Virtual College shares the latest updates and insights from across the company. This month brought exciting course updates, insight into learners’ goals for 2025, two new blogs, and a spotlight on its popular course, Sexual Harassment.
A round-up of 2024, inspiring success stories, and a sneak peek at the exciting updates coming in 2025.
MS Shorts available to subscription customers; Modern Slavery and Trafficking course update; National Career Development Month - Personal Development Plan; National Safeguarding Adults Week 2024; Misogyny Awareness elearning.
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.
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 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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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’.
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 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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As the return to work is in-sight, we headed to Google to analyse what employees and business owners alike are wanting to know about returning to the office.
Virtual College has created an extremely valuable course to improve safeguarding responses to children and their families through the learning from Serious Case Reviews (SCRs). It also covers the management of serious child safeguarding incidents under Working Together 2018
Virtual College have refreshed and updated their leadership and management offering, creating a new suite of courses that is timely and relevant to today’s business climate.
Virtual College is delighted to be part of ’An Hour to Skill’ campaign alongside other educational institutions including Amazon Web Services, FutureLearn, Cisco, Lloyds Bank, LinkedIn Learning and Microsoft, The Open University and many more.
Digital training provider Virtual College has been awarded a prestigious contract – a place in EY’s bespoke training supplier community, which is supporting the UK Civil Service deliver its strategic goals.
A new course from specialist workplace training providers Virtual College will support employers in looking after their employees' mental wellbeing remotely as businesses across the UK continue to work from home over winter.
Virtual College, an online digital training solutions provider, recently carried out a survey to find out which soft skills professionals were looking to develop in their professional lives.
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 received over 350 responses to a survey sent to people working in the food and drinks industry to establish their views on their imminent return to work following the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 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 has created a resource package to support people’s mental health and wellbeing and help at a time where we are all impacted by the uncertainty, isolation and solitude that the coronavirus pandemic has brought upon us.
Virtual College has released a free infection prevention and control course in order to make sure the public have access to essential advice, such as hand-washing techniques, that is required at this time.
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.
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.
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.
At its debut seminar at Learning Live, the influential learning and development event, Virtual College will be discussing the importance of a learning culture and explaining why organisations should be looking to develop one.
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, 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.
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 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.
International Women's Day is celebrated on March 8th and is a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.
The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI), a trusted body for global learning professionals and organisations, has recently accredited Virtual College as a Learning Technologies Provider
Award-winning e-learning provider Virtual College are exhibiting and presenting at Learning Technologies 2109, London, on 13th and 14th February and will use this opportunity to reveal their new brand.
Award-winning e-learning company Virtual College will be exhibiting at Learning Technologies 2019, London, on 13th and 14th February 2019 and presenting a seminar about growth mindset.
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.
Two leading training providers: Premier Partnership and Virtual College, have forged an exciting new partnership to bring digital innovation to the learner experience.
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, 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 is bringing its wealth of experience to bear on the problems learners often face in accessing quality leadership and management training.
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.