What Our Students Say

I would like to thank Chapterhouse for providing us both with the opportunity to carve a new career out for ourselves… After we left teaching, having qualified with Chapterhouse, we started on a very small basis, working together on the small amount of work that came our way. This slowly blossomed into more work than we can handle, with clients ranging from magazines, to book publishers, to academic work, both through an agency and directly from a number of European universities – so thanks to Chapterhouse we have not only spent the last 14 years working from home, with all the freedom that entails, but also plan to use our skills to help supplement us in retirement, when that day comes.

FB, Surrey

It was an absolutely wonderful course that has helped me massively in my career in the publishing industry.  Many thanks for all your help.

AD, Dorset

I’m pleased to say that I have now landed a major publishing company as a client and things have gone from strength to strength. I’d like to say a very big thank you to yourself and Chapterhouse for your valuable advice and your professional help – the course has opened a whole new world to me and I love being my own boss. I would advise anyone who has a love of books and writing and who wants to be their own boss to take your course.

GH, High Wycombe

The course was particularly helpful in imparting an understanding of the publishing process as a whole, and what the priorities are at each stage of the editorial process… Upwards of 120 manuscripts and 50 sets of proofs later, I would not hesitate to recommend the course.

JC, Chesterfield

Many thanks for sending my certificate for passing the Proofreading and Editorial Correspondence Course to me, and also for sending the individual certificate for my Proofreading success last November: that piece of paper helped me gain my first piece of work with a fiction writer, commencing later this month. Thank you for your help throughout the course.

AH, Greenford

I had a great experience on your course – you made it fun, challenging, and I remember doing well in your spelling test! Big tick. You impressed upon us that we should sell ourselves in subjects that we know, and mine was cars. I listened :-). I’ve already had three assignments for an exhibition design agency… Bringing together the ideas, texts and designs of very different people into a coherent style was brilliant… and “worth every penny”. Massive tick to Chapterhouse.

KW, Bedford

I am now proofreading regularly for one of the leading religious book publishers… and enjoying the work immensely.

IG, Folkestone

My work is mainly for a pharmaceutical magazine, but I have had other ad hoc projects such as technical reports, anglicising US copy, marketing brochures etc.

LF, Bracknell

I got that job with [a publishing house], in large part due to having been on the course. So now I’m Editorial Assistant, wading through queries, proofs, blurb edits and permissions, just like it said on the tin.

JR, Cambridge

I have some proofreading work lined up with an academic publisher and have started reading for fiction publishers.

SC, Leeds

I have received my certificate today for the copy-editing element of the course, and I’m made up that I managed to pass this element… I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank you personally for your patience with me and the guidance you have provided during the course… Your feedback and advice definitely helped me to improve.

PK, Bradford

I just wanted to write to say what an excellent course we much enjoyed at Imperial College which commenced on May 12. I would like to formally thank Tom Richards, our tutor – who was wonderfully engaging and conveyed the subject in a most comprehensible manner – with humour and with much interaction from ourselves too! It was the most stimulating and very enlightening and interesting week.

FF-M, Warwick

I not only found the Chapterhouse four-day seminar back in December very useful, I also enjoyed it immensely. I thought you were brilliant… And given the chance I should certainly attend other courses taught by you. (If you’ve now shifted into cynical Brit mode, thinking “shameless flatterer!”, please stop, and reverse back; these sentiments are written out spontaneously, and meant very genuinely.)

CJ, Switzerland

I don’t think I ever let you know the successes your course has brought me! It was a LONG time ago, when I had just retired from teaching and I did your residential course in Exeter. I built up a part-time free-lance business – and then got offered a 5 year job at was then UKERNA (now JANET)… They added to my skills with courses on web design and maintenance, and digital photography. I have retired again but still work voluntarily – building websites for myself and organisations, copy editing for the local NHS Trust, and developing my photography alongside my passion for mixed media textiles, ‘photoshopping’ my own photos and incorporating them in my embroidery – just took a first at a local art exhibition. And all because I took your course! I found the ‘How to get work’ section at the end of the course really helpful.

The most important effect you have had is that the local NHS Trust now has a style sheet and a work instruction for producing documentation for public distribution… Chapterhouse – you probably save lives!!!!

AP, Derbyshire