Posts tagged ‘CIPR’

Having carried out a series of interviews with our course leaders, we thought it might be nice to hear from our students about their careers and experiences of studying for a professional qualification.

Excellence can be achieved at any stage in a career – Jane Wilson CEO of the CIPR on the changes to membership

It seems that lots of internal communicators want to get stuck into the engagement-enhancing stuff but are getting bogged down with day-to-day operational comms. Is this happening to you?

Meet our public affairs course leader, Sarah Roberts Bowman.

How the PR Academy bursary has made a difference to enthusiastic PR Alex Bolton.

I think PR people really want to get on and recognise the value of high quality qualification in helping them to do so.

I’ve been inspired by the CIPR this week….I was busy working away in the members’ room at the CIPR PR Centre in Russell Square this week when Jane Wilson – the new CEO popped her head around the door.  Just a couple of days into her new role, she was quick to say hello and got [...]

It was great to see a whole conference being devoted to measuring PR (PR Week 18 August) but I couldnt help wondering why we are still having the conversation.  I was heartened to read some common sense though, including that of Philip Sheldrake of Influence Crowd who – thanks goodness – emphasises the need to focus [...]

Got your CIPR Diploma under your belt and wondering what the next step is? You could have a think about working towards Chartered Practitioner Status. The deadline for the next batch of applications to the CIPR is approaching – 2 August. More information here. Kevin and I went along to the CIPR AGM recently where [...]

There is a brand new qualification in the CIPR stable – a new short diploma in public affairs. We have developed it here at PR Academy so naturally we think its great !  What sets it aside from other courses on the market is that it focuses less on the mechanics of how various institutions work – this [...]

Dates for our autumn courses are now available and all published here on our website. We’ve got a fantastic range of PR and internal communication qualifications both face to face in central London and online. Plus there is a brand new qualificaiton coming soon – watch this space! If you know someone who wants to [...]

Thanks to our friend and PR Academy Mike Wooles for flagging this article to us.  Lots of good points here about employees living the brand etc but it says that ‘marketing and HR’ are increasingly getting together to deliver it. Internal communciations gets a mention further down but I think this reads like this is all [...]

Tim Morris, one of our lecture team on the Foundation has found himself in print in CorpComms magazine – do you agree with Tim? Be great to hear your views on this key topic for PR.

We are all very excited here at PR Academy about the new internal communication courses starting in January. Not only do we have the new Diploma – which is providing really popular already – but the internal communication certificate goes online. More details here. The certificate has proved a real hit this year, on a quick [...]

Great news! The new internal communications diploma has been launched and will start in January 2010. This is a brand new qualification that our very own Kevin Ruck has put together working with the CIPR – we have had lots of interest already so we hope it is going to be really popular. We are [...]

Good friend of PR Academy, Mike Wooles who studied for his Certificate in Internal Communciation with us has been making headlines in the pages of CIPR Profile. I think Mike has captured the mood of many offices really well here and I mean it when I say in my quote (thanks Mike!) that I think [...]

Well done to our two bursary winners – Melissa Edwards and Rebecca Wilhelm who have both won a bursary towards their study with us. Rebecca , from Hitchin in Hertforshire, a media relations and communication executive with The Food and Drink Federation, wins a bursary towards her studies for the CIPR Diploma.   Melissa from West Dulwich in [...]

The results for the new CIPR Internal Communication Certificate are out and our students have done brilliantly – congralulations everyone!   62 students took the qualification in the first half of this year, 23% achieved a distinction,  56%  a merit and 18% a pass. These are outstanding results for a brand new qualification.  We are also pleased [...]

Here at PR Academy Kevin Ruck just discovered he has had an article published – because he was  marking a student’s paper and the student had referenced it !  It is in the CIPR Profile online mag  so some of you may have seen it. But in case not, we thought we would share it [...]

Our good friends at the CIPR Inside group – the group for internal communicators – are organising a conference on 14 September – more info here. There are some great speakers and it is bound to be a good opportunity to network with other people in internal comms, so do try and get along, you [...]

How is the UK government handling the swine flu communications challenge?

Another great set of results for our students in the latest CIPR assessments