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    • The IT Training Industry's night of the year - The IT Training Awards - this Thursday

      Learning and Performance Institute | London |

      Tomorrow evening (Thursday 4th February) sees the Institute of IT Training's annual IT Training Awards ceremony, held at The Dorchester, London. The awards recognise outstanding examples of high standards, best practice, innovation and excellence within IT training and are now firmly established as the benchmark for excellence throughout the IT training industry.

    • IT Training Market Barometer Released: What does the Future hold?

      Learning and Performance Institute |

      2009 was seen as a somewhat austere year for businesses the world over. In order to appreciate the extent to which the economic climate affected the IT Training sector, Pardo Fox released the IT Training ‘Market Barometer’ towards the latter end of last year, produced exclusively for members of The IITT’s Learning Directors Network. The Learning Directors Network is an exclusive association of executives from the top training providers in Europe, facilitated by the Institute of IT Training, and forming an exclusive community of practice.

    • Global Knowledge expands its portfolio to include EMC

      Global Knowledge | Wokingham, England |

      Global Knowledge, the leader in IT and Business Skills training, today announced its partnership with EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions.


    • Shortlist Announced for IT Training Awards 2010

      Learning and Performance Institute |

      The Institute of IT Training is pleased to announce the shortlisted entrants for its IT Training Awards 2010. The awards will take place on Thursday 4th February at The Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London.

    • Global Knowledge Acquires Nexient Learning

      Global Knowledge | Cary N.C. - August 24, 2009 |

      Combined organization provides Canadian market with an unrivaled suite of corporate training products, services, and solutions.

    • Blue Eskimo's 2009 salary and work survey

      Blue Eskimo | United Kingdom |

      Blue Eskimo, the specialist recruitment company for the training and e-learning industries, has just launched its annual salary and work survey.

    • Premier IT now running fully accredited VMware training courses

      Premier IT | London UK |

      Premier IT, the workforce improvement specialist, is delighted to announce that it is now offering fully accredited VMware training courses in partnership with ETC, at its training centre in Russell Square (London WC1). The courses are aimed at technical staff in charge of administering and managing virtual networks.

    • TPMA success for Kingston Hospital NHS Trust

      Learning and Performance Institute | Coventry |

      Training Synergy (A division of The Synergy Group) has helped 3 more candidates achieve the level required to be awarded their Institute Certified Training Practitioner certificates.

    • Global Knowledge expands its operation into Manchester

      Global Knowledge | Wokingham ¦ 20th April 2009 |

      Global Knowledge, the world’s largest independent IT training provider, is increasing their offerings by running a complete portfolio of courses in Manchester. These courses include Cisco, ITIL, Project Management Microsoft and VMWare.

    • As the demand in virtualisation increases Global Knowledge expands their portfolio to include Citrix

      Global Knowledge | Wokingham |

      Global Knowledge (UK and Ireland) leader in IT and business skills training, today announced their Citrix Authorised Learning Centre (CALC) status. In this current economic climate the ability to deliver applications and desktops to any user, anytime, anywhere from a secure, central location is becoming a core focus for most IT organizations. Citrix are continuing to see a huge growth in the purchase of their products and as a result the training delivered by Global Knowledge will support organisations with world-class, in-depth technical training content.

    • Investing in new skills will help shorten the recession says Global Knowledge

      Global Knowledge | London |

      Global Knowledge, the world's largest independent IT training provider, is calling on businesses worldwide to strengthen investments in learning and development which it says will help to lead the world's economies out of recession. The business is also investing in new ITIL Service Management and VMWare Virtualization Technology instructors.

    • learn eXact Enterprise debuts at CeBIT

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

      The leading learning and mobile content management solution provider, Giunti Labs, is showcasing learn eXact Enterprise, the newest version of its learning content management system (LCMS), at this year’s CeBIT, the IT and telecommunications fair in Hanover, Germany, from 3rd to 8th March.

    • BCS to award ICTP certificates to pilot candidates

      Learning and Performance Institute | London |

      After three years of consultation, BCS has decided it is more appropriate for it to endorse the Institute of IT Training (IITT)'s new national training standard, rather than continuing developing its own standard.

    • Global Knowledge and avodaq to Lead the Development, Marketing, Sales and Delivery of Advanced Cisco Unified Communications Training

      Global Knowledge | Cary, N.C. |

      New alliance yields innovative product solutions for UC and collaboration.
      Two powerhouse training companies and Cisco Learning Solutions Partners (CLSPs), Global Knowledge and avodaq, have created a transformational alliance that provides a deep and broad portfolio of Unified Communications (UC) and collaboration training solutions for their joint customers worldwide. The alliance, which recognizes the strengths of each company, was formed in response to growing market opportunities and changing customer requirements.

    • QA recognised for quality of Citrix training: Certified Instructor of the Year

      QA |

      QA’s leading Citrix technologist, Rob Blincoe, has been recognised as Citrix Certified Instructor of the Year for EMEA. The training company leads the way in the UK with 85% of the market share for Citrix courses, and is the only UK Citrix Authorised Learning Centre (CALC) to offer the entire Citrix curriculum.

    • IT Training Awards 2009 celebrates outstanding achievement

      Learning and Performance Institute | London |

      The Institute of IT Training IT Training Awards for 2009 were presented at a glittering gala dinner held at The Dorchester in London last night. Despite the bad weather around the country, a capacity audience of over 450 people attended this year's awards, held at The Dorchester, in Park Lane, London, on Thursday 5th February.

    • Double Gold for Happy Computers

      Happy | London, UK |

      Happy Computers this week won Gold in both the IT Training Company of the Year and the IT Trainer of the Year categories at the annual Institute of IT Training awards.

    • Blended learning for Adobe CS4 hits the UK

      Highlander | London, UK |

      The first blended learning courses for Adobe’s new CS4 product range are now available in the UK from Adobe Accredited Provider Highlander.

    • Pardo Fox joins the IITT Learning Directors Network team

      Learning and Performance Institute |

      Pardo Fox, the leading specialist provider of market intelligence and strategic consultancy to the IT training industry, has joined the IITT's specialist group for IT Training Providers - Learning Directors Network - as its specialist research arm.

    • New 'green IT' qualification launched: accredited approach to best practice

      QA |

      A new accredited qualification in environmentally-aware IT best practice has been launched by the British Computer Society (BCS) and will be delivered by the UK's leading provider of technical training, QA-Xpertise. Developed in collaboration with industry experts the programme will provide the skills and knowledge to answer today's challenges in a way that is both cost-effective and resource-conscious.

    • IITT's Trainer Performance Monitoring & Assessment Service gains further industry support

      Learning and Performance Institute | Coventry,UK |

      The support from all sides of the industry has been quick to come in support of the new IITT initiative. Leading educationalist and commentator with huge IT training industry experience Dr Brian Sutton, former head of largest IT training provider QA-Xpertise, has shown his total support for the IITT's TPMA service.

    • QA-Xpertise wins Citrix Learning award: UK CALC of the year

      QA |

      QA-Xpertise has been awarded the UK Citrix Authorised Learning Centre (CALC) of the Year award for 2008. The award recognises both the high quality of the training delivered by QA-Xpertise and the breadth of the Citrix curriculum offered.

    • Global Knowledge at the itSMF annual conference

      Global Knowledge | Wokingham, UK |

      This year we are sponsoring and exhibiting at the itSMF UK Annual Conference 'Driving Real Value' - the premier event for IT Service Management.

    • Global Knowledge Virtualisation Seminar

      Global Knowledge | Wokingham, UK |

      Join Global Knowledge and VMware to ensure you and your company are making the most from virtualisation, which can help you to reduce your IT costs while improving efficiency, availability, flexibility, and manageability of your infrastructure.

    • Global Knowledge becomes a Google Certified Training Partner

      Global Knowledge | Wokingham, UK |

      Global Knowledge, the worldwide leader in IT and Business training, today announced that it has joined the Google Enterprise Partner program and is specializing in delivering instructor-led Google Search Appliance Training in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

    • Global Knowledge Announces International Learning Partnership with VMware

      Global Knowledge | Wokingham, UK |

      Global Knowledge, the worldwide leader in IT and Business training, today announced a worldwide partnership that will allow the company to apply its strengths as a leading education solutions provider in North America, Europe, and the Middle East by offering virtualization training on VMware (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter.

    • Premier IT Group acquires Major Training Ltd

      Premier IT | London, UK |

      Premier IT Group, the workforce performance improvement specialist, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Major Training, a London based company providing IT training for the creative sector.