Innovative e-portfolio band-aid from Vantage streamlines abecedary training programme and cuts the accountability of acceptable paper-based acquirements for trainees and assessors
The Gloucestershire Initial Teacher Education Partnership (GITEP) has deployed Paragon, an e-portfolio and continuing able development (CPD) tool, to abridge and added enhance its Graduate Teacher Programme.
The web-based e-portfolio supports abecedarian teachers’ development and training requirements by acceptance them to almanac and accumulate clue of their training in one easy-to-access area, and their assessors to acceptance and validate the affirmation and accommodate acknowledgment online.
Developed by e-portfolio and achievement administration specialist Vantage Technologies, Paragon lets trainees upload affirmation of their training into their portfolio and appraise themselves adjoin the Professional Standards for able abecedary status. Having an up-to-the-minute almanac of plan lets advisers bigger clue and adviser trainees’ advance and helps trainees to be added acquainted of their able development needs, accouterment a base aloft which they can focus their learning.
A key account of Paragon is its adeptness to save time for both trainees and assessors. All uploaded advice is deeply accessible over the Internet at anytime so non-school based agents can acceptance and appraise affirmation accidentally instead of accepting to accomplish a cruise to school. This makes the abecedarian development action easier to adviser and administer and the appraisement action added connected and able as assessors can analyze and abode any issues as and if they arise.
Furthermore as Paragon food all CPD advice electronically in a individual location, it decidedly reduces the aggregate of cardboard plan for both parties. This removes the accountability of in-efficient and time-consuming paperwork which was complex with the above paper-based system.
Joy Sullivan, training administrator for GITEP, said: “The GITEP arrangement operates as a actual able partnerships amid schools and college apprenticeship in the country and with Paragon we’re able to added enhance the training programme we bear to our trainees.
“The acceptance who accept been application it accept accustomed actual absolute acknowledgment and are advising it to adolescent trainees, the software in actuality includes prompts for target-setting which is actual useful. Paragon is acutely simple to use and access, acceptation advisers for those trainees who accept confused assimilate added academy placements will still be able to acceptance their students’ e-portfolios for appraisal purposes.
“We looked at a brace of solutions but Paragon bigger ill-fitted our needs, it’s adjustable and can be tailored to what we ambition and is aswell geared to alive with the able abecedary cachet (QTS) standards. It’s absolutely a best-practice band-aid for schools and universities analytic to advance their abecedary training programmes.”
Paragon has initially been formed out to a pilot accumulation aural a accessory academy alum abecedary training programme, GITEP is analytic to arrange it above the blow of the trainees in the New Year.
The Gloucestershire Initial Teacher Education Partnership GTP programme is overseen by the University of Gloucester and Gloucestershire Association of Secondary Heads.
For added advice on Paragon visit: www.paragoneducation.co.uk
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About Vantage Technologies Limited
Vantage Technologies Limited is an IT casework and solutions company, founded in 1988, specialising in the accumulation of avant-garde software solutions for the advance of alive practice. Vantage is breath in a array of bazaar sectors including bounded authorities, healthcare, badge and able institutions. Its artefact portfolio of web-based solutions includes accident management, able development and e-learning. For added advice visit: www.vantage-technologies.co.uk
Issued on account of Vantage Technologies, acquaintance 01142 479500
Press contact: Context, Priya Mistry
T: 01625 511966
www.contextpr.co.uk
vantage@contextpr.co.uk
2009年12月16日星期三
Vantage Technologies - Middlesbrough SCITT Delivers Improved Initial Teacher Training for Students and Assessors with Paragon CPD
Vantage Technologies’ online training apparatus reduces the accountability of paper-based portfolios for acceptance and helps agents bigger adviser trainees’ work
Middlesbrough SCITT has deployed Paragon, an online e-portfolio and connected able development (CPD) tool, to advance its Initial Teacher Training programme by authoritative the recording of affirmation action simpler for acceptance and the ecology action added able for assessors.
Developed by e-portfolio and CPD specialists Vantage Technologies, Paragon supports trainees’ development and training requirements by acceptance them to almanac affirmation of their training in a secure, easy-to-access e-portfolio, and their advisers to calmly acceptance and analysis the affirmation and accommodate acknowledgment on their advance online.
By uploading affirmation of training and teaching into their e-portfolio acceptance can appraise themselves adjoin the Professional Standards for able abecedary status. Having a accepted almanac of plan lets advisers bigger clue and adviser trainees’ progress, acceptance them to be added complex in the training process, and helps trainees to be added acquainted of their able development needs, accouterment a base aloft which they can focus their learning.
Sarah Earl, advance administrator at Middlesbrough SCITT, said: “Middlesbrough SCITT is a affiliation of ten schools, alive collaboratively to bear top above Initial Teacher Training and Paragon supports this initiative. A key account of Paragon is its accessibility. Trainee agents can log into the e-portfolio at anytime to upload affirmation of their training and their advisers and advisers can acceptance this advice at anytime to adviser it and accommodate feedback. Being able to clue students’ plan from one area lets advisers analyze any gaps in training and alert their trainees if necessary.
“Both our trainees and their assessors accept appear aback with actual absolute acknowledgment on Paragon; they acquisition it acutely simple to use. It saves trainees the altercation of accepting to await on beefy folders to accept their plan arrested - as is the case with acceptable paper-based portfolios, and it lets advisers get a quick overview of advance by casual online, instead of accepting to analyze through bags of paper. It makes the accomplished ecology action abundant simpler for both parties.
“Paragon’s adaptability has accustomed us to acclimate it to our needs and we are now training users in Paragon’s added advantageous functions such as its different Ideas Generator feature. This affection allows trainees to acceptance Paragon’s library of assets and accomplish use of the actual to added abutment their development, this will ensure our acceptance get the abounding account of what the apparatus has to offer.”
Macmillan Academy, the advance academy in the Middlesbrough SCITT partnership, is application Paragon internally to adviser their anew able teachers’ (NQTs) development as allotment of their consecration process. They are analytic to aswell use Paragon for their agents CPD in the future.
Middlesbrough SCITT deployed Paragon afterward a admission accustomed from the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA), who is blame for schools to accept cyberbanking methods to enhance abecedary training and is analytic to appraise the capability of an cyberbanking CPD apparatus for abecedarian teachers.
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Issued on account of Vantage Technologies, acquaintance 01142 479500
Vantage Technologies Limited
Vantage Technologies Limited is an IT casework and solutions company, founded in 1988, specialising in the accumulation of avant-garde software solutions for the advance of alive practice. Vantage is breath in a array of bazaar sectors including bounded authorities, healthcare, badge and able institutions. Its artefact portfolio of web-based solutions includes accident management, able development and e-learning. For added advice visit: www.vantage-technologies.co.uk
Press contact: Context, Priya Mistry
T: 01625 511966
www.contextpr.co.uk
vantage@contextpr.co.uk
Middlesbrough SCITT has deployed Paragon, an online e-portfolio and connected able development (CPD) tool, to advance its Initial Teacher Training programme by authoritative the recording of affirmation action simpler for acceptance and the ecology action added able for assessors.
Developed by e-portfolio and CPD specialists Vantage Technologies, Paragon supports trainees’ development and training requirements by acceptance them to almanac affirmation of their training in a secure, easy-to-access e-portfolio, and their advisers to calmly acceptance and analysis the affirmation and accommodate acknowledgment on their advance online.
By uploading affirmation of training and teaching into their e-portfolio acceptance can appraise themselves adjoin the Professional Standards for able abecedary status. Having a accepted almanac of plan lets advisers bigger clue and adviser trainees’ progress, acceptance them to be added complex in the training process, and helps trainees to be added acquainted of their able development needs, accouterment a base aloft which they can focus their learning.
Sarah Earl, advance administrator at Middlesbrough SCITT, said: “Middlesbrough SCITT is a affiliation of ten schools, alive collaboratively to bear top above Initial Teacher Training and Paragon supports this initiative. A key account of Paragon is its accessibility. Trainee agents can log into the e-portfolio at anytime to upload affirmation of their training and their advisers and advisers can acceptance this advice at anytime to adviser it and accommodate feedback. Being able to clue students’ plan from one area lets advisers analyze any gaps in training and alert their trainees if necessary.
“Both our trainees and their assessors accept appear aback with actual absolute acknowledgment on Paragon; they acquisition it acutely simple to use. It saves trainees the altercation of accepting to await on beefy folders to accept their plan arrested - as is the case with acceptable paper-based portfolios, and it lets advisers get a quick overview of advance by casual online, instead of accepting to analyze through bags of paper. It makes the accomplished ecology action abundant simpler for both parties.
“Paragon’s adaptability has accustomed us to acclimate it to our needs and we are now training users in Paragon’s added advantageous functions such as its different Ideas Generator feature. This affection allows trainees to acceptance Paragon’s library of assets and accomplish use of the actual to added abutment their development, this will ensure our acceptance get the abounding account of what the apparatus has to offer.”
Macmillan Academy, the advance academy in the Middlesbrough SCITT partnership, is application Paragon internally to adviser their anew able teachers’ (NQTs) development as allotment of their consecration process. They are analytic to aswell use Paragon for their agents CPD in the future.
Middlesbrough SCITT deployed Paragon afterward a admission accustomed from the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA), who is blame for schools to accept cyberbanking methods to enhance abecedary training and is analytic to appraise the capability of an cyberbanking CPD apparatus for abecedarian teachers.
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Issued on account of Vantage Technologies, acquaintance 01142 479500
Vantage Technologies Limited
Vantage Technologies Limited is an IT casework and solutions company, founded in 1988, specialising in the accumulation of avant-garde software solutions for the advance of alive practice. Vantage is breath in a array of bazaar sectors including bounded authorities, healthcare, badge and able institutions. Its artefact portfolio of web-based solutions includes accident management, able development and e-learning. For added advice visit: www.vantage-technologies.co.uk
Press contact: Context, Priya Mistry
T: 01625 511966
www.contextpr.co.uk
vantage@contextpr.co.uk
Vantage Technologies - Barkston and Syston CE Primary School Chooses Vantage Technologies’ Paragon to Deliver Online Reporting to Parents
Innovative e-portfolio band-aid will accord parents absolute acceptance to their children’s educational development, advice accession accomplishment and accede with new accessible Government guidelines
09 March, 2009 – Barkston and Syston CE Primary School will arrange Paragon, a web-based achievement ecology and administration apparatus to accord parents absolute acceptance to their children’s educational development, allowance them to accommodate abutment and accession accomplishment by accepting added complex in their children’s apprenticeship as categorical by new Government regulations advancing into aftereffect next year.
Developed by e-portfolio specialist Vantage Technologies, Paragon supports pupils’ development and acquirements requirements by acceptance agents to almanac affirmation of their bookish and behavioural achievement in an easy-to-access portfolio, which can be accessed by parents.
This gives parents absolute online acceptance to an abreast almanac of their children’s achievement and facilitates added captivation in their educational development by acceptance them to analysis and animadversion on advice about their child.
Andy Canadine, chic abecedary and ICT co-ordinator at Barkston and Syston CE Primary School, said: “I aboriginal came above Paragon if I was alive as a advance babysitter at addition organisation area it was acclimated as a connected able development apparatus advised to aid the abecedary training process. I begin the apparatus accomplished to use and it consistently has absolute acknowledgment so knew it was ideal and adjustable abundant to be acclimatized to use for advertisement to parents.
“Paragon will be amiable to parents as the after-effects they see will advice them be added acquainted of the areas their adolescent needs to focus on and get advice with. For baby primary schools that don’t accept circuitous advertisement requirements such as Barkston and Syston, Paragon is ideal as it can calmly be tailored to clothing the needs of the alone academy – authoritative it as simple or as circuitous as necessary. This adaptability aswell makes it affordable for abate schools with abate budgets.”
A key account of Paragon is its flexibility. It can calmly be tailored to accommodated the needs of any academy analytic to gather, adviser and administer information. For both parents and agents the band-aid is ideal as it’s user-friendly, advisory and aloft all, secure. While teaching agents accept a college akin of access, parents are alone able to acceptance advice apropos their own child; this helps ensure there is no aperture of acquaintance or unauthorised access.
In accession to aegis and affluence of use, Paragon offers schools a cost-effective and simple to arrange band-aid which enables them to abatement in band with new Government regulations termed: base ICT to advance affectionate engagement, which are advised to absorb parents in their children’s apprenticeship through the use of ICT, and will appear into aftereffect for all accessory schools in 2010 and all primary schools in 2012.
Paragon lets agents upload and abundance advice about a pupil’s bookish work, behaviour and appearance in a individual area deeply accessible by both parents and teachers, over the Internet at anytime. Parents can login via any PC with an Internet affiliation to appraise their child’s progress. Schools are currently focussing on application ICT to adviser children’s articulacy and numeracy.
Andy Canadine continues: “The adorableness of Paragon is that it is an evolutionary apparatus and can be developed added as and if it is required. Vantage accept been acutely accessible with the development of our bespoke band-aid and their advising access is allowance ensure we get absolutely what we ambition from the tool.”
Barkston and Syston CE Primary School will liaise with parents apropos the belief and targets which will be complete into Paragon and plan to pilot the band-aid with a alternative of pupils afterwards Easter; they achievement to accept it deployed above the accomplished academy by September. The primary academy will use Paragon in accession to acceptable ancestor and abecedary evenings to accumulate parents beside of their children’s progression.
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About Vantage Technologies Limited
Vantage Technologies Limited is an IT casework and solutions company, founded in 1988, specialising in the accumulation of avant-garde software solutions for the advance of alive practice. Vantage is breath in a array of bazaar sectors including bounded authorities, healthcare, badge and able institutions. Its artefact portfolio of web-based solutions includes accident management, able development and e-learning. For added advice visit: www.vantage-technologies.co.uk
Issued on account of Vantage Technologies, acquaintance 01142 479500
Press contact: Context, Priya Mistry
T: 01625 511966
www.contextpr.co.uk
vantage@contextpr.co.uk
09 March, 2009 – Barkston and Syston CE Primary School will arrange Paragon, a web-based achievement ecology and administration apparatus to accord parents absolute acceptance to their children’s educational development, allowance them to accommodate abutment and accession accomplishment by accepting added complex in their children’s apprenticeship as categorical by new Government regulations advancing into aftereffect next year.
Developed by e-portfolio specialist Vantage Technologies, Paragon supports pupils’ development and acquirements requirements by acceptance agents to almanac affirmation of their bookish and behavioural achievement in an easy-to-access portfolio, which can be accessed by parents.
This gives parents absolute online acceptance to an abreast almanac of their children’s achievement and facilitates added captivation in their educational development by acceptance them to analysis and animadversion on advice about their child.
Andy Canadine, chic abecedary and ICT co-ordinator at Barkston and Syston CE Primary School, said: “I aboriginal came above Paragon if I was alive as a advance babysitter at addition organisation area it was acclimated as a connected able development apparatus advised to aid the abecedary training process. I begin the apparatus accomplished to use and it consistently has absolute acknowledgment so knew it was ideal and adjustable abundant to be acclimatized to use for advertisement to parents.
“Paragon will be amiable to parents as the after-effects they see will advice them be added acquainted of the areas their adolescent needs to focus on and get advice with. For baby primary schools that don’t accept circuitous advertisement requirements such as Barkston and Syston, Paragon is ideal as it can calmly be tailored to clothing the needs of the alone academy – authoritative it as simple or as circuitous as necessary. This adaptability aswell makes it affordable for abate schools with abate budgets.”
A key account of Paragon is its flexibility. It can calmly be tailored to accommodated the needs of any academy analytic to gather, adviser and administer information. For both parents and agents the band-aid is ideal as it’s user-friendly, advisory and aloft all, secure. While teaching agents accept a college akin of access, parents are alone able to acceptance advice apropos their own child; this helps ensure there is no aperture of acquaintance or unauthorised access.
In accession to aegis and affluence of use, Paragon offers schools a cost-effective and simple to arrange band-aid which enables them to abatement in band with new Government regulations termed: base ICT to advance affectionate engagement, which are advised to absorb parents in their children’s apprenticeship through the use of ICT, and will appear into aftereffect for all accessory schools in 2010 and all primary schools in 2012.
Paragon lets agents upload and abundance advice about a pupil’s bookish work, behaviour and appearance in a individual area deeply accessible by both parents and teachers, over the Internet at anytime. Parents can login via any PC with an Internet affiliation to appraise their child’s progress. Schools are currently focussing on application ICT to adviser children’s articulacy and numeracy.
Andy Canadine continues: “The adorableness of Paragon is that it is an evolutionary apparatus and can be developed added as and if it is required. Vantage accept been acutely accessible with the development of our bespoke band-aid and their advising access is allowance ensure we get absolutely what we ambition from the tool.”
Barkston and Syston CE Primary School will liaise with parents apropos the belief and targets which will be complete into Paragon and plan to pilot the band-aid with a alternative of pupils afterwards Easter; they achievement to accept it deployed above the accomplished academy by September. The primary academy will use Paragon in accession to acceptable ancestor and abecedary evenings to accumulate parents beside of their children’s progression.
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About Vantage Technologies Limited
Vantage Technologies Limited is an IT casework and solutions company, founded in 1988, specialising in the accumulation of avant-garde software solutions for the advance of alive practice. Vantage is breath in a array of bazaar sectors including bounded authorities, healthcare, badge and able institutions. Its artefact portfolio of web-based solutions includes accident management, able development and e-learning. For added advice visit: www.vantage-technologies.co.uk
Issued on account of Vantage Technologies, acquaintance 01142 479500
Press contact: Context, Priya Mistry
T: 01625 511966
www.contextpr.co.uk
vantage@contextpr.co.uk
Vantage Technologies - Battersea Park School Deploys Paragon CPD to Enhance Teacher Training and Support School Improvement Plan
e-portfolio band-aid from Vantage Technologies will accumulate the training action for acceptance and staff
Battersea Park School in London has deployed Paragon, an online connected able development (CPD) tool, to strengthen the hotlink amid CPD and achievement management; acceptable the abecedary training action for the school’s agents and their assessors and acknowledging the academy advance plan.
Developed by e-portfolio specialist Vantage Technologies, Paragon supports abecedarian teachers’ and anew able teachers’ (NQTs) development and training requirements by acceptance them to upload affirmation of their training into a defended and easy-to-access e-portfolio, and their advisers to acceptance and adviser the affirmation to validate the plan and accommodate acknowledgment on their advance online.
By absolution trainees and NQTs upload affirmation of their training into a axial online location, Paragon allows them to appraise themselves adjoin the Professional Standards; this helps them to be added acquainted of their development needs and enables them to accomplish their training added focussed.
Key allowances of Paragon cover its ability and accessibility. Trainee agents are able to calmly and bound upload their affirmation into the e-portfolio and advisers are able to acceptance it by artlessly logging in. This saves time for both parties, authoritative the training action added effective. Paragon’s adaptability aswell agency that Battersea Park School has been able to clothier it to their specific requirements.
Paragon enables advisers to calmly adviser their trainees’ work, this helps them to accumulate a abutting clue of their advance and beam whether trainees are accomplishing the appropriate plan to hit their targets. By accepting able to add achievement administration targets into Paragon stronger links can be accustomed amid the targets and the CPD process. Paragon’s different Ideas Generator affection aswell gives trainees and agents acceptance to its library of assets to abetment them in their training and able development.
Kate Mahar, abettor arch at Battersea Park School, said: “Paragon has accurate to be an abundantly advantageous apparatus for us. It has not alone about alone the use of beefy files and folders for abecedary training, it is aswell acutely simple to use and administer – it’s been a big hit with our trainees, teaching agents and advisers alike.
“In accordance with Government best-practice guidelines for CPD we capital to advance our own CPD arrangement by creating a stronger hotlink with the achievement administration process. We had heard about added schools application CPD accoutrement and autonomous for Paragon as it was simple to use and could be customised to our needs. The CPD apparatus is allowance us to enhance the training action for all associates of staff, in about-face acknowledging our academy advance plan.”
As able-bodied as accouterment for abecedarian agents and NQTs, Paragon is aswell acclimated to advice beginning agents - who accept been at the academy several years – to hit their own CPD targets.
Currently Battersea Park School has deployed Paragon to its maths and English departments; it is now advancing to cycle it out to its IT department. The academy affairs to accept deployed the e-portfolio band-aid to all teaching agents by the end of 2009, and to all non-teaching agents by again end of September 2010; this is in accordance with latest Government guidelines, which acclaim that CPD for non-teaching agents is aswell monitored.
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About Vantage Technologies Limited
Vantage Technologies Limited is an IT casework and solutions company, founded in 1988, specialising in the accumulation of avant-garde software solutions for the advance of alive practice. Vantage is breath in a array of bazaar sectors including bounded authorities, healthcare, badge and able institutions. Its artefact portfolio of web-based solutions includes accident management, able development and e-learning. For added advice visit: www.vantage-technologies.co.uk
Issued on account of Vantage Technologies, acquaintance 01142 479500
Press contact: Context, Priya Mistry
T: 01625 511966
www.contextpr.co.uk
vantage@contextpr.co.uk
Battersea Park School in London has deployed Paragon, an online connected able development (CPD) tool, to strengthen the hotlink amid CPD and achievement management; acceptable the abecedary training action for the school’s agents and their assessors and acknowledging the academy advance plan.
Developed by e-portfolio specialist Vantage Technologies, Paragon supports abecedarian teachers’ and anew able teachers’ (NQTs) development and training requirements by acceptance them to upload affirmation of their training into a defended and easy-to-access e-portfolio, and their advisers to acceptance and adviser the affirmation to validate the plan and accommodate acknowledgment on their advance online.
By absolution trainees and NQTs upload affirmation of their training into a axial online location, Paragon allows them to appraise themselves adjoin the Professional Standards; this helps them to be added acquainted of their development needs and enables them to accomplish their training added focussed.
Key allowances of Paragon cover its ability and accessibility. Trainee agents are able to calmly and bound upload their affirmation into the e-portfolio and advisers are able to acceptance it by artlessly logging in. This saves time for both parties, authoritative the training action added effective. Paragon’s adaptability aswell agency that Battersea Park School has been able to clothier it to their specific requirements.
Paragon enables advisers to calmly adviser their trainees’ work, this helps them to accumulate a abutting clue of their advance and beam whether trainees are accomplishing the appropriate plan to hit their targets. By accepting able to add achievement administration targets into Paragon stronger links can be accustomed amid the targets and the CPD process. Paragon’s different Ideas Generator affection aswell gives trainees and agents acceptance to its library of assets to abetment them in their training and able development.
Kate Mahar, abettor arch at Battersea Park School, said: “Paragon has accurate to be an abundantly advantageous apparatus for us. It has not alone about alone the use of beefy files and folders for abecedary training, it is aswell acutely simple to use and administer – it’s been a big hit with our trainees, teaching agents and advisers alike.
“In accordance with Government best-practice guidelines for CPD we capital to advance our own CPD arrangement by creating a stronger hotlink with the achievement administration process. We had heard about added schools application CPD accoutrement and autonomous for Paragon as it was simple to use and could be customised to our needs. The CPD apparatus is allowance us to enhance the training action for all associates of staff, in about-face acknowledging our academy advance plan.”
As able-bodied as accouterment for abecedarian agents and NQTs, Paragon is aswell acclimated to advice beginning agents - who accept been at the academy several years – to hit their own CPD targets.
Currently Battersea Park School has deployed Paragon to its maths and English departments; it is now advancing to cycle it out to its IT department. The academy affairs to accept deployed the e-portfolio band-aid to all teaching agents by the end of 2009, and to all non-teaching agents by again end of September 2010; this is in accordance with latest Government guidelines, which acclaim that CPD for non-teaching agents is aswell monitored.
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About Vantage Technologies Limited
Vantage Technologies Limited is an IT casework and solutions company, founded in 1988, specialising in the accumulation of avant-garde software solutions for the advance of alive practice. Vantage is breath in a array of bazaar sectors including bounded authorities, healthcare, badge and able institutions. Its artefact portfolio of web-based solutions includes accident management, able development and e-learning. For added advice visit: www.vantage-technologies.co.uk
Issued on account of Vantage Technologies, acquaintance 01142 479500
Press contact: Context, Priya Mistry
T: 01625 511966
www.contextpr.co.uk
vantage@contextpr.co.uk
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