Learning & development

Secondments with schools can help managers to address their professional development needs, while enhancing the profile of their organisation, says Simon Kent

Telecoms giant BT is expanding its apprenticeship scheme, part of its continuing efforts to tempt high-calibre young employees into the company.

Being prepared enabled Save the Children to move quickly to the second stage of the recovery effort in South East Asia. Johann Tasker reports

Marconi's workers had lost their appetite for learning, and e-learning usage rates had hit rock bottom. Training Magazine looks at how a shift in strategy turned the situation around

Police staff are to be offered the chance to develop their leadership and management skills with the aim of equiping them for promotion.

Union leaders have broadly welcomed the government's white paper on the reform of education, unveiled today.

Employers have given a mixed reaction to the government's education white paper, published today.

Companies are failing to train employees in ethical behaviour – despite growing awareness of the need for strict codes of...

Careers drive for former athletes hits the ground running
While the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ponders the venue for the...

UK organisations are being hampered by serious weaknesses in the people skills of senior management, research has revealed.

Proving that there's no excuse big enough to sideline training at work, the Army has opened its first education centre in the Al Basra province of Iraq.

The Employers Organisation for Local Government has been awarded an international gold standard for its graduate mentoring programme.

As 'Beer Evangelist' at brewer Coors, Lee Threapleton gets to teach Coors employees about all things beer

IT body calls for focus on home-grown 'techie' talent; Sainsbury's buys into retail union's IT training scheme

PricewaterhouseCoopers is getting its employees to eat curry to support a fundraising campaign.