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Editing
The Basic Editing course is the most comprehensive distance learning programme offered by the PTC. Built around the industry standard textbooks, Basic Editing – The Text and Basic Editing – The Exercises, it involves around 90 hours of dedicated study over nine to twelve months. It is both thorough and demanding, but the PTC is reluctant to dilute the content, maintaining that anything less would sell students short and leave them unprepared for a line of work that is itself extremely demanding.
Students who have successfully completed one of the PTC’s distance learning programmes are eligible for inclusion in its online freelance directory (www.train4publishing.co.uk).
Standards
The PTC’s responsibilities don’t end with training. Under the guidance of the Publishing NTO (National Training Organisation), it has the task of producing and promoting the National Occupational Standards in Book and Journal Publishing.
These standards have recently been extensively revised in an effort to make them more accessible and more user-friendly.
Previously associated with an attempt to introduce NVQs in publishing, the standards now operate as a useful checklist for employers and employees alike, detailing the knowledge and skills required to do various publishing jobs competently. This helps people to identify training needs and to eradicate unnecessary mistakes.
Excellence
The Publishing Training Centre sees itself very much as the industry’s own training resource. Its board is made up of senior industry figures and, with no shareholders to answer to, it is able to devote all its energies to its stated aim of building excellence in publishing.
The Publishing Training Centre
Book House, 45 East Hill, London, SW18 2QZ
020 8874 2718,
www.train4publishing.co.uk,
publishing.training@bookhouse.co.uk.
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