Training needs analysis
City firms ‘must coordinate skills development to avoid talent shortages’
Every role in the financial services sector will be affected by automation and...
Why cultural training is vital for overseas assignments
Overseas projects often fail when employees and their families are not prepared for life abroad. Janette Hiscock looks at why...
Graduates ‘lacking key skills’, HR managers say
One-fifth of graduates are unprepared for the workplace when they leave university, HR managers feel, and many lack crucial skills...
L&D complacency risks UK firms’ competitiveness with global counterparts
Employers in the UK risk losing talent to organisations in emerging economies if they do not increase investment in learning...
BridgeCon Europe: The role of L&D in creating ‘purposeful’ work
The idea that employees value work that offers them a sense of “purpose”, and the importance of offering work that...
Labour proposes free retraining to tackle ‘skills crisis’
Labour will provide free lifelong retraining for all if it gets into power in next month’s general election.
It pledged...
Banish courses and rethink L&D – World of Learning 2019
It’s time to rethink learning and development, to wean professionals off their addiction to courses and to start aligning learning...
Retraining service expanded into new regions
The government has expanded access to its Get Help to Retrain service, which is designed to support the reskilling of...
Workers optimistic about automation but demand more training
More than two-thirds of UK workers think technological changes will increase demand for human work over the next three years...
Missing out on training means low-skilled workers lose out on thousands
Employees that can’t access training get trapped under a ‘skills ceiling’ that means they lose out on almost £12,000 a...
Future skills framework to be developed
A framework for “essential” skills – such as teamwork, presenting and problem-solving – will be developed by a new task...
Think tank urges retraining pledge as automation transforms communities
A report from right-leaning think tank Onward has urged the next prime minister to introduce a retraining tax credit to...
Integrate learning into jobs, say L&D experts
Learning will need to be better integrated into employees' daily tasks, especially in busy environments: a key message from the Festival of Work
Two in five employers train existing staff to fill jobs
Forty-three per cent of employers are upskilling existing staff to plug hard-to-fill vacancies and a similar proportion (41%) say it has become more difficult to recruit in the past year.
Future jobs will require the human touch, says Amber Rudd
More automation will allow employers to offer roles that require distinct “human sensibilities” and allow workers to be more creative
