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Current training schedule

We ask for bookings to be made four to six weeks before the date a course is to run. There may well be places after that deadline, but occasionally we have to cancel a course for lack of numbers. It is distressing if several late enquiries are received that, had they been made earlier, would have ensured the viability of a now-cancelled course. So it is to everyone's benefit if places are booked in good time.

You can download the application forms for our courses as PDF files (each approximately 100 KB) – just click on the relevant course date below. If there is no date shown, the course is not scheduled to run. If a date is shown but there is no link to a booking form, then the course is fully booked. In either of these cases, please contact the SfEP Office to find out when the course will next run.

See Booking a course for information on how to proceed further.

Courses for 2008

Course Date Venue
Brush up your copy-editing 15 October 2008 BA, London
Brush up your grammar 01 November 2008
17 November 2008
16 December 2008
CI, Bristol
SBC, Edinburgh
BA, London
Brush up your proofreading 14 October 2008 BA, London
Copy-editing problems    
Editing and proofreading music 30 October 2008
01 December 2008
EH, London
EH, London
Editing mathematics 12 November 2008 BA, London
Editing medical texts    
Efficient copy-editing 29 July 2008
04 December 2008
BA, London
BA, London
Going freelance and staying there 22 July 2008
23 October 2008
06 November 2008
BA, London
YTR, York
BA, London
Introduction to copy-editing 02 October 2008
20 November 2008
22 November 2008
BA, London
SBC, Edinburgh
CI, Bristol
Introduction to illustrations    
Introduction to proofreading 30 July 2008
25 September 2008
04 October 2008
22 October 2008
28 October 2008
18 November 2008
25 November 2008
BA, London
BA, London
CI, Bristol
YTR, York
BA, London
SBC, Edinburgh
BA, London
Negotiating effectively 10 September 2008 Oxford conference
On-screen editing 1 28 July 2008
01 October 2008
03 December 2008
HC, London
HC, London
HC, London
On-screen editing 2 26 November 2008 HC, London
Professional copy-editing 04 November 2008 BA, London
Project management    
Proofreading for Accreditation 23 July 2008 BA, London
Proofreading problems 21 October 2008
10 December 2008
YTR, York
BA, London
Training for trainers    
Web editing and proofreading    
Working for non-publishers 30 September 2008 BA, London

Venues

AJP AJP, IT Training Suite, 18 Park Row, Bristol BS1 5LJ – 0118 929 1509.
BA Booksellers Association, 272 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1BA.
CI City Inn, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6BF.
HC Happy Computers, Cityside House, 40 Adler Street, London E1 1EE.
Oxford conference SfEP annual conference 2008, St Catherine's College, Oxford.
EH Erico House (SfEP Office), 93-99 Upper Richmond Road, Putney, London SW15 2TG.
SBC Scottish Book Centre, 137 Dundee Street, Edinburgh EH11 1BG.
YTR York Theatre Royal, St Leonard's Place, York YO1 7HD.

The SfEP bed-and-breakfast scheme offers overnight accommodation in or near London for a nominal sum to members and associates travelling from a distance to attend a course in London. For more information, contact the SfEP Office.

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