The Modern Toss London Museum of Urban Shit Naks courses to boost your pay packet
WORK
Revealed: the
courses to boost
your pay packet
Knitting, pasta-making, crime
writing... Most women have
thrown themselves headlong
into a self-improvement class
of one kind or another at
some stage – but how about
enrolling in one that will also
get you a pay rise?
Recent research from
the University of Sheffield
has shown that those who
undertake vocational careerrelated
courses in their own
time can boost their salaries
by up to 23%. To celebrate
Vocational Qualification
Day today, we’ve picked
the best classes you can
do from your laptop or
local college.
SCRUB UP ON YOUR
1
MANAGEMENT SKILLS
Want to give orders rather
than follow them? Nurture
your leadership skills by
enrolling on a one-day director
development programme at
Reed Learning (from £580) or
the Institute of Directors, UK
(from £910).
BE YOUR OWN BOSS
2
Find out how top
entrepreneurs run their
businesses successfully and
also plot the most risk-free
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routes to becoming wealthy.
Where do we sign? PTP
Training and Marketing’s
nationwide programme (£425).
BATTLE YOUR PUBLIC
3
SPEAKING FEARS
Sign up for a class to help you
brush up on presentations and
public speaking, tackling
everything from nerves and
vocal projection to use of
humour. See hotcourses.com
for classes, starting at £216
plus VAT.
LEARN HOW TO
4
THINK CREATIVELY
A creative thinking or problemsolving
tutorial will make you
the star of every brainstorm.
Try the five-day introduction to
Creative Processes at Central
Saint Martin’s College, London,
from 12 July, for £340.
GET DIGITAL
5
Sign up to a 12-hour
Social Media Crash Course
(£99, ecademy.com) and take
your business into the digital
age – in a way that doesn’t
involve spending your lunch
hour on Facebook…
Vocational Qualification Day;
23 June; vqday.org.uk
ART
Art for the modern potty mouth
Lusting after an altogether
more post-postmodern
departure from your Picassos,
Kandinskys and Rothkos on
a Saturday afternoon? We
challenge you not to be
amused by The Modern Toss
London Museum Of Urban
Shit-Naks, a curiously titled
exhibition that’s the brainchild
of cult urban (and former
Guardian) cartoonists Jon
Link and Mick Bunnage, who
make up Modern
Toss Ltd, masters
of the comedy
greeting card.
“We celebrate
the power of
the modern
f***ing idiot,”
say the duo,
ANOTHER BUSY DAY AT
BP’S PRESS OFFICE
whose extensive list of
exhibits includes everything
from a 200m-long
Periodic Table Of
Swearing and
dirty pictures
hand-stitched in
wool by
enthusiastic
mature ladies, to
a three-ton
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SWAP AFTER-WORK
DRINKS FOR AN EVENING
OF STUDY – YOU’LL BE
GLAD YOU DID
sculpture of a fly crafted from
marble and obscene prints.
Cultural centrepieces for your
home, no, but this is
guaranteed to be the biggest
potty-mouthed hoot you’ll
ever have in an art gallery.
22 June-4 July; Maverik
Showroom, 68-72 Redchurch St,
London E2; moderntoss.com
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