Assess1.+describe+your+context

Briefly describe your professional context in 250 words

=**"vive la (virtual) revolution"** =

My name is Eric Ramaz, I am a full time Sport & Recreation lecturer at the banff and Buchan College of Further Education where I have worked for the past 15 years. Our college, who is situated in the north east of Scotland, is going through some major refurbishments and provide a service to nearly 1200 students of which an average of 2 % go to our sport section. Our section is made up of 7 staff members, 3 of which (including myself) are full time permanent and most importantly the curriculum leader who has been in post for the past 35 years will be leaving next year. Our students are in majority young people coming directly from the local academies but also include a few mature students from the UK and of east Europeans origins. Some of our students are planning to have a career in the leisure industry and others from the Uniformed Services section are going to join the forces, the east European students are with us mostly to perfect their English. We have also created a strong link with the local primary schools where we are providing a range of short courses and where our students do some work experience. My informal role at the college has evolved over the years to includes some health and wellness promotion through varied activities but my latest project has been technologically orientated with the creation of the “virtual revolution group”: a group of lecturers promoting new information technologies in our fast changing learning environment! In the past few months both projects, the primary schools link and the virtual revolution group have been put on hold due partly to the economic down turn and the refurbishment of the college. The East European student link project which brought us up to 20% number increase is also losing momentum due to the general economic down turn and we have only this year 1 remaining student form this group.

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