Skills of UK workforce need 'radical' reform, UKCES warns

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:37:00 GMT

The UK must radically reform the skills of its workforce or risk the economy losing its world-class ranking, experts have warned.

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Prison learning review aims to boost skills of ex-offenders

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:50:00 GMT

The Government has announced a review of learning for offenders in prisons and in the community, with the aim of making ex-prisoners more employable.

Official figures show half of men in prison and up to 70% of women have…

Students deterred from applying for internships and work experience

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:27:00 GMT

Concerns about unpaid labour and lack of local opportunities are putting off students and graduates seeking internships and summer placements, according to a poll by the National Council for Work Experience (NCWE).

The surv…

Skills gap could hamper business efforts to capitalise on economic recovery

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:30:00 GMT

Employers fear a massive skills gap in the UK could hamper business efforts to capitalise on the economic recovery.

Inadequate training, obsolete skills, and learning and development functions that fa…

Teaching assistant training fund scrapped by government

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:34:00 GMT

Unison, the public sector trade union, has accused the government of short-term thinking after learning the teaching assistants' training fund has been scrapped.

According to a letter from the Training Development Agency…

Hospitality employers better on systems than warmth, research reveals

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:11:00 GMT

Warmth and hospitality is key to customer loyalty, but the UK's hospitality employers are better at handling processes and systems, research has revealed.

A benchmarking study by the …

Interns should be paid a 'training wage', says CIPD

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:01:00 GMT

Employers should be forced to pay interns a minimum of £2.50 an hour to prevent exploitation, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

The CIPD is today (28 June) call…

Friday Podcast: HR implications of Emergency Budget; Personnel Today migrates online

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:25:00 GMT

HR news and analysis including:
The HR implications of the Emergency Budget
Personnel Today’s migration to an online platform.

Presenter Tara Craig is joined by Dan Thomas and Rob Moss.…

Harrods to offer in-store sales degree to shop-floor staff

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:33:00 GMT

Harrods, the upmarket London department store, is to offer its shop-floor sales staff the chance to do a degree.

The two-year BA (Hons) sales degree, developed with Ruskin University, is the first of its kind, according to…

Emergency Budget: Regional Development Agencies to be scrapped and replaced by Local Enterprise Partnerships

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:13:00 GMT

Regional development agencies (RDAs) will be scrapped, Budget documents have revealed.

The documents, published yesterday, outline how the eight RDAs, w…

Jobs schemes among those cut by the government

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:49:00 GMT

Job schemes are among those affected by the government's scrapping of £10.5bn worth of projects.

According to the Guardi…

Skills shortages an issue for two-thirds of employers during recession, CIPD finds

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:01:00 GMT

Skills shortages have persisted during the recession, with more than two-thirds of employers struggling to recruit due to a lack of specialist skills.

The Resourcing and Talent Planning survey by …

NHS reliance on junior doctors hinders their training

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:05:00 GMT

Too many junior doctors are missing out on vital training and being left unsupervised, while consultants need to take more direct responsibility for "24/7 care", says a new report by Professor Sir John Temple. …

University tuition fee increase may be on the cards

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:00:00 GMT

The universities minister David Willetts has said that students should consider university fees "more as an obligation to pay higher income tax" than a debt, according to a …

Police officers in Scotland trained to be more PC

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:17:00 GMT

Police officers in Scotland's Lothian and Borders area have received guidance on what not to say while at work.

The Appropriate Language Guide is intended to help officers avoid insulting members of the public by…

National Lottery £17m scheme to boost heritage training

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:46:00 GMT

A £17m National Lottery scheme will create more than 800 training places on UK heritage projects.

Trainees will learn crafts such as blacksmithing, boat building and dry stonewalling in an attempt to preserve traditional sk…

National Trust apprenticeship scheme launched to tackle skills shortages

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:26:00 GMT

The National Trust has created a new apprenticeship scheme in a bid to tackle the severe building skills shortage in the heritage sector.

The programme, which is aimed largely at 16 to 19-year-olds,…

Civil Service graduate scheme sees rise in ethnic minority and disabled applicants

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:59:00 GMT

The Civil Service has seen an increase in the number of ethnic minority and disabled graduates applying for its Fast Stream training and development programme.

Official figures released in the …

Hospitality employers continued to recruit and train despite recession

Fri, 28 May 2010 16:31:00 GMT

The hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism sector has continued to recruit new staff and invest in training despite the recession, according to a new report.

The …

Welfare reform will only work when jobs market recovers, experts warn

Fri, 28 May 2010 09:37:00 GMT

The government's welfare reform proposals are not particularly radical and will not succeed unless the jobs market starts to recover, employment experts have warned.

Iain Duncan Smith, the new work and pensions secretary, y…