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054 Joanne Burgess |
click to read > 1. Mary: Can you tell me what your job is then please and what do you do? 2. Joanne: I work at Thomas Danby College and I'm the community learning administrator. I'm based at a community centre in Harehills Pakistani Centre doing the administration work, enrolments, dealing with the exam entries and the student enquiries. 3. Mary: Okay thank you. Community centre you say? 4. Joanne: Yeah. Yeah based ... based out in Harehills. It's a lot of ethnic diversity, students coming from all different cultures. 5. Mary: Okay thank you. So what does your job involve? What do you do? 6. Joanne: I do the administration, the enrolments, but a lot of the time is spent dealing with student enquiries, advising them on courses, booking them in for interviews for ... 7. Mary: Right. 8. Joanne: English classes, testing. 9. Mary: Do you get a lot of face-to-face enquiries also? 10. Joanne: We do yes. Most of the enquiries are face-to-face. 11. Mary: What kind of courses does the college run and which do you find are the most popular? 12. Joanne: We run English for speakers and other languages; they're ESOL courses, computing. We also run craft courses and some arts courses like flower arranging, but the ESOL and the computing is by far the most popular, the one that we deal with most enquiries for. 13. Mary: Okay thank you. Okay. Why ... why do you think that is? 14. Joanne: I think it's possibly because of the diversity in the area really. It's a ... Harehills is an area where there's a lot of people from different cultures, different countries and a lot of them want to learn English. 15. Mary: Okay thank you. So what do you enjoy about your job? 16. Joanne: I enjoy most the face to face contact in dealing with ... seeing different people each day. I also like the fact that because a lot of the ESOL courses now have been running since September, a lot of the students seem to know you and trust you, and as their English is improving, when they come for their coffee break, they try and have a little talk with you and ... 17. Mary: Okay. 18. Joanne: So I really do like young people. 19. Mary: So the opportunity to meet and talk with people. 20. Joanne: Yeah. Yeah and see people progress as well. It's ... it's rewarding. 21. Mary: Okay thank you. Can you tell me what courses you've taken to help you with your job? 22. Joanne: Yeah, I have actually studied myself with the open university part time whilst I was working and I've done courses with Leeds University consumer and education, so I like to think that I understand the pressures of adult education and how students feel when you're trying to study and improve, but you've also got issues like domestic and personal and work issues to contend with as well. 23. Mary: Okay, so all sorts of different issues. 24. Joanne: Yes. 25. Mary: What courses did you do when you were at open university? 26. Joanne: I completed my degree with the. it was in humanities with literature and religious studies, so I think the religious studies element because I'm interested in religions, helps me to understand some of the different perspectives people may have, well what I have really. 27. Mary: Right interesting. Okay so there's a real variety of different courses. 28. Joanne: Yeah. 29. Mary: ... and different subjects. Thank you. |
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