Boris Johnson is backing an initiative which will see young people trained and offered their first job in the city. The project, called Investment 2020, will offer more than 100... read more →
A whitepaper released by the Chartered Management Institute on gender issues in the workplace have revealed a lack of self-confidence and a weak talent pipeline are among the biggest challenges... read more →
David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, has called for workers over the age of sixty to go back to university to retrain and upskill. A record number of people... read more →
Figures released last week showed that 520,000 people had started an apprenticeship in 2011-12, a record number and the first time more than half a million people had started an... read more →
The Cabinet Office has extended the contract with Capita Plc to exclusively mange the provision of training across the Civil Service for a further two years from February 2014. The... read more →
In sub-Saharan Africa half of schools either have few or no textbooks at all according to Sacmeq, a body which monitors educational quality in southern and eastern Africa. A nursery... read more →
With an increased demand for interactive digital resources and online courses, a new website has been launched to allow companies to go to one site to find good quality, downloadable... read more →
Macmillan cancer support group is to offer its staff mobile-learning courses to provide leadership and soft skills training. The charity has approximately 500 hundred staff and will offer 23 courses... read more →

