News stories from Learning News in 2026

Bupa creates AI, data and leadership apprenticeship academies

Learning News | 06 Feb 2026

Bupa has launched three new apprenticeship academies focused on AI-enabled improvement, data and technology, and leadership in customer-centric care. The academies will train around 900 employees over three years and were announced ahead of National Apprenticeship Week.

Learning becomes the constraint on AI productivity

Learning News | 04 Feb 2026

AI tools scale faster than learning systems. Skills and role design lag behind adoption. Time saved lost to checking and rework. Learning now limits AI value.

Consulting firms cut junior hiring as AI reshapes workforce

Learning News | 04 Feb 2026

Consulting firms are hiring fewer junior consultants while expanding AI roles and senior expertise.

Government links AI skills push to future of work planning

Learning News | 03 Feb 2026

Alongside its AI training expansion, government has set up a new unit to examine AI’s impact on jobs, bringing unions, business and academia into workforce planning.

Government turns to skills to tackle low AI adoption among SMEs

Learning News | 02 Feb 2026

With AI use lagging among smaller firms, government is positioning workforce skills as a route to wider business adoption and productivity gains.

Government-backed AI benchmarks raise new questions for corporate learning

Learning News | 29 Jan 2026

The rollout of national AI foundations training brings external definition and recognition of skills that have so far developed informally at work.

Was 2025 really the worst year to graduate?

Learning News | 29 Jan 2026

Graduate job starts fall in the US, degree relevance declines, real starting pay hits a four year low.

Government expands AI training to reach 10 million UK workers

Learning News | 28 Jan 2026

Every UK adult will be eligible for AI foundations training as government and industry expand a national upskilling programme to reach 10 million workers by 2030.

goFLUENT acquires Learnship business operations

Learning News | 28 Jan 2026

Language training provider goFLUENT has acquired the business operations of Learnship Networks GmbH, expanding its presence in Germany and increasing its scale in the corporate language training market.