Spotlight on… Ken Blanchard

Reshaping the learner mindset

Research released earlier this month reveals just how few companies are taking advantage of all the opportunities presented by the data analytics revolution.

Health and fitness organisation YMCA Awards has been awarded the prestigious ‘Innovation of the Year’ accolade at the Federation of Awarding Bodies (FAB) Awards for its new learner application ‘Y-Go’, which aims to improve students’ pass rates and employability chances.  

As of September, 41 out of the top 56 UK cities do not have enough applicants to fill advertised roles. By comparison, a year ago only 27 cities lacked enough jobseekers to fill available positions.

IMD experts Arturo Bris and José Caballero on immigration and competitiveness.

Online images still portray engineering as a job for the boys is leading to girls being put off from potentially well-paid and exciting careers, according to new research from EngineeringUK.

A petition signed by more than 10,000 people calling on the government to save adult education has been submitted to 10 Downing Street.

The Welsh Government has committed to training up to 180 unemployed people to drive lorries in a move that is warmly welcomed by the Road Haulage Association (RHA).

Towards Maturity has announced the findings of a new study sponsored by SAI Global, which found that despite an environment of record regulatory enforcements and personal liability for senior executives, most organisations are still applying a check-box approach to ethics and compliance training and failing to achieve the business goals they set out.