TrainerBase takes snapshot of training industry

TrainerBase, the Association for Learning Practitioners, is conducting a survey examining the state of the sector.

The survey – at www.trainerbase.co.uk/go/sectorstate – is collecting information from freelance and independent training practitioners and providers around the UK on a number of subjects, including the number of hours of CPD they undertake, their preferred styles of delivery, and the likely changes in the rates they charge over the next 12 months.

TrainerBase hopes the survey will provide a benchmark of the sector it represents and help it become “the voice of independent learning practitioners in the UK”.

Preliminary results from the survey will be available as part of TJ’s Learning and Development 2020 project, of which TrainerBase is a sponsor. Go to www.trainingjournal.com/research/ld2020 for more information.

Bite-sized leadership and management learning offered with new framework

The Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) claims to have taken “a major step forward for vocational education” by relaunching its entire range of qualifications in a new flexible format.

Thanks to the ‘groundbreaking’ Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF), learners will now be awarded transferable credits for every individual unit of learning they complete. This means that, as well as studying for full qualifications, they can take short courses or mix-and-match units from different qualifications, with the option of building up to a full qualification over time.

They are also able to transfer their credits across qualifications, and use online learner achievement records to identify ways of progressing to additional qualifications, without having to repeat things they’ve already learned.

ILM chief executive Penny de Valk said: “We are delighted to be pioneering this far more flexible and learner-friendly approach to skills development, which will be particularly relevant and beneficial to the UK’s leaders, managers and organisations.

“Unit-based learning makes it easier for managers to gain the key skills they need to meet the challenges of today, building towards qualifications at their own pace and continuing to improve and develop over the full length of their careers.

“We have long been vocal supporters of the QCF and are pleased to be among the first to bring the many associated benefits to our customers and learners.”

Deans gather in Lisbon for annual conference

More than 100 deans and directors of leading business schools around the world were due to gather in Portugal last week to discuss managing complexity in graduate business education.

They were attending the three-day International Deans and Directors’ Conference, held by the Association of MBAs in Lisbon at the end of May.

The Association describes the event as an opportunity for “key business school contacts from around the globe to get together and discuss current issues in the world of business management education”.

This year the conference examined a range of topics including managing complexity; faculty recruitment, retention and development; complexity in learning methods; the MBA in diverse contexts, and improving communication between business schools and employers.

At the time of TJ going to press, confirmed speakers included Sir Donald Cruickshank, former chairman of the London Stock Exchange; Phil Walker, vice president of Cap Gemini; Colin Mayer, Peter Moores dean at the Said Business School in Oxford; Mike Page, dean of business and the graduate school at Bentley College in the USA; Sue Cox, dean of Lancaster University Management School; Joseph Pistrui, associate dean for executive education at the Instituto de Empresa in Italy, and Fanghua Wang, dean of the Antai College of Economics and Management in Shanghai.

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