{"id":5100,"date":"2016-01-06T09:28:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T09:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stonebridge-blog.positive-dedicated.net\/?p=5100"},"modified":"2018-01-31T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T09:51:10","slug":"meteorology-gr-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stonebridge.uk.com\/blog\/hobbies-trades-diy-home-and-leisure\/meteorology-gr-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteorology Course &#8211; Graduate Success Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Stephen Davis &#8211; Meteorology<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Stephen Davis from Hull, Yorkshire, recently completed a meteorology course with us here at Stonebridge. Here&#8217;s his graduate story here:<\/p>\n<p>I am a 20th Century BA Historian and a Writer and Library Associate at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.hull.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">University of Hull<\/a>. I have\u00a0additional interests in social psychology, English language (including Proofreading skills), classical music, theatre, keeping fit\u00a0in my university sports centre\u00a0and travel (primarily in the UK,\u00a0USA and Germany).<\/p>\n<p>The reason why I chose to study this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stonebridge.uk.com\/course\/meteorology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">meteorology course<\/a> is because I like the meteorological aspect of science and have always had an interest in the weather in these three areas: Observing, Reading and Forecasting.<\/p>\n<p>My course is now complete and I have enjoyed it all. I very much enjoyed the flexible learning programme offered by Stonebridge College.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I was impressed by the courteous and helpful members of staff whom I was in communication with whenever I had any concerns or questions regarding my course syllabus.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from positive written comments from my course tutor, I also had an excellent course enquiry contact at Stonebridge by the name of James Cann who was most willing to answer any questions\/enquiries that I had on matters of a Meteorological nature. James always dealt with my concerns in a most courteous and pleasant manner.<\/p>\n<p>I have no family ties and my current job is on a voluntary basis where I work for around 3-4 hours per week. Therefore I always have plenty of available time to rise to the challenge of learning something new with distance learning.<\/p>\n<p>The reason why I chose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stonebridge.uk.com\/distance-learning-courses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">distance learning<\/a> is because I have spent many years in study at both university and college and eventually I just wanted to work on my own and in doing so I have never looked back. The best thing about distance learning is being able to learn at my own pace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The meteorology modules that I enjoyed the most are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cloud studies<\/li>\n<li>Atmospheric instability<\/li>\n<li>Weather forecasting<\/li>\n<li>Stratospheric ozone levels<\/li>\n<li>The Greenhouse effect<\/li>\n<li>Climate change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I now have an improved confidence in the business of meteorological understanding, particularly in relation to reading and digesting the information shown on the weather map.<\/p>\n<p>I have recently joined the BBC Weather watchers team at both local and national level.<\/p>\n<p>I would love to be able to work either as a researcher or forecaster in the Met Office at Exeter.<\/p>\n<p>My future career plans are as follows. I am most happy to write or lecture for either an amateur or professional audience on selected Meteorological topics.<\/p>\n<p>I am also willing to advise future Stonebridge Meteorological students who require support and assistance with their modules.<\/p>\n<p>Since Sept 2010 I have been a support volunteer with ARKH(Asylum seekers and Refugees of Kingston &#8211; upon &#8211; Hull), working in both the advice service and ESOL teaching where I believe in the practice of\u00a0 in traditional teaching methods.<\/p>\n<p>I also work in the Beverley library on a World War 1 lives project, researching and investigating the lives of local servicemen who took part in the war.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the course by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stonebridge.uk.com\/course\/meteorology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Davis &#8211; Meteorology Stephen Davis from Hull, Yorkshire, recently completed a meteorology course with us here at Stonebridge. Here&#8217;s his graduate story here: I am a 20th Century BA Historian and a Writer and Library Associate at the University of Hull. I have\u00a0additional interests in social psychology, English language (including Proofreading skills), classical music, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":6299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[339],"tags":[464,185],"class_list":["post-5100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbies-trades-diy-home-and-leisure","tag-graduates","tag-meteorology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebridge.uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebridge.uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebridge.uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebridge.uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebridge.uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebridge.uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17893,"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebridge.uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions\/17893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebridge.uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebridge.uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebridge.uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stonebridge.uk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}