QA acquires Cloud Academy to create a world-leading corporate skills platform
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New digital learning solution will help organisations tackle The Skills Gap
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QA Partners with Microsoft to launch latest Impact Academy: Microsoft Azure
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QA is pleased to announce, in partnership with Microsoft, the launch of the latest Impact Academy: Microsoft Azure.
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QA is teaching the nation to code in a series of coding workshops
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Workshops hosted at Northumbria University were opened by Chi Onwurah MP who supports initiative that seeks to address tech diversity and the skills gap in Tyne and Wear. Teach the Nation to Code is a coding workshop run by QA aimed at career changers and graduates to inspire careers in tech and software development.
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QA signs collaborative partnership with Women in Tech (WIT) Network
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QA is excited to announce a new partnership with the Women in Technology (WIT) Network – an organisation that is going from strength to strength and is predicted to be the largest network of women in technology in the world
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QA celebrates National Apprenticeship Week with a reception in parliament
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Brexit talks were set aside – in the grand Terrace Pavilion of the House of Commons at least – on Tuesday 5th March as employers, apprentices and Parliamentarians gathered to celebrate the life-transforming power of apprenticeships for National Apprenticeships Week (NAW).
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UK’s first female cyber security apprenticeship achiever earns highest possible grade
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QA cyber security apprentice Stephanie Haynes of HORIBA MIRA just became the first woman in the UK to successfully complete the Cyber Security Technologist Level 4 apprenticeship programme – and she knocked her end-point assessment out of the park with a Distinction, the highest possible grade achieved by only one other learner so far.
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QA Apprenticeships launches podcast series to help young people future-proof careers
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QA Apprenticeships has launched a career podcast series helping young people just starting out in the world of work to “future-proof” their job prospects. The FutureProof Careers podcast assesses today’s job market, raises important career questions and helps young people set themselves up now for future career success.
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QA on a mission to boost tech diversity by signing Tech Talent Charter
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QA has signed the Tech Talent Charter (TTC) as part of its ongoing commitment to break down career barriers, bridge the UK’s skills gap, promote a diverse workforce and support women in tech. Founded by employers across the recruitment, tech and social enterprise fields, the Tech Talent Charter (TTC) brings together industries and organisations to drive diversity and address gender imbalance in technology roles. The government supported the TTC in its UK Digital Strategy policy paper published in March 2017.
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QA announces Data Literacy partnership with Carruthers and Jackson
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QA, the UK leader in IT, leadership and business skills training, is pleased to announce a partnership with Carruthers and Jackson to promote Data Literacy and Data Maturity programmes to organisations throughout the UK - and beyond.
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1,000 learners enroll on QA degree apprenticeship programmes
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QA, the UK’s largest tech skills provider, celebrated a major milestone this month by placing its 1,000th learner in a degree apprenticeship role – changing the higher education game by offering new, socially mobile career routes into advanced and in-demand industries.
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QA boosts cyber security training portfolio with InfoSec Skills acquisition
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Acquisition means QA now offers the broadest range of cyber accreditations in the UK
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QA raises the bar of online training effectiveness with the launch of Impact Academies
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QA is pleased to announce the launch of its new innovative online training programme, QA Impact Academies.
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Re-skilling the workforce
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Listen to QA's Director of Enterprise at this year's Learning Live event discuss the importance of investing in the workforce of the future.
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QA is pleased to announce a partnership with The AntiSocial Engineer Limited
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QA, the leader in IT and business skills training, is pleased to announce its partnership with The AntiSocial Engineer Limited.
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QA chosen to deliver Leadership Academy for Socitm
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Socitm, the professional association for digital leaders in local public services, has announced it will partner up with QA to offer its largest and most comprehensive approach to leadership development.
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QA becomes a CREST Approved Training Provider
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QA, the leader in IT and business skills training, is pleased to announce it is now a CREST approved training provider.
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QA has signed a partnership agreement with PECB United Kingdom
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QA, the leader in IT and business skills training, is pleased to announce a collaborative partnership with PECB UK, to further establish PECB training courses in the UK market.
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QA's in LPI's 'Top 20 Highest Performing Learning Providers' 2018 report
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QA, the UK's leading learning and training skills provider, is recognised as providing the highest quality of service and customer experience in a new report by the Learning and Performance Institute.
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QA announces partnership with Siker
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QA, the leader in IT and business skills training, is pleased to announce its partnership with Siker (part of the HS and TC Group), the leading Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security training company.
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How do organisations demonstrate accountability for GDPR compliance?
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QA Cyber Security Trainer, James Aguilan, outlines steps towards demonstrating compliance with the GDPR.
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Successful technology adoption - it's all about the user
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QA's Director of Digital Adoption, Tessa Swithenby, talks about the importance of user adoption in transformation projects and how it can be achieved.
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Cryptocurrency Mining: Does the reward outweigh the cost?
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QA Cyber Security Trainer, James Aguilan, looks at the practice of mining cryptocurrency.
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QA listed as 2017 Top 20 IT Training Company
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Training Industry has announced its Top 20 IT Training Companies List, celebrating the best providers of IT training services in support of corporate learning and development. QA, the UK’s leading provider of professional training, has featured for a fifth consecutive year.
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QA awarded with Google Cloud Platform Premier Partnership status
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QA, the UK’s leading provider of professional training has announced that they have become one of the first UK training organisations to be awarded with Premier Partnership status enabling them to deliver authorised Google Cloud Platform training and certifications.
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CVC Capital Partners Fund VI agrees to acquire QA Group
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Bregal Investments ('Bregal') and CVC Capital Partners ('CVC') announced today that funds managed by Bregal Capital LLP and advised by EMK Capital LLP ('EMK') have agreed to sell QA, the UK's leading provider of IT education and skills, to CVC Fund VI.
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Google Cloud Training gives organisations more options in their journey to the Cloud
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QA, the UK’s leading provider of professional training has announced today that they have become one of the first UK partner organisations to deliver Google Cloud Platform training and certifications.
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New insight reveals record number of university students dropped out of their course at Christmas to change route to a tech apprenticeship
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During the Christmas period QA Apprenticeships saw a 25% increase in applications, compared to last year. Over 10,000 young people throughout the UK wanted to change direction, to take an apprenticeship rather than going back to University, after the Christmas break. Insight published in Nov 2016 proved tech apprenticeships can be worth more than a university degree – and uni students are taking note.
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QA Supports AWS re:Start to Boost Cloud Computing Training, Skills, and Employment in the UK
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QA Consulting to train 1000 young adults and military veterans in cloud computing technologies, working together with Amazon Web Services, The Prince's Trust and the Ministry of Defence (MoD)
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The tech sector is offering young adults a second chance
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From an unemployed 16-year-old to a motivated and highly driven young adult with an appetite for working in tech. How QA, the government and the tech industry are creating life-changing career opportunities for young people in the UK.
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UK tech apprentice, 22, to get voice heard at European Parliament
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UK tech apprentice Satveer Kaur-Singh, age 22, is called to present at the European Parliament in Brussels, to get her voice heard ...QA apprentice shares her experience to contribute to debate with European ministers and industry heads.
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QA Consulting strengthens IT process automation practice with senior appointment
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QA's innovative tech consulting business, QA Consulting, hires Accenture's UK&I Director of Pega Practice.
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QA Announces the Acquisition of The Training Foundation Limited
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QA announces the acquisition of The Training Foundation Limited, provider of one of the UK’s leading training accreditation programmes, The Training Accreditation Programme (TAP).
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QA opens new consultancy delivery centre in Telford
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Tech consulting innovators, QA Consulting, have ventured into Shropshire creating 50 local jobs, as they help to bridge the local digital skills gap.
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A new way in digital learning: QA Online ITIL Academy
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QA, the UK leader in IT and business skills training, has launched an Online ITIL® Academy, as part of a planned series including: Project Management, Cyber Security, Business Systems Development and App and Web Development.
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QA backs UK freelancers to help fill the skills gap by sponsoring the IPSE-QA Freelancer Awards 2016
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QA is pleased to announce its’ headline sponsorship of this year’s IPSE, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed, annual Freelancer Awards which recognise the UK’s best independent professionals.
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QA Launches Cyber Training Lab
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Custom-Built Facility Enables Enterprises to Simulate a Cyber-Attack and Learn to Practice Defending their Systems and Data
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QA warns we’re operating in the cyber security stone age when it comes to the Internet of Things
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Fifth Annual Internet of Things Day, April 9th 2016. As the technology industry prepares to celebrate technical achievements in connecting objects together, the UK’s largest training provider, QA, warns that from a security perspective, the IoT is broken.
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QA warns on over-reliance on technology by UK firms on World Backup Day
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'True data protection, and true data security, starts with training your people' says QA Technical Director. Many backup vendors have been touting their wares ahead of World Backup Day (March 31, 2016). In response, the UK’s largest training provider, QA, is warning firms not to try and solve the problem by simply buying more technology. Instead, QA is counselling a more holistic approach to backup and data protection – one that gives training and education of staff equal billing to technology investment.
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QA receives Director’s Award from Red Hat
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QA, the UK leader in IT and business skills training, has been presented with a Director’s Award from Red Hat. Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source software solutions, gives one Director's Award a year to partners that go the extra-mile in their work with Red Hat.
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QA receives Hortonworks EMEA Training Partner of the Year Award
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QA, the UK leader in IT and business skills training, has been presented with the EMEA Training Partner of the Year Award from Hortonworks.
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QA announces partnership with NotSoSecure to strengthen its cyber security training portfolio.
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The combination of NotSoSecure and QA will provide market leading ‘Advanced Ethical Hacking’ courses, enhancing QA’s already comprehensive cyber security training portfolio, helping UK companies and the public sector to prevent cyber-attacks.
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Survey from QA Reveals How UK Businesses Plan to Tackle Cyber Security Threats in 2016
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Despite eight out of ten IT decision makers experiencing a data or cyber security breach in their organisation in 2015, less than one-third plan to invest in cyber security technologies in 2016.
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Home Office wins award for ‘Best use of Cloud Services’ at the 2015’s Computing / BCS UK IT Industry Awards
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The Home Office won the award for the 'Best Use of Cloud Services', for their EBSA solution. This is a project that QA Consulting (formerly NETbuilder Academy) have been involved in delivering since its inception 2 years ago. They were able to leverage QA Consultant’s expertise in DevOps and their partnership with Puppet Labs to design and build out this Enterprise grade platform.
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QA strengthens its ability to provide IT Talent for UK plc and the Public Sector by acquiring NETbuilder Academy
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QA, the leader in IT and business skills training, has acquired NETbuilder Academy, a leading provider of STEM-graduate consultants providing specialist IT skills into Clients.
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QA wins 2015 Microsoft Worldwide Learning Partner of the Year
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Recognised for providing innovative training solutions that drive Microsoft Azure technology skills
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QA Information Security course now accredited by CESG
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QA shows commitment to providing high quality cyber security training with CESG-accredited course.
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QA listed as 2014 Top 20 IT Training Company
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TrainingIndustry.com globally recognises QA Learning as a top IT training provider
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QA provides training for the recently-launched Tech Partnership Training Fund
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QA supports the Tech Partnership Training Fund, a government-funded scheme for employers to invest more heavily in IT training.
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QA to boost graduate employability with the ‘QA Gateway Programme’
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Named the ‘QA Gateway Programme’ it is designed to improve employability for thousands of high-calibre graduates looking to enter the increasingly diverse world of IT. Through the programme QA aims to become one of the UKs leading graduate employers – fast tracking the careers of young people into the increasingly competitive IT market.
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3D Printing Partnership between QA Limited and ObjectForm
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With the demand for 3D Printing technology growing rapidly and a thirst from business to know how this technology will impact processes and markets globally, today has seen a new partnership formed between QA, one of the UK’s leading learning companies and ObjectForm, a tech start-up specialising in 3D Printing.
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Number of school leavers demanding IT apprenticeships doubles
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Not going to uni - applications for IT apprenticeships at an all-time high in the lead-up to A Level results day 2014, says top apprenticeship firm
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QA shortlisted for Personnel Today HR Supplier Partnership Award
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QA has been shortlisted for a HR Supplier Partnership Award, the category that recognises the achievements of suppliers of products and services in relation to a HR client.
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QA partners with Tour de France Hub 2014 to train 10,000 Volunteers
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QA selected to provide training to largest volunteer programme for the Tour de France.
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QA Apprentice, Alex Small, named Microsoft Apprentice of 2014
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IT Apprentice at London-based Penman IT wins over judges at Microsoft’s parliamentary award ceremony – one of six awards given to QA Apprenticeships partners on the day.
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QA Apprenticeships leads the pack to take Tech Industry Gold accreditation
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QA Apprenticeships has become the first provider in the UK to be licensed to offer Tech Industry Gold apprenticeships – the employer-designed programmes that equip young people with the skills for a career in technology.
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QA partners with Computing Magazine for Securing Talent Initiative
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QA and Computing team up to combat cyber security skills gap.
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QA launches substantial recruitment drive due to high customer demand
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QA, the education and skills group which encompasses QA Learning, QA Apprenticeships, QA Higher Education and QA Executive Masters, today announced a significant and immediate sales and relationship management recruitment programme which will result in more than 50 new jobs across the UK.
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QA opens state of-the-art training centre in St James’ Gate, Newcastle to meet growing demand
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QA, the UK-based training company that transforms performance through learning, opened a new state-of-the-art training centre in St James’ Gate, Newcastle, on Monday, 31st March 2014.
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QA to deliver Hortonworks Apache Hadoop 2.0 training in the UK
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QA joins Hortonworks Certified Partner network as the largest UK training partner.
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QA appoints new head for expanding Higher Education business
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QA, one of the UK’s leading learning organisations, today announced the appointment of Julie Noone as Managing Director of its expanding Higher Education business.
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QA wins Best Training Provider for the ContractorUK Readers’ Awards 2013
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IT contractors nominate QA as Best Training Provider
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QA awarded with Premier VMware Authorised Training Centre (VATC) status
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VMware recognizes QA with Premier VATC status
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QA to host Project Management Assessment-Led Learning Summit
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QA is hosting a Project Management Summit with the Association for Project Management (APM) and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to discuss an assessment led learning approach to Project Management Learning.
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QA to Deliver Amazon Web Services Training in the UK
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QA joins Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN); AWS-authorised training courses now available from QA.
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QA Appoints New Director of Cyber Security
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QA, the leading provider of Technical IT training, today announces the appointment of Greg Newton-Ingham to the position of Director of Cyber Security as part of an ongoing commitment to the provision of excellent cyber security training at QA.
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QA opens state of-the-art training centre in Leeds City Exchange to meet growing demand
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QA, the global training company that transforms performance through learning, opened a new state of the art training centre, in Leeds City Exchange on Tuesday, 3rd September 2013.
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QA listed as one of the top 10 UK training companies
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LPI Publishes the 2013 ‘Training Top 50’ - QA remains at the top of the list
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QA trainers named vExperts by VMware
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Trainers Bryan O’Connor and Andy Fox recognised by VMware in its 2013 vExperts list
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QA wins its second social learning gold
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Learning company’s social learning platform delivers award winning results.
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New research reveals major cyber security flaws in working practises
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Misuse of corporate data, password protocols, and mobile app downloads all contributing to corporate cyber security risks.
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Changing the face of L&D Fujitsu chooses QA to help transform learning and development
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Fujitsu chooses QA to help transform learning and development.
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QA wins gold at eLearning awards
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Learning company recognised as the gold standard in social learning.
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QA launches enhanced PRINCE2 course to bridge gap between knowledge and implementation
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QA incorporates soft skills and project management tools into training that goes beyond typical industry standards to help create more effective project managers.
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QA features in Top 20 Global Training Outsourcing Companies list for 4th year
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QA is delighted to be included in TrainingIndustry.com's The Top 20 Global Training Outsourcing Companies list 2012, for the fourth year in a row. The list recognises those companies that have demonstrated expertise and experience in managing Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) engagements as well as creating a significant impact on the industry.
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QA recognised for innovation at the Learning Awards 2012
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Leading training provider QA has been recognised for both its innovation and people at the Learning & Performance Institute’s Annual Learning Awards.
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New PRINCE2® Professional qualification urges project managers to prove themselves
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PRINCE2® Professional, a new qualification from the APMG, which launched on the 30 January 2012, will independently certify an individual’s ability to understand and effectively apply the PRINCE2 methodology.
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Globally recognised Green Project Management™ courses now available exclusively at QA
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QA, the global training company that transforms performance through learning, today announced that it has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Green Project Management Ltd to deliver a range of fully accredited and globally recognised sustainable project management courses.
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QA launches new TOGAF™ training courses
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QA, the UK’s leading training company, has added The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF™) courses to its fast-growing enterprise architecture portfolio.
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QA announces the launch of its certification focused accelerated Microsoft training courses
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QA, the UK's leading IT training company, and Europe's largest provider of Microsoft training, has responded to customer demand and a new Microsoft Partner Programme by launching a new range of accelerated Microsoft training programmes
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QA launches new Enterprise and Solution Architecture courses
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The UK’s leading training company, QA, is expanding its business analysis training portfolio with three new ISEB-accredited courses.
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QA helps Scottish businesses with funded training
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QA, the UK’s leading training company, is helping small Scottish businesses benefit from up to £500 funding, per employee, for training.
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QA, the UK’s leading training company, partners with BusinessGenetics® to deliver a series of exclusive Business (Process) Modelling seminars
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BusinessGenetics pioneered the (eXtended) Business Modelling Language® (BML™), a revolutionary business modelling methodology that provides a new, scientific view of the business world and enables a quantum leap in business understanding, insights, and improvement.
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QA expands market-leading Green IT training portfolio
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Leading training company QA launches new courses to further extend its lead in the emerging Green IT training market.
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QA announces the launch of new ITIL Specialist Qualifications
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QA, the UK’s leading training company, is to launch the British Computing Society’s new Specialist Qualifications in IT Service Management.
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QA extends its management training offerings through partnership with the Institute of Leadership and Management
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QA, the UK’s leading training company, is now working with the Institute of Leadership and Management to deliver ILM-accredited training programmes.
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QA launches ITIL® (V3) Foundation eLearning
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The UK’s leading training company, QA, has launched its new ITIL (V3) Foundation eLearning course – designed to provide a high-quality, easily accessible, value-for-money ITIL training solution.
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Award-winning boost for QA's bespoke elearning team
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QA is delighted to announce the appointment of Stephanie Dedhar, recently named as 'Instructional Designer of the Year' at the IT Training Awards 2010. The newly introduced award recognises exceptional instructional design, innovation in eLearning intervention and the delivery of measurable improvement for learners.
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Strong year-end figures show QA bucking industry trends during turbulent times
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The year-end results for QA, the UK's leading training company, show an increase in profit and net cash as the company continues its outstanding performance, despite difficult trading conditions.
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QA again confirmed as UK’s top training company
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Independent training research company Pardo Fox confirms QA’s status as the UK’s top training provider for the fifth year in succession.
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QA employee to cycle across the UK for charity - from Lands End to John O'Groats in 14 days!
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Mary Payne, a QA customer service representative is used to looking after customers needs the length and breadth of the UK, but in June she takes this to a greater level.
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Lord Digby Jones future vision recognised by QA Apprentices recent visit to Microsoft UK HQ
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Apprentices get inspired by future technologies and Lord Digby Jones urges employers to recognise apprentices as the future.
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QA provides training to help organisations understand the new Equality Act 2010
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QA leads the market with new training workshops and toolkits to help organisations understand and comply with the Equality Act 2010.
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QA - Outstanding in Outsourcing
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2010 – QA did it again. To consolidate their position as the learning services company of choice in the UK, QA, has been recognised for its outstanding performance and industry innovation and impact in Managed Learning Services, for another year running.
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QA introduces new efficient and ethical concepts to the Service Desk & IT Support Show
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At the 2010 Service Desk and IT Support Show, QA will demonstrate its new Service Management Learning Consultancy and training programmes to help organisations become more efficient, profitable and ethical.
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QA leads at HRD 2010 with training courses for people-focused organisations
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At HRD 2010, leading training company QA is to showcase training programmes that are designed to help organisations develop their focus on the people within their business.
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Calling all young IT enthusiasts - Microsoft Partner Apprenticeship vacancies available now
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QA Ltd, the UK market leader in IT training has partnered with Microsoft in an exciting new initiative for potential young apprentices in London, Thames Valley, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. Immediately available, these IT apprenticeship vacancies are worked based. This means that the participants are full time employees from day one with a company that is a Microsoft partner, and are supported by an extensive training programme.
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QA nominated in Green IT magazine awards
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QA, the UK’s leading IT training company, has been nominated in two categories in the Green IT magazine awards for 2009.
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QA launches two new Microsoft initiatives that help increase business value
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With technological tools developing at a pace, many organisations are unsure how to select the right solutions to improve business efficiency whilst ensuring their IT teams have the skills to maximise effectiveness of these new technologies. By working with Microsoft to deliver a series of ‘Unlocking the Business Value’ seminars and launching residential accelerated training programmes, QA present a learning solution that meets the needs of the individual and business.
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QA identified in Sunday Times survey as growth leader
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In this year’s Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track survey, QA has been identified as one of the UK’s top 100 performing private-equity backed companies.
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QA celebrates National Apprenticeship Week 2010 by creating more IT apprenticeship places
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Government-funded training for 16-19* year olds provides valuable source of IT skills for employers.
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