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TrainingZONE LearningWIRE - Issue 179
19 November 2001
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk
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User group meeting....Trainers: Adapting to survive in
tomorrow's world...how to become a Microsoft-certified trainer.
.. National Training Awards 2001...
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Editor's note
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By now, we hope you've had a good chance to browse around the
new TrainingZONE site. Designed to highlight those resources
most regularly used, the site now also has clearer links between
different sections - if you haven't had the chance to have a
good look round yet, try starting at our handy introduction page
at https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/60641
Many of the changes we've implemented have been in direct
response to requests from members, either by contacting us by e-
mail or telephone, or from those of you who came along to our
user group meeting in June.
Six months on, we're arranging another session for users to meet
up and discuss the site, which we hope will be as successful as
the previous session. The lunchtime session will be held in our
Bristol offices between 12pm and 2pm on 7 or 14 December.
Members will need to pay their own way to the Bristol offices,
but lunch is provided.
It's a great opportunity to meet the TrainingZONE team and other
TrainingZONE members in person, and we'd be delighted to see as
many of you as possible (although maybe not all 28,000 of you!).
If you'd like to attend, please e-mail me at the address below
stating which dates you are able to make. We look forward to
seeing you!
p.s. are you wondering what the future holds for you as a
trainer? Tim Pickles' workshop session this Thursday hopes to
uncover some of the answers - for more details, see
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/course.cgi?show=10462
Stephanie Phillips
Editor, TrainingZONE
mailto:editor@trainingzone.co.uk
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REFERENCE
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https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/reference/index.html
This week's featured resources:
Key Skills - Information Technology
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A flexible learning unit aimed at candidates working key skills
in information technology (Level 2). This unit contains
opportunities for evidence collection and is part of a series of
units. 51 pages. Format: Rich Text Format and/or Microsoft Word.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/kasbrowse.cgi?action=detail&id=2315
How to become a Microsoft-certified trainer
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This TrainingZone Expert Guide provides an introduction to the
various options for IT Trainers wishing to become certified by
Microsoft for training on their software. It defines and explores
routes to both the Microsoft Certified Trainer programme and the
MOUS programme.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/kasbrowse.cgi?action=detail&id=2388
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NEWS AND FEATURES
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https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/news/index.html
News and features round-up from this week:
National Training Awards 2001
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The results of this year's National Training Awards are being
announced at a series of ceremonies through October and November.
Find out who wins out and how to apply next year.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/63400
ILAs, NTOs, SSCs: Enough reorganisation? - TrainingZone comment
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Another day, another training initiative. The DfES and other
national organisations keep telling businesses that they need to
make work-based training a priority, but do the incessant
rebrandings, restructurings and launches of initiatives really
make this any easier?
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/63391
Skills 'time bomb' awaits business - Healey
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Skills shortages will get worse unless training is made a
priority for business and government, warns Adult Skills Minister
John Healey this week.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/63541
More money announced for adult learning scheme
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Just weeks after the announcement that Individual Learning
Accounts were to be shelved in England, another funding
initiative benefits from a cash injection aimed at attracting
adults back to formal learning.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/63805
For more news stories like these, see
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/news/home.html
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COMMUNITY
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https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/community/index.html
TrainingZONE members needed!
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Find out how what you've told us about the site has made a
difference to the new design, and come along to meet other
members at the next user group meeting next month.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/62601
Workshop: Trainers - adapting to survive in tomorrow's world
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This hour-long online event is an opportunity to listen and talk
to Tim Pickles, the founder of TrainingZONE, about the critical
changes facing trainers and training providers. The event will
focus on the issues described in detail in Tim's recent article
on the subject - and a free copy of the full text will be sent to
everyone registering for this event. In addition to this text
paper, participants attending this online event will have access
to a supporting PowerPoint presentation and will be able to join
in the telephone conference to listen to Tim and the other
participants, and ask questions directly. Commences at 10:00 GMT
on Thursday 22 November.
For more details, see
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/course.cgi?show=10462
Latest Any Answers
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Can you help with any of this week's queries?:
- Products and portals aside, what are the human factors we need
to consider when introducing e-learning to an organisation?, asks
Rob Foster
- Can anyone tell me if you can gain the CIPD CTP in Europe and
if it is a recognised qualification in Europe or if Europe has
its own recognised training qualification standard that is also
recognised in the UK?, asks Lee Kloos
- Does anyone have training suggestions to highlight gender bias
among senior executives?, asks Alison Baird
Post your answers and your own questions at
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/community/anyanswers
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