NHS staff to receive equality training

Equality and diversity training is being introduced for NHS staff in Scotland. NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) is working with e-learning provider, Marshall ACM, to enable all of its 3,600 staff to learn about the six strands of equality and diversity: age, disability, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation. View More >

L&D professionals urged not to fear Generation Y

L&D professionals should not fear Generation Y as they share many similar values to previous generations, according to the award-winning head of people development at British Telecom. Caroline Waters (pictured) scooped the HR Director of the Year Award at the HR Excellence Awards this week and says Generation Y, considered to be people born between 1980 and 1995, have fundamentally similar aspirations to Generation X and the Baby-Boomers - but use different ways to communicate and learn that must be adapted to. View More >

Retail skills boosted by launch of national academy

The largest network of retail training centres in the UK has been unveiled this week. The first 18 retail skills shops, which are training rooms laid out like real shops, were announced at the launch of the National Skills Academy for Retail on Monday and are the result of four years of government-led planning and development. View More >

Talent management vital in maintaining employee engagement

Effective talent management is vital to retaining and engaging employees during the recession, according to a series of case studies carried out by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). 'Fighting Back Through Talent Innovation' investigates the different ways in which ten organisations are finding creative solutions to talent management in the downturn and is part of wider CIPD research entitled 'War on Talent'. View More >

TJ has moved!

TJ’s Cambridge-based team relocated to new hi-tech offices this week. The staff, including TJ editor Debbie Carter and the magazine’s commercial director Stephen Pyner, completed the move to e-space north in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, on Monday. View More >

E-portfolios must reform to maintain credibility

E-portfolios need to become interconnected like social networking sites if they are to remain credible, according to the European Institute for E-Learning (EifEL). Speaking in London last week, EiFEL chief executive Serge Ravet said e-portfolios, which are used to collate evidence of learning over a period of time, needed to become less fragmented and take advantage of the internet’s network infrastructure. View More >

Training professionals signal dissatisfaction with their employers

There is considerable dissatisfaction among training professionals, arising from significant regional variations in their salaries and benefits, according to research published this week. The survey, commissioned by recruitment firm GPRS Recruitment, reveals 56 per cent of qualified professionals employed by businesses providing workplace training would consider moving to another employer. View More >

It’s official - companies are not cutting training

Employers are turning to training to fight the recession, new research shows. An Institute of Directors (IoD) survey of nearly 1,000 business leaders found that the amount of training provided by organisations has not been cut during the recession, though the nature and type of training offered has changed. View More >

And the winners are...

A “comprehensive, well-thought-through and designed” L&D initiative scooped the top gong for self-storage company Safestore at Tuesday’s Training Journal awards ceremony. Presented by David Fairhurst, senior vice president people at McDonald’s, to Safestore’s Avril Jones, the TJ special achievement award was for the best overall entry and was selected by the awards judges from all of the 11 category winners. View More >

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