Course 1 (April 2010)

Final programme

The presentations and practicals from this course have been removed - please see the Course 5 page for updated information

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Feedback from participants

Seventeen participants attended the April 2010 course. At the end of the course we asked for oral feedback and also distributed a questionnaire. The results of the 15 completed  questionnaire can be found here (we have included all comments the complimentary, the constructive and even the one negative response). The subsequent courses will be amended to take into account the constructive comments received

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