endnotes
Chalkface
Lifelong learning indeed An IT training company has just announced the winner of a competition it has run. Nothing noteworthy there, except the prize: free IT training for the winner for life. Perhaps the marketing gurus of e-learning companies should be thinking about whether they too can offer a prize with such an unending blessing.
Happiness in a test tube As well as busying itself buying e-learning companies, City & Guilds has composed a happiness index. Being focused on the vocational training aspects of life, it concentrated on finding which careers made 18 to 25-year-olds happy. Generally young people were happy in their jobs and wanted help from their employers in getting ahead. The top 10 jobs contained
plenty of the usual suspects – nursing, PR and childcare you may have guessed. IT and teaching were also there – good news for the learning technology industry. But the career that made most young people most happy was surely a surprise contender: scientific research. Research scientists topping the happiness index should go some way to calming fears that we’re losing our edge for decent jobs in the global economy.
Going quackers
A little reminder in case you’ve forgotten – surely you haven’t forgotten? – that with the E-Learning Awards gala dinner just over a month away, excitement continues to build about the Great Duck Race. Rather smugly, Chalkface has had a sneak preview and it looks like it is going to be a tough course and a tight race. Preparation is all –
time to start getting ready. Check out how to get your ducks lined up at
www.thegreatduckrace.
co.uk and make sure you’re following developments on Twitter #TheGreatDuckRace
Executive squeeze
Finally you may be relieved to know that you missed the rather strange idea of National Hug Your Boss day. Chalkface checked it out it at a website so it must be true. The idea is that liking your boss makes you more productive, a thesis which is evidently backed up by research. The idea of the hugging day is to promote workplace relationships and to identify the importance of getting on well your boss and co-workers. The campaign has the logo ‘if you can hug your boss, you love your job’ – an aphorism that Chalkface doubts contains a general truth.
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