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The LSC has £6bn to make the Learning Age a reality, but will this be lost in bureaucracy? In this three-page special we look at hopes for its future and …

One of the considerations at HRD Week is how training professionals can work in partnership with line managers. Elaine Essery gathers opinions from speakers and punters on this very moot …

Being sent on a secondment is no longer merely a handy way of sidelining a manager who is past their use-by date. The placements are now seen as mutually beneficial …

Helen Vandevelde detonates the debate about foreign language training and gives her view that it has benefits which you probably haven’t thought of A Eurobarometer survey just out suggests that …

To encourage entrepreneurship we have to develop alternative ways of carrying out graduate inductions, says Binna Kandola Many organisations are concerned about entrepreneurship – in particular, that it is inhibited …

Richard Emerson argues that soft skills can best be developed experientially The Institute of Management’s Karen Charlesworth in her piece, ‘Aiming for Excellence’ (Training, September 2000) provided yet further evidence …

The pubs sector has realised that, in the face of growing competition, training can help bring commercial success. Patrick McCurry raises his glass to the efforts of the British Institute …

The Government’s modernising agenda has brought extra benefits to the Borough of Lewisham, as senior management development adviser Mary Evans explains. By Lucie Carrington Invest wisely in management competencies and …

Employers endanger lives, their companies’ reputations and risk court action every time they send employees on trips overseas and fail to take the correct measures to safeguard their welfare. Dave Abbott assesses the risks

The HSC’s proposed Approved Code of Practice (Acop) on passive smoking at work will require all employers to devise non-smoking policies. The hospitality industry has already dealt with the challenge of keeping smokers and non-smokers happy. So is a code of practice the best solution to the dangers of passive smoking? Compiled by lucie carrington

The European Works Council directive requires international firms with more than 1,000 staff to set up forums where employees request one. Wally Russell, European employee relations director for Nortel Networks, explains the challenges this fast-changing and diverse organisation faced when setting up its first international forum

Brian Palmer, deputy head of Charles Russell’s employment unit, considers the approach which employers should adopt to stress in the workplace

This month’s news in brief Confusion over stakeholder pensions Nearly nine out of 10 lawyers say that only 10 per cent or less of their clients have approached them for …

The Government’s recent family-friendly proposals could spell problems for employers. In its response to the green paper on work and parents, the CBI says it would be impractical to give …

Being able to arrange a replacement in limited circumstances did not mean a sports instructor was self-employed. This month we look at constructive dismissal, disability discrimination and psychiatric injury. Plus, is an employer liable for discrimination when the incident took place outside the course of employment?