24 October, 2017 – Binfield, UK [Kirsty Watkins] Under a new agreement between the College and the Trans-European Division (TED), Newbold Business students are now able to undertake an internship at the Division’s St Albans office.
“Our internship programme with the TED aims to support the Division’s need for new Business professionals while also giving our students the opportunity to serve the Church during their internship. It is extremely important to prepare our students with practical life skills, and to give them the opportunity for active learning, by putting the theoretical skills they have learnt at Newbold, into practice,” said Dr Päivikki Kuoppokangas, former Interim Head of the College’s former School of Busines (now combined as the Department of Humanities an Business).
“Newbold is the educational wing of the TED, and with its Business department have for many years been educating passionate and dedicated professionals in business management, accounting and finance. Developing leaders is one of the core strategic goals of the TED and one of the main objectives of this new collaboration with Newbold is to combine professional education with an opportunity to experience how the Church works in the Treasury department, which is an integral leadership function fundamental to how our organisation operates,” said TED Treasurer, Nenad Jepuranović. “We hope that this programme will also serve as a way to motivate and inspire young people to consider contributing to the wider work of the Church.”
Final-year student Loïc Baltyde, is the first to have undertaken an internship with the TED, which he completed over four weeks during the summer with the Division’s Treasury team who are responsible for the fourteen administrative regions that the TED serves. ” I was able to get experience in and expand my knowledge of a range of accounting and finance tasks,” said Loïc. “Each team member gets involved at different step into the accounting cycle, and I was able to spend time with each of them and learn to perform the task on my own.”
“I strongly believe that we should apply our theoretical knowledge in situ in order to see their full application but also the adjustments that they require sometimes. I grew up in Guadeloupe, an insular region of France located in the Carribean. I remember hearing about the TED during the missionary bulletins and I wondered how far it was and what kind of challenges they faced. My time at the TED gives me a clear overview of how our Church is organised worldwide, and how important is to have the different layers of Church organisation, as they guarantee our presence globally but also permit us to manage our resources and needs efficiently,” said Loïc.
“I came to Newbold with an unflinching determination to discover more about the way we could implement our Christianity into the business world but also how we could apply some business concepts to our Christian lifestyle and our Church. Studying at Newbold has definitely impacted and confirmed the fact I would like to work with the Church. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the TED team members. You were so kind and supportive and I got so much from the experience that I could not have expected. I experienced your commitment to serve the Church and being among you, I really felt blessed. It was not only a work experience but above all a human experience. May God bless each of you personally as well as your families.” [tedNEWS]
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