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Web 2.0 innovative technology-enabled learning and development solutions from new provider Digital Training Videos (DTV) are being launched at this year’s HRD event in London, UK.

A call to make apprenticeships more ‘demand led’ was announced by Stephen Gardner of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) at the Apprenticeship summit 2008 in London yesterday.

Report Buyer the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report called “Museums in the US - IBISWorld Industry Report”

HE Kamalesh Sharma, Commwealth Secretary-General-elect, will provide the opening keynote for the Commonwealth of Learning's 5th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF5) to be held at the University of London 13-17 July 2008.

UK IT Qualification - ITQ - now available on ALISON.com. According to e-skills UK, British employers need more than 7.6 million employees to improve their IT skills and more than 8 million employees have had no formal IT training.

The global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), has established a presence in the North East of England with the appointment of Jayne D’Silva as an account director.

Torbay Children’s Services has commissioned the global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), to develop an eLearning course in Integrated Working.

Giunti Labs, Europe's leading e-learning and mobile learning content management technology provider, is partnering with Cegos, the number one European training company.

Mobile learning is a core feature of Echelon’s stand (number 85) at this month’s Learning Technologies exhibition and seminar (30th - 31st January 2008, at Olympia 2, London).

The global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) (www.tatainteractive.com), has scored a ‘business hat trick’ in winning its three largest orders in quick succession.

‘No frills, just outstanding, world-renowned expertise’ is the theme of the Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) stand at the Learning Technologies 2008 exhibition, being held at London’s Olympia on 30th and 31st January 2008.

A game, developed for ICICI Bank in India by the global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), has been shortlisted for an IITT award in the ‘E-learning Project of the Year’ category.

Global learning provider Tata Interactive Systems received the Readers’ Digest Pegasus CSR Gold Award, in the category ‘Contribution to Society – Imparting Education’, at a ceremony held in Mumbai, India, on 12th December.

The Institute of Direct Marketing (IDM) has commissioned Trainer1 to update e-learning materials relating to its professional qualifications programme - leading to both ‘diploma’ and ‘certificate’ level qualifications.

Trainer1 – one of the UK’s leading independent e-learning specialists and Britain’s premier Lectora distributor – is among the first in the UK to offer customers Lectora 2008, the latest version of the Lectora authoring tool from Trivantis.

Thanks to help from the global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), more than 3,300 children with learning difficulties are now getting professional help and advice with their education.

The first of several youth initiatives for 2008 from The Royal Photographic Society

Trainer1’s Neil Lasher has been appointed deputy chair of The eLearning Network (eLN), the UK's foremost professional association of users and developers of all forms of e-learning.

Training in the booming Indian retail sector was given a boost this week as Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) signed an agreement with British organisation, Skillsmart Retail, to offer a retail training scheme.

Free ebook from Webooks.co.uk offers information and advice for international students planning to study at UK universities. Users can access the full text of “A Guide to Studying and Living in Britain”, a step-by-step handbook for students.

Students to synchronise their real-life locations in a virtual campus with Cisco and Giunti Labs’ Technology.

Learning content management solutions (LCMS) vendor, Giunti Labs, is collaborating globally with the world-leading technology companies Cisco and Ericsson, on Location Based Mobile Learning.

The management simulation ‘TOPSIM’ not only proved popular at the Tata Interactive Learning Forums, held recently in Chicago and Boston, in the USA, but also demonstrated a way of making corporate learning both effective and efficient.

The Tata Interactive Learning Forums (TLFs), held recently in Chicago and Boston, in the USA, debated key issues in learning and learning technologies in the corporate and academic worlds.

The global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), is bringing the basics of corporate e-learning to a wider audience by producing a series of 365 animated stories for the satellite television company Tata Sky.

The global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), is expanding its presence in Scandinavia and the Benelux countries by opening a sales office in the Netherlands to service the learning market in Northern Europe.

Trainer1, one of the UK’s leading independent e-learning specialists, has upgraded its partnership agreement with Harbinger Knowledge Products (HKP), of Pune, India, the makers of the Raptivity rapid e-learning authoring tool.

There’s a new generation of IPTV service which is easy to understand and control. Video based communication with clients, employees, stakeholders and consumers has never been easier to set up or quicker to implement.

Trainer1 has become the UK’s first e-learning specialist to become 'Vendor Neutral', supplying products from several competing manufacturers.

Trainer1, one of the UK’s leading independent e-learning specialists, has signed a partnership deal to become the first UK re-seller for the software simulation tool, Epiplex500.

Trainer1 is running a further Cracking e-learning workshop at the Radisson Edwardian HEATHROW Hotel, London, on 21st November. Further workshops will follow, in the USA.

Giunti Labs has announced that the new version of its learning eXact LCMS meets the SCORM 2004 final edition specification.

Electronic performance support systems (EPSS) developed by Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), have already delivered several millions of dollars in savings for TIS clients.

Trainer1, one of the UK’s leading independent e-learning specialists, has won the contract to supply The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust with its e-learning infrastructure.

Echelon Learning’s online, interactive programme ‘Teaching Best Practice’ is being shown for the first time at October’s British Education Supplies Association’s seminar exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (BESA KL).

Echelon Learning’s stand (662) at December’s Online Information exhibition and conference contains learning materials in line with the UK Government’s ‘Pathway to Professions’ initiative.

Tata Interactive Systems has extended the range of its TOPSIM® workshops to address specific post-merger integration (PMI) issues.

Following the immense success of the Tata Interactive Learning Disability Forum (TLDF) last year, Tata Interactive Systems (http://www.tatainteractive.com) is hosting the second annual TLDF - a unique global symposium on learning disabilities (LD).

A record number of hospitality employees are downloading training in an online initiative by industry membership body, the Institute of Hospitality and learning provider, Echelon Publishing.

Tata Interactive Systems discusses the latest trends in training and education during the latest in its worldwide series of ‘Tata Interactive Learning Forums’ in Chicago (October 29) and in Boston (November 1).

Independent e-learning specialists Trainer1 have brought the concept of ‘take away’ pricing to learning with their à la carte and set menus for teaching the use of the popular e-learning authoring tool, Lectora.

The key findings from a lengthy study of e-learning implementation within the corporate learning sector by independent e-learning specialists Trainer1 have prompted a series of one-day workshops, called 'Cracking e-learning'.

Neil Lasher is facilitating two International two-day Masterclasses on a modern approach to instructional design.

Alistair Morrison who, as managing director of learning content producer Skillchange Systems, was one of the leaders of the UK’s e-learning industry in the 1990s, has joined the consultancy-led publishing house, Echelon as a non-executive director.

Tata Interactive Systems has participated in an online (‘in-world’) symposium on ‘Creativity in Second Life’ organised by the New Media Consortium.

A ground-breaking initiative is featured on the Echelon Learning stand (A80) at the Customer: Strategy and Management exhibition and conference at the NEC, Birmingham, 26th - 27th September 2007.

Members of America's eLearning Guild have learnt the value of storytelling in e-learning, in an online forum conducted by Tata Interactive Systems' Jon Revelos.

Free guitar tricks video series makes sweet music easy.

The latest information on flooding and how to reduce its risk can be downloaded free-of-charge at the UK’s Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) web site at www.planningmatters.co.uk

The global learning solutions provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) has launched Learning Planet™, an enterprise learning content management system (LCMS).