“This for me is a comeback season.” This was Usain Bolt speaking before the IAAF World Athletics Championships, last week.
Food manufacturer Lauren’s Patisseries has unveiled a learning academy at its chilled desserts factory in Newark to provide employees with free tutored learning in English and other skills.
Employers have been urged to better market their apprenticeship programmes to GCSE students.
Kwik-Fit Financial Services has launched a new summer placement scheme, offering students already working part-time in its call centre the opportunity to gain work experience in other parts of the...
Boots UK is launching a new 18-month business apprenticeship programme for students who have completed their A-levels.
As thousands of students receive their GCSE results today, supermarket chain Asda has recorded 4,000 young people signing up to train for GCSE and A Level equivalent qualifications in the last three...
In an economic climate where accountability rules and every penny spent by a business needs to be justified, some may question the validity of an investment in psychometric profiling.
In today’s rapidly evolving learning and development environment, employers need, and increasingly want, to take the lead and develop their own training and development.
Students joining a new undergraduate programme at London School of Business and Finance (LSBF) will be guaranteed a graduate level, full-time position within six months of graduation.
Seven out of 10 learning and development teams are too busy fire-fighting their day-to-day challenges to focus on the strategic talent and learning issues in their organisations, according to a survey...
Organisations spend inordinate amounts of time designing and redesigning rating scales, but the goal of achieving objective and equitable assessments continues to elude them.
Last month, says Kevin Beales, a Government report ‘exposed’ the estimated £275 million wasted on ineffectual training courses by the Civil Service. The National Audit Office estimated that hundreds...
