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    • Financial Times and IE Business School launch Headspring

      Headspring | London, UK |

      As a result of rapid expansion and success of a collaboration that set a new standard in the executive development sector, Financial Times and IE Business School have announced the launch of Headspring, the new identity of the joint venture formerly known as FT | IE Corporate Learning Alliance. The re-brand comes four years after the original launch and is a result of a new approach towards greater client-centricity and value creation in the leadership development sector.

    • Walkgrove e-learning wins counter terrorism award

      Walkgrove | Derby |

      After a training requirement was identified to tackle issues of security and counter terrorism, Walkgrove was commissioned by the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) in conjunction with Transport for London, to develop an e-learning module aimed at HGV drivers. The resulting course went on to win the nationally recognised Counter Terrorism Education Project Award at the Counter Terror Awards, March 2019.

    • Skillcast Seminar: SCORM Games

      Skillcast | London, UK |

      Skillcast is presenting a seminar on how to build serious games that work on SCORM-compliance learning management systems (LMS) and the exciting possibilities this opens up for engaging employees, personalising e-learning courses and generating a wealth of information on compliance and competency in organisations.

    • Imparta Features on Training Industry’s Top 20 Sales Training Company List for the Ninth Year

      Imparta | London, UK |

      Training Industry, the leading research and information resource for corporate learning leaders, today released its selection for the 2019 Top Training Companies lists for the Sales Training sector of the learning and development market. Imparta is delighted to announce that it has, for the ninth year running, received this much sought after accolade.

    • Women in Learning on Learning Now tv

      Learning Now tv | London |

      The Women in Learning campaign is showcased on March’s Learning Now tv along with David James on learning at the point of work, how AI is being used to develop lawyers’ skills and Learning Now tv welcomes a new regular reporter, Euan Semple.

    • LPI announces top 15 highest-performing learning departments

      Learning and Performance Institute | UK |

      Using benchmark data from its well-established accreditation programme, the Learning & Performance Institute identifies this year's 15 highest-scoring internal learning departments, all of whom are operating at the very best levels of performance.

    • Corporates back project to support charity digital skills

      Clear Lessons Foundation | UK |

      The Clear Lesson Foundation has teamed up with River Island, Aviva, Costa Coffee and Good Things Foundation to produce video resources to help charities tackle their digital skills.

    • QA is teaching the nation to code in a series of coding workshops

      QA |

      Workshops hosted at Northumbria University were opened by Chi Onwurah MP who supports initiative that seeks to address tech diversity and the skills gap in Tyne and Wear. Teach the Nation to Code is a coding workshop run by QA aimed at career changers and graduates to inspire careers in tech and software development.

    • QA celebrates National Apprenticeship Week with a reception in parliament

      QA | London, UK |

      Brexit talks were set aside – in the grand Terrace Pavilion of the House of Commons at least – on Tuesday 5th March as employers, apprentices and Parliamentarians gathered to celebrate the life-transforming power of apprenticeships for National Apprenticeships Week (NAW).

    • UK’s first female cyber security apprenticeship achiever earns highest possible grade

      QA |

      QA cyber security apprentice Stephanie Haynes of HORIBA MIRA just became the first woman in the UK to successfully complete the Cyber Security Technologist Level 4 apprenticeship programme – and she knocked her end-point assessment out of the park with a Distinction, the highest possible grade achieved by only one other learner so far.

    • Seasalt develops leaders of the future

      Learning and Performance Institute | Falmouth, UK |

      Lifestyle fashion brand, Seasalt, has received recognition from the Learning & Performance Institute (LPI), the global body for learning professionals, for its positive approach to workplace culture and leadership.

    • February’s Learning Now tv: in depth features and comment on the learning sector

      Learning Now tv | London |

      On February’s Learning Now tv Michelle Ockers challenges L&D’s to support a wider range of performance needs. Martin Couzins highlights some worrying news from the Learning Technologies’ and Fosway’s latest research. Nigel Paine catches up with young L&D professionals in the Netherlands. Plus Robin Hoyle on impact measurement, Good Practice’s annual 70:20:10 research and Learning News reports from Learning Technologies 2019.

    • Learnlight Launches Modern Learner eReport with Key Insights from AXA, Orange and BNP Paribas

      Learnlight | London, United Kingdom |

      Learnlight recently organized a Round Table in Paris focused on the topic of the Modern Learner and how corporate learning professionals are facing up to the challenges of engaging these impatient, overwhelmed and distracted learners. Following the event, Learnlight has produced an eReport with the key takeaways from the event and the insights of the panel of HR and Learning experts.

    • Skillcast releases 2019 update to its Essentials compliance e-learning library

      Skillcast | London, UK |

      Skillcast's latest release of its best-selling compliance e-learning library - Essentials 2019 - features advances in accessibility, content updates, UI/UX enhancements and test-out options that maintain its position as the comprehensive, high-quality, affordability staff compliance training solution for companies in the UK.

    • Raytheon wins multiple corporate training excellence awards in 2018

      Raytheon Professional Services |

      Dallas, Texas, (January 28, 2019) Raytheon Professional Services LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), has been recognized as a leader in training excellence in 2018 by multiple industry analysts and publications, including NelsonHall, Brandon Hall Group, Learning Technologies Awards and Chief Learning Officer magazine.

    • Kallidus Content launches new website showcasing award-winning projects ahead of Learning Technologies 2019

      Kallidus | Cirencester, UK |

      Award-winning digital content provider Kallidus Content has unveiled a new website to showcase its clients’ digital learning success stories. Kallidus has won 39 prestigious industry awards in recent years and the website shows how many of their customers are using innovative bespoke elearning and games to transform their learning and drive major programmes of organisational change.

    • Enhance global e-learning with multimedia localisation

      Capita | Manchester, UK |

      Sally Haywood and Kamil Juljanski from Capita Translation and Interpreting will be holding a seminar on e-learning and multimedia localisation at Learning Technologies, Europe’s leading L&D exhibition and conference, covering 10 steps on how to take e-learning content global through audio-visual and multimedia localisation.

    • Omniplex Group unveils new look

      Omniplex Learning | Harpenden, UK |

      Omniplex kick starts 2019 with a fresh new look, including a redesigned website and blog. The new website improves user experience, ensuring eLearning professionals can easily find the best product on the market and develop their eLearning expertise.

    • Career structure in learning and development

      CIPD | London |

      Andy Lancaster discusses CIPD's efforts to bring greater structure into L&D careers, through CIPD’s new profession map and qualifications, and two new L&D apprenticeships.

    • Young L&D professionals: Learning Now tv panel

      Learning Now tv | London |

      On January’s Learning Now tv a panel of young L&D professionals discusses how they like to learn. Matthew Holman and Paul Morgan discuss mental health awareness in the workplace. LNTV’s workplace diversity and inclusion series continues with ‘digital accessibility’. Plus regular contributors, Robin Hoyle and Ajay Pangarkar.

    • QA on a mission to boost tech diversity by signing Tech Talent Charter

      QA | London, UK |

      QA has signed the Tech Talent Charter (TTC) as part of its ongoing commitment to break down career barriers, bridge the UK’s skills gap, promote a diverse workforce and support women in tech. Founded by employers across the recruitment, tech and social enterprise fields, the Tech Talent Charter (TTC) brings together industries and organisations to drive diversity and address gender imbalance in technology roles. The government supported the TTC in its UK Digital Strategy policy paper published in March 2017.

    • What’s really happening in digital learning in 2019?

      Fosway | Cirencester, UK |

      The hype surrounding the future of digital learning keeps coming; Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality...but what should L&D professionals be prioritising in their organisations today to ensure future success? New research opened today aims to understand the truth about digital learning, including the critical drivers and trends to watch, who’s really using what technologies today and making sense of the market and managing suppliers.

    • The L&D Global Sentiment Survey

      Donald H Taylor |

      Taking the pulse of of the L&D community worldwide, the 2019 L&D Global Sentiment Survey has opened for submissions.

    • InSync Training Announces New 2019 Programs and Services Catalog

      InSync Training | New Hampshire, USA |

      InSync Training has released its 2019 catalog of programs and services, listing all of the upcoming certificates and workshops for the upcoming year, as well as the many services available. Topics include facilitation, instructional design, production, microlearning, gamification, and more.

    • Six predictions for learning and development in 2019

      Headspring | London, UK |

      The annual look by Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance at what’s going to be hot in learning and development (L&D) in the year ahead focuses, perhaps inevitably, on the continuing impact of all things digital.

    • Consultancy Service for Potential Buyers of Learning Management Systems

      eLearning Industry | San Francisco, CA, USA |

      The network-based media and publishing company, eLearning Industry, has launched a service offering online advice and guidance for anyone who has been given responsibility for sourcing and buying a learning management system (LMS).

    • Engage in Learning event highlights Unconscious Bias

      Engage in Learning | Gloucester, UK |

      Everyone exhibits unconscious bias from time to time – and, unchecked in a work context, this leads to a less diverse workforce, with possible adverse effects on organisational performance.

    • InSync Training Releases Self-Paced Learning Campaign: Exploring Gamification & Game-Based Learning

      InSync Training | New Hampshire, USA |

      InSync Training's new self-paced learning campaign, Exploring Gamification & Game-Based Learning, is now available. Each campaign includes a carefully curated and designed combination of resources, like whitepapers, eLearning modules, videos, podcasts, and job aids. Enrollment includes 12 months of campaign access and many resources for learners to download and use on the job.

    • Reinventing recruitment: The talent acquisition imperative launched by Fosway Group

      Fosway | Cirencester, UK |

      Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, has announced its analysis of the talent acquisition technology market. Starting with its current assessment of the recruitment industry in a freely available Viewpoint paper, Fosway has also confirmed in advance the publication of a new 9-Grid™ for Talent Acquisition in 2019.

    • Engage in Learning launches Suspicious Packages e-learning course

      Engage in Learning | Gloucester, UK |

      The recent spate of suspicious packages sent to prominent politicians, businesspeople and celebrities in the USA, along with similar incidents elsewhere including the UK, has prompted the e-learning supplier, Engage in Learning, to release a new e-learning course about dealing with Suspicious Packages.

    • The secret to marketing eLearning

      Charity Learning Consortium |

      Martin Baker, CEO of the Charity Learning Consortium, shares his top marketing tips to engage learners.

    • Re-skilling the workforce

      QA |

      Listen to QA's Director of Enterprise at this year's Learning Live event discuss the importance of investing in the workforce of the future.

    • Case study: From eLearning to mLearning to 'wow'

      Kallidus | Europe |

      JYSK Nordics have recently updated their LMS and all of their customer service and sales elearning content on a mission to move their training from eLearning to mLearning to 'wow'. The results are incredible.

    • The Learning Awards 2019 finalists are announced

      Learning and Performance Institute | Worldwide |

      The Learning and Performance Institute is proud to announce the finalists for the 2019 Learning Awards, the learning sector’s annual celebration of outstanding achievement, best practice and excellence in corporate learning and performance.

    • New CIM programme recognises top marketing training

      Chartered Institute of Marketing | London |

      The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has launched a new recognition programme for marketing courses provided by universities, training providers and businesses.

    • Trust and social systems at work: Julian Stodd on Learning Now tv

      Learning Now tv | London |

      On October’s Learning Now tv Julian Stodd discusses his latest research project, The Landscape of Trust, which considers social and organisational trust, and tools and skills to help build it. Also on this week’s show: Paul Matthews on learning transfer at work and a review of World of Learning 2018.

    • Kallidus sees strong growth for first quarter of financial year

      Kallidus | Cirencester, UK |

      Kallidus, the award-winning learning and talent management provider, has kicked off the first quarter of its financial year with record growth. New business sales are up 218% compared to Q1 last financial year, of which licence sales are up 179%. Growth is being driven by Kallidus’ ability to provide end-to-end solutions that enable organisations to modernise their learning and recruit and develop top talent.

    • Unicorn Training On Course For Record Year

      The Access Group |

      Bournemouth-based digital learning leaders, Unicorn Training, are on course to eclipse their record-breaking 2017 after recording best ever figures in each of the first eight months of this year. Unicorn and its Serious Games division, Game Brain, attracted big crowds at The World of Learning Conference and Exhibition in Birmingham this week.

    • Engage in Learning highlights Leadership Fundamentals

      Engage in Learning | Gloucester |

      An article on e-learning supplier Engage in Learning’s website argues that successful leaders are ‘business chameleons’. In other words, says the article, they should be able to take on the role of directors, facilitators or motivators depending on the particular challenges that they are facing at the time.

    • Digital career platform launches: Career Burst

      Valamis | London |

      TWM has launched CareerBurst, a digital career platform, at Learning Live in London. Based on research with over 2,000 highly successful individuals, Career Burst is a digital career platform for employees and organisations that take the need for career support seriously.

    • LPI launches updated Capability Map

      Learning and Performance Institute | UK |

      Internationally-developed framework and self-assessment tool is comprehensively revised to map the essential skills of the modern L&D professional.

    • World of Learning opens in two weeks

      World of Learning | Birmingham |

      Two days of inspiration and exclusive offers await visitors to the World of Learning Conference & Exhibition taking place on 16 & 17 October, at Birmingham’s NEC.

    • Data-driven learning on Learning Now tv

      Learning Now tv | London |

      On September’s Learning Now tv the team interviews Lori Niles-Hofmann about digital body language and using data to help improve learning and performance at work; new insights into leadership development priorities following FTIECLA’s 2018 Pulse Report; establishing a business school for Solera staff; LearningLive 2018 review.

    • Marshall and Shaw Mind Foundation: mental health collaboration between Universities and Schools

      Marshall E-Learning |

      Marshall ACM and Shaw Mind Foundation today announced the availability of a resource to raise awareness among education workers of mental health issues; training staff to recognise the symptoms, understand the challenges and gain awareness of the appropriate responses to these, using their 3Ps approach: Proactive – Pre-emptive – Preventive.

    • Virtual College shortlisted for two prestigious awards

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, UK |

      Virtual College, a leading provider of online courses and learning management software, has been shortlisted in both the Sunday Times Tech Track ‘Ones to Watch’ Rankings and for the ‘Best Online Distance Learning Programme’ in The Learning Technologies Awards 2018.

    • Sainsbury’s and Kallidus LMS project announced as finalist in Learning Technologies Awards

      Kallidus | Cirencester, UK |

      Kallidus and Sainsbury’s have been shortlisted for ‘Best UK Learning Platform Implementation’ in this year’s prestigious Learning Technologies Awards. The awards recognise the commitment, enthusiasm and passion for learning technologies across the world, and are judged by an independent panel of experts organised by the eLearning Network.

    • Pulse Report reveals executive priorities in 2018 and beyond

      Headspring | London |

      Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance, one of the world's leading providers of customised executive education programmes for large enterprises, has unveiled the 2018 findings of its Pulse Report. An international study of more than 1000 executives, it assesses current business priorities and the role of leadership development and executive education in addressing these concerns.

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