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Wednesday 28 March 2012


 What’s in a name?

We are renaming the Learning Centre/Learning Zone and would like you to have a say.  
Just pick up a voting slip from the Learning Centre/Learning Zone or log on to Moodle and click on the scrolling link on the front page and vote for your favourite!

The choices are:
Learning and Skills Centre
Learning and Skills Hub
Learning and Skills Zone

Voting open from today until Wednesday 4th

One lucky student voter will win a £25 voucher for taking part.

Friday 2 March 2012



Earlier this month, the Learning Zone/Learning Centre ran a ‘Recommend a Read’ competition to coincide with National Libraries Day. These are some of the books that were recommended.


Jail Bird by Jesse Keane
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Damned United by David Peace
It’s Your Time You’re Wasting by Frank Chalk
The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams
Beyond the Limits by Ranulph Fiennes





The Knife Man by Wendy Moore
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Bounce by Matthew Stde

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Dragon Heart by Todd McCaffrey
Shadowland by Alyson Noel
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Time Storms by Jenny Randles
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Family by Martina Cole
Alfred Russell Wallace by Peter Raby
The Abortion Debate by Craig Donnellan
The Alcemist by Paul Coelho
Death Comes to Pemberly by PD James
Fight Club by Chuck Palaniuk