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The UK is poor at blowing its own trumpet. Patrick McCurry sets the record straight by asking readers to nominate the best home-grown training concepts of all time We think …
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This month’s news… Innkeepers to serve time on the amateurs The profile of training in pubs and licensed premises will be given a boost this month when the British Institute …
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Mark Hope, managing director of Coca-Cola’s Carpathian Region, reflects on the challenges posed by an international team development event held in Austria and the benefits it brought Coca-Cola was looking …
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Office facilities management company Regus has changed the way its employees learn – all around the world. Simon Kent reports on its initiative Implementing a new method of training delivery …
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Putting technology into the training mix can often enhance cultural differences. Patrick McCurry looks at the issues thrown up by e-learning Training across cultures is nothing new, but the growing …
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The La Tasca chain of tapas bars has taken its Spanish employees through a culture shock to establish a fine set of training practices and win an IIP award. Stephanie …
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An American MBA programme currently running in Germany has been taken up by students from 20 other countries. Simon Kent flew out to Frankfurt’s Duke University in search of the …
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Jane Sommers-Kelly, managing director of Insead Online, explains how the business school achieved its blended learning approach to course delivery Insead is generally thought of as one of the most …
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The page where readers expose their careers This month, Fiona Triller, 39, staff development manager at Leeds Metropolitan University, reveals the philosophy that has helped her to gain a high …
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Last month the first Investment Administration Management Awards were presented to staff who had completed a year-long training programme designed to improve their knowledge, business acumen and ability to manage. …
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Scottish employment tribunal applicants can now apply for legal aid to fund proper representation. David Morgan looks at the implications for the already creaking claims system – and whether England and Wales will be forced to follow suit
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Should legal aid be available for employment tribunal cases? Will it just encourage more people to try it on or is it an important way of ensuring equal access to justice? Compiled by lucie carrington
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Armed services operator Naafi has set up an arbitration scheme with union MSF. Sara Bean asks HR director Mike Nicholson how the scheme works in practice and whether meditation really is the key to constructive employee relations
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Employers may be hit by an administrative nightmare following a recent ruling in the House of Lords allowing part-time workers to claim backdated pensions. The ruling follows a test case …
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A telephone operator’s disability claim goes back to appeal, but his ongoing medical treatment must then be taken into account. Plus cases on race discrimination, disciplinary proceedings and the ‘unreasonable’ actions of a tribunal chairman in striking out a sex discrimination claim