Working at this experience

When students spent a few hours of work experience within the college they discovered just how complex the inner workings of the college's Learning Support services are. Amina told us, "Today I have been showed how to work in Reprographics and the Media. And then I got to work in the library to help students, finding books, check IDs and how to search for books on their tracks."

But it was working in Media Resources that was the real eye-opener for Amina.

The small Media Resources team of incredibly handsome men and stunningly beautiful women has a confusingly wide range of responsibilities, and Amina was amazed that one moment they were sitting down trying to creatively edit video to produce DVDs, design posters, prepare music and lighting plans for an event in the main hall, whilst dubbing and preparing streaming video files for staff, and then suddenly the next minute they would be running to classrooms to assist worried tutors who needed help using the data projectors or other equipment.

She certainly marvelled at these college super-heroes when she realised that they also dealt with loaning out equipment on demand such as TVs, cameras, CD players, laptops and DVD players, as well as maintaining and teaching people how to use a radio studio, a video filming and photography stage and this very well put together completely unbiased student blog.