http://www.personneltoday.com/en-gbFri, 10 Oct 2008 12:43:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47889/prison-service-must-improve-relations-with-muslim-inmates.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47889/prison-service-must-improve-relations-with-muslim-inmates.html The Prison Service needs to "urgently" improve how staff deal with Muslim inmates, the chief inspector of prisons has warned. After a <A href="http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/latest-press-releases/press-Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:43:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47858/pizza-hut-staff-get-taste-of-the-future-as-firm-serves-up-rebranding-exercise.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/10/47858/pizza-hut-staff-get-taste-of-the-future-as-firm-serves-up-rebranding-exercise.html All 16,000 Pizza Hut staff have tasted the restaurant chain's new dishes as part of their training for its transformation to Pasta Hut, HR director Jayne Little</STFri, 10 Oct 2008 07:01:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/09/47860/training-budget-surveys-serve-up-wildly-different-responses-to-downturn.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/09/47860/training-budget-surveys-serve-up-wildly-different-responses-to-downturn.html Two recent surveys of' training budgets at UK organisations reached sThu, 09 Oct 2008 12:06:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/08/47820/doctors-revalidation-team-established-with-1m-funds-boost.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/08/47820/doctors-revalidation-team-established-with-1m-funds-boost.html More than £1m in funding has been provided by the government to set up a team that will work to ensure UK doctors meet expected standards. The chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, said a panel of senior doctors will pWed, 08 Oct 2008 10:52:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/08/47818/train-to-gain-tops-100000-companies-as-bq-signs-up.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/08/47818/train-to-gain-tops-100000-companies-as-bq-signs-up.html Home improvement retailer BQ became the 100,000th company to sign up to Train to Gain, but employer groups say more should join. The service, which launched in 2006 to improve skills, has helped more than 570,000 emplWed, 08 Oct 2008 09:52:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/02/47716/most-staff-are-not-trained-to-carry-out-tasks-at-work.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/02/47716/most-staff-are-not-trained-to-carry-out-tasks-at-work.html Seven in 10 workers claim to have been asked to undertake tasks without being trained to do so, according to a recent poll. <A href="http://www.skillsoft.com/about/press_room/press_releases/SeptemberThu, 02 Oct 2008 09:10:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/01/47720/training-spend-how-to-cut-it-by-30.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/01/47720/training-spend-how-to-cut-it-by-30.html Dealing with inefficiencies in how training is run can cut learning budgets by up to 30%. That's the claim of an learning and development outsourcing specialist which has detailed ways of <A href="http://www.personneltodayWed, 01 Oct 2008 10:15:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/01/47719/uk-training-manager-makes-waves-in-st-helena.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/10/01/47719/uk-training-manager-makes-waves-in-st-helena.html Training manager Gill Heighington has just returned from an out-of-the-ordinary learning and development (LD) experience - running courses for tourist staff in remote St Helena in the South Atlantic. Heighington, who iWed, 01 Oct 2008 10:06:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/30/47686/conservatives-pledge-to-fund-100000-apprenticeships-every-year-if-elected.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/30/47686/conservatives-pledge-to-fund-100000-apprenticeships-every-year-if-elected.html The Conservative Party has promised 100,000 new apprenticeships per year if it gets into power. At its annual conference in Birmingham this week, it published a document pledginTue, 30 Sep 2008 11:18:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/25/47613/pharmacist-training-under-spotlight-after-survey-exposes-bad-advice.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/25/47613/pharmacist-training-under-spotlight-after-survey-exposes-bad-advice.html Poorly trained staff in some pharmacies are giving customers potentially dangerous medical advice, according to an undercover investigation by consumer watchdog Which? Representatives from Which? visited more than 100 pharmThu, 25 Sep 2008 09:58:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/22/47570/lehman-brothers-meltdown-will-benefit-future-investment-bankers.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/22/47570/lehman-brothers-meltdown-will-benefit-future-investment-bankers.html The UK's future investment bankers will benefit from the tumultuous events of last week, according to a financial educational charity. Rod McKee, head of financial capability at the IFS School of Finance, said the crisMon, 22 Sep 2008 09:17:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/17/47530/british-gas-to-create-1000-new-jobs-by-trebling-apprentice-engineers.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/17/47530/british-gas-to-create-1000-new-jobs-by-trebling-apprentice-engineers.html British Gas has unveiled plans to treble the number of apprentice engineers over the next 18 months, creating 1,000 new jobs. The company said it planned to invest £40m in recruitment and training across its neWed, 17 Sep 2008 08:01:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/12/47482/universities-key-role-in-preparing-students-for-business-outlined-by-cbi.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/12/47482/universities-key-role-in-preparing-students-for-business-outlined-by-cbi.html Universities must play a key role in giving students the skills that make them suitable for the workforce, the CBI has warned. <A href="http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2008/09/10/47462/social-mobility-not-the-responFri, 12 Sep 2008 09:01:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/12/47475/schools-marking-fiasco-down-to-poor-training-mps-told.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/12/47475/schools-marking-fiasco-down-to-poor-training-mps-told.html Late changes to how School Attainment Tests (SATs) markers were trained contributed to this summer's test marking fiasco, MPs were told yesterday<STRFri, 12 Sep 2008 08:23:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/11/47465/recession-fears-cause-training-cuts-in-broadcasting.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/11/47465/recession-fears-cause-training-cuts-in-broadcasting.html Broadcasters are slashing their training budgets due to the economic slowdown, research has found. The Broadcast Training Skills Regulator (BTSR) 2007 annual report found the number of broadcast companies that had funThu, 11 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/10/47462/social-mobility-not-the-responsibility-of-uk-universities.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/10/47462/social-mobility-not-the-responsibility-of-uk-universities.html Universities should not be asked to help fix industry's latest technological problems nor should they be "implementers of the [government's] skills agenda", the vice chancellor of Cambridge University will warn today. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:27:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/09/47445/apprentice-pay-minimum-to-be-set-at-95-a-week-from-2009.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/09/47445/apprentice-pay-minimum-to-be-set-at-95-a-week-from-2009.html Apprentices will have to be paid a minimum of £95 per week from 2009, skills secretary John Denham announced today. He told union membersTue, 09 Sep 2008 13:52:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/04/47392/most-uk-workers-want-right-to-ask-for-training-at-work.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/04/47392/most-uk-workers-want-right-to-ask-for-training-at-work.html Just over seven in 10 (71%) employees want the legal right to request paid time off for traiThu, 04 Sep 2008 14:50:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/04/47393/cpd-compulsory-for-50-of-professionals.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/04/47393/cpd-compulsory-for-50-of-professionals.html Continuous professional development (CPD) is now mandatory for 50% of members of professionThu, 04 Sep 2008 14:36:00 GMThttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/04/47377/skills-commission-to-investigate-how-to-maximise-staff-potential.htmlhttp://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2008/09/04/47377/skills-commission-to-investigate-how-to-maximise-staff-potential.html A major project investigating how employers can make the most of the skills of their workforce has been launched by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (CES). The Skills Utilisation project aims to identify how emplThu, 04 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT