Skills and Training Directory

A guide to current best practice and new thinking at all levels, and a directory of the wide-ranging sources of information and support available to anyone involved in human resource development. This revised edition of Skills and Training Directory covers new trends, preparing for future skills requirements and applications.

From schools to boardrooms, Britain is engaged as never before in radically improving its skills base. The driving forces behind this include: the need to prosper in increasingly competitive global markets; the growing individual awareness of the value of continual professional development; the ongoing shift in employment from heavy manufacturing to new technology and service industries and, of course; government's quest for the holy grail of full employment.

To support and inform all those professionally involved in human resource development, this new edition of the Skills and Training Handbook, provides both a current guide to `best practice' and new thinking at all levels, and a directory to the wide ranging sources of information and support available to managers.

The state-of-the-art guidance, which comes from leading experts and practitioners in both large companies and SMEs, international consultancies, academic institutions and professional bodies, covers:

• preparing for future skills requirements;
• new trends in training;
• developing a learning culture;
• IT training and e-learning;
• 'best practice' training models.

The directory gives key contact details and specialisms for over 1,000 organisations that offer information and services in the following categories:

• functional skills;
• organisational skills;
• personal skills;
• trainer support services;
• training equipment material and services;
• qualifications and standards.

The Skills and Training Directory includes contributions from the Department of Education and Employment Skills (DfES), Qualifications an Curriculum Authority, City and Guilds, Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, Institute of Leadership and Management, and the Institute of Quality Assurance.