New recruitment opportunity: International Programmes Manager
An International Programmes Manager is being recruited to manage the College’s projects in East and Southern Africa.
An International Programmes Manager is being recruited to manage the College’s projects in East and Southern Africa.
The Rochdale Pioneers Museum, which will be reopening this summer, has a new website featuring news and visiting details, co-operative history, resources and more.
A group of visitors from the Zambian High Commission and Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry recently visited the Co-operative College on a fact-finding mission.
Dr Linda Shaw, Vice Principal – Research and International at the Co-operative College, welcomed the visitors, giving an overview of the co-operative movement in the UK.
The guests then saw co-operative buildings [...]
Emma Willder, Vice Principal – Finance and Resources at the Co-operative College, has been finding out about co-operatives in Lithuania.
Emma was in Vilnius to give a presentation themed ‘From Rochdale to a Global Movement’ at a conference organised by the Lithuanian Co-operative Union. The conference was entitled Co-operative: International Experience and Prospects for Development in [...]
A grassroots documentary film called To the Moon will be following a group of college students called Co-Cycle as they lead a group of cyclists across America, starting from San Francisco and ending in Amherst, Massachusetts.
The cyclists will be conducting research about local co-operative businesses and helping spread awareness by staging workshops and community events.
The [...]
The Rochdale Pioneers Museum is about to reopen following a major development project and a Museum Manager and two Museum Guides are being recruited.
Rochdale, the former Lancashire mill town that is widely regarded as the birthplace of modern-day co-operation, is highlighting its co-operative heritage as part of a bid to become one of retail guru Mary Portas’s Pilot Towns.
Rochdale is competing against several hundred other towns and, if successful, will be one of twelve towns awarded a share [...]
The Rochdale Pioneers Museum in Toad Lane, which is currently being refurbished, has received its first visitors. The Museum will reopen fully later this spring.
Ana Rey and Ana Torrado, recent graduates from Andalucía, are working at the Co-operative College until July on the relaunch of the Pioneers Museum and event management.
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