GFTU BGCM 2019 Minutes
way we are contributing to that agenda here and many people have come
through our young members training.
Education has been so important for us over this last couple of years in
particular that we have agreed to hold a fringe meeting at the TUC on the
subject of the future of trade union education, so I hope we can make that one
buzz as well. But, as I said earlier, the key thing that we have got to do to
increase the volume and improve the quality of all the education that we do is
to make it more sustainable so that it is not relying just on the 100% central
subsidy, so we are actively looking at a strategy with some consultants for
changing things in the future and drawing more funding in. So with that, Chair,
I hope we can have a varied and diverse debate on education. (Applause)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Doug. We have got a number of guest speakers from
our partners who deliver the education courses in partnership and on our
behalf and we have got a couple of EC members, as Doug said, who are going
to talk about the work that we have done in particular areas. In no particular
order I am going to, first of all, introduce Paul Di Felice, Principal of Ruskin
College, and Nicola O’Shea, Business Development Manager at Ruskin
College. So please step forward. (Applause)
PAUL DI FELICE: I am Paul Di Felice. I am the Principal of Ruskin College and I
have been in that position now for nearly three years and this is Nicky. Nicky
joined us in September and has done a sterling job as our Business
Development Manager in terms of getting the word out there about Ruskin
College. Do have a look at our new website, because it is fully engaging and
exciting and tells you a lot about the college. There is a great bit on the history
of Ruskin. As a historian, I am particularly proud of that. Do have a look at it
and give us some feedback on what you think in terms of its appropriateness
and so on and so forth. We are going to use slides, because, I guess, we are
educationalists, so you do have to bear with us on that.
The first thing I want to say is that we have got 120 years on the first slide, so
we have been around a long time and this year is obviously a key milestone on
that and we had a fantastic celebration of the actual date when the college was
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