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Care UK and Thirdforce partnership working achieves good Ofsted report

Today’s post comes courtesy of Lorna Tyrtania, ThirdForce Senior Product Manager Care UK has recently been awarded an Ofsted “Good (Grade 2)” inspection rating for their current provision of Health and Social Care and Skills for Life training. ThirdForce has worked with Care UK for a number of years to deliver their Skills for Life programme [...]

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Important Functional Skills Update

Today John Hayes, Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning, announced that Key Skills in Apprenticeship Frameworks will be extended until March 2011. This will allow providers and employers the choice of offering either Functional Skills or Key Skills until 31 March 2011.

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Voyage Service users access to ThirdForce E-learning

Voyage are a ThirdForce client who provide a range of care and support solutions for people with a variety of specialist needs, including learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorders, physical disabilities, acquired brain injuries, neurological impairments and mental health needs.

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What is cloud computing?

Increasingly when we are looking at e-learning purchases we are coming across terms like Application Service Provider, Software as a Service, Grid Computing, Utility Computing, Platform as a Service... Just this past week Microsoft launch a web based version of Microsoft office.  All of these these terms and more, at one time or another have been referred to as "cloud computing." With all the confusion in the marketplace today, you may well be wondering: what is cloud computing?

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Scrapping star ratings – is this the right way to improve Social Care?

Meena Lacey ThirdForce head of Care and Retail responds to last month news from CQC with regards to the proposed scraping of the CQC star ratings system. There has been much anger over the decision and many of our partners are not impressed by the proposed changes. The sector has worked towards reaching for the stars and CQC is taking them away.

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Hospitality State of the Nation Report 2010

The Sector Skills Council for the Hospitality Sector People 1st have published their State of the Nation 2010 report. The report reveals how the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industry has fared over the last tough year for the sector and what growth is predicted for the future.

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Hospitality and Leisure Sector using Social Media

Social media is real life and no longer considered a passing fad. Look no further than the hotels you stay in, the restaurants like those at Whitbread where you dine and the airlines you fly on for proof. More often than not, there’s a Twitter and Facebook account possibly even a Foursquare presence behind the company in question.

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Top 5 Skills for Life Findings in New CBI Report

CBI Education and Skills Survey sends some clear messages to the new Coalition Government on where their priorities should lie. “Ready to grow: business priorities for education and skills” surveyed 694 employers who collectively employ over 2.4 million people or 8% of those in employment in the UK. The report sends some clear messages to the new Coalition Government on where their priorities should lie.

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Business Intelligence makes analysis fun

When it comes to running a successful learning program, the problem of information overload is particularly acute. One of the areas that is emerging to help with the workload is known as business intelligence software (BI). Interest in business intelligence software is on the rise, analysts say, as economic woes force companies to do more with less delving deeper into the information already at their fingertips.

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e-learning could grow by 8 per cent in 2010

The e-learning sector is growing! According to a report recently published by Learning Light, a centre of excellence in the use of e-learning and learning technologies in the workplace, it could grow by eight per cent in 2010. There are many factors influencing this prediction, from job seekers retraining; more companies re- and up-skilling their employees; a greater knowledge and acceptance of e-learning to most excitedly the advances of technology enabling a wider cohort of learners in.

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