skills

The skills industry is split over whether plans to divert funding from a vocational training scheme in order to create extra apprenticeship places would be a positive move or not.

Ruth Spellman suggests that with the right training opportunities the skills that make a great leader can be learnt.

Harrods has become the latest employer to devise a tailored degree course for staff in what appears to be a growing trend.

Despite the direct link between investment in L&D and financial performance, nearly half of all UK employers made cost-cutting rather than innovation a priority during the recession.

A new report has revealed that vocational qualifications frequently have far more value in the labour market than those gained at college.

Gemma Middleton laments the loss of the traditional role model and argues that it's time that our leaders stepped up to the plate.

Dragon and entrepreneur James Caan tells us how best to develop innovation in your organisation in a live web chat.

If you want to be a successful corporate leader what abilities will you need over the next decade or so? Andrew Leigh looks at the skills tomorrow's leaders need.

Who does what in the new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.