Matthew Syed, best-selling author of Bounce and Black Box Thinking, has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at the internationally renowned World of Learning Conference & Exhibition taking place this year on 19 & 20 October at Birmingham’s NEC.
Kallidus today announced that it is extending its award-winning learning and talent management suite with the launch of Kallidus Recruit, a powerful cloud-based recruitment management solution that streamlines complex recruiting processes and reduces the time and cost of hiring talented people.
The APEX 2016 Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the success of the entry in achieving overall communications effectiveness and excellence.
Virtual College has worked in association with Dr. Suzanne Zeedyk, an internationally acclaimed specialist in infants’ abilities to communicate, to create a series of online learning resources that will help all professionals caring for babies and young children in understanding how the attachment process works.
Jam Pan, the on-demand elearning services platform, has added fee-based targeting and skills testing: two enhancements to enable learning and development teams to more quickly match their elearning needs with the right elearning services and providers.
International Customer Management Institute honors Barcelona customer service center
Following their two major industry awards this year and major project wins with Bristol-Myers Squibb, Zoetis and AstraZeneca, Acteon is heading into the second-half of 2016 with ambitious plans to grow their Medcomms team to support their expanding client base.
Bryan Eldridge, Senior Business Consultant with the global learning company, eXact learning solutions, is speaking at EDULEARN16, in Spain, in July.
Supporting new talent programmes in the learning sector
Omega Performance has implemented NetDimensions Analytics to provide its clients with a self-service, online reporting and analytics solution.
This award is a tribute to the astounding team work and relentless efforts by TIS team in delivering exceptional business performance for the year 2015.
The selection of this year's "Top 20" list was based on the following criteria: industry visibility, innovation and impact, capability to deliver multiple types of content, company size and growth potential, depth & breadth of subject matter expertise, quality of clients and geographic reach.
Kallidus, a multi-award winning provider of learning and talent solutions, has been listed in Gartner’s Market Guide for Corporate Learning Suites as a representative vendor.
Multi-award winning learning and talent solutions provider Kallidus will be showing how virtual reality (VR) can deliver a truly immersive learning experience for hard and soft skills training and development at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum.
A New Spring demonstrates commitment to raising standards in learning though continuous performance improvement.
Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR and learning analyst, today announces the appointment of Fiona Leteney as a new Senior Analyst. The role will support the continuing growth of its next gen learning analyst practice and engagement with corporate clients and organisations across Europe.
On this month’s Learning Now tv Julian Stodd talks about the rise of the community with Nigel Paine. Plus interviews on machine and cognitive learning and managing for the first time; insights into Adobe’s research about the state of content.
Virtual College, has worked in association with JDRF, the type 1 diabetes charity, and members of the National Children and Young Peoples Diabetes Network to create online learning resources to help teachers, support staff and any other professionals who work with young people with this condition.
LearnX Impact Awards honour companies making an impact in Learning and Development throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
"The most interesting and innovative experimental psychologist in the world today" to speak at top UK learning event.
QA, the UK leader in IT and business skills training, has launched an Online ITIL® Academy, as part of a planned series including: Project Management, Cyber Security, Business Systems Development and App and Web Development.
QA is pleased to announce its’ headline sponsorship of this year’s IPSE, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed, annual Freelancer Awards which recognise the UK’s best independent professionals.
Global eLearning provider, EssentialSkillz, have launched a new eLearning course to help staff be prepared and know what to do in the event of a terrorist attack.
Marshall E-Learning Consultancy, the Equality and Diversity specialist e-learning consultancy, has today launched a dedicated video e-learning service for its e-learning courses, tapping into the 74% of people who use mobile devices for e-learning.
Karen Daly-Gherabi has become Managing Director of The Springboard Consultancy, a UK-based international training company specialising in women's development issues.
In 2015, there were already an estimated 850,000 people living in the UK with dementia. These numbers are set to rise dramatically to over one million by 2025. This year around 225,000 people will develop dementia – that’s one every 3 minutes.
Discover how Channel 4 used campaign-led e-learning to meet diversity objectives.
Dutch learning provider demonstrates high level of operational quality after recent growth
Every year, over two million people in England & Wales suffer some form of domestic violence or abuse and every 30 seconds, someone contacts the police in relation to these issues.
Peter Cheese, CEO of the CIPD, commented in his welcome to the March 2016 issue of People Management, that innovation is urgently needed...we are delighted and proud to announce on this very special day, HRH The Queen's 90th birthday, that The Training Foundation has received the most prestigious business award in the UK for a second time - a Queen's Award for Enterprise for 'Innovation in the Quality Assurance of Learning & Development'.
The Medical University of South Carolina has partnered with NetDimensions to better manage learning and provide content-related services for more than 18,000 learners across the organization.
Marshall E-Learning Consultancy, the Equality and Diversity specialist e-learning consultancy, today held a Diversity and Inclusion Workshop with 10 leading UK universities and other sectors, such as legal and construction, at Woburn House, London.
The Learning and Performance Institute has announced the launch of a brand new certification programme, the ‘Webinar Masterclass’, designed to improve the confidence and delivery skills of anyone who presents webinars.
BMW Group Northern Europe has awarded Raytheon Professional Services LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), a three-year contract to provide training for BMW and Mini dealers in the Nordic Markets and Baltic States. The contract includes an option for two additional years.
The one-dimensional and outdated cyber security awareness learning provided by most UK organizations is not ‘fit for purpose’ and is limiting employees’ ability to understand what good cyber behaviours look like, according to research* from AXELOS.
Leading global training and development consultancy, TACK International, announces the appointment of new Sales Manager, Michael Copestake, with immediate effect.
Largest online educator in the Netherlands is awarded accredited status; demonstrates commitment to excellence and outstanding customer satisfaction.
NextSteps 2016, NetDimensions' global user conference, takes place this week from April 13-15 in Boston, MA.
Selection to this year's Top 20 Training Outsourcing Companies List was based on industry visibility, innovation and impact; capability to deliver multiple types of training services; company size and growth potential; strength of clients and geographic reach.
Custom-Built Facility Enables Enterprises to Simulate a Cyber-Attack and Learn to Practice Defending their Systems and Data
Fifth Annual Internet of Things Day, April 9th 2016. As the technology industry prepares to celebrate technical achievements in connecting objects together, the UK’s largest training provider, QA, warns that from a security perspective, the IoT is broken.
PDS Group, a leading IT and Business Apprenticeship company, today announced a new Microsoft Software Tester Higher Apprenticeship. In partnership with Microsoft and Testhouse, an IT consultancy company, it’s collectively working with Software Industry Partners and companies across England to develop and nurture skills for growth.
Marshall, the Equality and Diversity specialist e-learning consultancy, have launched a new training course that looks at the student context of Unconscious Bias, available now to universities across the UK.
Virtual College has been identified as one of London Stock Exchange’s 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain. The report is a celebration of the UK’s fastest-growing and most dynamic small and medium sized businesses
New research from Towards Maturity, sponsored by Kallidus, reveals that mid-sized businesses are struggling to support the needs of today’s self-driven learners. It shows how they must modernise their learning strategies if they want to achieve the same business benefits as top learning organisations.
New research finds that those organisations using collaborative learning register significantly higher take up in all other L&D interventions; and enjoy average engagement scores around 10% higher than those that do not. In addition, two-thirds (67%) of those surveyed say that a more collaborative approach to working and learning would help boost productivity by at least 5% in their organisation.
The lack of robust cyber security strategies in many UK law firms and barristers’ chambers is putting them at a significantly higher risk of attacks, according to a new discussion paper from AXELOS.
To provide thorough guidance, Virtual College has created an online course – ‘Understanding pathways to extremism and the Prevent programme. This course is now highlighted in the Home Office’s Prevent Training catalogue.
'True data protection, and true data security, starts with training your people' says QA Technical Director. Many backup vendors have been touting their wares ahead of World Backup Day (March 31, 2016). In response, the UK’s largest training provider, QA, is warning firms not to try and solve the problem by simply buying more technology. Instead, QA is counselling a more holistic approach to backup and data protection – one that gives training and education of staff equal billing to technology investment.
Global eLearning provider, EssentialSkillz, has released a new Prevent eLearning course to help organisations provide knowledge on how to safeguard against extremism and radicalisation and to help prevent vulnerable people from being drawn into terrorism.
Virtual College is sponsoring the ‘Education and Training' category at the Patient Safety Awards, part of the Patient Safety Congress being held in Manchester from 5-6 July 2016.
Learning now tv interviews Paul Morgan, Head of L&D at Telefonica, about how he has lead the digital transformation in this global enterprise. March’s Learning now tv goes out Thursday 31 March at 8 pm, hosted by Kim George and Nigel Paine.
Global provider of health and safety software solutions, Safety Media, has opened a London office, expanding its business to serve London's health, safety and compliance training market.
In its recent independent review of Virtual College’s Learning Management System, Enable, independent reviewer, Learning Light, said:” Virtual College has really set a new standard in learning management systems with this latest version of Enable.”
QA, the UK leader in IT and business skills training, has been presented with a Director’s Award from Red Hat. Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source software solutions, gives one Director's Award a year to partners that go the extra-mile in their work with Red Hat.
QA, the UK leader in IT and business skills training, has been presented with the EMEA Training Partner of the Year Award from Hortonworks.
Global eLearning provider, EssentialSkillz, has released an addition to their acclaimed Learning Management System providing employers with a powerful tool for company wide policy compliance.
The GSMA’s Mobile World Congress took place in the vibrant city of Barcelona, at the end of February 2016. The event is an opportunity for organisations to showcase leading mobile innovations and explore new developments that will shape our use of mobile technology in the future.
Kallidus, the multi-award winning provider of learning and talent solutions, has appointed renowned industry expert Tim Drewitt as product innovator to help shape the future of Kallidus’ product suite.
The performance of online training provider, Virtual College, has been recognised by Plimsoll Analysis as it achieves its latest milestone of two million online learners.
While more than 35,000 women in Australia have now experienced the Springboard development programme, the programme’s results are greater than mere numbers.
Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR and learning analyst, reveals the critical realities of HR technology across Europe, in partnership with HRN, the world’s largest corporate HR network focused on the future of work and technology. Ahead of the HR Tech World Spring event in London next week, the new research is being made available through a series of reports and infographics.
Leading e-learning provider, Learning Pool, has been named as one of Ireland’s ‘Best Managed’ companies in the Deloitte Best Managed Companies Awards for superior business performance.
Global Knowledge Wins Cisco Learning Partner Award for Partner Enablement and Innovation
UK organisations are putting their reputation, customer trust and competitive advantage at greater risk by failing to provide their staff with effective cyber security awareness and capability to defend against cyber attacks, according to the latest research from AXELOS.
Unicorn Commercial Director, Mark Jones, believes the financial services industry has seized the opportunity to “look at compliance in the context of cultural transformation” as landmark new Accountability regulation comes into force on Monday (7 March).
NetDimensions has been ranked as a ‘Leader’ in the Aragon Research Globe™ for Corporate Learning, 2016 for excellence in enterprise LMS functionality, talent management, compliance, analytics, and language support.
NetDimensions is positioned again as a “Core Leader” in the Fosway 9-Grid™ for Learning Management Systems (LMS).
A doctor from University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has become the 300,000th National Patient Safety Suite learner.
Global Knowledge, worldwide leader in IT and business training, today announced that it has been named as an AWS Authorized Training Provider in the UK to deliver the complete curriculum of AWS training courses.
The UK-based training company, The Springboard Consultancy, has revealed that over 35,000 women in Australia have now experienced its ‘Springboard’ development programme.
This month’s Learning now tv covers virtual reality in training, data analytics in L&D, trends in imagery and communicating technical subjects. February’s Learning now tv goes out this Thursday at 8 pm, hosted by Kim George and Nigel Paine.
Blind women throughout the Middle East now have the chance to build the skills and confidence to make a better world for themselves at work, home and in their wider communities. They are now able to do so through being able to access the award-winning ‘Springboard’ women’s development programme.
Award-winning learning provider, Learning Pool, today announced that it has gained the ‘ILM Recommended’ stamp of approval for the content in its ready-to-go premium suite of business e-learning.
TMI World, the global consultancy for cultural transformation, announces the launch of its new book “SHIFT!” - comprising a collection of informative and engaging organizational transformation stories, based on real experiences of helping clients across the globe to embrace change.
The Ken Blanchard Companies®, a global leadership development and management training company, today released First-time Manager—its new training programme built on the time-tested secrets of The New One Minute Manager.
When the Nursing and Midwifery Council announced that nurses revalidation would be introduced across the whole nursing profession from April 2016, Nursing Times turned to Learning Pool and Totara for a technology solution that would help their users keep their registration up to date with the regulator.
The latest edition of Fosway Group’s 9-Grid Report for Authoring Tools sees eXact learning solutions’ learning content management system (LCMS) improve its rating as a ‘Potential Leader’.
Kallidus, a multi-award winning provider of learning and talent solutions, has had its LMS rated as the #2 LMS in the world for financial services organisations by e-learning analyst Craig Weiss.
A recent poll by Brightwave found that more than two-thirds of Learning Technologies delegates felt that greater employee engagement was the most significant improvement that personalised learning could bring to the workplace.
Significant milestone for global learning provider.
TrainingIndustry.com recently named The Ken Blanchard Companies® to the Top 20 Leadership Training Companies List for the seventh year in a row. The Top 20 List is a part of TrainingIndustry.com’s mission to continually monitor the training marketplace for the best providers of training services and technologies. TrainingIndustry.com is a US based organisation, though it's lists do include global organisations.
Multi-award winning learning and talent solutions provider Kallidus has won the coveted gold award for External Learning Solution of the Year, in partnership with Transport for London, at the 20th annual Learning Awards.
Blue Eskimo’s most recent annual work and salary survey suggests that the company has become the learning sector’s top choice for finding new jobs.
Adapt Learning, the highly popular authoring language pioneered by the UK e-learning industry is set to benefit from an ambitious initiative led by Learning Pool. From April this year, Adapt Learning will be available online and completely free for users who want to create highly interactive e-learning that works across multiple devices.
Television personality returns to present the 2016 Learning Awards ceremony at London's Dorchester Hotel.
The Springboard Consultancy (SBC), a UK-based international training company specialising in addressing women's development issues, will again be sponsoring the Coaching and Mentoring Award offered by the British Association for Women in Policing (BAWP).
ITIL Practitioner will help organizations and individuals increase the value they obtain from adopting and adapting the ITIL framework.
Publication of new book entitled the Mindfulness at Work Pocketbook, written by Margaret Chapman-Clarke and published by Management Pocketbooks Ltd of Alresford, Hampshire.
Leading training and development consultancies TACK International and TMI International officially announce and congratulate Award Winners from annual Global Congress event.
The 2016 benchmark study from specialist recruitment consultant Blue Eskimo has revealed that more than three quarters of the UK’s learning professionals wish to change jobs – despite being happy in their roles.
MicroTek, an industry leader in training room rentals and virtual delivery solutions, is continuing its growth and expansion into the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region to meet the increased global demand for their training delivery solutions.
KPMG is delighted to announce it has been awarded a landmark contract to deliver high quality, innovative learning to over 400,000 civil servants nationwide. A consortium of companies, led by KPMG, won the formal tender process managed by Crown Commercial Service on behalf of Civil Service Learning (CSL), and will deliver learning programmes for civil servants across the country from March 2016.
The role gamification can play in powering-up e-learning will be explored at Learning Technologies 2016, by multi-award winning learning and talent management provider, Kallidus.
Italy-based eXact learning solutions has announced its intention to bring a radical and innovative approach to the online learning technologies industry in 2016.
Join experts and senior leaders from Brightwave, the BBC and Learnworks for a panel discussion around whether personalisation holds the key for smart organisations to re-engage their learners.
Leading German Totara partner, Synergy Learning will be exhibiting and presenting at this year’s Global International Trade Fair and Convention for Learning with IT, Learntec 2016 on the 26th-28th January.
Acteon and Channel 4 are taking part in the upcoming Learning Technologies event in London.
AXELOS, the owner of Global Best Practice portfolios including ITIL® and PRINCE2®, today announces a RESILIA™ cyber resilience certified training partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Education Services.
Leading e-learning provider, Learning Pool, has been named in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work for 2016.
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