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Consultation on simplifying the skills system (yes, another one)
What’s that sound we can all hear? Oh, it’s just the sound of deckchairs being reshuffled as yet another consultation into the UK’s skills system is launched.
The UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) is inviting everyone with an… continue
Workplace Commission idea worth exploring
I’m attracted by the CIPD’s idea of merging the plethora of employment and skills quangos into a single Workplace Commission.
CIPD public policy director John Philpott is right when he says the quangocracy operating in the UK employment policy space… continue
Top 10 learning and development tips
Visitors to last month’s Learning Technologies conference gave their top learning tips to help share best practice learning and development with peers.
Software provider Premier IT asked visitors to its stand provide a top learning tip and a Top 10… continue
World of Learning 2008
Up in Birmingham this week to catch up on the latest from the world of learning and development.
Stalls, speeches and awards all pointed towards a brave new world for training in the upcoming recession.… continue
Flexible Working | A step too far?
In one of the most extreme cases of flexible working we at Personnel Today ever seen, it appears an executive director at Fenland District Council in Cambridgeshire will be working from his home in Adelaide.
Not Adelaide in the UK… continue
Skills | Chinese takeaway the UK’s skills secrets
Imagine Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson on the eve of a massive Champions League game popping over to Spain to give the Real Madrid coaching team a few tips on how to beat his side.
Or England cricket coach Peter… continue
Leitch Review of Skills | A copy of Personnel Today comes in handy
Strolling down to parliament yesterday to watch MPs grill Lord Leitch about his hugely influential report on the nation’s skills, I wasn’t sure what to expect.
What could politicians in the Innovation and Skills Select Committee possibly want to know… continue
HSMP | Highly skilled migrant rules kick the bucket
There’s burying your head in the sand and there’s burying your head in the sand in a glass bucket. And unsurprisingly the dear old Home Office has opted for the more public display of intransigence in response to the High… continue
Army skills | Cause for celebration
Cannons were fired across the nation’s capitals earlier this week, while a fly-past of Red Arrows and Typhoons coloured the London sky, to celebrate several military landmarks.
Britain’s Territorial Army (TA) is marking 100 years of service, while the RAF… continue
The Apprentice | Class discrimination!
It was only when today when I read a review of last night’s Hancock and Joan on BBC4 last night that I remembered why I’d intended not to start watching the new series of The Apprentice on BBC1.
But watch… continue
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