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How do you reach 7,500 employees spread across the whole of the UK within a very tight timeline, not only to train them on new technology, but also so they buy into the new vision of your business?

Since its launch six months ago, the new train-the-trainer service, the Trainer Performance Monitoring & Assessment Service, has taken off.

Helen Cockroft swaps her SAS training hat on some weekends for a police uniform. Each of the two roles has given her skills that she believes are useful to the other job, as Helen Wilcox reports.

IT training in Ireland is responding to tough times by considering online learning and overseas markets. Donald Taylor investigates.

BCS has joined forces with Sun Microsystems to try and complement academic study with IT skills that can be directly applied in the workplace via qualifications that are recognised by industry.

The IT Service Management Forum (itSMF) can now offer a full set of service management qualifications, having officially recognised ISEB's new ISO/IEC 20000 foundation level syllabus.

Are vendor certifications actually worth the bother or are they a time-wasting bit of window-dressing not actually measuring real ability or performance?

The term e-learning encompasses a wide range of activities, so our first IT Training e-learning survey of the leading companies has split them into various market segments. Clive Shepherd examines the results and the current shape of the market.

Very often in these turbulent economic times, training seems to be at the top of the list in cost cutting exercises. But how does a company grow if its people are not consistently developed to take the organisation to the next level? Alan Maguire, Managing Director of ThirdForce, argues the case for e-learning.

COBOL has just turned 50 years old, but is still vital to countless organisations across the globe. Stephen Kelly, CEO of Micro Focus, calls on business to invest in COBOL skills during recession to avoid long-term disaster.