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UPDATE FROM THE AEMT SECRETARY Thomas Marks shares the latest news from the Association. We are into the final quarter of 2021 now, and everything is going at full steam in the office. We are pleased to be doing our first overseas training courses since the pandemic began. These are taking place in Qatar and Dubai, and we look forward to welcoming back many new and old friends to the courses. The pandemic has had the remarkable effect of zeroing in on a company’s weaknesses. For the AEMT, it was our classroom-based practical training courses. Fortunately, we were able to take these courses online, with some innovative thinking from the AEMT staff. The success of these courses has highlighted the potential for investing in online training for the future. This year, we have been working closely with York University’s Electronic Engineering department around the potential to develop software that would tangibly improve the experience of online practical learning. Amazingly, we learned that York University faced the same barriers to online practical assessments, and they suggested we apply for government funding to develop the project with them. I am delighted to announce that we were awarded funding in September, and we will soon begin developing our online learning and assessments for hands-on training with York University. We will start by launching our Ex training courses on this platform and will soon begin developing many other courses which will be of benefit to the membership. In other news, the AEMT team has enjoyed being back in the
office. It’s allowed us to work with council members on the AEMT’s direction, vision, mission, and values for the coming years. More of which will be announced soon. We firmly believe that training should be the focus of the AEMT going forward, so developing an online training platform is a very exciting path to be going down. We have now also made it easier for members to update their member profiles with us. By logging into the website, member’s can go to their company’s profile page to review, edit, update and publish their details in just a few minutes. If you can’t find the red ‘edit details’ button on your profile page, please contact Lesley at admin@aemt.co.uk, who can help you. If these details are updated by October 18th, we will be able to include these changes in the 2021/2022 Member’s Yearbook. Last but not least, I trust you have all earmarked November 18th for the AEMT Conference and Awards. We are looking forward to bringing these two seminal events back to life. During the day, we will be looking at how the relationship between industry and service centres can lead to a greener and more prosperous future, with plenty of talks, forums, workshops, display stands and networking to be enjoyed. In the evening, we can let our hair down to recognise and celebrate those who excelled in the industry at the AEMT awards ceremony. The evening’s entertainment, comedian Alfie Moore, recounts 18 years in the police service and promises a side-splitting performance for guests. If you’ve any comments or suggestions on what you would like to see from the AEMT, please don’t hesitate to contact us, one of the council members or the President. You can email me at thomas@aemt.co.uk or call +44 (0)1904 674 899.
Forthcoming AEMT led Courses & Events COURSE TITLE
START DATE
LOCATION
Ex Theory Module 1
18 October 2021
Qatar
Ex Hands-on Module 2
20 October 2021
Qatar
Ex Hands-on Module 2R
20 October 2021
Qatar
Ex Refresher Module 3
26 October 2021
Online (SE Asia)
Ex Refresher Module 3
8 November 2021
Aberdeen
AEMT Awards 2021
18 November 2021
DoubleTree Hilton, Coventry
AEMT Conference 2021
18 November 2021
DoubleTree Hilton, Coventry
Ex Theory Module 1
22 November 2021
Dubai
Ex Hands-on Module 2
24 November 2021
Dubai
Ex Hands-on Refresher Module 2R
24 November 2021
Dubai
Ex Theory Module 1
6 December 2021
Loughborough
Ex Hands-on Module 2
8 December 2021
Loughborough
Ex Refresher Module 3
14 December 2021
Loughborough
For more information or to book any of the couses listed please visit www.ex-repair.com
All classroom-based training is scheduled subject to the COVID-19 restrictions in place at the time. Full details of the safety procedures being applied to classroom-based courses can be found on the course website. Quarter 4 2021
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