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Calling the Midwife – for eLearning

Over 1,000,000 midwives from around the world now have access to an eLearning platform developed for The International College of Midwives (ICM) by Scotland’s leading digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Learning Solutions.   The ICM, which is based in the Netherlands, currently comprises 139 Members’ Associations, and represents midwives, midwives’ associations, midwife educators, regulatory [...]

Empathy and Customer Support Valued Highly by eCom Customers

Market research by the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Learning Solutions, has highlighted that those in the market for eLearning and eAssessment materials are heavily influenced in their purchasing decisions by the level of customer support that producers offer.   “Before potential clients commission work, they decide what they think of the suppliers,” explained [...]

Digital learning solution helps progress British Council programme

Using eLearning materials developed by the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, the British Council is providing appealing, engaging and contextually appropriate learning experiences helping 13-to-19-year-old girls improve their digital skills and English language proficiency.   These girls - all of whom are either currently out-of-school or living in socio-economically marginalised communities - are [...]

Double Digit Rise in Employment at eCom Scotland in First Quarter of 2021

In a move that goes against the view of ancient folk wisdom, eCom Scotland, the digital learning and assessment specialist, is taking its own professional advice by using its eNetEnterprise system. In particular, eCom is beginning to use the OnBoard part of its eNetEnterprise workforce development system for managing learning, development and competency across all [...]

By | May 5th, 2021|Categories: Business, Learning, Learning Technologies, Women's issues|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Learning and Assessment Specialist’s Managing Director Chosen to Speak for Scotland

Wendy Edie, Managing Director of eCom, Scotland’s leading digital learning and assessment specialists, will be speaking as Scotland’s representative at the British Canadian Chamber of Trade and Commerce (BCCTC) virtual event that celebrates International Women’s Day. The event takes place on 8th March, starting at 4.30pm EST (9.30pm GMT). As Scotland’s representative and a Women’s [...]

Waste King in Local Football Sponsorship Deal

While Phil Neville’s England Lionesses are representing their country in the FIFA Women's World Cup, in France, Pitstone and Ivinghoe Junior Football Club is playing its part in helping to find the next – and subsequent – generations of international women’s footballers.   In this, they are now being helped by Waste King, the specialist [...]

Women head each section of the Top 100 E-learning Movers and Shakers list

This year’s annual list of the Top 100 most influential people in the world’s corporate e-learning sector sees women occupying the top spot – for the first time - in each of the List’s four sections: “The Elite”, “Premier Platinum”, “Gold Standard” and “Silver”.   The Top 100 Movers and Shakers’ List represents the views [...]

The Springboard programme’s growing success for women in the Oman

Some 400 women in Oman have now completed the Springboard women’s development programme.   Developed by the UK-based Springboard Consultancy, the Springboard women’s development programme enables women to identify the clear, practical and realistic steps that they want to take to make a better world for themselves at work and home, while building both the [...]

By | August 15th, 2016|Categories: Women's issues|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Sprint confidence and encouragement boost for female graduates

The Springboard Consultancy’s ‘Sprint’ programme answers recent concerns about female graduates being able to get jobs.   So says Karen Daly-Gherabi, Managing Director of The Springboard Consultancy (SBC), a UK-based international training company specialising in women's development issues.     Recent research from The Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) reveals that female graduates [...]

By | August 9th, 2016|Categories: Women's issues|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Springboard helps 1,000 women employees of Rolls-Royce plc

Some 1,000 women employed by Rolls-Royce plc, have completed the Springboard Women’s Development programme.   Rolls-Royce plc, a global company providing highly-efficient integrated power and propulsion solutions and one of the world’s most famous brands, began implementing the Springboard programmes in 1997.   In the late 1990s, there was no mechanism in Rolls-Royce for single [...]

By | July 8th, 2016|Categories: Women's issues|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments