As part of last week’s cabinet re-shuffle, the department responsible for the UK’s skills was once again re-shuffled. As Number 10 put it:The Government has today created a new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills whose key role...
Topics: Twitter, UK Skills

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Next Tuesday sees the Learning and Skills Group Conference at Olympia in London. We have a great line up of speakers, including:Gordon Bull – former head of L&D at VodafoneTony Buzan – inventor of Mind MappingJay Cross – learning...
Topics: Learning and Development, Learning and Skills Group

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Yes, it’s true. Belmont Academicals are top of the league.My Thursday night 5-a-side team has won its first two games of the new season, bagging us 6 points and placing us firmly at the top of the ‘Premiership’, the very pinnacle of...
Topics: Personal, Uncategorized

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Is training dead? Not in Ireland, apparently, although if you believed the news, you couldn’t imagine anything surviving the current economic blight.Yesterday I keynoted at the Irish Computer Society’s National IT Training Conference in...
Topics: Ireland

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I spent a very pleasant morning on Friday at Tate Modern, courtesy of e-learning provider IMC. After the normal registration coffee we had a fifty-minute tour of the Tate (or a small part of it, at least) followed by a discursive presentation from Prof...
Topics: Uncategorized

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