The government is to channel £27m of EU cash to help people improve their skills and stay in work or find a new job. Organisations are being urged to submit plans for regional projects to develop ways of boosting people's employment opportunities.  More...
04 November 2008 12:57

People are looking to careers in teaching to help them through the economic crisis, official figures show. Sector skills council Lifelong Learning UK saw enquiries about teacher training courses soar by 41% in a month. The body polled more than 2,0  More...
03 November 2008 13:24

Outgoing skills minister David Lammy has insisted that he leaves with the UK on course to hit the ambitious skills targets set out in the Leitch review. Lammy was promoted to become minister for higher education and intellectual property in l  More...
09 October 2008 08:59

Controversial backbencher and former News of the World journalist Sion Simon has become parliamentary under secretary of state for further education at the Department for Innovation Universities and Skills (DIUS) following Gordon Brown  More...
06 October 2008 11:32

A government agency is looking for radical ideas to improve the UK skills system. The UK Commission for Employment and Skills (CES) has launched a three-week consultation to ask employers and interested parties how the current employment and skills   More...
28 July 2008 12:31

Just one in 20 employers offers an apprenticeship place, government statistics have revealed. Figures from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) show that apprenticeship places have more than doubled in the past decade to rea  More...
15 July 2008 14:57

Every NHS organisation that receives government cash will have to publish how much it spends on staff training each year, under plans unveiled in Lord Darzi's flagship report on the future of the health service last week. All trusts and NHS bodies wi  More...
04 July 2008 09:59

Nissan's HR director has hailed the value of Local Employment Partnerships (LEPs) after scooping the prize for Best Practice in Partnership Working at the scheme's inaugural awards. Danny Griffiths, Nissan's HR Director, told Personnel Today t  More...
04 July 2008 08:42

Stagnating job growth is threatening the success of a government-backed welfare-to-work programme - and high-profile names have called on employers to help . Both Chris Humphries, chief executive of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, a  More...
03 July 2008 15:26

UK Commission for Employment and Skills chief executive Chris Humphries spent five days in China last week, helping the country seen as the biggest threat to UK jobs with its own skills challenges. Here he tells Personnel Today in his own words about his experience.  More...
03 July 2008 09:30

Four million UK employees are now covered by the skills pledge after Tube-owner Transport for London (TfL) signed up today. Almost 4,000 firms have now made the pledge to train all their workers in basic skills, such as GCSE level maths and eng  More...
01 July 2008 15:27

The government is set to unveil a series of skills 'compacts' that will channel millions of pounds into training initiatives in specific sectors. Employers in the construction and hospitality industries will be the first to benefit from these new dea  More...
25 June 2008 08:00

The government has moved to calm fears that businesses would have to foot the bill if they granted employees time off for training. Under new proposals outlined last week, from 2010, employees will be entitled to request time off work for training  More...
23 June 2008 09:00

Gordon Brown used the draft Queen's Speech to announce a new right to request time off work for training. Revealing his plans for the next parliament, Brown said every adult should have the right "to make the most of their potential". He sai  More...
14 May 2008 14:00

The number of adults participating in learning in the past year has fallen, according to research published to coincide with Adult Learners' Week. A survey by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) found that the proportion   More...
13 May 2008 10:00

There are now 20,100 more teachers and support staff in schools than 12 months ago, official figures have revealed. According to government figures, the overall school workforce now stands at 767,600 - with 1,900 more full-time equivalent teachers  More...
29 April 2008 11:37

The CBI said it rejects communities minister Hazel Blears's view that employers may be compelled to pay for immigrant workers to learn English. She said recently: "I feel quite strongly that employers should be taking a siginificantly bigger role in   More...
23 April 2008 07:32

HR news and analysis including: legal experts warn that maternity law changes made this month could cost employers huge amounts of money in pension contributions Metropolitan Police HR director Martin Tiplady discusses the need to ramp up  More...
18 April 2008 15:40

A new government  consultation has been launched to strengthen the relationship between employers and universities for more tailored skills. The High Level Skills consultation would seek industry views on how to raise the skills of those  More...
15 April 2008 08:03

HR news and analysis including: An exclusive interview with Amit Kapadia, executive director of HSMP Forum, outside the High Court in London - on the landmark ruling which stated the government acted unlawfully in changing rules to   More...
11 April 2008 16:19