BETT Friday

By far and away it's always the busiest day at BETT. And this year was no exception. On the Guroo stand, we had the highest number of visitors ever to our stand, the most number of orders and a genuine buzz about the whole day.

One thing we have noticed is something we have done to ourselves - when we first started coming to BETT we listed ourselves as 14-19 resources by Guroo and we still are listed - we are the first entry in the catalogue. But perhaps we should have changed to Guroo Functional Skills for this year as we've had a number of visitors say they couldn't find us on the map. I guess this is a sign of our success in the market and indeed the newsletter has a lot to do with that.

Back to the show, an enormous rainstorm at around 3.30m almost put a dampener on the typical afternoon drop off in numbers but on the whole, visitors to the stand kept rolling in until around 4pm when it seemed that everyone went home after the rain ended.

In terms of functional skills, I didn't find any more providers around the place - it was also noticeable that companies who did a lot of work for Diplomas were also absent and I'm thinking here about u-xplore in particular. I suppose this is a sign of the times and despite being a truly engaging and excellent qualification that students and teachers love, maybe the diploma is just a bit expensive, complex and indeed too rigorous compared to other "vocational" qualifications.

That's it for now, look out for the newsletter on Tuesday.