Part-time online course to help London individuals and businesses plan, implement and manage a teleworking programme, or improve current teleworking practices Free Course 28th February - 30th May 2000 to individuals and businesses which meet the ESF Criteria** This part-time flexible course aims to help London individuals and businesses to consider, plan, implement and manage the opportunities offered by teleworking, which have been made possible through the coming together of computing technology and telecommunications. Teleworking provides an opportunity for flexible and responsive working, enabling businesses to retain valuable staff and remain competitive whilst reducing costs, and employees to benefit through flexible working patterns. The course is designed to train both the managers of teleworkers and the teleworkers themselves, and is an innovative course in its use of a psychometric tool which enables companies to achieve the best match between teleworker manager and teleworker. The course is aimed at SMEs**, and will be particularly relevant to: Owner/managers Managers or supervisors Managers or Management Consultants involved in change processes Trainers and IIP advisors Staff wishing to work flexibly Students are required to have access to the following: A personal computer with one of the following specifications: PC: 486/2 minimum, with Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, with 32mb memory, and a hard disk with at least 90mb free Mac: at least a 68XOO series machine or a PowerMac with 32mb memory, system 7 and free hard disk space of at least 90mb A modem of ideally 56Kbp, but at least 28Kbp Email and Internet access Technical support will be available during the first workshop, to help with problems such as loading software and connection to the Internet. For further details contact: Maggie Bankart, Department of Continuing Education, City University, Northampton Square, LONDON EC1V 0HB. Telephone:  020 7477 8252    Fax:  020 7477 8240    E-mail:  M.Bankart@city.ac.uk Full details of the course are on:  http://www.city.ac.uk/conted/newpage61.htm ** SMEs are companies with 250 employees or less. City University have confirmed that voluntary sector groups would be eligible, but not public sector groups. Applications are particulary welcome from (amongst others) businesses which face the threat of redundancy and those aged 45+ This notice has been posted by microsyster after we received a request to include it.  As it seems to offer an opportunity for voluntary sector groups to receive technical training that might not otherwise be open to them we have posted this information.