Training strategies

A training manager's diary: The no-so-secret diary of a training manager. This month's entries: Big meeting and team-building

More than half of training specialists have major concerns about their organisation's learning and development provision

In the past nine months the Learning and Skills Council has been dogged by criticism for failing to engage employers and failing to affect levels of employer delivered training

Ross Wigham weighs up the benefits of organisations gaining external accreditation for their training courses

Chairman of chief infomation officers board at E-Skills highlights need for essential IT skills.

The failure to invest in training is affecting the UK's ability to compete globally.

A new professional body for information security professionals launches today as part of efforts to help raise the standards of IT security across the UK.

Employers bidding for 2012 Olympics contracts should be forced to include commitments on staff training in their proposals, MPs and union leaders said last week.

Nearly half of UK workers have reading and number skills similar to children leaving primary school.

When budgets are tight, training is usually first in line for the chop. But there are ways of getting even...

Coastguards have called for better training standards at sea after a ship's captain was prosecuted for endangering other ships in the Dover Strait.

The government is publishing plans to improve prison education and give inmates the skills they need to enter the labour market.

Employers have rejected a governmental report criticising their training programmes.

BT is set to start one of the biggest change management programmes ever in the telecoms sector

Prime minister Tony Blair has urged business leaders in the UK to get more involved in developing the skills of young people