Dear student,

Barclays and the National Skills Academy for Financial Services are looking to get your feedback on the Barclays Money Skills ‘weeks’ events that your college has recently completed. You may recall one of the following:

• Blockbusters tutorial
• Small Sacrifices, Big Rewards tutorial
• Leah’s story tutorial
• Top Tips
• Tate the difference

They’re giving students the chance to enter a competition to win an iPad 2 by simply completing a short feedback questionnaire online developed by the University of Bristol.

With that in mind, we would be really grateful if you could complete the simple survey using the link below.  This won’t take more than 10 minutes of your time, and once you have completed the survey you can sign up for the chance to enter a competition to win an iPad 2!

The survey can be found on the following link:

https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/management/bmsweeks-student-feedbacksurvey/

All your answers will be kept absolutely confidential.  Your details will not be shared with any other organisation and will only be used for this research. All your responses are anonymised, therefore nobody else will know how you answer the questions. They will only use your contact details to contact you if you are the winning entry and to invite you to complete further surveys.

If you have any questions about this research, please contact: Edward Houghton at Barclays: edward.houghton@barclays.com.

Thanks so much!

Click on the image below to see a larger version of the poster.

Thinking Greener is the college’s own green initiative. It is being launched today, as part of Green Office Week and it is about the college as a whole becoming more aware of the energy we use and working together to reduce it.

Why do we want to start Thinking Greener?

Climate change is one of the major challenges facing the world today. The scale and speed of the change may have an adverse effect on our students, staff, economy, environment and local community and reinforces our commitment to take action.

What are we going to do?

We are going to start Thinking Greener in everything we do. With help from the Carbon Trust we have produced a five year plan to reduce our carbon emissions – our Carbon Management Plan. You can see this on our website at www.sbc.ac.uk/thinkinggreener 

What does it involve?

Good housekeeping – we can improve the way we use our buildings and encourage staff and students to save energy.

Invest to save – we are going to make improvements to lighting, insulation, and replace our use of fossil fuels with lower carbon alternatives.

What can I do?

Everyone can play their part in Thinking Greener, from doing small things every day to running larger energy saving projects.

• Turn computers and screens off when they are not in use
• Turn off unused lights 
• Only print what you really need to print
• Cycle or use public transport to come in to college 
• Think reduce, reuse, recycle
• Run energy saving projects with your peers

What else?

We like to know what you think about saving energy.  Complete this 2 minute survey to tell us what you think and you may be one of five people to win a £15 iTunes voucher: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6GJ752M

What will happen next?

In the next few months and in the next academic year, you will start to see Thinking Greener pop up across the college. There will be opportunities to take part in projects, we will be looking for Green Champions and holding energy saving events.  Everyone is invited to get involved and start Thinking Greener.

To find out more about Green Office Week, see www.greenofficeweek.eu

We need your help.....

The college are offering a substantial reward of £200 for information regarding the fire incident at the Digbeth campus on Wednesday March 28th which leads to an arrest.

If you heard or saw something suspicious either at the time of the fire or since then please contact either your tutor, a member of staff or ask for the Facilities Manager at Digbeth reception.

Unfortunately payments for last weeks attendance w/c 30/4 will not be clear in your bank accounts until next Monday 14/5 due to the Bank Holiday and problems with the EMA/ALG Database yesterday.
 
Apologies for any inconvenience.
 
Regards,
EMA/ALG Team.