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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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Senior leaders to experience the impact that the natural environment has on learning

Many leaders state that in order for them to learn and develop they need time and space away from the office for reflection – something that often seems unattainable. The most effective place for learning is in an environment that…

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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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