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New items added to the Learning Directors Network between 5/1/2009 and 16/1/2009

NEWSDESK:


Training Professionals: Are You Ready?
Today there's more to training than, well, training. In addition to enabling learning, innovative...

Training is vital to helping people through the recession
Responding to a report published today (Friday) by the Innovation, Universities and Science and S...

Tata Interactive Systems records good growth in 2008
Global learning solutions provider, Tata Interactive Systems entered 2009 on a positive note, con...

PM's skills and training drive is a 'dog's breakfast'
Gordon Brown's programme for increasing the skills of the British workforce has been savaged by M...

Pearson VUE sponsors Charity Auction at IT Training Awards
Pearson VUE (www.pearsonvue.co.uk) is sponsoring the IT Training Awards 2009 (IITT) Charity Aucti...

e-skills UK issues strategic plans for 2009-2014
e-skills UK has issued new strategic plans for England, Scotland and Wales for 2009-2014. These p...

Towards Maturity launches results of e-learning review
How are 300 public and private sector companies making the most of learning technologies in an ec...

Professionalism pays says new report
Survey data shows that professional qualifications help improve earnings, employability and contr...

Has the IT skills crisis turned a corner?
Has the IT skills crisis turned a corner? Results from the 10th annual silicon.com Skills Survey ...

Hottest skills for 2009
US-based Computerworld says that despite the grim financial picture, demand for certain types of ...

Mobile learning goes mainstream in the downturn
According to a new research report by Ambient Insight, despite the current financial crisis, the ...

Premier IT adds Microsoft Business Certifications
Premier IT, the IT and business skills training provider, has added a series of course dates for ...

Atlantic Link gains US Federal supplier status for rapid e-Learning Solutions
Atlantic Link, Inc, has been awarded the General Services Administration contract (GSA) to provid...

Kineo shares rapid e-learning product knowledge approach
To generate sales, your front line team need to be up to date on what you sell, and how you want ...

The LDN New Year Resolutions
This is always a busy time of year – whether it’s just the new calendar year or the new fiscal ye...

Offshoring hitting homegrown skills
Offshoring is having a negative impact on the skill level of the UK workforce, according to the e...


Research & Analysis:


Training budgets will hold up, says Cegos
New research from Cegos UK has looked into how the economic downturn will impact training practic...

Financial skills most hampered by skills shortages
The financial services industry is still the most hampered by IT skills shortages, according to a...

Salary survey delivers good and bad news for L&D
Blue Eskimo, the specialist recruitment company for training, e-learning and technology recruitme...

Business use of social network grows
A new study from Human Capital Institute and Cornerstone OnDemand says an increasing number of or...


Reference Library:


Training Professionals: Are You Ready?
Today there's more to training than, well, training. In addition to enabling learning, innovative...


MARKET INTELLIGENCE:


IT Training Megatrends - January 2009
Alan Bellinger gives us his take on the IT training industry megatrends for 2009....

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