Sunday 11 December 2011

Working for professional status


This week has seen 8 more PAs undertake training towards professional qualification and status with APA. Five PAs completed Module 2 and sat the final test (assessment) for the award of their Diploma (DipPA) and three more started Module 1 for completion of the Diploma in the New Year.

Desribing the training as challenging, Claire Verrall said: "It was a great experience." And Anuszka Elland who always enjoys meeting other PAs said in a message to cohorts: "It was really nice to meet you all and hope you have recovered since yesterday's trauma! I feel exhausted today!"

Pictured (L-R) are: Claire Verrall, Jayne Pearson, Anuszka Elland, Ann Haynes, Joanne O'Rourke. Then: Vicky Fryer, Shelley Hulka and Kristine Eglite.

Gareth Osborne, Director General, who delivers most of the Module 2 training himself said: “It is good so many great PAs find our programmes challenging, there would be absolutely no sense of achievement or reward if they were, like many courses, just a walk-in-the-park. APA sets and maintains an exceptionally high standard, and some fall, but most rise to the opportunity and leave elated. We recognise that PAs can’t take long learning periods away from the office so we make our courses intensive – yet achieveable.”

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