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2006

28/11/06
Learning Technologies announces conference programme
Learning Technologies has announced its 2007 conference programme and the opening of its on line booking office.

15/11/06
World of Learning Conference
Speaking today at the World of Learning Conference, Clive Shepherd, director of e-learning at The Training Foundation, will call for the rise of informal learning through new social networking technologies to be harnessed within formal learning contexts.

15/11/06
Conference focuses on the tourism skills needed by 2012
Changing British attitudes to customer service - and achieving world-class standards in time for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games - are the challenges set out for a national training and skills conference taking place later this month.

13/11/06
Online Educa Berlin 2006
It's less than three weeks to the start of Online Educa Berlin, the 12th International Conference for Technology-Enhanced Learning.

10/11/06
Learning Technologies 2007
The Learning Technologies 2007 conference and exhibition will take place at London Olympia on Wednesday 31st January and Thursday 1st February 2007.

27/10/06
CIPD announces changes to flagship events
The two largest events organised by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) are both set to undergo changes in 2007.

20/10/06
eLearning Africa opens its call for proposals
The 2nd eLearning Africa conference which will take place from May 28 to 30, 2007, in Nairobi, Kenya, has opened its call for proposals.

10/10/06
FSSC announces conference line-up
Financial Services Authority chairman Sir Callum McCarthy, Investors in People UK CEO Ruth Spellman and skills minister Phil Hope MP are some of the speakers at Skills Pay, the Financial Services Skills Council's (FSSC) annual conference this month.

02/10/06
Kenya to host second eLearning Africa Conference
eLearning Africa 2007, the second International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, will take place from the 28th to the 30th of May, 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya.

10/08/06
Human capital management on InfoBasis summit agenda
Professor William Scott-Jackson, director of the Centre for Applied HR Research at Oxford Brookes Business School, will deliver the opening keynote at the InfoBasis Summit 2006, on 'Measuring human capital for performance benefits'.

07/08/06
CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition 2006
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is holding its Annual Conference and Exhibition in Harrogate from Tuesday 24 October 2006 to Thursday 26 October 2006.

02/08/06
World of Learning Conference 2006
The World of Learning 2006 Conference is to feature an opening address by Ruth Spellman, chief executive of Investors in People, on ‘How to maximise your investment in learning'.

24/07/06
CIPD announces coaching conference programme
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) are holding their annual Coaching at Work Conference on 12-13 September 2006 at The Hurlingham Club, London.

18/07/06
WiseUp2Work Day aims to make work safer for under 21s
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has announced that its National WiseUp2Work Day will be held on Wednesday 30 August 2006.

13/07/06
Skills for Logistics hosts employer conference
Skills for Logistics' second annual employer conference is to focus on the role of people development in driving up the performance of logistics businesses in the UK.

29/06/06
Leadership Trust announces conference line-up
The Leadership Trust Foundation has announced details of its 9th annual conference. Entitled 'Leadership: inspiring greatness in others', the conference will be held from 19–20 September 2006

29/06/06
Moving Learning 2006 presentations available online
Videoed presentations from the recent Moving Learning 2006 events are available to view online from today.

28/06/06
Embedded learning cited no.1 challenge at seminars
Embedding learning - integrating learning and support at the desktop and in the working environment - was the key theme running across presentations at the recent Moving Learning 2006 seminars.

08/06/06
Diary date: World of Learning 2006
The World of Learning 2006 conference and exhibition is to take place at the NEC, Birmingham on 14 & 15 November 2006.

07/06/06
IOM aims to help businesses to see clearly
The Institute of Operations Management (IOM) is running a Effective Visual Management event at Coventry Transport Museum on Wednesday 19th July 2006.

06/06/06
Minister to speak at UVAC 2006 annual conference
Bill Rammell MP, minister of state for lifelong learning, further and higher education, has been confirmed as the keynote speaker at this year's University Vocational Awards Council (UVAC) Annual Conference.

05/06/06
Gladwell and Masie to speak at Dublin conference
The Future of Learning will be the focus of a 2-day event featuring author Malcolm Gladwell. Nigel Paine, head of people development at the BBC, and Elliott Masie, founder of the Learning Consortium.

22/05/06
Unions gear up for busiest-ever Adult Learners Week
Unionlearn has released details of a host of union organised and supported events taking place during this week's Adult Learners' Week.

22/05/06
Adult Skills in the Global Economy conference
NIACE are holding a conference this week that will stress the importance of adult skills to meeting the challenges of the UK and global economy.

19/05/06
Adult Learners' Week 2006
The UK's annual learning festival, Adult Learners' Week, will be officially launched next Monday 22nd May 2006, with a ceremony for outstanding adult learners at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster, London.

11/05/06
Bob Mosher to speak at Moving Learning 2006
Bob Mosher, Microsoft Learning's director of learning and strategy evangelism, will deliver a keynote presentation on learning at the moment of need at next month's Moving Learning 2006 seminars.

08/05/06
BLA to hold collaborative learning event
The next British Learning Association (BLA) Connect Event is to take place on Wednesday 7th June 2006, at the BBC Conference Centre, Marylebone High Street, London.

03/05/06
Skillset's National Skills Day returns for second year
For the second year running the audio visual industries are staging National Skills Day to help focus attention on the importance of skills development.

07/04/06
CIPD to make changes to major events from 2007
The two largest events organised by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) are both set to undergo changes in 2007, it was announced yesterday.

04/04/06
UK’s skills competition bid sealed with Hope
Skills minister Phil Hope put the seal on the UK’s bid to host the WorldSkills 2011 competition, by formally posting the bid from the House of Commons Post Office late last week to David Hoey, WorldSkills secretary general in the Netherlands.

04/04/06
Institute of IT Training announces conference line-up
The Institute of IT Training has announced the programme for its National Trainers' Conference.

30/03/06
HRD 2006: Conference & exhibition news
Updated preview feature on HRD 2006, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's annual conference and exhibition.

23/03/06
New products from Initial Style Conferences at HRD 2006
Visitors to Initial Style Conferences' stand at HRD 2006 will be able to discover more about its latest products and services including Chocolate Team Building Events and its newly launched Comedy Weekend.

22/03/06
'Closing the skills gap' in the financial services sector
The Financial Services Skills Council (FSSC) and the Alliance for Finance are to co-host 'Closing the skills gap', a one-day conference on 3 May 2006 that will look at the role played by the trade unions in developing the skills and knowledge of people working in the financial services industry.

20/03/06
QIA announces details of first annual conference
The first annual conference of the Quality Improvement Agency for Lifelong Learning (QIA) will take place in Birmingham on 7-8 June 2006.

20/03/06
Hear Roffey Park on personal effectiveness at HRD 2006
Roffey Park will be presenting a topic taster on personal effectiveness at this year’s HRD conference.

17/03/06
British Learning Association annual conference
The third annual conference of the British Learning Association (BLA) will take place on Wednesday 26th April 2006 at the Institute of Physics, London.

08/03/06
ALP announces conference line-up
Bill Rammell, minister for lifelong learning, and Margaret Hodge, minister for employment, will be among the keynote speakers at the Association of Learning Providers (ALP) annual conference.

01/03/06
CIPD schedules ‘Law on Tour' workshops
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has launched Law on Tour, a nationwide tour of employment law workshops, designed to help employers prepare for the government's new regulations on age discrimination.

15/02/06
Retail seminar focuses on inspirational leadership
What makes an inspirational leader? That question will be the focus of a Northern Ireland management and leadership seminar organised by Skillsmart Retail, the Sector Skills Council for the retail industry.

08/02/06
Combined Knowledge to host SharePoint summits
IT training and consultancy company Combined Knowledge are hosting two Microsoft SharePoint Summits at their Leicestershire location on 17th July.

08/02/06
British Learning Association annual conference
The third annual conference of the British Learning Association (BLA) will take place on Wednesday 26 th April 2006 at the Institute of Physics, London.

20/01/06
100 speakers & 300 exhibitors expected at HRD 2006
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) are holding their annual learning and development conference and exhibition on 4-6 April 2006 at Olympia in London.

20/01/06
QA to host free Microsoft seminars
QA are holding a series of free seminars designed to help its customers understand the new features of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

17/01/06
Proskills to hold events for glass industry
Proskills, the Sector Skills Council for the glass and glazing industries, is holding three, free of charge, glass industry launch workshops for training and HR staff within the industry.

13/01/06
Learning Technologies 2006: exhibition seminar programme announced
The organisers of Learning Technologies 2006 have announced that 28 sponsors and exhibitors are to run seminars at this year's exhibition. This is double the number of seminars that ran during last year's event.

2005

19/12/05
Learning Technologies 2006: conference update
The organisers of next month's Learning Technologies Conference have announced that Dr Mary Kay Vona, learning and development partner with IBM Business Consulting Services, is to speak at the event on 'Realising the vision of the future of learning'.

13/12/05
Learning Technologies 2006: conference update
The organisers of next month's Learning Technologies Conference have announced that Charles Jennings, global head of learning at Reuters, is to speak at the event about shifting from 'training for skills' to 'learning for performance'.

08/12/05
Dr Jack Phillips on ROI at Learning Technologies 2006
Dr Jack Phillips, Chairman of the ROI Institute, will address the Learning Technologies Conference, in London on 26 January 2006, speaking on 'Making the business case for value'.

29/11/05
Learning Technologies 2006 conference programme announced
Learning Technologies, the organisational learning and skills event, has announced its 2006 conference programme and opened its on line booking office.

20/10/05
BLA Quality Mark to launch at World of Learning Show
The British Learning Association (BLA) will be presenting a seminar on the 15th November, at this year's World of Learning Conference and Exhibition at the NEC Birmingham, to launch its revised and improved Quality Mark.

14/10/05
Event held to discuss skills strategy for tourism sector

13/10/05
Learning Technologies 2006 announced

10/10/05
TTC Training to sponsor travel convention learn day

03/10/05
Keynote speakers confirmed for first FSSC conference

16/09/05
EMCC announces details of coaching and mentoring conference

09/09/05
World of Learning Conference programme announced

07/09/05
QA to host second SharePoint Summit

06/09/05
Hope guest of honour at Proskills launch

01/09/05
Conference to discuss how coaching helps achieve change

30/08/05
QA to host free project management seminar

18/08/05
FSSC announces details of inaugural conference

02/08/05
Skills for Logistics to host employer conference