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    Skills shortages: employers miss out on unknown and unused skills

    by Guy Logan 7 Jul 2008
    by Guy Logan 7 Jul 2008

    The majority of UK employees feel they have additional skills that are ignored or under-utilised at work, research suggests.Nearly two-thirds...

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    Transport for London signs skills pledge

    by Greg Pitcher 1 Jul 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 1 Jul 2008

    Four million UK employees are now covered by the skills pledge after Tube-owner Transport for London (TfL) signed up today.Almost...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
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    • Disability

    Friday podcast: diversity hampered by staff who don’t declare disabilities, government launches carers campaign, and how to manage Generation Y employees

    by Rob Moss 13 Jun 2008
    by Rob Moss 13 Jun 2008

    HR news and analysis including:

    Equalities experts tell Personnel Today that diversity cannot be truly measured in organisations unless people...

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    • Education - further and higher

    Software giant SAP’s HR chief admits hitting talent crunch as global skills shortages bite

    by Greg Pitcher 29 May 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 29 May 2008

    The HR chief at SAP has admitted the employer software firm is facing talent management problems as the skills crisis...

    • Learning & development
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    Wright Solutions’ ground-breaking workshops support national learning at work day

    by Personnel Today 20 May 2008
    by Personnel Today 20 May 2008

    Wright Solutions, the Midlands’ leading training and HR recruitment specialists, have joined The Learning and Skills Council, The Skills for Business...

    • Employment law
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    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Friday Podcast: Imelda Walsh on flexible working, Queen’s speech latest and university sleeping…

    by Rob Moss 16 May 2008
    by Rob Moss 16 May 2008

    HR news and analysis including: Imelda Walsh talks exclusively to Personnel Today on the flexible working review to extend the right...

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    Participation in adult learning falls on average by 3% says National Institute of Adult Continuing Education

    by Mike Berry 13 May 2008
    by Mike Berry 13 May 2008

    The number of adults participating in learning in the past year has fallen, according to research published to coincide with...

    • Economics, government & business
    • Learning & development
    • Skills shortages

    Skills pledge: Lord Leitch sticks to promise of brighter future

    by Louisa Peacock 7 May 2008
    by Louisa Peacock 7 May 2008

    Before Lord Sandy Leitch came on to the scene, ‘the war for talent’ was simply a phrase muttered by battle-weary...

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    Friday Podcast: PwC report questions HR’s future, police workloads increase, bullying consultants at Suffolk Council and should employers train migrants English?

    by Rob Moss 25 Apr 2008
    by Rob Moss 25 Apr 2008

    HR news and analysis including: PwC report threatens future of HR – we bring you HR’s reaction Senior police figures...

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    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Apprentices: No half-baked idea for training one in five young people

    by Ross Bentley 22 Apr 2008
    by Ross Bentley 22 Apr 2008

    The government wants a major rise in the number of apprenticeships on offer – and it’s willing to subsidise their...

    • Employee engagement
    • Employment law
    • Department for Education

    Friday Podcast – 11 Apr: Highly Skilled Migrant Programme high court ruling, exclusive interview with employment minister Stephen Timms, NHS staff survey and training providers being bought up

    by Rob Moss 11 Apr 2008
    by Rob Moss 11 Apr 2008

    HR news and analysis including:

    An exclusive interview with Amit Kapadia, executive director of HSMP Forum, outside the High Court...

    • Employee relations
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    • Department for Business and Trade (DBT)

    Friday Podcast: including interviews with skills secretary John Denham and Dragon’s Den entrepreneur James Caan

    by Rob Moss 4 Apr 2008
    by Rob Moss 4 Apr 2008

    HR news and analysis including:

    an exclusive interview with skills secretary John Denham
    Dragons’ Den entrepreneur James Caan’s thoughts on...

    • Apprenticeships
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    Purnell pleads with employers to stand by back-to-work schemes despite Learning and Skills Council turmoil

    by Greg Pitcher 31 Mar 2008
    by Greg Pitcher 31 Mar 2008

    Work and pensions secretary James Purnell has insisted that employers should keep faith with the government’s employment ambitions despite the...

    • Employee relations
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    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Friday podcast: Carter and Carter is nationalised, the EC reviews UK information and consultation law, and how acceptable is positive discrimination?

    by Rob Moss 28 Mar 2008
    by Rob Moss 28 Mar 2008

    HR news and analysis including: Newcastle College buys a major part of Carter & Carter from administrators the European Council...

    • Department for Education
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    Support for skills pledge reaches 3.3 million people

    by Gareth Vorster 25 Mar 2008
    by Gareth Vorster 25 Mar 2008

    The skills bus rumbles on, despite the planned closure of the Learning and Skills Council. The government has announced that...

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