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Seven institutional investors in UK listed companies have asked FTSE 350 chairmen to declare their aspirational goals for the representation of women on their boards in 2013 and 2015 by the end of this month. In his report Women on Boards earlier this year, Lord Davies of Abersoch called on these Chairmen to disclose these… Read article/comments
The REC has received confirmation from Government that the Agency Work Regulations (AWR) will be coming into force as planned. Despite media reports of a high-level review, BIS officials advised the REC to inform its members that AWR implementation will go ahead as expected. Senior members of the department will also continue to meet with… Read article/comments
Employers have been urged to better market their apprenticeship programmes to GCSE students, according to HR Magazine.The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP), the body, representing the training organisations who train 75% of apprentices in England, says not enough employers in the country know how apprenticeships can benefit their businesses and that this is… Read article/comments
Seven out of 10 learning and development teams are too busy fire-fighting their day-to-day challenges to focus on the strategic talent and learning issues in their organisations, according to a survey published today by Knowledge Pool, the managed learning company. The survey asked 104 learning and development managers about their perceptions of training in their… Read article/comments
A report in HR Magazine, reports that continuing fragility in the UK economy has resulted in employers increasing their long term demand for flexible staffing whilst downgrading their plans to increase their permanent workforce in the medium and the long-term, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation’s (REC) employers’ survey, JobsOutlook, published yesterday. More than… Read article/comments
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