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    Staffline shares slump following six-year minimum wage underpayment

    by Rob Moss 18 Jun 2019
    by Rob Moss 18 Jun 2019

    Staffline, one of the biggest recruitment and training agencies in the UK, has seen its shares tumble after PwC delayed...

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    Integrate learning into jobs, say L&D experts

    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Jun 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Jun 2019

    Learning will need to be better integrated into employees' daily tasks, especially in busy environments: a key message from the Festival of Work

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    Mentoring gap opens up between demand and provision

    by Adam McCulloch 10 Jun 2019
    by Adam McCulloch 10 Jun 2019

    Only 13% workers in the UK have a mentor despite employees highly valuing mentoring opportunities.

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
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    Sephora and racial profiling: what can a single training day achieve?

    by Helen Jamieson 7 Jun 2019
    by Helen Jamieson 7 Jun 2019

    The beauty retailer closed its US stores to deliver diversity training after an incident of racial profiling.

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    MPs urge radical improvements in apprenticeships

    by Adam McCulloch 22 May 2019
    by Adam McCulloch 22 May 2019

    MPs have strongly criticised the government’s apprenticeship programme, in particular its focus on higher level placements and failure to meet the needs of smaller employers.

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    Workplace training mainly benefits the better qualified

    by Adam McCulloch 9 May 2019
    by Adam McCulloch 9 May 2019

    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.

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    Few businesses find tech investment improves learning outcomes

    by Adam McCulloch 3 Apr 2019
    by Adam McCulloch 3 Apr 2019

    The growing use of AI in learning and development has not resulted in significant improvements in people's productivity and work quality according to new research.

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    UK must act to boost skills or face ‘perfect storm’ of decline

    by Adam McCulloch 11 Mar 2019
    by Adam McCulloch 11 Mar 2019

    Cuts in public funding for adult skills and falling employer investment has led to the UK's skills base lagging behind that of comparable countries.

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    ‘Use the apprenticeship levy to improve management’ – Cary Cooper

    by Professor Sir Cary Cooper 8 Mar 2019
    by Professor Sir Cary Cooper 8 Mar 2019

    Improving the UK’s poor management performance is the definitive way to fix the economy, says organisational psychologist Professor Sir Cary...

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    Apprenticeships should be opened up to single parents

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Mar 2019
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Mar 2019

    Most single parents are being locked out of apprenticeships because of a lack of part-time opportunities and the difficulty of supporting children with such low pay.

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    Don’t let levy criticism eclipse apprenticeship opportunities

    by Dr Susan Laing 7 Mar 2019
    by Dr Susan Laing 7 Mar 2019

    It’s been a bad news week for apprenticeships. But Dr Susan Laing, Dean of Teesside University Business School, argues that...

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    Employers access a tenth of apprenticeship levy funds

    by Jo Faragher 6 Mar 2019
    by Jo Faragher 6 Mar 2019

    The government is unlikely to reach its target of 3 million new apprenticeships by 2020 and there are “concerns about...

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    £400m apprenticeship levy underspend revealed

    by Adam McCulloch 4 Mar 2019
    by Adam McCulloch 4 Mar 2019

    Only £268m was spent by levy-paying employers on apprentices in the programme's first year of operation, 2017-18. This equated to just 13% of the Treasury's £2.01bn apprenticeships budget and contributed to a £400m underspend.

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    Criticism of levy mounts as Apprenticeship Week kicks off

    by Adam McCulloch 4 Mar 2019
    by Adam McCulloch 4 Mar 2019

    Training providers air criticism of the government's apprenticeship levy as surveys reveal the extent of ignorance over the scheme.

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    McLaren Group takes chequered flag for Excellence in Learning and Development Award

    by Personnel Today 21 Nov 2018
    by Personnel Today 21 Nov 2018

    McLaren’s online learning platform put the engineering and motorsport company in pole position for the Excellence in Learning and Development...

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