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    • Welcome to the Virtual College August Newsletter

      Virtual College by Netex |

      This edition is packed with valuable insights and updates designed to empower your professional journey. We’re excited to share a compelling case study that highlights our innovative approach to the challenges brought to us by Mount Green Housing Association. Additionally, don’t miss our training updates, where you’ll find the latest resources to enhance your skills. Finally, dive into our new blog post, where we give some tips to ensure that all employees receive the necessary knowledge.

    • Supporting Your Staff's Mental Health and Wellbeing During Challenging Times

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, UK |

      The challenging times we find ourselves in are affecting people's mental health, including our employees. It is hard to know how to support their mental health right now, so to help, we have put together a handy guide filled with tips and advice. We hope you find it useful and feel more prepared to support your staff's mental health during difficulties such as the current cost-of-living crisis.

    • Soft Skills Training : Addressing the Problems Hidden in Plain Sight

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, UK |

      Soft skills are the ones that help us work together. To relate to each other. To become better colleagues. They are human, personable, and consist of attributes such as empathy, curiosity, communication, creativity and collaboration.

    • Virtual College releases podcast exploring digital training during a turbulent landscape

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley |

      How do you roll out digital training during a turbulent landscape? Organisations are facing a difficult period where budgets are being cut and are experiencing challenges to retain their staff. Understaffed departments mean training is required to upskill employees and encourage career development. So how do you do this?

    • New ‘top tips’ mental health guide designed for L&D training programmes

      Virtual College by Netex |

      With mental health being such an important topic right now, L&D professionals across all industries are working on developing mental health training for their employees. To support them, we wanted to share a practical, downloadable guide that could be the perfect addition to a mental health training programme.

    • How to keep your workers engaged in a hybrid working environment

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, West Yorkshire |

      During the course of the pandemic, there was a lot of talk about remote working and how organisations and businesses can adapt. But as hybrid working comes to the fore, the work environment is shifting again. Now, one of the questions that is being asked now is: in this new hybrid working environment, how can organisations keep up employee engagement?

    • How to empower your staff in a hybrid work environment

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, West Yorkshire |

      As remote working reached an all-time high during the lockdown period of COVID-19, many organisations had to quickly adapt to the new ways of working. Although remote-working isn’t a new concept and has been adopted by many organisations across the globe, it wasn't the norm, especially remote-working on a full-time basis.

    • How to fit mental health into your health and safety policy

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, West Yorkshire |

      The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently updated their first-aid guidance to include, amongst other things, a section about mental health in the workplace. It calls out to workplaces to ‘consider ways to manage mental ill health in your workplace which are appropriate for your business’.

    • Mental health resources to support employees’ mental health

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley |

      With World Suicide Prevention Day on 10th September and World Mental Health Day on 10th October, there is a huge focus on mental health at the moment. Therefore, at Virtual College, we wanted to play our part and provide supportive resources for businesses that want to support their employees’ mental health.

    • Virtual College launches podcast episode about using marketing principles for L&D programmes

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley |

      Virtual College has launched a brand-new podcast episode. Featuring host Simon Falconer, Chief Marketing Officer at Virtual College, and guest Ashley Sinclair, Managing Director of MAAS Marketing, the episode explores a problem many L&D professionals find challenging: engaging learners in learning and development programmes. The podcast identifies ways that marketing principles can be adopted to create better engaged learners.

    • Getting to the core of L&D teams and ‘learning in the flow of work’

      Virtual College by Netex |

      The ways in which we learn have changed over the decades, and this isn’t just being reflected in educational establishments but businesses too. The latest approach is being called ‘learning in the flow of work’. But what is it, and what does it mean for L&D teams?

    • How businesses and L&D teams can combat the Great Resignation

      Virtual College by Netex |

      The Great Resignation – the name given to the large percentage of workers voluntarily leaving, or planning to leave, their jobs – is something that has been getting more and more media coverage as months go by. Initially recognised in the US last year, it seems to be spreading globally, and according to research, has definitely hit the UK.

    • 100% of Virtual College is acquired by Netex

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley |

      We are delighted to announce that Virtual College has reached an agreement with Netex, a Spanish technology company specialising in e-learning solutions and listed on the Spanish BME stock market, for them to acquire all the shares in Virtual College.

    • Virtual College’s latest report delivers valuable insights into new and emerging L&D technologies

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley |

      It can’t be denied, technology is currently changing the way in which L&D teams operate throughout all industries and sectors and is providing the L&D professional with many new creative options. To help navigate these, Virtual College, a digital learning provider with over 27 years’ experience, has released a report titled "The Future of Learning & Development". This report explores and discusses the new ways in which technology can be used to enhance digital training programmes.

    • Virtual College releases report to help businesses ‘revolutionise’ their L&D programmes

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley |

      Following the success of their first L&D report in their three-part series, digital learning provider Virtual College has now released the second report, The Importance of Investing in your Learners. Exploring a question that every business is asking – how much time and effort do we need to invest into our learning programmes – this report offers guidance and insight into why businesses must embrace this investment and how they can go about it.

    • Virtual College releases report on how to create training for the learner

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley |

      A lot has changed in the world of learning and development in the last year, namely the big move to digital learning, which many businesses had to undertake to ensure that their training could be carried out in remote settings. But another significant change is how learners want to learn. They have been introduced to a new way of working, and have been given more freedom and flexibility with their time, both which seem to have had a significant effect on how they want to learn.

    • Why businesses turned to digital learning to get them through pandemic year

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley |

      Now they are a year on from the start of the pandemic and starting to come through the other side, Virtual College, a leading digital training provider based in Yorkshire, looks back and reflects on what they have learnt from this year, what trends they have seen and what other businesses can learn from these insights.

    • Virtual College releases new online Personal and Professional Development training

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley |

      There is a growing demand from businesses and professionals to develop soft skills such as resilience, reflective techniques, confidence building and growth mindset. In response to this demand, Virtual College has created a suite of engaging personal and professional development training.

    • Virtual College signs a Memorandum of Understanding with VR Education

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley |

      VR Education (AIM: VRE; Euronext Growth: 6VR), a leading virtual reality (‘VR’) technology company focused on the education and enterprise training space, is pleased to announce that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (‘MOU’) with Virtual College Limited (‘Virtual College’), an industry leading digital learning solutions provider, to provide and deliver technology enhanced learning solutions in the UK and Middle East.

    • Virtual College develops online training with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley |

      Virtual College has teamed up with subject matter experts from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to develop a new online health and safety training solution for slips, trips and falls in the workplace. It has not only been designed to help businesses meet their compliance needs, but the learner has been at the forefront of the creative process ensuring a training solution that is relevant, engaging, flexible and accessible to all.

    • Virtual College gets curious at Learning Technologies 2020

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley |

      This year Virtual College will explore the theme of ‘Creating learning cultures’, explaining how organisations can change their work environment to build a more effective, positive learning culture.

    • Virtual College completes successful learning and development campaign

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley |

      Over the last three months Virtual College has been running a thought-leader campaign called ‘Shaping the Future of L&D’. During this campaign, they partnered with 14 learning and development experts to address the future of L&D, and how it is changing in response to technological developments.

    • Virtual College shortlisted for five Learning Technologies Awards

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, UK |

      The prestigious Learning Technologies Awards have shortlisted Virtual College for all the five awards they applied for. The awards recognise commitment, enthusiasm and passion for learning technologies around the world.

    • Virtual College partners with experts to address the future of L&D

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, UK |

      Virtual College are launching a new thought-leader series ‘Shaping the Future of L&D’. In this series, they have partnered with 14 learning and development experts to address how L&D is changing as technology rises.

    • Virtual College shortlisted for three Training Journal Awards

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, UK |

      Virtual College, renowned for its online courses and learning management software, has been shortlisted in all three categories which it entered in the prestigious Training Journal Awards 2019.

    • Virtual College to demonstrate how Growth Mindset contributes to a learning culture

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, UK |

      At their Learning Technologies Summer Forum seminar, Virtual College will share insights about implementing a growth mindset approach and how it can mean the difference between a learning culture that’s pushed and one that’s driven by the individuals. This will take place on 11th July at London ExCel.

    • Virtual College Finalists in EdTechXGlobal All Stars Awards 2019

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, UK |

      Virtual College were chosen as one of twenty finalists out of 250 applicants in the EdTechXGlobal All Stars Startup Awards for education and training companies who have shown the most revenue growth momentum over the last three years.

    • Virtual College shortlisted for two prestigious awards

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, UK |

      Virtual College, a leading provider of online courses and learning management software, has been shortlisted in both the Sunday Times Tech Track ‘Ones to Watch’ Rankings and for the ‘Best Online Distance Learning Programme’ in The Learning Technologies Awards 2018.

    • Virtual College shortlisted for two Training Journal Awards

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, UK |

      Virtual College, renowned for its online courses and learning management software, has been shortlisted in both categories which it entered in the prestigious Training Journal Awards 2018.

    • Virtual College seminar to explore 'Technology with a Purpose'

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, UK |

      Virtual College, the multiple award-winning online learning provider, will be exhibiting and presenting a case study-led seminar at Learning Technologies Summer Forum 2018, Europe’s leading conference for organisational learning and the technology used to support learning at work.

    • Virtual College’s Academies Show stand offers practical advice from Greenwood Academies Trust

      Virtual College by Netex | Ilkley, UK |

      Award-winning online training provider, Virtual College, will be showcasing its online safeguarding and compliance training resources at the Academies Show. Ideal for teaching, support and ancillary staff, these training packages are already being used by large and small academies catering for all age groups throughout the UK.

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Virtual College create inspiring digital training solutions from ready-to-go courses to large scale training transformation programmes, underpinned by great learning technology and real-world learning and development expertise. We have experience of delivering training to more than 4.8 million learners and a wide range of organisations. In December 2021 Virtual College was acquired by Netex, a technology-based company that offers a complete ecosystem of cloud-based learning solutions applied in enterprise, publishing and educational institutions.

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