CEM announces package to support existing students facing redundancy through the credit crunch
Press Release – 26 January 2009
The College of Estate Management has announced a new package in order to help those students who are facing financial difficulties due to redundancy as a result of the credit crunch.
The property sector has been hit particularly hard by the crunch and the College has seen a surge in calls from students who are struggling to continue with their studies. For those students already studying, and who find themselves out of work due to redundancy at the time of re-registration, there is a potential discount of up to 75% available on their re-registration fees.
This package is open to existing students on all of the College’s courses from all countries of origin.
In addition, the College has put a scheme in place to help students meet the ‘employment criteria’ that exist on several CEM courses. This will be in the form of suggesting alternative provisions to satisfy the requirements for ‘work-based’ experience/assignments.
Grahame Smith, finance director at CEM says: “This difficult time in the industry as a whole has prompted people to focus on building up their training and education..We really hope that this support package can help students suffering from financial difficulties due to redundancy to complete their valued education.”
For new students there is an established bursary scheme in place, applications can be made once a student has been offered a place on their chosen course. *
*NB The bursary scheme for new students only applies to those applying for the Diploma in Surveying Practice and the College’s BSc programmes.
General Bursary Enquiries
Karen Cummins
Accounts Supervisor
Tel: 0118 921 4674
Email: k.cummins@cem.ac.uk
Press Enquiries
Anna Bishop
Head of Marketing
Tel: 0118 921 4634
Email: a.bishop@cem.ac.uk
Notes to editors:
College of Estate Management
The College of Estate Management was founded in 1919 and is an entirely independent, self-funding body which specialises in the education and training of property and construction professionals through distance learning. It is an independent charitable educational body located at Reading, but also generates an annual income of over £8 million per year. The College provides tailor-made training solutions to a variety of public and private sector organisations and currently has around 4,000 students, across 80 countries.