The Publishing Training Centre is on the move – in more ways than one

First of all the Publishing Training Centre is literally going places. 2013 will be that last year that the centre is based in Bookhouse, Wandsworth. 45 East Hill has been home to the centre since its beginnings in the late 1970s and we have had fantastic support from our landlords the Unwin Trust. But the location no longer matches our anticipated requirements and so we are on the move.

By mid December we will have moved to a new Operational Centre in Central London and commencing January 2014 the PTC tutor-led, Open-Short Courses will be held in training venues in Central London. We are also taking this moment to explore scheduling Open Courses in other regional centres.

Why we are doing this

• Central London venues offer optimum transport access for the maximum number of clients, including those travelling in to London from elsewhere
• All venues will be fully accessible for delegates with disabilities
• Creates flexibility for regional programming
• Transfers venue logistics to a third party so the PTC team can concentrate on high value-add areas

There is more than the physical move

The PTC’s charitable remit is to provide relevant, quality training for the publishing industry. As we know the very nature of the “publishing” industry has undergone significant change in the last 20 years and even more so in the last five years. The needs of the PTC’s core clients have shifted and their attitude towards external training partners has shifted as well. There are now many more organisations offering training services to the clients.

The PTC has to face the major challenges caused by these shifts and to treat them as opportunities. We aim to offer more value in everything we do and that will include embracing the connected digital world as essential, integral, components in our portfolio. The anticipated changes will impact the structure the PTC and its employees. A period of consultation with the employees began on June 3^rd and it concludes on June 28^th. An announcement about the new structure and team will follow shortly after the consultation period ends.

The Short Course Portfolio

The PTC’s core service has always been the tutor-led, classroom based, Short Course, whether delivered as a scheduled Open Course or delivered exclusively for a single company. We plan to retain this mode of training at the heart of our offer. Over the next three months we will devise a plan of investment in the courses that are most important to our clients.

Distance Learning Portfolio

We remain fully committed to the clients whose needs we meet through our portfolio of Distance Learning courses. We have already started a programme of investment to create e-learning editions of the existing courses and this programme continues.

Four Chronological Steps:

June to September – establishing the objectives to be the focus of the refreshed PTC.
September to December – transition period that sees the introduction of the added value portfolio and implementation of new PTC team. Continuation of operations from 45 East Hill
December – relocation
2^nd January 2014 – the “new” PTC fully functional.

Peter McKay
Chief Executive

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The Publishing Training Centre Foundation is a registered educational charity and a company limited by guarantee, reg. no. 1253854 England.