Posted in Staff Blogs on 09/22/2009 11:29 am by admin
Shell Step Local Finals
After a wonderful celebration night at the Local Shell Step Finals, for Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, a winner was selected to proceed to the next round of heats.
The competition from the top 3 was of excellent quality which made judging very difficult. But after much deliberation and cogitation, we would like to congratulate Lisa Hayward on winning the local awards.
Lisa produced and showed great enterprise and showed progression during her work placement at her employers Asset Skills. On top of this, Lisa also managed to get her employer the government standard which they were looking to receive to enable them to move forward with the organisation and expand further afield.
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Posted in Staff Blogs on 09/01/2009 08:49 am by admin
Shell Step 2009 at the University of Leicester
It’s the time of year where Michael is busily involved with a local University, this time at University of Leicester on the 1st and the 21st September. Michael is a judge for the 4th year running for the Shell Step Programme where enterprisi ng students present their 12 week Summer work placement to a panel of judges showing how they have improve the company which they have worked for.
Michael was once a joint first Shell Step student himself back quite a few years now, and will understand what the students are going through. Not only do you work for up to 12 weeks in a project that you are interested in during university study, at the end, you have to write a concise report and present to a panel of judges. If you win round one, the students go through round two with the possibility of winning to go through to the national Final.
