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John Charlton

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    • Age discrimination
    • Career development
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    National Institute of Adult Continuing Education finds older workers more responsible about their own training

    by John Charlton 4 Jun 2007
    by John Charlton 4 Jun 2007

    The older the worker, the more likely they are to feel responsible for their own training and development. According to...

    • Assessment
    • Latest News
    • HR practice

    Psychometric specialist SHL reveals how character flaws inhibit e-learning prowess

    by John Charlton 4 Jun 2007
    by John Charlton 4 Jun 2007

    Some people’s personalities mean they will get very little from e-learning, according to research conducted by psychometric testing specialist SHL....

    • Latest News
    • e-learning
    • Learning & development

    iPod learning trialled by Home Office mandarins

    by John Charlton 4 Jun 2007
    by John Charlton 4 Jun 2007

    Senior Home Office civil servants are putting mobile learning through its paces via an iPod-based pilot project. The 20 senior...

    • HR strategy
    • Learning & development
    • Opinion

    Why you should stand stats and poll results on their heads

    by John Charlton 15 May 2007
    by John Charlton 15 May 2007

    One way of making sense of polls and statistics is to stand them on their heads – which is why...

    • Latest News
    • Education - further and higher
    • Recruitment & retention

    Drastic drop in numbers attending adult learning courses after government funding cutbacks

    by John Charlton 2 May 2007
    by John Charlton 2 May 2007

    Significantly fewer adults are attending further education and adult and community learning courses according to Learning & Skills Council (LSC)...

    • Latest News
    • Learning & development

    Large firms cut back on training budgets

    by John Charlton 2 May 2007
    by John Charlton 2 May 2007

    Funding for training at large organisations has fallen over the past year, according to the 2007 Chartered Institute of Personnel...

    • Latest News
    • Learning & development

    Comedy company comes up with spontaneous solutions for charisma-bypass managers

    by John Charlton 2 May 2007
    by John Charlton 2 May 2007

    If any of your managers has the charisma of a wastepaper bin, help could be at hand.London comedy company The ...

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Skills shortages

    Lingua franca model allows IT skills to be explained in lay terms

    by John Charlton 2 May 2007
    by John Charlton 2 May 2007

    Life for those trying to figure out what IT skills actually mean should be easier with the launch of a...

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Pay settlements

    Pay inequality in learning and development grows as pay for staff in South East surges ahead

    by John Charlton 2 May 2007
    by John Charlton 2 May 2007

    Pay rates for learning and development (L&D) staff in England vary widely with those in London by far the best...

    • Economics, government & business
    • Skills shortages
    • Opinion

    Education and skills crises: they’ll always be with us

    by John Charlton 17 Apr 2007
    by John Charlton 17 Apr 2007

    Scarcely an hour passes without someone bemoaning the quality of the education system in this country. Yet much of this, often ill-informed, criticism is missing the economic point.

    • Apprenticeships
    • Economics, government & business
    • Learning & development

    Story of the week

    by John Charlton 2 Apr 2007
    by John Charlton 2 Apr 2007

    Apprenticeship numbers fall by more than 10% in 12 monthsBasic apprenticeship take-up rates have fallen significantly.The Department for Education and...

    • Learning & development

    IT training providers abuse search engines

    by John Charlton 27 Mar 2007
    by John Charlton 27 Mar 2007

    IT training providers are fiddling their search engine entries to re-direct traffic away from competitors’ sites to their own. The...

    • Learning & development

    Late cancellations hit independent trainers hard

    by John Charlton 27 Mar 2007
    by John Charlton 27 Mar 2007

    Independent trainers are getting the short straw when it comes to course cancellations. That is the view of independent trainer organisation...

    • Learning & development

    Can training venue brain food improve performance?

    by John Charlton 27 Mar 2007
    by John Charlton 27 Mar 2007

    Training venues are falling over themselves to offer what some call ‘brain food’. All well and good, but does feasting...

    • Latest News
    • Learning & development

    Most UK companies are missing out on free or low-cost training

    by John Charlton 5 Mar 2007
    by John Charlton 5 Mar 2007

    According to the Learning and Skills Council, many UK businesses are unaware of the free or low-cost training opportunities available to them at their local further education colleges, but those that had used them said their workers had benefited, reports Training & Coaching Today.

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