HPC - 50yrs Celebration
Do you remember the HPC course? John Lyon, who ran the advanced driving HPC course for BSM, is holding a celebration party to mark 50 years of the course on March 17th. If anyone remembers John and would like to attend the party will be at the Wicked Witch at Ryhall near Stamford. Cost is £22 per meal. Further details about HPC and a contact form can be found here http://www.john-lyon.com/index.html Welcome back to the BSM Instructor Academy!
If you haven't already please register via the link on the left hand side of this page. Android Apps
Dear Instructors
BSM have today launched our new Theory apps for Android. You can now download the free version and users can pay £1.99 to upgrade to the full app.
All you have to do is visit the Android Market and hit download!
BSM Theory Test:
BSM Theory Test Free:
As a large number of our pupils now have smart phones, why not let them know we now have apps across Android and iPhone appstores
Kind Regards
Marketing Switching to Vauxhall - Follow Up 12th October 2010
The newspaper coverage of our move to Vauxhall has said that we ‘ditched’ Fiat because the cars were too small and been caused an issue with the DSA but this not true.
We have in fact spoken to DSA this morning, and they assure us that the information in the newspaper didn’t come from. Furthermore, they have offered us this quote if we want to go back to the papers.
“The Fiat 500 meets DSA’s Minimum Test Vehicle requirements. DSA has confirmed to us again today that the Fiat 500 remains suitable for driving lessons, check tests and driving tests, and that the agency was in no way involved in BSM’s decision”
To reiterate our reasons for the switch, we have listened to instructor feedback about the Fiat 500, and we have managed to come to an excellent arrangement with Vauxhall that not only makes good commercial sense and gives our instructors what they want, but which also factors in a number of instructor specific improvements:
Here are some screen grabs of one of our Instructor Survey that we analysed and based many of our decisions on:
It seems that the news has been well received internally and by instructors as a whole so that’s something we’re really pleased about. It’s just a shame that the papers always look for a drama to sell and that in this case there was no drama, just a good news story that we had hoped would be reported as such.
Independent driving will become part of the practical driving test in Great Britain in October 2010.
Independent driving will become part of the practical driving test in Great Britain in October 2010.
It’s tasking the candidate to drive for about 10 minutes, either following a series of directions, following traffic signs, or a combination of both.
To help the candidate be clear about where they’re going, the examiner can show them a diagram too.
It doesn’t matter if candidates don’t remember every direction, or if they go the wrong way - that can happen to the most experienced drivers.
Newspaper reports
The claim in some newspapers that independent driving would lead to a fall in the driving test pass rate is based on early research where conditions did not reflect the eventual design of the new element of the test.
Subsequent trials with a larger number of participants and more closely reflecting the conditions in the planned new test showed no significant fall in the pass rate.
Video shows independent driving
DSA has published a short video on its YouTube channel explaining more about independent driving.
The idea of Independent Driving has been around for almost three years. In 2008 BSM instructors were involved in trialling it for DSA in the Bedford area.
Independent driving is fairly common in other European countries. Although, not in regulation, DSA are keen to introduce it into the British driving test.
What does this mean to our Instructors?
Independent Driving is a technique a good instructor will employ during normal driving lessons in a bid to make the pupil less reliant on guidance in following a route.
And it could well mean that BSM instructors should be able to sell a few more lessons by emphasising this aspect as part of the training syllabus in the Track Record.
CPD Courses
In support of the changes mentioned here, and with a view to offering support on a number of professional elements, we are making available a whole selection of Instructor CPD course. Take a look at them on the next page. >>>
Independent driving will become part of the practical driving test in Great Britain in October 2010.
It’s tasking the candidate to drive for about 10 minutes, either following a series of directions, following traffic signs, or a combination of both.
To help the candidate be clear about where they’re going, the examiner can show them a diagram too.
It doesn’t matter if candidates don’t remember every direction, or if they go the wrong way - that can happen to the most experienced drivers.
Newspaper reports
The claim in some newspapers that independent driving would lead to a fall in the driving test pass rate is based on early research where conditions did not reflect the eventual design of the new element of the test.
Subsequent trials with a larger number of participants and more closely reflecting the conditions in the planned new test showed no significant fall in the pass rate.
Video shows independent driving
DSA has published a short video on its YouTube channel explaining more about independent driving.
The idea of Independent Driving has been around for almost three years. In 2008 BSM instructors were involved in trialling it for DSA in the Bedford area.
Independent driving is fairly common in other European countries. Although, not in regulation, DSA are keen to introduce it into the British driving test.
What does this mean to our Instructors?
Independent Driving is a technique a good instructor will employ during normal driving lessons in a bid to make the pupil less reliant on guidance in following a route.
And it could well mean that BSM instructors should be able to sell a few more lessons by emphasising this aspect as part of the training syllabus in the Track Record.
CPD Courses
In support of the changes mentioned here, and with a view to offering support on a number of professional elements, we are making available a whole selection of Instructor CPD course. Take a look at them on the next page. >>>
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