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Did you know that there are courses available in Park Management?

Are you concerned that you might not be keeping up to speed with the barrage of legislation and political correctness that comes your way? Perhaps you have a son and daughter looking forward to entering the family business - do you have time within your normal working day, to teach them the various pieces of legislation and park management skills they need to know?

So perhaps a Park Management Certificate could be just the answer - a concentrated course taken at home in your own time with an examination at the end in various locations throughout the UK and providing you pass, of course, a certificate to hang on your wall demonstrating to the outside world that you are professional in your approach.

Not interested? Been in the industry long enough to know it all? Click through and read this article giving the experiences of three people with donkey's years of experience in the industry and who were some of the first to take advantage of the course.

http://www.cito.org.uk/attachments/article/53/Journal%20Article.pdf

Run by CITO (now part of Skills Active), 518 people have now taken the Park Management course and a further 30 are currently working their way through it - a sure sign that the industry as a whole, is developing even more of a professional approach.

Find out more by clicking through here: http://www.cito.org.uk/caravan-parks/park-management.html

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Want to go that little bit better?

How about a Foundation Degree in Tourism Park Management? You can sign up now for the next intake.graduate_with_huge_diploma_800_clr

This qualification was launched in 2009 and the second intake, including Nina from the Just Lodges and Just Lodge Holidays Team, will start their studies in January 2011.

Students study management subjects such as strategy, marketing, finance, human resources and legislation, all of which is put into a park context. Modules are studied in one week blocks, all of them out of season. The students then submit follow up assignments remotely, whilst carrying out their day to day park jobs and all the assignments are based on their real life park situations.
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Entry can be by the academic route (A levels) or the vocational route (NVQ Level 3) or through management experience alone.

All types of park are represented on the first cohort of students, including one who manages a lodge park. The students are successfully combining their working lives with study - and having a great time in the process!

Contact Jenny Pritchard at CITO to find out more - email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or telephone 01252 796085, wou would also be able to put you in touch with current students, so that you can hear their first hand experience.

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