the various programmes.

Mr Rammell, finished off his visit by presenting a group of e2e and ESF learners with their ESOL certificates.