The UK-based labelling solutions manufacturer, Silver Fox, has had its labels independently tested following safety concerns over a competitor’s labels. The tests - carried out by the Interscience Fire Laboratory (IFL), in Gosport, Hampshire – relate to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)’s Smoke and Toxicity Test and to tests for minor materials in [...]
Learning Light, which provides advice and help to organisations on how to use e-learning and learning technologies to improve their business performance, is making PresentationTube available via the The E-Learning Centre website. The E-learning Centre is an information resource about e-learning and learning technologies for business education, not-for-profit or the public sector. In [...]
Clients of the European Nursing Agency (ENA) Care Group have raised over £400 for Aspire, a charity that supports people with spinal injuries. Through its projects and programmes, Aspire offers practical support to the 40,000 people in the UK who live with a spinal cord injury. The charity aims to help these people [...]
A thorough analysis of 582 of the world’s leading learning management systems (LMSs) has identified the top performing 50. Published by E-Learning 24/7 - which not only publishes a regularly updated list of the top LMSs but also a list of the top rapid content authoring tools (comprising some 168 vendors) - and the [...]
A study into the relative business advantages of personality versus social networks, conducted by PhD student Blaine Landis, from the Cambridge Judge Business School, has revealed that who you are matters more than who you know. Landis analysed over 70 independent research reports before coming to the conclusion that personality is a stronger [...]
At an officially estimated £565m a year, the UK’s corporate online learning technologies market is this sector’s largest national market in Europe – closely followed by that of France (worth some £550m a year). So the Learning Technologies exhibition (being held at Olympia, in London, 29th /30th January), is a key annual event at [...]
In a special service held at the Chapel at London Luton Airport, the Rev Canon Liz Hughes has been officially commissioned as the airport’s senior chaplain. The commissioning was conducted by the Bishop of Bedford, the Rt Rev Richard Atkinson. The service - which included a tribute from Glyn Jones, Managing Director of [...]
Now in its fifth year, here are the new lists of the ‘Top Ten’ most influential people in the corporate e-learning sector, in the World, Europe, the UK and Asia-Pacific. These lists are compiled from a corporate online learning perspective, on the basis of a person’s perceived current influence on the online learning [...]
From California comes news that Artec Group, a specialist in 3D technologies and hand-held 3D scanners, has unveiled a new service. Called Shapify.me, this service enables people - using Microsoft Kinect for Windows or Kinect for XBox 360 - to scan themselves, upload the scan to the Shapify.me website and be sent a miniature figurine [...]
Having completed a project to refurbish nine rooms at The Heart Hospital, which is part of University College London Hospital (UCLH), ME Construction, the London-based specialist construction company, has won two further projects in the healthcare sector. In addition to refurbishing an existing cardiac catheter ward at St Mary’s Hospital to produce a [...]
