So, final exams yesterday so it is now all over. Well, sort of. I still have a 12,000 word dissertation to submit by Friday 15th April 2010. But apart from that it is all over. Except the ELP. But that is the easy part, isn’t it? I will just waltz into a paid placement tomorrow, …
Category: Training
Lock Down
Well, after a busy Easter ‘holiday’ spent doing assignments I am now in ‘Lock Down’. Basically I need to try and focus on revising for my exams and completing my last few assignments. It doesn’t help when I decided to change the subject of my 5,000 word Health & Safety paper. Things just weren’t working …
Holiday?
First day of my two-week Easter ‘holiday’. How am I to fill the next 14 days? Back to Uni on Mon 12th April seems so far away but with twelve books from the library I think that time will soon go. The main issue is to manage the expectations of The Wife and The Kids. …
Experiential Learning Portfolio
I have been thinking about the Experiential Learning Portfolio this week, wondering how much I can complete based on my previous work as an Environmental Health Technician in the British Army. I figure the more I can do now, the less I will have to do on placement. But with all those deadlines approaching fast, …
Cancelled Lesson
Well, a first today during my short time at Leeds Met – a lesson was cancelled! Due to staff illness. A shame, as it was the meat practical and this is my favourite lesson of the week. Charles, from the Meat Hygiene Service, is a superb instructor and somehow makes prodding bits of offal interesting. …
Assignments
Last week was a seminal week – I handed in my first Food Interventions assignment. What made this assignment ‘seminal’? Simple really – it is the first assignment I have handed in with only an hour to spare before the 10:00 hrs cut-off on Tuesday 23rd February 2010. Not really an issue some might say. …
The Difficult Second Blog Post
OK, the cliché is that everyone has a book in them; it is the second that is difficult to write. The same goes with blogs! What happened at Uni this week that fellow Practitioners may find interesting? What have I done that is different? Do I need to do something different every week? Will the …
‘Never Volunteer’
‘Never volunteer’ was the advice I was given and always gave when in the Army. Yet strangely, when a post appeared on http://www.ehnewprofessionals.com, I volunteered to write a blog about my experiences as a student. Two little clues in the first paragraph about me. Better give a little bit more info. In January 2002 I …
Environmental Health and Safety Insights 