The government today launched key programmes to ensure the UK economy is supplied with the skills needed to fuel the growth of key new industries in the coming years.
New National Skills Academies will be developed to cover five new sectors – rail engineering; logistics; green building services; biotechnology and composites – funded by £12m of [...]

The Conservatives – as part of implementing their radical welfare reform plans to Get Britain Working – have signed up eleven of the UK’s largest hospitality leisure and tourism companies to support a ‘Service Academy’.
The Academy will provide up to 50,000 training places and work placements for unemployed people over two years.
Under Labour, youth unemployment [...]

Unions can help to prevent staff feeling stressed and de-motivated by new working practices and reduce the number of staff quitting their jobs, according to a new report published by the TUC this week.
The latest TUC Touchstone pamphlet The Road to Recovery highlights a number of ways in which unions are helping businesses and employees [...]

Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis today welcomed the creation of a new National Skills Academy for Rail Engineering, which has been announced by the Department for Business Innovation & Skills.
The academy will receive nearly £3m of Government investment through the Skills Funding Agency and has the support of organisations including Network Rail, Transport for London, Rail [...]

New research has revealed hat most employers are happy with the calibre of their employees, with some 93% of the UK workforce thought to be proficient at their jobs.  However, experts warned against complacency, saying that employers would need to expect more from, and invest more in, their staff in order to remain globally competitive [...]

The Government has announced that the number of people gaining a qualification through the Train to Gain programme has hit the one million mark.
The millionth learner, Chris Scott, a process operator at chemical manufacturer William Blythe Ltd, in Accrington, completed his level 2 NVQ in Business Improvement Techniques on January 29 this year. Chris’s work [...]

Ambitious new targets to help more people with mental health conditions and learning disabilities in the workplace, are announced today by Minister for Disabled People Jonathan Shaw.
From April this year, 2,000 people with learning disabilities and up to 1,500 people with mental health conditions will be guaranteed places on the Access to Work programme to [...]

Diversity should be threaded through all talent management activities and strategies so organisations can reap the benefits of accessing and developing talent from the widest possible pool. This is the main finding of a new Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) research report, Opening Up Talent for Business Success: Integrating Talent Management and Diversity, [...]

The health sector has exceeded its aim to recruit 5,000 public sector apprentices, Health Secretary Andy Burnham has announced.
Last year both the NHS and social care services agreed to provide a major contribution to the Prime Minister’s commitment, made in February 2009, to increase the number of apprenticeships by 21,000 across the public sector. 
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