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    • 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.