09 Sep Illuminate your curiosity – September 2024 Newsletter

The Principal’s Pen

Recently, I was researching lighting technologies, particularly those that now embrace artificial intelligence (AI).  I pondered on how many others including our students have even given a fleeting thought to this subject. This highlighted the importance of continuing to remain curious.  This is even more important in one’s specialist area of expertise.  It is only by being curious that we can advance and stay at the top of our game.

If one is recognized and acknowledged as a bit of an expert within a professional community, it is then even more important to continuously do your own research to increase your knowledge.

Today, we are spoilt.  Before the internet, we had to keep up to date with print magazines and spend hours in public libraries to do research.  Even then we would be hard pressed to find information about newly developed technologies. Now, we have the internet, I hasten to add, used with caution, to access so much content.  I said with caution, because there is so much poor-quality information, poorly written content and unproven, untested content on the internet.  It is not always easy to identify poor content.  It takes knowledge and understanding to recognize the so-called lemons in the basket of information.  I call them lemons, because after spending time reading the information only to then realize that it is poor quality or perhaps completely inaccurate or completely incorrect, it leaves a sour taste in one’s mouth.

I encourage every reader of this newsletter, whether you are a BHA School of Lighting student or not, to read, research and hunger to learn more.  If you are a professional in the lighting field, you have a duty to your clients and customers to deliver the best and highest level of advice based on the latest lighting and control technologies that are available.

Now for some course news. Last month we informed you about some important changes that will ensure that the Advanced Diploma in Illumination Engineering course maintains its position as the leading e-learning lighting course in the world and the most up to date with all technological advances in the lighting and lighting control arena. Those changes come into effect during September before we head to Spain for a month to visit our sons, their wives and our 2-month old grandson, Louie Hammond Gonzalez in Madrid.

We wish all students, both First and Second Year students well, as they prepare for the final examinations for their respective years. It is an exciting time for the students and equally exciting for us especially when they graduate.

I will have more to flow from my pen next month to give you more interesting reading.  Until then, as always, have a fantastic business month.

With best regards.

Philip Hammond

Lighting for Well-being & Productivity

Welcome to our new BHA School of Lighting Students

Frances Hernandez, Dubai, United Arab Emirates – BHASL003C19: Advanced Diploma in Illumination Engineering Course
Nadira Chandarmani, Ballito, South Africa – BHASL003C19: Advanced Diploma in Illumination Engineering Course
Remy Leloup Guimezong, Cape Town, South Africa – BHASL003C19: Advanced Diploma in Illumination Engineering Course
Ayazhan Assanova, Almaty, Kazakhstan – BHASL003C19: Advanced Diploma in Illumination Engineering Course
Neha Bora, Greater Noida West, Uttar Pradesh, India – BHASL003C19: Advanced Diploma in Illumination Engineering Course
Melvin Chetty, Johannesburg, South Africa – BHASL003C19: Advanced Diploma in Illumination Engineering Course

September Student Birthdays

Happy Birthday to the following past & present students celebrating their birthdays this month of September 2024! We hope you all have an amazing day!

Burgher Nortje, Richards Bay, South Africa – 1 September
Mohammed Habtoor, Damman, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – 3 September
Paula Henry Naguib Bachtly, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – 8 September
Ruan Erasmus, Cape Town, South Africa – 15 September
Constance Mokou, Polokwane, South Africa – 17 September
Neeraj Bharti, Noida, India – 17 September
Shamielah Jacobs, Paarl, South Africa – 17 September
Ahmed Shalabi, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – 20 September
Shamiljan Nadampadi, Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 21 September
Dean Boyce, Cape Town, South Africa (Graduate) – 22 September
Kirsten Day, Plettenberg Bay, South Africa – 23 September
Francois du Preez, Pretoria, South Africa (Graduate) – 24 September
Hans Van Rooyen, Johannesburg, South Africa – 24 September
Ismael Al Obaidi, Baghdad, Iraq – 25 September

Our congratulations to students who have completed courses

Poorvi Kota, Bangalore, Karnataka, India – Foundation Lighting Course
Keegan Warne, Cape Town, South Africa – Relux Desktop Lighting Design Software Course
Oliver Hauser, Johannesburg, South Africa (Graduate) – Advanced Diploma in Illumination Engineering Course

We wish great success to the following BHA School of Lighting students preparing for examinations

Mohammad Al Muhanna, Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Priyanka Praful, Bangalore, India
Petrus Cilliers, Johannesburg, South Africa
Ismael Al Obaidi, Baghdad, Iraq

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