OXFORD, England, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The college will hold a formal opening of the new centre on the 16 June from 6pm to 9.30 pm at the Milton Keynes Hilton. Please book, if you would like come contact charmian@oxfordcollegeofmarketing.ac.uk.

The Oxford College of Marketing, specialists in Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) professional qualifications (http://www.oxfordcollegeofmarketing.com/what-study.html) and public short marketing training courses (http://www.oxfordcollegeofmarketing.com/training-diary.html) , will mark the end of its 10th anniversary year with the opening of a new study centre in Milton Keynes. Intensive weekend classes combined with distance learning tutorial support will be held for the Professional Certificate, the Professional Diploma and the Professional Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing. Graduates with, or without, a business degree will be accepted on the Professional Diploma in Marketing and will have the option of taking the assessment as an assignment. The assignment option is something that many local further education colleges do not offer.

With the withdrawal of funding for professional courses many further education colleges have now stopped running CIM courses. The Oxford College of Marketing centre at Milton Keynes is now an important centre and provides training for marketers coming from Milton Keynes and the surrounding area of Northampton, Bedford, Leicester and Luton.

A free lecture on E-marketing will be given by Stefan Drew who will also be present after the lecture to answer any questions.

In his presentation Stefan will demonstrate how, in his role as a marketing consultant working on both sides of the Atlantic, he integrates online and offline marketing, how to take Emarketing beyond the use of a simple website and how to maximise some of the hundreds of free and low cost Emarketing tools available to businesses of all sizes

Rosie Phipps, the Principal, will be able to advise students on their training options, Rosie is looking forward to spending time with students over the next few months discussing their study options with them. So do call to arrange a time for a chat!.

For further information or to discuss any CIM training or Oxford College of Marketing in-house marketing courses contact Jane Young on +44(0)1865-515255

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About Oxford College of Marketing

Oxford College of Marketing is one of the largest CIM accredited Marketing Colleges in the UK. With study centres in London, Liverpool, Milton Keynes, Reading, Brighton, Gatwick and Sheffield, and of course Oxford, the College has been running qualification Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) courses since 1997, with superb student results. The College offers CIM Introductory, Certificate, Professional Diploma and Postgraduate Diploma qualifications through a number of study options, as well as short and one-day marketing courses and tailored in-house training programmes.

About the Chartered Institute of Marketing

The Chartered Institute of Marketing offers four levels of professional qualification at study centres in 130 countries. The CIM Professional Diploma and Postgraduate Diploma are internationally recognised qualifications that can help marketers at both an operational and strategic level. About 27,500 people sit CIM qualifications every year, 15,000 of which are overseas students.

For further information or to discuss any CIM training or Oxford College of Marketing in-house marketing courses contact Jane Young, on +44(0)1865-515255 or janey@oxfordcollegeofmarketing.ac.uk .For further information on Oxford College of Marketing visit: http://www.oxfordcollegeofmarketing.ac.uk

For further information or to discuss any CIM training or Oxford College of Marketing in-house marketing courses contact Jane Young, on +44(0)1865-515255 or janey@oxfordcollegeofmarketing.ac.uk