The most recent Government legislation on skills – in the spirit of the 1563 Statute of Artificers – was the Industrial Training Act of 1964. It was employers' adverse reactions to the application of this Act over the next 25 years or so that has brought the UK to the position where we needed a [...]
Human resources professionals need to know their limitations, according to the former Granada chief executive and business troubleshooter Sir Gerry Robinson, and ex- BBC director general Greg Dyke. Speaking at the CIPD’s conference in Harrogate in September, they said that HR's role was to make things happen. Robinson, who confessed he was not a [...]
In Gordon Brown’s Cabinet re-organisation, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) was replaced by two Government departments. Ed Balls heads the Department for Children, Schools and Families, which is responsible for pre-19 education and family and children policy, while responsibility for the development and funding of further and higher education is the remit of [...]
This year, ‘Learning at Work Day’ falls on 24th May. For the past eight years, Learning at Work Day has been promoted by the Campaign for Learning. Last year an estimated 5,600 organisations of all types and sizes took part in the Day. The idea behind the Day is to raise awareness about the [...]
The Cabinet War Rooms, the scene of some of the most influential decisions of World War II, became the venue for a further important decision on 22nd November, when key HR and training professionals from the UK’s top organisations, toured the Cabinet War Rooms and received a briefing on the first six weeks of the [...]
