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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Candidates undertaking Modern Apprenticeships and Scottish Vocational Qualifications are required to provide evidence of competence within their job role and the e-portfolio has streamlined this process, removing the need for the...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
New research into the way people learn sheds light on why individuals, and therefore organisations, often seem incapable of learning from their mistakes. The research carried out by learning & development consultancy MaST Interna...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Do you regard yourself as a learning professional? If so, what are the hallmarks of your professionalism? Do you fall back on a qualification or is professionalism much more than that? If you're not sure, then over the coming mon...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
The latest CIPD Learning and Development survey makes grim reading for the governments skills agenda. Almost a year after launching a strategy in response to Lord Leitchs damning review of the UK skills landscape, more than half ...
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Thursday, May 09, 2008
Our panel of experts outline the purpose and benefits of eportfolios for pupils at both primary and secondary level.
Access to work, any time, any place - part 1...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Academic qualifications have a declining role in students' perceptions of what shapes their post graduate employment outcomes, according to research from Cardiff Business School. A qualititive study of final-year undergraduates h...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Rather than being an idealistic software experiment, the open source Moodle learning management system (LMS) has become a market leader. John Stokdyk looks at the impact it is having on elearning.
Tech Talk:eLearning gets to g...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
My Dundee ? Online Interactive Learning Environment. My Dundee represents a comprehensive integrated learning system providing on-campus and distance students with excellence in online academic support.
Case Study: University ...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
"The NES e-Portfolio is an innovative platform providing assessment, reflective practice and competency development in an enhanced electronic environment for a rapidly expanding diversity of health professionals across the NHS. I...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Ignoring the headlines about degrees in flipping burgers and shelf stacking, brand giants like McDonalds and Tesco have quietly got on with a ground breaking initiative designed to give employees the chance to gain qualifications...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
What can offbeat and experiential training methods add to the L&D mix? And what do organisations stand to lose if the trend towards more creative approaches goes into reverse, due to training budget cuts? Dawn Smith takes a look ...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
The Professional Associations Research Netwrok (PARN) is a non-profit membership organisation for professional bodies. It defines itself as a 'research-enriched network' with the object, according to its memorandum of asscoiatio...
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Friday, April 04, 2008
Government-backed careers advice for youngsters and adults is patchy and needs improvement, research suggests. A team of "mystery shoppers" rated as "inadequate" face-to-face advice given to young people in Connexions centres. Th...
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Friday, March 27, 2008
Figures from the ICAEW's membership database show that the number of UK sole practitioners has been in severe decline for a decade. Between 1998 and 2008 numbers have more than halved. For many the information only confirms long ...
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Friday, March 07, 2008
Academic qualifications have a declining role in students' perceptions of what shapes their post-graduateemployment outcomes, according to research from Cardiff Business School. A qualitative study of final-year undergraduates ha...
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Friday, March 07, 2008
The government's plan to create 20 new higher education centres has received a cautious welcome from students and lecturers.
Cautious welcome to University Campus Expansion...
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Friday, March 07, 2008
Andrew Mayo argues that competency frameworks have lost touch with reality and have become far too 'narrow' and far too powerful.
How competency frameworks have lost the plot ...
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Friday, March 07, 2008
CPD in February? Well, why not? The 2007 declarations are out of the way. You are on the home stretch deadline-wise. It might be time to start reminding yourself of your tentative CPD plans for the year. But have you asked yourse...
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Friday, March 07, 2008
Corporate coaching may be the popular new boy on the block, says Garry Platt, but should we be welcoming it quite so naively and with no strings attached?
Coaching: A faster way to lose money than burning it...
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Friday, March 07, 2008
Alison Kitson, programme leader in CPD at the TDA, discusses the kinds of questions that you might wish to ask if you were beginning to draw up a role specification for a leader or director of professional learning
Leading CPD...
