Travelodge is home to first skills academy for hospitality

Travelodge has opened a skills academy specifically designed for the hospitality industry.

How to help redundant executives broaden their horizons and their career choices

In this climate of economic upheaval, your organisation is probably not alone in cutting staff. Quite likely, your whole industry is doing the same. Candidates and HR managers alike know that looking...

Citrix Systems centralises learning resources offer with new online talent development suite

Citrix Systems has launched an online talent development suite to centralise learning resources and make it easier to track and report on employee development.

Too many employers are not measuring the impact of their coaching programmes, research reveals

While multi-millions of pounds are spent on coaching across the UK, almost one in seven employers (15%) admit they have absolutely no measurements in place to assess the impact of their programmes.

Managers of volunteers are poorly trained

Despite the fact volunteers are 'crucial' to the Government's Big Society, almost half the employees tasked with managing volunteers have no received any training that can help them in their work.

Rok research claims an apprenticeship makes for a better employee than a university degree

Completing an apprenticeship can be better preparation for the world of work than gaining a university qualification, new research reveals.

Creativity is the key to staff development in the recession

The recession has been a tough time for businesses across the UK with HR departments being particularly badly affected as they usually have the unenviable task of arranging redundancies and making...

Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation launches e-learning initiative

Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation has launched an e-learning platform for its 3,000 employees.

Business confidence in Europe puts onus on training and talent management

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

BIS encourages employers to take a 'caf culture' approach to training

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.

Minimum Wage hike for Scottish agricultural apprentices

The Scottish Agricultural Wages Board has introduced an increase to the minimum hourly rate of pay for agricultural apprentices.

HR Round table: Doubt over learning and development professionals' ability to deliver the skills needed for future growth?

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...