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The Link Magazine • September 1995
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         Helping to stop the hurting                                                  OUR RANGE OF SERVICES

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                                                                       New College
                 New season of courses
         from WEA Swindon Women's Branch                          in West Swindon?
   New Opportunities for Women.  Saturday Workshops
   For women thinking of returning  Assertiveness at work   From September 1995 you can take
   to work, wondering whether to   23 September and 7 October
   train and gain new skills, or just   (2 parts)                    a New College course
   not sure what they want. No   Cartoon workshop: 14 October
   charge. Help with childcare costs   Time management: 4 November       for adults at the
   and travel expenses available.                           West Swindon Technology Centre
   Introductory session: 15 Septem-  Love me, love my children?
   ber, 10am - 11am. Find out more   11 November                (Greendown School campus)
   about the course and meet the tu- All courses are held at Health Hy-
   tor, without commitment.    dro, Milton Road, lOam - 4pm and   Courses offered in word processing, keyboard
   Dates: Friday 22 September to   cost £12.50 per day, free to women
   Friday 2 February (with breaks   on benefit                  skills, desk top publishing, databases,
   for holidays)               For further information about the   spreadsheets and mathematics.
   Time: 9.30am - 2.30pm       branch phone 618233, Tuesday -
   Tutor: Lisa Taylor          Thursday, 930am - 1pm, or call   Find out about New College quality courses
   Where: Health Hydro, Milton  into the office at Health Hydro,   and facilities from our friendly staff at these
   Road, Swindon               Milton Road during these times.
                                                            times:
    Students to get electronic surfing lessons
                                                            + lOam - 2pm on Saturday 2 September
      Schools set up technology centres with New College        at the Link Centre Library
           to plug into worldwide information network
   Two secondary schools will soon                          •. 6pm - 8pm on Tuesday 12 September
   be plugged into the Internet, thanks                       and Wednesday 20 September at the
   to a link up with New College and
   the Wiltshire Training & Enterprise                        West Swindon Technology Centre
   Council who have supplied finan-                           (Greendown School campus)
   cial backing from the government's
   education competitiveness fund,
     The West Swindon Technology
   Centre opens at Greendown Com-                              Come to the Adult Learners Fair at
   munity School in September and
   the North Swindon Technology                               New College, Queens Drive campus
   Centre is due to open at Hreod                           on Thursday 14 September, 5pm to 8pm
   Parkway School in January.   Project Director Ray Burcham
     New computers installed at both  from New College, pictured above,
   schools will be linked to New Col- said, "the vision of where this could   Join a course at New College NOW!
   lege. When the 'Neighbourhood  lead is astounding. It will be pos-
   Net' is in operation, students will  sible for computer owning stu-             For further information,
   be able to communicate between  dents to study at home, whilst ac-
   each site and gather information  cessing information from sources   New College   contact Admissions, tel:
   from computers across the world  in college or from the other side of   Swindon
   through the Internet.       the globe."                  EDUCATION FOR YOUR FUTURE   611470 or fax: 436437
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