Borat Comes to Queen’s University
As our regulars will know, Sensei does a fair amount of work with The Queen’s University of Belfast. We work with The School of Education, designing and delivering courses for the Open Learning and Continuing Professional Development programmes. The Queen’s academic year is divided up into three terms – Autumn, New Year, and Spring. You can see from the OL brochure that Dawn and I have courses running for the first two terms.
I got a letter from QUB a few days ago to remind me that they are currently receiving proposals now for the Spring programme. I’ve a few ideas already, but then I had a better one.
Why don’t YOU tell me what course you’d like me to design and deliver for the OL programme?
So, let’s hear all those suggestions. Come on, there must be some idea for a course in the back of your mind. You know, the one you’ve always thought, ‘Well, if they’d do that, then I might just give up a Saturday or weekday night to attend.’.
For instance, during the latest Borat film, our favourite Kazakh journalist went to some American guru to teach him how to be funny. (This mostly consisted in saying ‘Not’ after some remark, which wasn’t in itself that funny.) But anyway, the teacher in me pounced on the idea. Why doesn’t someone teach a course like this over here? Which explains my 1-day workshop in March 2009 called The Power of Humour: How to be Funny.
By the way, if you feel that you would like to propose a course to deliver yourself, click here to find the Guidance Notes, Selection Criteria, and Proposal Application Form. You’ve got until Friday 21 November…
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Jonny the Monkey
23 Oct, 2008
Jagshemash!
This be animal actor Jonny the Monkey, number one most famous celebrity in all Kazakhstan. Good friend Borat still only number four most famous, even after great success of moviefilm…
Just want to writes you to say Borat already been at your Queen\’s University last year. He bring bag of potatoes, but not see even ONE mans who dress like woman that he could throw potato at.
Very disappoint!
Chenquieh.
NOTE: This comment was \’hand signed\’ by Jonny the Monkey to his gypsy assistant Batyr, who then translated and posted those words here.
Allen Baird, Partner
24 Oct, 2008
The above comment is a case study in what happens when you take the risk of using an association like ‘Borat’ in your business blog. “Mistakes are the portals of discovery” (James Joyce)
Matthew
26 Nov, 2008
i would like a course to know how to make and break habits!!
Allen Baird, Partner
27 Nov, 2008
Thanks Matthew, that’s a really quality suggestion! I’ll definitely take it on. Both sides are important – not only how to break bad habits but how to build good ones, Look out for blogs on this topics in the next while. But for now, here’s a good quote from a great thinker on the subject.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” (Aristotle)