Skills minister Kevin Brennan yesterday launched a National Skills Academy to address the skills shortages reported by 68% of employers in the process and manufacturing sectors.

Last year in the UK 3.6 million vocational qualification qualifications were awarded, showing an increase of 350,000 or 11% since 2007.

Employers in the hospitality and tourism sectors must work with the Government to "cast the net wider" to link skills to jobs, according to the minister for employment and welfare reform.

Almost a third of European workers (30%) are in jobs they are not properly trained for because of recession cutbacks.

Cineworld cinemas has rebranded its learning and development function to encourage staff to recognise and appreciate career advancement at the firm.

Employers including Accenture, Yell.com and St Tropez are sending teams of staff to take part in an entrepreneurial challenge to raise money to help unemployed young people into business.

Where better to learn than from an organisation that's in the same business? Companies are beginning to see the value in sharing information and ways of doing things. Peter Crush reports.

More than half of jobseekers in the UK blame their school education for not preparing them properly for a career.

Employers have been warned they must change young people's perceptions of apprenticeships as 25% of 15-17 year olds still associate them with practical trades and more than a third have no idea how to...

Despite a record number of new recruits this year, the army has scrapped plans to build a new training centre in Barry Buddon.

City and Islington College has launched a training initiative to support people under notice of redundancy.

Government training funds are drying up, meaning employers will struggle to invest in their staff, according to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).