Sector Skills Councils

Employer groups have expressed “utter amazement” at the government’s decision to close the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), its chief...

The Learning and Skills Council (LSC), with an annual budget exceeding £11bn to improve UK skills, is to be closed...

Training cash for the social care workforce should bypass local authorities and go straight to the skills council to deliver...

Speculation that the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) is to be wound up in the near future has increased after...

Senior business leaders from the new UK Commission for Employment and Skills (CES) have announced their first ‘listen and learn’...

HR news and analysis including: Birmingham City Council’s decision to cut some employees’ salaries what staff want to do on 29...

Nearly half of UK employees believe their bosses overlook staff training, according to research.A survey of 1,000 workers, conducted by...

The skills council for the nuclear, oil and gas and chemicals sectors will push ahead with a skills passport scheme,...

The world’s workplaces are filling with a healthy stream of graduates. India and China between them produce five million every...

The Sector Skills Council for fashion and textiles has launched a nationwide campaign to highlight the increasing skills crisis in...

Skillsmart Retail has called for employers to invest in management training to stay competitive, following suggestions that the number of...

This week’s Friday Podcast is a special edition on the news story that broke at the beginning of the week...

Skillsmart Retail, the sector skills council for retail has appointed Anne Seaman as chief executive, filling a slot that has...

Nick Mitchell, newly appointed chairman of GoSkills, the sector skills council (SSC) for passenger transport, has made gaining re-licensing his...

News and analysis in the human resources sector including:

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