e2train has launched a new version of its Kallidus 8 learning and performance management system with extra features for managers, learners and learning professionals. A state-of-the-art identity provider tool offers remote single sign on and fingerprint registration. Reporting is extended so managers can get data directly to their mailboxes.
The Open University (OU) has been invited to take part in YouTube’s Project for Awesome 2010 – an initiative to promote international charities addressing global challenges on the video sharing website.
BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK based provider of e-Assessment solutions, will be speaking and exhibiting at the Innovation and e-Assessment Seminar, which is being held on 17th January 2010 at Dubai Men’s College, UAE.
Content Master, part of CM Group, has just appointed Michael Jernigan as its Lead US Instructional Designer based in its Redmond office. More recruitment is anticipated by the growing Company.
Mark Rose, Training Director, of Creativedge Training, the 'bite-size' management and leadership training provider, says that managers are not investing sufficient time in developing their emotional intelligence and has created an intensive 90-minute course and is offering ten top tips to help managers to improve emotional intelligence.
Blue Eskimo, the specialist recruitment company for training and e-learning professionals, is gathering data from L&D professionals for its 2010 salary and work survey, offering L& D professionals the opportunity to take part and get a copy of its report which will be published in January.
DuPont Sustainable Solutions has just released Every Choice Matters, a new program aimed to help increase your employees' safety awareness and give a poignant, personal touch to your facility's safety training.
Coloplast celebrates the end of a successful financial year with another gong for their personal development programme and TWM's Advanced Learning Environment at this year’s Evening Telegraph Business Awards.
New training addresses management skills needs for enterprise organisations
Blue Eskimo, the UK's leader in recruitment for the training, e-learning and learning technologies sector, has acquired assets and goodwill of the e-learning recruitment services business, Abbey Recruitment.
BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK based provider of e-Assessment solutions, will be exhibiting at the Online Educa conference. The conference will take place from 1st-3rd December 2010, at the Hotel Intercontinental in Berlin. Online Educa is the largest global e-Learning conference for the corporate, education and public service sectors.
Leading Learning & Development Institute, the IITT has increased its global presence with the accreditation of India-based Koenig Solutions.
Virgin Media, one of the UK’s leading entertainment and communications companies, has improved the quality of its external training and achieved significant annual savings on course fees alone, through an innovative outsourced learning contract.
GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE: GPX), the corporate parent of global performance improvement solutions provider General Physics Corporation (GP), announced that GP's wholly-owned subsidiary, General Physics (UK) Ltd, has acquired Bath Consultancy Group, a niche leadership and organisational development consulting firm located in the United Kingdom.
e2train did the e-learning industry equivalent of winning an Oscar and a Bafta after content developed by its team won prizes at the leading award ceremonies in both the US and the UK in the same week.
Aurion Learning is delighted that their client, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), won first place in the Health, Work and Well-being category at the Orange National Business Awards, held in Grosvenor House Hotel, London on 9th November.
Leading Learning & Development Institute, the IITT has announced plans to launch a new Accreditation programme exclusively for Freelance Trainers
BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK based provider of e-Assessment solutions, is once again delighted to sponsor and exhibit at the Assessment Tomorrow conference, being held at the Hilton Grosvenor, Edinburgh on the 25th November 2010.
Aurion Learning was recently recognised as an 'InterTradeIreland Business Ambassador'
at a special ceremony was held at Parliament Buildings, Stormont and hosted by Minister for Enterprise Trade and Investment, Arlene Foster.
A multi award winning DVD has changed the face of training for The Royal British Legion, one of the UK’s best loved charities.
QA, the UK’s leading training company, has added The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF™) courses to its fast-growing enterprise architecture portfolio.
BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK based provider of e-Assessment solutions, is pleased to announce that they will be sponsoring and exhibiting at the Federation of Awarding Bodies conference. The conference will be held at the Chesford Grange Hotel, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, on the 10th and 11th November 2010.
Creativedge Training, the bitesize training specialist has launched a creative new approach to achieving professional qualifications through the UK’s largest management body, the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM).
Creativedge Training, specialists in flexible pragmatic learning & development solutions,is pleased to offer the Alchemy for Managers online management resource.
A shake-up of providers has been predicted in the global market for managed learning because client organisations are looking for new capabilities such as 'demand planning' and the expertise to match the right intervention to the needs of individual learners.
DuPont Sustainable Solutions has released Disruptive Behavior: Too Great A Cost, a DVD training program to help healthcare employees identify and prevent disruptive behavior, such as yelling at co-workers, being condescending and rolling eyes, which can interfere with the care of patients or the effective operation of a healthcare facility.
It seems the vast majority of workers – and especially middle managers – have been getting more and more disengaged from their work during the recession. Surveys suggest performance management scores have fallen by 14%, a sharp drop that inevitably takes its toll on national productivity and profitability.
NetDimensions is redefining workforce learning with mEKP, a full-featured LMS that runs on inexpensive USB flash drives. It requires no installation or Internet connectivity. On October 21st, join senior executives from NetDimensions for a live behind-the-scenes presentation of mEKP and learn how you can revolutionize workforce support in your organization.
Raytheon Professional Services LLC (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), has received the Bronze International German Training Award from the Association of German Sales Promoters, Trainers, Consultants and Coaches (BDVT). RPS won the prize for the retail sales consultant curriculum it designed, deployed and delivers on behalf of Opel/Vauxhall in Europe. The BDVT International German Training Award recognizes the best in innovative, cutting-edge training initiatives.
Raytheon Professional Services LLC (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), is the first provider in the U.K. to launch accredited qualifications that are delivered via virtual classroom training and a collaborative learning approach.
Learning Tree International, Inc. today announced that over 5,000 business and IT professionals have enrolled to participate online in training courses through the company's Learning Tree AnyWare solution during its first year of open enrollment. Learning Tree AnyWare is the industry's only live, online training delivery solution that connects participants to an actual classroom. Based on the success of Learning Tree AnyWare's first year, the Company will expand its course offerings as well as increase marketing efforts in the U.S. and around the globe.
QA, the UK's leading IT training company, and Europe's largest provider of Microsoft training, has responded to customer demand and a new Microsoft Partner Programme by launching a new range of accelerated Microsoft training programmes
To mark the launch of the latest additions to the LUMINOSITY eLearning software range, CM Group is holding a free-to-enter competition for £6,000 of free LUMINOSITY STUDIO eLearning authoring software to anyone coming to its stand at the WOLCE show at the Birmingham NEC.
~ new position supports Global Knowledge’s evolving training business and growing product portfolio ~
NetDimensions was recently named one of the Top 20 Learning Portal Companies by TrainingIndustry.com.
The UK’s leading training company, QA, is expanding its business analysis training portfolio with three new ISEB-accredited courses.
World famous Learning Styles 'guru' Dr Peter Honey certainly inspired and entertained members of the Charity Learning Consortium at its recent meeting, in a thought provoking presentation. Can you force someone to learn, when they don't want to? Should learning always be fun? And is the Learning Styles Questionnaire sufficient to help promote learning? These were just some of the conundrums that Peter Honey tackled. Read on to find out his answers...
The IITT and the University of Cambridge, through its Institute of Continuing Education (ICE), have agreed the terms of a strategic alliance that will see the two organisations work in partnership.
The IITT Training 2010 conference and exhibition attracted a record number of delegates to London where Keynote speaker Bob Mosher proved to be the talk of the town.
QA, the UK’s leading training company, is helping small Scottish businesses benefit from up to £500 funding, per employee, for training.
~ IT training company launches Cisco learning tools, proven to help hands-on skills development ~
Aurion Learning, an award winning learning technology company, has designed and built a new competency assessment tool for the Northern Ireland Practice and Education Council for Nursing and Midwifery (NIPEC).
BusinessGenetics pioneered the (eXtended) Business Modelling Language® (BML™), a revolutionary business modelling methodology that provides a new, scientific view of the business world and enables a quantum leap in business understanding, insights, and improvement.
BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK based provider of e-Assessment solutions is delighted to be sponsoring and exhibiting at the European Association of Test Publishers Conference (E-ATP).
The UK training industry is gearing up for the seventh IITT National Training Conference and Exhibition
Leading training company QA launches new courses to further extend its lead in the emerging Green IT training market.
The company increased its bespoke eLearning course creation revenues by over 11% at a time when much of the training industry was feeling the squeeze.
QA, the UK’s leading training company, is to launch the British Computing Society’s new Specialist Qualifications in IT Service Management.
Upside Learning, a recognized leader in training outsourcing, LMS solutions, custom eLearning & mobile learning, has announced the launch of Upside Blog App for iPhone, iPod and iPad devices. The app allows users to read and interact with the articles on Upside Learning Blog.
Creativedge, the high-performance management, leadership and personal development training provider, has created an exercise to provide managers with insights into how to identify and improve upon their personal strengths.
Leading Welsh University, UWIC, have confirmed that they have purchased the Luminosity rapid eLearning development software platform from CM Group.
BTL Group Ltd, a leading provider of e-Assessment solutions, will be hosting a free half-day seminar showcasing their latest 'Innovative e-Assessment Questions'. The seminar will take place on 22nd September 2010 in London and will be supported by City & Guilds, who will be demonstrating their use of BTL innovative e-Assessment questions for their Functional Skills exams.
Upside Learning, a recognized leader in training outsourcing, custom eLearning development & LMS solutions, has been featured in the latest edition of PC Quest Magazine, India for its innovative work in the Augmented Reality domain with respect to Pune Layar – India’s first Layar.
QA, the UK’s leading training company, is now working with the Institute of Leadership and Management to deliver ILM-accredited training programmes.
~ IT and business skills training leader aligns its portfolio to the IT skills standard in the UK ~
CM Group’s Luminosity product underlined its cost efficiency today by demonstrating its powerful abilities to re-use existing learning objects developed using Flash and PowerPoint.
NetDimensions announced that it is all systems go for Next Steps 2010, the company's annual global user conferences to be held in two centers of global business and learning: New York (Oct. 14 – 15) at the Sheraton Lincoln Harbor Hotel and London (Oct. 19 – 20) at One Whitehall Place.
In response to the announcement that the NHS Appraisal Toolkit contract is to expire, Premier IT is offering NHS Trusts the opportunity to trial its PReP system and receive FREE implementation when they purchase it.
Content Master, part of CM Group, has just completed Oracle Essbase eLearning for finance staff at the leading UK bank.
26th July 2010: Leading higher education organisations are at the heart of the UK’s first national hunt for future cyber security professionals launching today in central London. The Cyber Security Challenge UK is a series of online and face-to-face competitions designed by leading universities (including The Open University, Royal Holloway, Queen’s University Belfast), security companies, trade bodies and government departments.
Saffron is delighted to be organising a social media workshop in collaboration with the not for profit partnership Time &Talents, the reputation management consultancy ReputationInc and Whizz-Kidz, a charity for disabled young people.
DuPont Sustainable Solutions has released Infection Control In Long-Term Care: Protect Your Residents, Protect Yourself, a timely training program that addresses the unique challenge of disease-prevention in long-term care facilities.
Learning Tree International announced that they have been awarded a contract by NATO CIS Services Agency (NCSA) for delivering Project Management, ITIL Certification, Technical, Management and Business Skills training to NATO staff throughout Europe.
The UK’s leading training company, QA, has launched its new ITIL (V3) Foundation eLearning course – designed to provide a high-quality, easily accessible, value-for-money ITIL training solution.
The Rules of Engagement white paper can be accessed at www.trainingfoundation.com.
The Austrian Peter Drucker Society holds its second global Peter Drucker Management Forum in Vienna from November 18th - 19th. World class speakers address a range of highly topical subjects at this year's congress.
AccessPlanit, one of the UK's leading providers of Learning Management Systems and Course Booking Software, has unveiled the key scores from its most recent customer satisfaction survey and it's happy faces all around.
The year-end results for QA, the UK's leading training company, show an increase in profit and net cash as the company continues its outstanding performance, despite difficult trading conditions.
CM Group has announced that it is now making Luminosity, the distance learning authoring software available to the University and higher education sector.
The Happy Manifesto, the second book from training company Happy Ltd, has been released in an online beta version. The idea is that, as with software, the book is market tested before publication with readers suggesting changes and even stories from their own experience.
In his first budget statement yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, said that he will control spending in government departments to 'get more for less'. The Lean Healthcare Academy can show you how.
CM Group, one of the largest producers of eLearning courseware in the UK are offering a range of consulting services to those organisations entering the eLearning world for the first time or who are looking to ramp up their eLearning activity.
For those clients for whom multi-language support is a must, CM Luminosity, part of CM Group, have announced a new rapid translation support module for Luminosity customers. The module fits alongside the Luminosity rapid eLearning authoring software to provide Luminosity users with the capability to automatically output XLIFF documents ready for translation by the chosen translation method. XLIFF is the industry standard XML document format for content translation and localisation.
NetDimensions (London Stock Exchange, AIM: NETD), has won Computerworld Hong Kong's coveted 2010 HK Technology Company of the Year Award.
The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has announced that computer based assessments will be central to its revised qualification, due to be launched in July 2010.
Independent training research company Pardo Fox confirms QA’s status as the UK’s top training provider for the fifth year in succession.
Econsultancy, the internet marketing and ecommerce training specialist, has today announced IMRG’s endorsement of its MSc in Internet Retailing.
Mary Payne, a QA customer service representative is used to looking after customers needs the length and breadth of the UK, but in June she takes this to a greater level.
BTL Group Ltd is proud to announce that, in the latest release of its Surpass e-Assessment solution, they have added additional exam delivery options.
This May TPS has launched its own book shop with recommended reading for managers, leaders, coaches, post grad students and lots more.
Global performance improvement solutions provider General Physics Corporation (GP), the operating subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE: GPX), through its wholly-owned subsidiary, has received accreditation from the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) to offer a live class nationwide entitled “Introduction to Climate Change and Carbon Accounting”.
Luminosity Content Server, part of the Luminosity suite of products is now available as a fully scalable online service from CM Group.
Bob Mosher, the global thought leader on learning performance and excellence is to keynote at the IITT National Conference due to popular demand from delegates at last year’s sold-out event.
Europe Arab Bank selects Communicaid to develop the intercultural skills of its employees as they seek to develop relationships with colleagues and clients across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
To support the continued expansion of its UK and US sales, Content Master, part of CM Group announces more technical and trainer recruitment in its UK office.
It's been a tough time, but your business is still here. You've had to cope with shrinking budgets, downsized workforces, customers who exhibit totally new buying behaviours and expectations, and jittery employees. So what should your next move be?
National Learning at Work Day 2010 will take place on 20th of May as part of Adult Learners' Week. GoodPractice, the UK’s leading provider of on-demand learning, has supported previous Learning at Work campaigns and this year has put together a free Learning at Work Day Toolkit.
~ acquiring new skills boosts staff retention and demonstrates training ROI ~
Apprentices get inspired by future technologies and Lord Digby Jones urges employers to recognise apprentices as the future.
Digital marketing training group Econsultancy has joined forces with leading international business school Hult to develop a new Master in Digital Marketing programme, starting in September 2010.
QA leads the market with new training workshops and toolkits to help organisations understand and comply with the Equality Act 2010.
AccessPlanit, a UK based provider of learning management systems, today announced it is the winner of a coveted Brandon Hall award for technology excellence.
For the fourth successive year, the US-based learning portal TrainingIndustry.com has named KnowledgePool, the UK market leader in managed learning, as one of the global training outsourcing industry’s Top 20 providers.
2010 – QA did it again. To consolidate their position as the learning services company of choice in the UK, QA, has been recognised for its outstanding performance and industry innovation and impact in Managed Learning Services, for another year running.
Richardson's SalesCallPlanner™ wins the bronze award in the Best Advance in Performance Support Technology category of The Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Awards.
The good news for Training and Development professionals is that the latest annual Corporate Issues Survey by The Ken Blanchard Companies suggests the majority of companies are spending the same or more on T&D initiatives than they did last year. The bad news is very few businesses believe the economy is going to recover any time soon.
To support the expansion of its US and UK teams, Content Master, part of CM Group has announced a range of appointments in its US office.
NetDimensions has won a coveted Brandon Hall Award for Excellence in Learning Technology.
At the 2010 Service Desk and IT Support Show, QA will demonstrate its new Service Management Learning Consultancy and training programmes to help organisations become more efficient, profitable and ethical.
Microsoft patterns & practices group use Content Master for Silverlight online guidance project.
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