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Training industry up in smoke? The results are in!

  • Training spending in the UK fell 4% in 2009, to £621 per learner. These cuts are painful but not as severe as the 11% budget cuts suffered by U.S. training groups
  • UK training organisations are under pressure to reduce spending, but companies are taking a thoughtful, measured approach to budget cuts and are using this time to transform themselves for greater efficiency
  • UK firms continue to rely heavily on instructor-led classroom training, but e-learning and informal methods are beginning to catch on

With talk of tightening belts and cut backs, you would be forgiven for thinking that the training industry was on its last legs, not so, says Josh Bersin as he reveals the results of the TrainingZone and Bersin & Associates first ever training study.

 

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