Tag Diversity and inclusion

Report calls for urgent changes to help over 50s stay in work for longer

Recommendations made to employers on how to drive change needed to encourage people to continue working into later life include implementing unconscious bias training for those involved in recruitment; widening apprenticeships to the over-50s; introducing flexible benefits and adapting training and development opportunities…

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Science Industry Partnership marks one year of employers addressing skills development in chemicals and life sciences

The SIP board – led by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), along with representatives from other leading science sector companies – are now urging organisations not yet participating in the employer-led skills initiative to start the process in this new financial year, as…

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L&D practitioners need to bridge their own skills gap to drive organisational performance, study reveals

The research shows that although the L&D community is more ambitious than ever before, many practitioners don’t have the capabilities in-house to drive the organisational change they’d like to. For example, 87 per cent think that business planning is a…

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Training providers welcome proposed boost to NCS role in providing careers advice in schools

AELP has said it’s pleased that Labour has decided to focus resources around the National Careers Service to improve the quality of careers guidance in schools. The measure is set to help underpin the statutory requirements that schools already have to…

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