Success Stories
HARRIETTE O'NEILL
Harriette was a former trainee at FWTC in 2000/2001. Below is an excerpt from an email we received from Harriette in February 2009.
After leaving FWTC I knew I had to carry on with my self development. I applied for a place at Lincoln University and started a Degree in Child and Youth Studies, which I graduated with honours.
....following this I decided to take an adult teaching course for a year - this gave me an opportunity to work at the local College part-time whilst I was still training.
I then applied to the University of Leeds to do a Masters in Gender Studies. By the time I graduated in 2006 I had received a scholarship for a Doctorate in Human Geography and am currently doing a study about Intergenerational relationships amongst women in Yorkshire. I am now in my final year, and hope to find a permanent job in academia afterwards.
When people ask me why I have taken the path I have, I often say that FWTC pushed a "self development" button in me that's stuck. It's not been easy but there are very few things I'd change about my life at the moment.
I remember in one of the Personal Development sessions having to get dressed up and do a mock interview and I was very nervous.....now I think nothing of giving a presentation to a conference room full of academics who are not as encouraging or as patient as you were.
So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you - your kindness will never be forgotten".
FORMER TRAINEE GRADUATES
Barbara Gordon, former trainee, completed her Bachelor of Science Degree in 2007. Barbara enrolled on our Women into Technology Course in 2003, which she successfully completed, then went on to College to do an NQ Creative Technology Course. She followed this with an HNC then an HND Applied Digital Media and ultimately the BSc Degree in Multimedia Technology.
Barbara was thrilled to graduate at Dunfermline Abbey and has secured a job with Fife Council, using the multi-media skills she has been learning and developing over the past four years.