Qualifications

The UK’s skills gap could be tackled by creating sector specialist ‘employer hubs’ at local colleges.

Tesco, Arla Foods and Tata Steel are among employers backing a campaign to persuade the government to rethink plans to scrap the Union Learning Fund.

The needs of the UK’s £225bn professional services sector are being overlooked in the UK-EU trade talks according a sub-committee...

Support for over-50s to retrain or gain a new qualification is needed to reduce long-term unemployment, a report has said,...

By focusing on career progression, The Co-op’s award-winning retail apprenticeship programme is helping improve retention and alter the outdated perception...

A senior NHS boss who gained his job by falsely stating he had a degree has received a suspended prison...

Boris Johnson has vowed to “invest in Britain’s people by giving them the tools and training to flourish in the 21st century”.

Labour will provide free lifelong retraining for all if it gets into power in next month’s general election.
It pledged...

A quarter of HR and L&D managers have been let down by their apprenticeship training provider.

Level 4 and 5 qualifications are to become Higher Technical Qualifications under new proposals.

Almost one million temporary workers are being excluded from skills development opportunities because of a poorly-designed apprenticeships system, the Recruitment...

The BBC is once again in the spotlight after it offered a more experienced male employee a higher salary than...

Employees with higher levels of education, women, younger employees and people with mid-range skills are the chief beneficiaries of training at work, a new ONS study has shown.

Chef training and working conditions need to be reformed to help restaurants retain the estimated 10% of chefs that leave...

The CEO of the UK’s largest retailer has slammed the apprenticeship levy for being too inflexible and “open to abuse”.