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    • Coastal Training Technologies Shows Public Employees How To Work Safely In Confined Spaces

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions |

      Coastal Training Technologies has released a vital new training program, Confined Space Entry: Keeping Public Employees Safe. It surveys the issue’s critical aspects - confined space definitions, permit space characteristics, the permit space process, changing conditions, OSHA permit, lockout/tagout, ventilation, flammability, testing, toxicity, retesting, heat precautions, communication, equipment, PPE, and rescue and training duties. Available on DVD or video, the program provides life-saving know-how to keep public employees safe and well-informed in confined space conditions.

    • FAA awards Air Traffic Control Optimum Training Solution contract to Raytheon team

      Raytheon Professional Services | United States |

      A team led by Raytheon Technical Services Company (RTSC) LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), has received a 10-year contract to provide training support for Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers. The single contractor award is valued at $437 million for the five-year base period. The contract also has two options. If exercised, the first option is three years and the second option, two years.

    • Further your career with TPS

      The Performance Solution |

      Gaining additional qualifications may be an excellent way to boost your employability. The trick is to choose training that relates directly to your career or develops transferable skills.

    • NLP: What is it?

      The Performance Solution |

      Today and unbeknown to most people, NLP forms the basis of much of today’s communication that employees and employers are embracing the term with infinite ease

    • BTL e-Assessment Tools Ranked Number One in Recent UKCDR Analysis

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      The University of Manchester's UKCDR project team (UK Collaboration for a Digital Repository for High Stakes Exams) found that BTL e-Assessment solutions came out on top in their independent study analysing current e-Assessment tools. The study, funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), was conducted to determine which tools could potentially form part of an e-Assessment solution that would be sophisticated enough to support in house and national examinations.

    • Coastal Takes Driver Safety Training to the Next Gear

      DuPont Sustainable Solutions |

      Coastal Training Technologies just released a timely and much-needed driver safety training program, Before You Turn The Key. This compelling DVD program re-examines simple, life-saving practices that many drivers neglect, often at great personal cost to themselves and others.

    • Coaches: The benefit of training

      The Performance Solution |

      The Performance Solution have become one of the leaders of providing Executive Coach training through the support of Managing Director, Sally Vanson – but often she is asked what are the benefits of becoming a coach?

    • QA-IQ appoints Director of Professional Best Practice: Jeff Payne to lead business unit

      QA |

      QA-IQ has appointed its first Director of Professional Best Practice to lead and develop a new business unit. Jeff Payne, previously Head of the Service Management Practice at QA-IQ, will broaden his focus from August 2008 to include the Project and Programme Management and Business Analysis and Systems Development Practices as well as ensuring the continued success of the fast-growing Service Management portfolio.

    • The importance of CPD in coaching

      The Performance Solution |

      The Performance Solution know that the concept of CPD is not new, but agree that effective professionals in all fields have always realized the importance of new knowledge, improved skills and the development of personal qualities.

    • BTL and AlphaPlus launch e-Assessment Development: Principles and Practice

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      - An Essential Course for Authors Facing the Challenge of Creating e-Assessments - BTL Group Ltd, a leading independent provider of e-Assessment solutions, has teamed up with AlphaPlus, a team of highly experienced educational consultants with extensive experience in e-Assessments, to launch the 'e-Assessment Development: Principles and Practice course'.

    • BTL commits to ITIL: best practices in the provision of IT services

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK e-Assessment development and delivery company, announced today that all of its senior management and the majority of its Project Management, Software Development and IT/Technical Support teams are now ITIL qualified. This further enhances the commitment previously made by BTL to ensure all Project Managers and other relevant members of staff are PRINCE2 qualified.

    • SQA Releases White Paper on Sustainable Development of e-Assessment

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), a prominent BTL Group Ltd customer, has released a white paper, Innovating Assessment in Scotland, outlining a sustainable model of e-Assessment development utilising BTL's state-of-the-art authoring tool, ContentProducer.

    • Pearson steps up investment in China

      Pearson VUE | London |

      Pearson, the international education and information company, today announces that it has agreed to acquire two privately-owned English language school chains in China.

    • Content Master at the new format two week TechEd conference in Orlando

      Civica | UK |

      Content Master will be at the big TechEd show in Orlando from 3rd to 13th June. The show is the premier event of its kind aimed at technical staff and training and education professionals working in the Microsoft technology field with over 12,000 delegates expected.

    • BTL provides AAT with complete e-Assessment solution

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK Learning and Assessment solutions provider is pleased to announce that they will be assisting the AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians) with a three-year project to move from traditional paper based exams to On-Screen delivery.

    • Exciting new management qualification from QA-IQ:Accredited by Middlesex University's Institute for Work Based Learning

      QA |

      QA-IQ has today launched a new accredited programme for management development in a unique partnership with Middlesex University's Institute for Work Based Learning. This degree-level qualification combines the flexibility of building knowledge through QA-IQ's renowned 'Art of People' courses with guided learning in the workplace to embed skills and deliver hands-on experience. The programme will be completed by a work based assignment, applying the skills learnt directly to a relevant project.

    • SQA signs landmark e-Assessment contract with BTL

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK Learning and Assessment solutions provider, announced today that the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) has selected BTL to provide an enterprise wide e-assessment development and delivery system.

    • Alpha Plus/BTL white paper reviews the current and future vision of e-assessments

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      BTL, in partnership with AlphaPlus Consultancy Ltd, has produced a highly informative white paper on the current market for e-assessment, taking into consideration the drivers for change and development, and presenting a vision of where e-assessment could be in five years’ time.

    • WoLLNET project to use BTL e-Assessment tools

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      BTL is delighted to announce that it will be the ‘Technology’ partner in the Workplace Literacy, Language and Numeracy Evaluation Toolkit Project (WoLLNET).

    • KnowledgePool acquires BTP

      KnowledgePool |

      In a move to consolidate its position as the UK market leader in managed learning, KnowledgePool has acquired Business Training Partnership (BTP).

    • BroadSkill joins with Bray Leino

      Bray Leino Learning | Chester |

      As part of Bray Leino's commitment to creating a world class Learning and Training business, we have joined forces with BroadSkill Ltd, one of the UK's leading providers of business process and IT Training.