Bob Groves

Motto for this page:  If you don't blow your own trumpet, no one else will....    :-)

If you want to see my full CV (= resume), then click HERE

Teaching Qualifications, other Relevant Qualifications and General Information

First Class BA Hons degree in Post-Compulsory Education (1997, Sunderland University)
City & Guilds 730 Further and Adult Education Teachers Certificate
City & Guilds  7281/02 Vocational Assessors' Award (D32/D33)
Royal Society of Arts Teachers Certificate in Information Technology
Northumbria University credit award in Curriculum Development in Information Technology
Licentiate of the City & Guilds of London Institute
European Computer Driving License (May 2000)
Advanced Internet Training Certificate (Manchester Metropolitan University, February 2000)

Member of the (British) Institute of Information Technology Training
Member of MENSA (Rated IQ of 149)
Member of the Fabian Society
Member of the Royal British Legion
Member of the Friends of Ruskin's Brantwood
Member of the Royal Institute of Philosophy
Member of the Philosophical Society of England
 Founder Member of the Association of Part-Time Tutors (APTT)
Member of the City & Guilds Association
Member of the Association of University Teachers (AUT)
Member of the Information Technology National Training Organisation (ITNTO)
As of current date (2000), I have twenty years experience in teaching, training and supporting adults in the fields of:

Information technology (applications, hardware... mostly PC-compatibles)
Music history and appreciation
Philosophy and History of Ideas
Teacher training and development (post-compulsory education)

I have worked for the following organisations (and still do in many instances!):

Workers' Education Association (Northern District)
Wallsend Peoples Centre
Dudley Peoples Centre
Barnardo's
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
University of Sunderland
Association of Part-Time Tutors
North Tyneside Voluntary Organisations Development Agency (VODA)
North Tyneside College of Further Education
... and a large number of other educational/training organisations.

You can contact me at: bobgroves@blueyonder.co.uk

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Last updated 25/4/2000