Global Knowledge, the worldwide leader in technology skills solutions has partnered with Qufaro, operator of the UK’s Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) in cybersecurity, to provide apprenticeship training in the UK.
QA, the UK’s largest tech skills provider, celebrated a major milestone this month by placing its 1,000th learner in a degree apprenticeship role – changing the higher education game by offering new, socially mobile career routes into advanced and in-demand industries.
Bletchley Park Qufaro and Global Knowledge Apprenticeships (GKA), have launched their Level 4 cybersecurity apprenticeship to the market ~ Cybersecurity apprenticeship programme equivalent to foundation degree ~
Acquisition means QA now offers the broadest range of cyber accreditations in the UK
LPI to partner with L&D’s leading recruitment provider, offering new insights and strategies around the global skills landscape.
Partnership strengthens shared commitment to raise awareness and improve performance of global workplace learning.
The Skillcast annual compliance challenge for the 2018 festive season is now live. This year the challenge requires people help Santa Claus and his team to identify and deal with compliance issues in their operations using crossword clues.
Omniplex and Vyond launch their exclusive UK partnership at the House of Illustration, London. The launch event marks the start of Omniplex bringing the best-in-class video creator to eLearning professionals in the UK.
Television and radio personality returns to present the 2019 Learning Awards ceremony at London's Dorchester Hotel.
~Increasing demand for apprentices specialising in cybersecurity~
Market growth, along with cybersecurity, adapting to the digital environment and leadership development have become the key business concerns for the immediate future, according to more than 1000 senior executives in a survey by Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance.
Marshall E-Learning Consultancy, the leading diversity and equality e-learning provider, today announces the launch of its Performance Development training course. Created in partnership with University College London (UCL), the course focuses on coaching conversations and career development.
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).
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.
The network-based media and publishing company, eLearning Industry, is inviting buyers of learning management systems (LMSs) from all over the world to collaborate in on-going, customer-led assessments of these learning platforms.
The Charity Learning Consortium has announced the winners of the annual Charity Learning Awards, revealing stories of amazing dedication, innovation and collaboration on the road to eLearning success.
The winning entry was in the "Best eLearning Design – Simulation" category.
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.
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.
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.
QA is pleased to announce the launch of its new innovative online training programme, QA Impact Academies.
Omniplex and Vyond announce exclusive UK partnership enabling Omniplex to bring the best-in-class video creator to eLearning professionals in the UK.
Martin Baker, CEO of the Charity Learning Consortium, shares his top marketing tips to engage learners.
The company has made it to the list for the fifth consecutive year.
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.
QA, the leader in IT and business skills training, is pleased to announce its partnership with The AntiSocial Engineer Limited.
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 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.
The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has launched a new recognition programme for marketing courses provided by universities, training providers and businesses.
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, 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.
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.
Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, today unveiled its new 2018 Fosway 9-Grids™ for both Cloud HCM (Human Capital Management) and Integrated Talent Management (ITM).
Industry veteran takes on ambassador role to help grow the only TV channel dedicated to corporate learning.
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.
The e-learning supplier, Engage in Learning has turned its attention to leadership and problem solving.
Newly established organisation Thrive Learning announces their launch along with LPI Learning Provider Accreditation.
Using benchmark data from its well-established accreditation programme, the Learning & Performance Institute identifies the 15 highest-scoring learning technology providers, all of whom are operating at the very best levels of performance.
Learnlight has been awarded an Excellence in Blended Learning Gold Award from Chief Learning Officer at the 2018 Learning in Practice Awards for its work with Deutsche Telekom.
Can it be ‘second time lucky’ for Financial Times | IE Corporate Learning Alliance in this year’s Learning Technologies Awards?
Panel of L&D managers to share current challenges and discuss how vendors can create marketing content that is useful and engaging.
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.
Internationally-developed framework and self-assessment tool is comprehensively revised to map the essential skills of the modern L&D professional.
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.
Learning Pool, one of the largest providers of online learning solutions in the United Kingdom has announced a new partnership with The Football Association (The FA) to support the delivery of a world-leading football education programme by 2020.
The Above & Beyond Group has formed an international learning partnership with Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance focused on the advancement of women in business.
Ideas will flow, and productive business relationships will be forged, as senior L&D professionals and leading suppliers come together at Birmingham’s NEC on 16 & 17 October for the year’s must-attend L&D event.
Learnlight has been shortlisted for two awards at this year's Expatriate Management and Mobility Awards.
A recent post on the Engage in Learning Blog offers advice – in the shape of ten criteria – on what buyers should be looking for in an e-learning supplier.
EEMUA, the Engineering Equipment and Materials Users Association, has launched a range of awareness-level e-learning courses, to help learners develop awareness on key aspects of safety, efficiency and regulatory compliance.
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 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, 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.
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.
IFC, a member of the World Bank group, adopts the Learning and Performance Institute’s TPMA framework to assess, monitor and improve training delivery competency.
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.
The Charity Learning Consortium has added a wide range of new courses and modules to its eLearning library, to reflect the demands of the modern workplace.
Socitm, the professional association for digital leaders in local public services, has announced it will partner up with QA to offer its largest and most comprehensive approach to leadership development.
Business-writing experts Emphasis will reveal the world's most comprehensive business-writing e-learning programme at this year's Learning Live event in London.
Apprenticeship programmes to address cyber skills shortage in the UK
Fuse Universal’s workshop divulges how global organisations are increasing learning engagement by analysing data and highlighting correlations between learning engagement and improved business performance.
Leading learning provider, QA, to present business workshop discussing the importance of the human element in digital transformation projects.
Workshop session will explore how L&D teams can evolve processes and leverage technologies and ecosystems to drive digital transformation.
Business workshop session will explore the concepts of resilience, endurance and vulnerability in the modern workplace and their relationship to effective learning.
Saffron Interactive to show how organisations can implement emerging tech such as AI and chatbots, and develop an agile high-impact roadmap to defeat the digital disruption skills gap.
Serious Games International delves into current game and virtual technology to discuss its viability for learning, together with examples of successful deployment
SAP Education, the global education & training arm of SAP, conducts business workshop on the adoption of enterprise-wide, single-point-of-need learning platforms.
Pluralsight to conduct business workshop to show how L&D teams can work successfully with IT and technology teams by using a common and unambiguous language.
Leading recruitment specialist for the learning industry to present workshop on changing roles and skills.
Teach on Mars to conduct workshop on gamification, Artificial Intelligence content curation and potential platforms to deliver learning to today’s “always-on” employees.
Assima to explore the successes and lessons learned from digital technology deployment in learning.
Filtered to share findings from work with Royal Mail and Siemens Gamesa, on AI, chatbots and personalisation.
Onboarding the Digital Generation in a Fast Changing Business – Keeping Cisco’s Sales Organisation Ahead of the Curve.
Each autumn, senior learning and development professionals from global and national organisations converge at Birmingham’s NEC for the most comprehensive event in the L&D calendar – the World of Learning Conference & Exhibition.
Instinct Learning, the UK’s leading recruitment specialist within the Digital Learning space, has publicly announced for the first time a full company restructure designed around offering split services tailored to cater for clients looking for either contract staffing solutions or permanent hires.
The awards were announced on 23rd August to honor the best eLearning solutions in 2018.
August’s Learning Now tv interviews Happy founder, Henry Stewart, about his ‘Happy Workplaces’ philosophy. Will Thalheimer discusses his new model for course evaluation and LNTV asks Robin Hoyle why we still use classrooms.
QA, the leader in IT and business skills training, is pleased to announce it is now a CREST approved training provider.
Two leading training providers: Premier Partnership and Virtual College, have forged an exciting new partnership to bring digital innovation to the learner experience.
QA, the leader in IT and business skills training, is pleased to announce a collaborative partnership with PECB UK, to further establish PECB training courses in the UK market.
The UK is in the depths of a skills crisis – the nation is ranked at the bottom of its international class on key measures*. Two decades of underinvestment and failed policy on skills has led to the UK lagging well behind its European competitors. Crown House Publishing will launch Upskill at World of Learning: a new book presenting a rich resource of reliable learning solutions to help busy professionals respond and adjust to the fast-paced world around them.
Learnlight has received a nomination in the “Excellence in Blended Learning” category for the 2018 edition of the Learning in Practice Awards. These prestigious awards from Chief Learning Officer recognize those organizations who deliver innovative corporate learning solutions.
The most comprehensive event for the L&D community, the World of Learning, will return to Birmingham’s NEC, on 16 & 17 October 2018. The two-day event boasts over 100 exhibitors, more than 50 free seminars and hosts an eclectic mix of interactive features.
Is UK business working? A skills crisis, low productivity and workplace stress mean that we’re struggling to keep up with the pace of change. Crown House Publishing will launch a new book at World of Learning that puts the spotlight on improving the ability and willingness to learn of individuals and teams working in organisations.
Imparta reaffirms its commitment to the US market, opening a New York City office and appointing Steve Lunz as the new EVP of Imparta, Inc.
Kallidus, the leading provider of learning and talent management solutions, has another record year of growth. Recurring software revenues are up by 42% compared to the previous year. Growth is being driven by Kallidus’ expanded product offering, customer-focused approach and investment in leading edge User Experience (UX) design.
Award-winning specialist learning consultancy Walkgrove is launching a comprehensive suite of e-learning modules to meet the key needs of modern British companies. Ready to Go Essentials includes a package of over 130 core professional development learning modules to support UK businesses, whose leaders cited people development as the biggest issue for company success in 2018.
Engage in Learning, the provider of a complete solution to meet every e-learning need, has joined a growing band of key organisations in the learning and development (L&D) sector by becoming a channel partner of Learning Now TV.
Learning Now tv, the live-streamed monthly TV show on learning in business and Learning News, the learning sector’s newswire, are to collaborate to bring the hottest news, trends and views from the learning sector’s biggest events and conferences.
Kallidus has been named a Top Performer in the Corporate LMS Software category for the Summer 2018 Customer Success Report published by FeaturedCustomers.
The World of Learning Conference & Exhibition returns to Birmingham’s NEC, on 16 & 17 October. Alongside the exhibition showcasing over 100 L&D providers and offering interactive experiences, is a comprehensive programme of 40 free-to-attend seminars.
LPI further strengthens ability to serve customers’ needs in Iberia and Latin America; a solid step in Overlap's aspiration to be a key provider in the workplace learning industry.
Raytheon Professional Services (RPS) is hosting the 6th annual Raytheon Symposium focusing on “Enabling Learning for Maximum Impact” on 13th September in London and 19th September in Munich.
July’s Learning Now tv interviews two leading business women, Ula Howlett about her career journey and Tamsin Napier-Munn about her campaign to encourage women to ‘step up’ and make a difference. We also talk to Lesley Price and Wes Atkinson about Learn Appeal and the progress it’s making to improve access to learning in Africa and for underprivileged groups here in the UK.
Imparta is pleased to announce the company’s inclusion on the LPI’s 2018 list of the Top 20 Highest-Performing Learning Providers.
Using benchmark data from its well-established accreditation programme, the Learning & Performance Institute identifies the 20 highest-scoring learning providers, all of whom are operating at the very best levels of performance.
To combat the fraudsters, EssentialSkillz has added an eLearning course specifically about Phishing as part of their Business Protection Pack. The Pack now contains 17 Courses, all of which are accredited for CPD.
The World of Learning conference will take place at Birmingham’s NEC on 16 & 17 October. A comprehensive programme of presentations from industry experts will be framed by four keynote addresses from senior L&D leaders and specialists.
Leading eLearning provider EssentialSkillz has been successful in achieving supplier status on the new G-Cloud 10 (G10) supplier list after transitioning from the previous G9 list. EssentialSkillz offers compliance solutions to Public Sector organisations looking to streamline their Online Safety Training and Risk Assessment processes.
Overlap demonstrates a commitment to excellence with an accreditation from the Learning and Performance Institute.
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