Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation has launched an e-learning platform for its 3,000 employees.
Confidence is well and truly returning to European business with four out of five firms predicting growth over the next year - putting the onus on recruitment, training and development
Skills Minister John Hayes today called on all UK businesses to promote informal learning at work, following pledges from sixty-four companies to increase informal workplace training for their staff.
The Scottish Agricultural Wages Board has introduced an increase to the minimum hourly rate of pay for agricultural apprentices.
With a revival in recruitment still hanging in the balance (one survey finds there has been a 21% fall in the number of public-sector job postings since the General Election), it seems HRDs who have...
For years learning and development professionals have felt sidelined while HR departments have introduced the successful business partner model. But as L&D experts now develop business partner status...
As a scheme is launched next month to pair employers up with schools, HRDs need to be serious about offering work experience, including paying them for it.
The UK's first coalition Government for more than half a century and the untested partnership of David Cameron and Nick Clegg reached their 100th day yesterday. Since 10 May the dynamics of the...
The Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) has carried out a piece of work to analyse and inform on the numbers of doctors going into medical specialty training following on from foundation...
Workplace training is most commonly given to younger staff, women, public-sector employees and workers in non-profit organisations.
Employers who give quality internships to disadvantaged young people - such as young offenders and care leavers - should receive 'pay-back' from the Government, says new research from Demos.
A year-long 'skills passport' pilot tested by seven NHS trusts has received ringing endorsement by sector skills council Skills for Health, in what is hoped could lead to a full national rollout.
