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    • Coastal Training Technologies releases a new, cutting-edge program on roadwork safety.

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      Coastal Training Technologies has recently released Roadway Worker Safety: In the Zone, its latest program on road construction safety.

      Roadway Worker Safety: In the Zone identifies crucial roadwork hazards, from falls, excavation and trenching to electrocution, equipment mishaps and runovers. The program outlines specific safety preventive measures for each, including PPE, Traffic Control Pattern Awareness, and night-work operations. It also offers practical tips on flagging, MSDS use and general safety procedures.

    • Kuwait Petroleum Company engages with The ROI Academy to measure the value of its BTEC training programme

      The ROI Academy | Henley on Thames, UK |

      The Petroleum Training Centre (PTC), the training division of the Kuwait Petroleum Company wanted to measure the alignment and value of its BTEC programme which it delivers to all new employees. As the BTEC is an academic qualification providing essential skills that are applied over a working life, it makes measurement more challenging. Therefore, PTC consulted and engaged with The ROI Academy, the UK's leading organisation in this field.

    • Blue Eskimo's Jobs Triple - ready for New Year job seekers

      Blue Eskimo |

      Blue Eskimo, the leading recruitment provider to the training and e-learning sector, says that, as we enter the new year, more people than ever are looking for new jobs within this sector – what’s more, there are a record number of jobs being advertised.

    • Global Knowledge Named Finalist in 2008 SC Magazine US Awards for Best Professional Training Program

      Global Knowledge | Wokingham, UK |

      Global Knowledge, the worldwide leader in IT and business training, has been named a finalist in the SC Magazine US Awards program for outstanding achievement in information-technology (IT) security. The company’s Best Professional Training Program was recognized in the Professional Award category. This is the third year in a row that Global Knowledge has been recognized in the SC Magazine Awards program.

    • The ROI Academy appoints new Commercial Director

      The ROI Academy | Henley on Thames, UK |

      With projected growth in excess of 100% per annum over the next 3 years, The ROI Academy, the UK's leading organisation for evaluating and measuring training, appoints Mike Leeson as its Commercial Director.

    • Coastal Training Technologies takes a back-seat look at distracted driving

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      Driven To Distraction is a groundbreaking new training DVD and video from Coastal that is sure to raise the awareness of the danger of distracted driving. This unique program features a narrator who is the personification of all the distractions drivers face - cell phones, mp3 players, eating and drinking, children, maps, and many more. He candidly demonstrates how distractions can sneak in on every ride with tragic results.

    • What has your digital repository done for you lately?

      Intrallect | Online Educa Berlin 28-30 Nov 2007 - Exhibitor |

      Imagine a scenario. A researcher in Bali, working on an international project investigating changes in world weather patterns takes a video of a particularly spectacular typhoon. She quickly uses her mobile phone to upload the video to the project's digital repository.

    • Seventh Develop Training Centre Opens

      Develop Training | Warrington, UK |

      Develop Training Ltd, one of the UK's leading providers of Technical Skills Training within the Utility, Transport and regulated business sector opens new centre in Warrington.

    • Tata Interactive Systems expands in Germany

      MPS Interactive Systems | London, UK and Mumbai, India |

      No sooner had the global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) (www.tatainteractive.com), established a presence in the Netherlands in order to service the Northern European market than it also opened a new office in Koln, Germany.

    • Giunti Labs announces 'SCORM 2004' certification for the new version of its learn eXact e-learning suite

      eXact learning solutions | Sestri Levante, Italy, & London, UK |

      Giunti Labs, Europe's leading vendor of e-learning and mobile learning content management solutions (LCMS), has announced that the new version of its learning eXact LCMS meets the SCORM 2004 final edition specification. SCORM 2004 is the ‘de facto’ e-learning standard for interchanging learning content between compliant LMS and LCMS systems.

    • Communication is key to successful change management: Managing awareness drives trust in development

      QA |

      Managing business awareness of change is the biggest challenge faced by management teams, according to customers of QA-IQ at a recent change management workshop.

      Experienced L&D professionals agreed that making sure that change is effectively communicated, and staff reactions are managed, is central to the success of significant business change – particularly where a wider change in behaviour is sought.

    • eLearning Network Looks for New Chairman

      The Learning Network |

      The eLearning Network (eLN), which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, has announced it is recruiting a new chairman.

    • Introducing a new hazard recognition training program from Coastal

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      Coastal Training Technologies announces the release of a revolutionary safety orientation training program for new and veteran employees. The Newcomers focuses on five new employees as they go through their first days on the job. Participants in this training program keep score as they witness the many mistakes and missed hazards the newcomers encounter.

    • Global Knowledge leads the way on ITIL training

      Global Knowledge | London, UK |

      Global Knowledge and Fox IT have announced a strategic partnership to provide the UK with the best-of-breed IT Service Management and Governance consultancy and learning solutions.

    • Giunti Labs' provides a breakthrough for developers of virtual learning worlds materials

      eXact learning solutions | Sestri Levante, Italy |

      The use of virtual worlds for learning is attracting further attention after the explosion of Second Life™ and similar online virtual communities. However, unleashing the power of virtual collaborative worlds to instructional designers and authors demands much higher levels of openness, accessibility and reusability in the underlying technologies and tools on the one side and lower levels of required investments and skillsets to master the solutions on the other.

    • Global Knowledge provides a First Look at Windows Server 2008

      Global Knowledge | London |

      Global Knowledge, Europe's leading provider of learning services for IT and management professionals, is giving its IT training course delegates the opportunity to gain hands-on experience and receive additional information on Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

    • Training company Happy Computers is 2nd best place to work in UK

      Happy | London, UK |

      Happy Computers were this week revealed as the UK runner up in the Best Workplaces awards. Celebrating mistakes, fully trusting your staff and giving them the freedom to work the way they want are key to this success. Happy believes any company can work this way and is setting up a new division, Happy People, to train companies to become great workplaces.

    • Laser Safety Training From Coastal

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      Coastal Training Technologies announces the release of a new training program on the safe use of lasers in the workplace. Laser Safety: The Blink Of An Eye is based on the current American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard Z136.1, updated in 2007 and is available on DVD and video and is accompanied by 10 employee handbooks.

    • E-consultancy Accessibility Best Practice Training - 11th July, 2007

      Econsultancy | London |

      E-consultancy responds to the industry's clear need for guidance surrounding accessibility and introduces an intensive, full day's workshop that will provide you with a practical, hands on approach to accessibility compliance and inclusive design.

    • Smallpeice Enterprises Ltd is acquired by GP Strategies

      GP Strategies |

      Global performance improvement solutions provider General Physics Corporation (GP), a subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE: GPX), announced that on 1st June 2007 it acquired, through its fully owned subsidiary, General Physics (UK) Ltd (GPUK), the business of Smallpeice Enterprises Ltd (SEL), a provider of business improvement technical and management training services. The annualised revenue exceeded $5 million in their latest fiscal year.

    • KnowledgePool Growth Leads to Office Move

      KnowledgePool | Bracknell, UK |

      KnowledgePool, the UK's leading provider of vendor-independent managed learning services, has relocated to larger premises in Bracknell, Berkshire.

    • QA-IQ expands international delivery

      QA |

      QA-IQ, the UK's leading learning services company, has launched a global partnership programme that provides its customers with access to high-quality technical, professional skills, and management and personal development training across a wide range of international locations.

    • Coastal Releases a Waterfront Safety Training Series

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      Safety on the Waterfront: Every Choice Counts is an eight-part safety training series from Coastal Training Technologies specifically targeted to those who work at ports and marine terminals. The topics covered include personal protective equipment, overall readiness to work, preventing drug & alcohol abuse, working around railcars and other vehicles, safe driving, signaling, and hazardous materials. The series is available on DVD and video, and each program comes complete with 10 employee handbooks.

    • E-consultancy Launches the UK's first MSc in Digital Marketing Communications

      Econsultancy | London, UK |

      Internet research group E-consultancy has teamed up with Manchester Metropolitan University Business School to launch the first ever MSc in Digital Marketing Communications. The Masters will provide industry professionals and graduates with the chance to gain a formal, internationally-recognised qualification, and goes some way towards addressing the concerns within the internet sector about a skills shortage.

    • Develop Training and UCLan break new ground in utilities management

      Develop Training | UK |

      First in the industry to bring together both management and front-line skills, Develop Training is delighted to announce its new partnership with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in the development of a Foundation Degree in Utilities Management.

    • Find out your strengths with QA-IQ at HRD: Training provider showcases personal development expertise

      QA |

      QA-IQ, the UK's leading training provider, will be demonstrating the innovative methods behind their leading management and personal development courses at this year's HRD show in April. Learning and development experts will be at the QA-IQ stand taking attendees through their own Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) to identify their motivational system and how this impacts their relationships. This technique is a key part of QA-IQ’s portfolio of courses, including the already popular ‘Understanding People and Conflict’ course. We expect these sessions to get booked up each morning and would encourage delegates to book early.

    • New arc flash safety training from Coastal Training Technologies

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      "Arc Flash Safety Awareness" is a Coastal safety training program that provides essential safety awareness to prevent arc flash accidents and explosions that cause more than 2,000 injuries per year. "Arc Flash Safety Awareness" covers lockout/tagout, electrical shock and flash hazard awareness, personal protective equipment and safe work practices.

    • New fall protection training from Coastal

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions | Virginia Beach, VA |

      Coastal Training Technologies Corp. provides a new look at a perennial workplace safety issue with Fall Protection: The Right Connection. This high-impact training program features dramatic falls and rescues that drive home the importance of proper fall protection and training. Unique to this Coastal fall protection program is the coverage of rescue from height. Fall Protection: The Right Connection is available on DVD and video and comes with 10 employee safety handbooks.

    • Learning Tree International launches RealityPlus™: full line of management education for the real world

      Learning Tree International | Reston, VA |

      Learning Tree International (NASDAQ NM:LTRE), a leading worldwide provider of education and training to managers and IT professionals in business and government organizations, today announced the introduction of its RealityPlus™ curriculum of management courses, based on the principles of performance-based learning. With these courses, characterized as management education for the real world, Learning Tree introduces a revolutionary approach designed to significantly improve the effectiveness of employees of public and private sector organizations worldwide.

    • Developers vote QA InterQuad as Best Training Company

      QA |

      QA InterQuad has again demonstrated its expertise in providing training for the developer community, being voted Best Training Company for the fourth year in succession by the readers of Visual Systems Journal (VSJ).

    • Improve your skills at QA InterQuad's new Birmingham training centre

      QA |

      More courses, more often, from the UK's leading training company: QA InterQuad has today opened new purpose-built offices in central Birmingham, including nine state-of-the-art training rooms that will offer a wider range of courses for local businesses and individuals. The new Birmingham training centre is testament to QA InterQuad's continued investment in improving our service and enhancing the experience enjoyed by our customers.

    • QA InterQuad Wins UK Microsoft Learning Solutions Technology and Innovation Award

      QA |

      QA InterQuad has been awarded a Microsoft Partner award for exceptional delivery of Microsoft Dynamics training programmes. Announced at the recent Microsoft worldwide partner conference in Boston, the UK award of excellence recognises the outstanding design and delivery of a bespoke technical training programme, carried out in 2005.

    • eLearning Network replies to Learning Light's proposal

      The Learning Network | London, UK |

      At a specially convened meeting on 12th July, The Committee of the eLearning Network unanimously resolved not to accept the current proposal from Learning Light to transfer the membership of the eLN into Learning Light Membership Services.

    • Tata Interactive Systems features among top 20 companies in the training outsourcing industry

      MPS Interactive Systems | London, UK, and Mumbai, India |

      TrainingOutsourcing.com, the first Internet knowledge community focused specifically on the training outsourcing industry - with the aim of bringing training suppliers and corporate executives together - has included the global e-learning producer, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), in its list of the Top 20 Companies in the Training Outsourcing Industry.

    • BroadSkill 'walks the talk'... and demonstrates quality

      Bray Leino Learning |

      BroadSkill, the UK's largest supplier of freelance trainers and a major IT solutions provider, today announced that it has been certified ISO9001 compliant following a detailed review of is processes and systems.

    • Unique new NLP courses combine neurolinguistic programming with the power of applied psycho-neurology

      The Performance Solution | UK |

      The Performance Solution is pleased to be able to offer in conjunction with The Concorde Initiative, unique courses specifically for business or health professionals. Delegates will learn the skills and models of NLP at practitioner and master pratitioner levels but they will also start to learn, understand and be able to work with the psycho neurology of the individual as an individual. The combination of these two sciences in the field of transformational change is unparalleled in the field of human change technologies.

    • KnowledgePool offers Kirkpatrick level three evaluation as standard service offering

      KnowledgePool |

      KnowledgePool, the learning services company, is launching a new service enhancement at HRD 2006 exhibition (stand 1078). The company is introducing Kirkpatrick level three evaluation - which measures behavioural change resulting from learning - as standard for any learning it provides to its managed service clients.

    • Advanced Executive Coaching Certificate dates released

      The Performance Solution | UK |

      The autumn dates have been released for the Advanced Executive Coaching Certificate programme, newly accredited by The Association for Coaching, are now available for booking.

    • Learning Tree Management Institute Introduces a new IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Course Preparing Attendees for the Foundation Certification

      Learning Tree International | London |

      Learning Tree International is currently presenting a new course which offers IT professionals the opportunity to prepare for, and then take, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation Certification exam. The 3-day course, entitled ITIL: Achieving Foundation Certification consists of interactive class activities led by an expert instructor for the purpose of gaining knowledge in each ITIL process and function. At the conclusion of the course, participants are administered the exam by Learning Tree and, upon successful completion, receive their ITIL Foundation Certification.

    • Switching on the Learning Light

      Learning Light | Sheffield |

      Learning Light, a non-profit organisation that helps to build relationships between learning technology researchers, suppliers, buyers and learners, is launched officially on Thursday 16th March at a special reception in Sheffield.

    • New 'Writing for the Web' course offered by Learning Tree Management Institute

      Learning Tree International | London |

      Learning Tree International (NASDAQ NM: LTRE) has introduced a new course title to its Learning Tree Management Institute Writing and Presentation Skills curriculum. The 2-day course, entitled Writing for the Web: Skills for Developing Compelling Content, involves hands-on exercises-led by an expert instructor-that give participants the opportunity to gain practical experience writing for the Web.

    • IITT awarded ISO accreditation

      Learning and Performance Institute | Coventry UK |

      The Institute of IT Training has been awarded ISO9001:2000 approval for its accreditation and membership services, awarded through the Lloyds Register of Quality Assurance (LRQA).

    • Shortlist announced for 2006 IT Training Awards

      Learning and Performance Institute | Coventry UK |

      Forty one organisations and 16 individuals have been named on the shortlist for this year's Institute of IT Training IT Training Awards 2006.

    • e2train Ranked Second in Rising Star Technology Awards in South UK in 2005 Deloitte Fast 50

      Kallidus | Cirencester, Gloucestershire, UK |

      Learning technology organisation e2train today announced that it was ranked second in the 2005 Deloitte Rising Star Technology awards, a ranking of the fastest growing technology companies in the London & Southern Region. Rankings are based on average percentage revenue growth over three years between 2002 and 2004. e2train grew 920 percent during this period.

    • Profit more important than people for project performance?

      QA | London, UK |

      Managers challenged by budgets not resources; Research conducted by QA, Training Company of the Year 2005, shows that project managers find their biggest challenge is delivering projects that are both on time and to budget, and that meet their customers expectations.

    • Tata Interactive Systems implements SAP

      MPS Interactive Systems | London |

      The global e-learning producer TATA Interactive Systems (TIS) has invested $1m in making all its processes run on the SAP system.

    • Tata Interactive Systems signs international partnership agreements

      MPS Interactive Systems | London, UK |

      After clocking up 15 years of experience in designing and developing innovative and cutting-edge e-learning solutions, the leading global e-learning producer, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), has concluded partnership agreements with Denmark's Key2Know and eGEDI, in South Africa.

    • QA wins reader award for Training Company of the Year

      QA | London, UK |

      QA has been voted Training Company of the Year for the third year in succession by the readers of Visual Systems Journal (VSJ), the UK's leading independent magazine for the developer community.

    • QA launches new ePortfolio

      QA | London, UK |

      QA, Training Company of the Year 2005, has launched an innovative electronic Portfolio to allow learners and managers to create customised learning schedules.

    • Tata Interactive Systems opens a new development centre in Kolkata

      MPS Interactive Systems |

      Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), the global e-learning pioneer which recently joined an elite group of organisations worldwide that have been assessed and certified as achieving the British Standards Institute (BSI)'s information security management standard, BS7799, has opened a new development centre in Kolkata.

    • Tata Interactive Systems joins an elite group of BS7799-certified organisations worldwide

      MPS Interactive Systems |

      The global e-learning pioneer, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), has joined an elite group of organisations worldwide which have been assessed and certified as achieving the British Standards Institute (BSI)'s information security management standard, BS7799. TIS has recently received BS7799: 2:2002 certification for the design and development of custom-built and product-based e-learning solutions.

    • IITT trainer certification programme wins Queen’s Award

      Learning and Performance Institute | Coventry |

      The Trainer Assessment Programme (TAP®), pioneered by the Institute of IT Training since 1998 and now the UK’s leading generic trainer qualification, has been awarded the UK’s most prestigious business accolade – the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, in the Innovation category.

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