Guernsey Eisteddfod Shorthand and Typing

The Shorthand and Typewriting section used to examine the skills acquired and required by secretarial workers. Their typewriting speeds and shorthand speeds, along with the transcript, were tested with accuracy being a deciding factor. The ability to display work using a typewriter was also explored at three levels, elementary, intermediate and advanced.

Now, in the age of computers, the speed and display skills are still tested but using computers with word processing, publishing and presentation software packages instead of typewriters. The shorthand competition has remained essentially the same - the ability to transcribe accurately the passages dictated at set speeds

Students at the College of Further Education and students at some of the secondary schools participate in their own classrooms using familiar equipment. However, other arrangements can be made for anyone else who would like to enter the competition by contacting the executive officer of this section, Mrs J de Jersey, on 245590.