Union learning representatives are helping to keep employers committed to training.

Companies are bucking the trend of past recessions by maintaining their training budget spend. But the pressure is on for the L&D function to demonstrate its value to the business.

Training that can be done as part of an employee's normal working day is gaining in popularity - not least because it doesn't have to feel like normal learning.

Nearly two-fifths of staff have had no training in the past year.

By the end of 2010, all qualifications must be registered on the Qualifications and Credit Framework. Sarah Pallett explains how this will affect companies' training programmes.

When performance doesn't improve after training, the problem may not be as simple as course content or a worker's inability to change. More complex factors may be at work.

As more than a quarter of a million students receive A-level results this morning, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) claims too much attention is focused on the annual ritual of exam results and...

London Borough of Merton has seen an increase of 120 hours of staff training in June, following the implementation of an e-learning training programme.

Employers in the food and drink industry will soon be able to boost business performance with the creation of a new qualification for staff.

Tesco managers have become the first people to graduate with a degree in Tesco retail practices.

Duerr's, the jam and spreads company, has awarded all its staff with an NVQ level 2 in Performing Manufacturing Operations as part of the Government's Train to Gain scheme.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has launched an academy for first-year university students to develop the employability skills of future graduates.