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    • BroadSkill Attains Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status

      Bray Leino Learning |

      BroadSkill, the UK's largest supplier of freelance trainers and a major IT solutions provider, today announced that it has attained Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Programme, with competencies in data management and advanced infrastructure solutions. BroadSkill is the first Microsoft Gold Partner with these two competencies in the Chester area. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including access to training and support, giving them a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

    • KnowledgePool helps Orange meet record demand for induction training

      KnowledgePool |

      KnowledgePool has helped Orange, the mobile communications giant, to provide induction training for 1,000 new customer service representatives in six months, after a series of advertising campaigns created a significant increase in customer response calls.

    • IITT publishes first Best Practice Guidelines

      Learning and Performance Institute | Coventry UK |

      The first two Best Practice Guidelines have been published and are now in the Library on the members' Connect Group site.

    • BNFL deploy elearning to increase security awareness

      Kallidus | Cirencester, UK |

      British Nuclear Fuels Plc (BNFL) has turned to elearning to deliver critical messages about the growing threat of international terrorism since 9/11 and the consequential increased regulations. The organisation rejected traditional classroom learning for this security awareness project as being too time consuming, costly and inconsistent.

    • InterQuad drives new Microsoft technologies

      QA | Slough, UK |

      On the 7th November 2005, Microsoft are launching the eagerly awaited Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. To support this launch, InterQuad Learning is scheduling a new range of courses and 2 FREE SEMINARS on 28th & 29th November.

    • MoD makes ready for change with QA

      QA | London, UK |

      The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is taking pro-active steps to ensure their IT support staff are ready for future and current change, with a bespoke certification programme designed by QA, the UK's Training Company of the Year 2005.

    • Torch Hub shines light on TAP

      The Training Foundation | Pewsey, Wiltshire, UK |

      Recent investments in the development of learner support skills are contributing to higher learner completion and achievement rates within the Torch Hub network of learning centres.

    • Single online portal offers integrated skills analysis and training services

      KnowledgePool |

      Organisations can now analyse the skills of their workforce and procure training to fill any skills gaps in one online service. KnowledgePool, the learning services company, has joined up with InfoBasis, a leading provider of skills management technologies, to create the system.

    • 1,000th NHS trainer achieves TAP (R) qualification

      The Training Foundation | Coventry, UK |

      When Chantal Brookes, a trainer from the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, was awarded a TAP (R) Certificate in Training Delivery Skills on 25 April, she became the 1,000th person working for the English NHS to have achieved a qualification within the Trainer Assessment Programme since its launch in 1998. No other employer worldwide has 1,000 in-house trainers externally certified to the same standard.

    • QA broadens international capability with Global Learning Alliance partnership

      QA | London, UK |

      QA, recently named Training Company of the Year 2005, has been chosen as the premier partner for Global Learning Alliance (GLA) in the UK. This appointment gives QA's clients access to worldwide support for all their training requirements through a network of approved delivery partners.

    • Training Skills and the NHS: Connecting for Health

      The Training Foundation | Nottingham, UK |

      Kate Marsden of Trent Strategic Health Authority has highlighted the proactive role that the SHA plays in funding the development of IT training skills. She feels this role is crucial in order to address the training challenges posed by programmes being delivered by the new Department of Health agency NHS Connecting for Health.

    • European organisations reap the benefits of outsourcing

      MPS Interactive Systems | Zürich, Switzerland |

      Increasingly, organisations in Europe are taking advantage of commissioning their staff's learning materials from specialist companies, many of them with access to development staff based overseas.

    • Leeds City Council leads the way

      The Training Foundation | Leeds, UK |

      Leeds City Council is the second largest Metropolitan District Council in the UK, employing approximately 32,000 people, about 10,000 of which are computer users. IT Training Manager Pat McConnell has been explaining how long term investments in improved learning facilitation skills have fulfilled two of the core values of Leeds City Council by valuing colleagues and putting customers first.

    • Lincolnshire Police TAP out the beat

      The Training Foundation | Lincoln, UK |

      Force Training Manager Alison Coupland has been explaining how Lincolnshire Police have addressed their requirement for enhanced and refreshed skills in training design and learning facilitation.

    • QA Launches Three-Year Managed Training Service for Norwich Union

      QA | London, UK |

      Norwich Union Central Services, part of the UK’s largest insurance group, has selected QA, the UK’s Training Company of the Year 2005, to manage the delivery of all technical training to Norwich Union’s employees throughout the UK.

    • InterQuad Learning Awarded MOD Contract

      QA | Slough, UK |

      InterQuad Learning is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a three-year contract for the provision of computer software training courses by the RAF.

    • TAP into the news

      The Training Foundation | Coventry, UK |

      Gill Honey, IT Training Manager at News International has been outlining the range of ways in which structured training skills development has helped her department to deliver a greater return of investment in both Trainers and Training Facilities over the last six years.

    • Centrica Training Skills Powered by TAP

      The Training Foundation | Basingstoke, Berkshire |

      Richard Malam,Training Manager with Centrica Learning and Development explains his uncompromising approach to the development and certification of training skills.

    • Tesco Academy Delivers Great Results

      The Training Foundation | Welwyn Hertfordshire |

      Tesco Academy Director Nicola Steele explains why over 140 Tesco personnel have attended courses leading to TAP® certification over the last 3 years and sets out some of the benefits that the initiative has generated for staff, for Tesco and for the customer.

    • Seeing i2 Eye on TAP

      The Training Foundation | Cambridge, United Kingdom |

      Jo O'Connell, Training Manager for visual analysis software specialist i2, explains how new methods have led to improved course materials and even helped her to create a more cohesive training team.

    • Autoglass gives a clear view on TAP

      The Training Foundation | Birmingham, United Kingdom |

      As the UK's number one vehicle glass repair and replacement specialist, Autoglass is committed to protecting the safety of motorists by delivering the highest standards of service. -Technical training manager Steve Sinclair-Day has been explaining how the development of professional training skills has helped Autoglass to achieve this.

    • It's TAP® for CAPS

      The Training Foundation | Coventry, UK |

      The Training Development Manager for one of the UK's most experienced suppliers of integrated local government solutions explains how they have improved the effectiveness and consistency of their customer training through investments in trainer skills.

    • Marie-Pierre Gouaux of Atos Origin becomes Training Manager of the Year

      Bray Leino Learning |

      Marie-Pierre Gouaux, Learning & Development Manager for Atos Origin, was chosen as Training Manager of the Year at the Institute of IT Training’s awards dinner earlier this month. The title is bestowed on an individual who has shown exceptional skills in managing an IT training department and has made a significant and demonstrable impact on the performance of their organisation's employees.

    • InterQuad: Awarded Novell Platinum Training Partner Status

      QA | Slough UK |

      InterQuad Learning, a division of the InterQuad Group Limited, was recently awarded the Novell Platinum Training Partner Status in EMEA. Platinum membership, which forms part of the new Novell PartnerNet Programme, is by invitation only and is awarded to existing Novell Accredited Education Centres (NAEC) that have performed beyond expectations, delivering superior levels of Novell training.

    • TAP® Trainers on Payroll

      The Training Foundation | Coventry, UK |

      Sarah Walker, Head of Training Services for Northgate HR explains why ongoing investment in the development of trainer skills is a key element in their business strategy.

    • V&A opts for ICE

      InTuition | London |

      After many years of keeping its staff's skills and learning records on a specially constructed database, the V&A family of museums is trialing a learning management system (LMS). The LMS - known as the In Tuition Customer Extranet (ICE) - has been designed by In Tuition and is being supplied on a trial basis free of charge to selected clients.

    • TAP® takes flight for Aviation Training

      The Training Foundation |

      Aviation Training International Limited (ATIL) delivers a Training Service for the Apache Attack Helicopter to the British Army as a Public Finance Initiative. The organisation trains Aircrew, Ground crew and Maintenance Technicians using a combination of Instructor led training and advanced synthetic devices such as Full Mission Simulators and Part Task Trainers. At the outset ATIL employed instructors originally trained by the UK Armed Services. However it soon became clear to Mike Crabbe, the Maintenance Training manager, that the teaching techniques the instructors required and the assessment strategy in use did not give his instructors the best skill-base for the training tools procured for this project.

    • Maximise value from business systems. Interquad and Touchstone - a new alliance

      QA |

      Slough, 22 October 2004. InterQuad Learning announce a new alliance with Touchstone Group. To get the most out of any business system, organisations need to ensure that their people have the necessary skills in all three areas - infrastructure, productivity tools, and the particular business application involved.

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