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    • AI advantage gap emerges as leaders reap benefits while staff lag behind

      Learning News | AI adoption |

      New research from Employment Hero highlights a widening gap in AI use between leaders and junior staff, with poor implementation linked to productivity loss. Smaller firms are most at risk, prompting calls for more inclusive, skills-focused AI adoption strategies.

    • Training gap after redundancies fuelling staff turnover

      Learning News | Kahoot! |

      Nearly half of employees who survived recent redundancies say they’re likely to leave within a year if training needs remain unmet; highlights a growing link between post-layoff learning gaps and rising attrition.

    • Corporate Training Landscape Map

      Learning News | Training Industry |

      Training Industry’s 2025 map covers 1,300+ providers across 21 segments; New market categories including agentic AI and learning strategy; Designed to help L&D teams navigate vendor landscape.

    • Customer learning grows in importance

      Learning News | LearnUpon |

      Learning and development has a growing role in customer retention and growth and is set to expand with 92% of organisations in 2025. Business impact is clear, but tech and measurement challenges persist.

    • Career growth still outranks pay in L&D priorities

      Learning News | Shaping the Future of Learning & Development, Litmos |

      Employees prioritise career growth over pay when engaging in training; 32.6% cite advancement as main motivator; only 15.2% choose financial incentives; High demand for skill-building, personalisation and autonomy; Many lack control or guidance; Majority open to AI-driven learning; Study on the future of L&D.

    • L&D’s strategic role in GenAI readiness: Why HR, Learning and IT must align

      Learning News | How the Workforce Learns GenAI in 2025, Degreed and Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning |

      Strategic alignment across HR, L&D, and IT is essential for scaling GenAI readiness, a new study finds; Organisations with integrated support see faster adoption, higher confidence, and better business outcomes.

    • L&D alignment with business drives 122% performance gain

      Learning News | Guild |

      HR and L&D leaders who align learning and development with core business priorities are significantly more likely to meet or exceed their top strategic goals, by as much as 122% compared to their peers.

    • Gaps in career paths costs UK economy £96 Billion

      Learning News | Pearson |

      New report details the economic and personal impact of learning gaps during major career transitions, including from formal education to work, from one job to another, and disruptions caused by AI automation.

    • AI-fuelled challenges in developing skills

      Learning News | Workforce and Learning Trends Report, CompTIA |

      The pace of technological change is creating a new wave of skill shortages and gaps, prompting HR to refocus and expand skills-building efforts.

    • Half don't have AI strategies

      Learning News |

      Research finds more than half of organizations don't have comprehensive AI strategies and AI skills gaps are preventing effective AI implementation.

    • Demand soars for human skills in the age of AI

      Learning News | Cornerstone |

      New report highlights growing workforce readiness gap as technology and innovation demand continue to outpace workforce skills; despite AI boom demand for human skills outstrips x2 demand for digital skills.

    • Tech workers can't learn fast enough

      Learning News | Pluralsight |

      Survey reveals half of current tech workers and almost a third of aspiring ones feel they can't learn fast enough to keep pace with tech; highlights a disconnect in tech skills priorities among workers.

    • Economic pressures hit digital learning market

      Learning News |

      Budgets down, lengthening buying decisions, higher justification bar; economic pressures are having ‘significant impact’ on the sector; Interview with Myles Runham, Senior Analyst, Fosway.

    • Learning systems market 2024

      Learning News | Fosway |

      Annual report into the learning systems market and vendor positioning published by Fosway; interview with market analyst, Fiona Leteney.

    • Skills Crisis: Talent management shortcomings

      Learning News | Spotted Zebra |

      Two-thirds of organisations are struggling to find the skills they need; half of HR leaders anticipate advancements in technology and AI will further disrupt skills requirements.

    • UK companies struggling with transparency

      Learning News |

      UK's top companies are failing to meet stakeholder demands for transparency on their websites in investor relations, careers and ESG; but L&D performed better.

    • Talent solutions market report

      Learning News | Fosway |

      High-performing cultures: What part do talent platforms play? Interview with David Perring, Fosway, on the 2023 Talent & People Success market report and 9-Grid.

    • L&D’s shift to business partner

      Learning News | Mind Tools for Business |

      How L&D strategically aligns with business and the behaviours of high-performing teams; interview with Anna Barnett on Mind Tools’ annual L&D Benchmark Report.

    • Cloud HR market 2023

      Learning News | Fosway |

      HR vendors showing resistance to economic situation; HR suites countering disruption from specialists; vendors quick to introduce AI, corporates less so; interview with Sven Elbert, Fosway.

    • What's changed in L&D in two decades?

      Learning News | Mind Tools for Business |

      Learning and Development in organizations: Reflecting on 20 years of research - interview with Anna Barnett and Nahdia Khan, Mind Tools for Business.

    • How learning practitioners are responding to the changing world of work

      Learning News |

      CIPD’s Learning at Work 2023 report - interview with Laura Overton and Andy Lancaster: Addressing skills is the number one priority for L&D practitioners in 2023; L&D is under pressure and its workload is widening; Collaborative applications saw the highest area of learning tech growth; Large increase in those focused on performance, but more to do; Two-thirds of L&D practitioners say they have a meaningful career.

    • L&D budgets getting squeezed

      Learning News | ILX Group |

      A new report from ILX Group considers the challenges, priorities and opportunities facing organisations in 2023 and says 50% of training programmes are not effective due to budget constraints.

    • Digital Learning Market 2023

      Learning News |

      Analysis of the digital learning market vendors, innovation and solutions, with David Perring from Fosway.

    • Learning and development salaries and work conditions

      Learning News | Blue Eskimo |

      Pay and conditions for learning professionals continues to improve; job satisfaction rises; small decrease in people changing jobs in 2023; decrease in unpaid working hours; Work and Salary Survey for L&D; interview with report author.

    • Business leadership and learning and development

      Learning News | Mind Tools for Business |

      What business leaders rate as most important are areas where they don’t believe L&D has a role: Mind Tools for Business Leadership Report 2023, interview with Anna Barnett.

    • Learning systems market 2023

      Learning News |

      Market bracing itself as recessionary pressures loom large. Fosway's 2023 learning systems market report is out; growth for some, cost-cutting for others; interview with market analyst, Fiona Leteney.

    • Coaching crucial; skills gap growing

      Learning News | NTUC LearningHub |

      Coaching is becoming more important yet the gap in the skills to provide it and knowledge about coaching is widening.

    • Elearning market $500 Bn by 2027

      Learning News |

      A new elearning market report has global market size reaching almost $500 Billion over the next five years.

    • Interview: Fosway 9-Grid™ for Digital Learning 2022

      Learning News |

      Better targeting, personalisation and learning in workflows is how L&D will tackle online fatigue, according to a new report. David Perring joins Learning News to explain the 2022 Fosway 9-Grid™ and report into the digital learning market.

    • Talent and skills gap stalling innovation

      Learning News |

      Research by Udacity and Ipsos shows that digital transformation is stalling due to lack of job-ready digital talent and that there is a significant disconnect between the views of L&D professionals and employees over how successful they think L&D’s programmes are.

    • 75% feel "stuck" personally and professionally

      Learning News |

      A study by Oracle has found the majority or workers feel lonely and disconnected and, following the pandemic, almost all now feel different about what defines their success; Employees are letting employers know that flexible working and investing in skills are now an essential part of their employment.

    • Verifiable professional credentials; proof of concept complete

      Learning News |

      Digital versions of an individual's academic achievement, professional qualifications and compliance are to get easier to manage and verify, following the successful completion of a blockchain-identity proof of concept.

    • Learning News Bulletin July 2021

      Learning News | London |

      A round up of popular stories from Learning News over the last month: Learning Performance Benchmark; hybrid working; Learner Survey 2021 shows fewer worker trained; acquisitions and investment.

    • Interview: Learning Performance Benchmark Report 2021

      Learning News | London |

      The annual Learning Performance Benchmark report shows how well organisations are doing building a high-impact, performance-oriented learning culture. Learning News asks the report's authors how the learning sector is progressing.

    • New report into learners’ preferences

      Learning News | London |

      Interview with Simon Falconer, Virtual College, on the first of three reports into how learners’ preferences are changing.

    • Business facing pressure from increasing skills gaps

      Learning News | London |

      Interview with Lynsey Whitmarsh from Hemsley Fraser and Duncan Barrett from 5App following their report into re-skilling and it finding that over half of businesses in the UK are under severe pressure due to widening skills gaps.

    • Elearning market $370 Bn plus by 2026

      Learning News | Market research |

      Two market reports out this week have the global elearning market growing to between $370 Bn and £388 Bn over the next five years.

    • Digital skills shortage: growing concern in UK

      Learning News | FourthRev | London |

      Over half of UK businesses are concerned about missing out on key strategic deliverables as a result of digital skills shortages and 81% will need to recruit from outside of UK over the next year.

    • LMS satisfaction rates rise bucking downward trend

      Learning News | London |

      Training Industry survey shows organisations’ satisfaction with their learning management systems has risen for the first time: interview with Gordon Johnson from Totara.

    • Digital learning in 2021

      Learning News | London |

      Interview with Fosway's David Perring on the 2021 9-Grid™ for Digital Learning market report.

    • Measuring the business impact of learning

      Learning News | London |

      Interview with Piers Lea and David Ells, authors of the 5th annual report into the progress L&D is making with measuring the business impact of learning programmes.

    • Priorities shift for learning and development

      Learning News | London |

      L&D Global Sentiment Survey 2021 report published; Donald H Taylor outlines key shifts in sentiment; re-skilling and up-skilling emerge as top L&D priority; collaborative and social learning increasingly recognised by L&D.

    • Learning systems market analysis

      Learning News | London |

      David Wilson, from market analyst Fosway, discusses the learning systems market, offering an in-depth view during the pandemic and where the market's priorities lie for 2021.

    • Learning Health Check: initial findings

      Learning News | London |

      Learning News in conversation with Nahdia Khan on the initial findings of Emerald Works’ annual Learning Health Check: spend on learning and development is up; tech proportion increased to 31%; shift from compliance to building capability; data analytics growing at quicker pace; improvements to strategic behaviour.

    • Global E-learning service market to reach $137 billion in 2025

      Learning News | Dublin, Research and Markets |

      A report from Research and Markets has the global e-learning service market growing at a CAGR of 15.61% reaching a total market size of US$137.754 billion in 2025 from US$57.702 billion in 2019.

    • The Next Decade in Learning

      Learning News | London |

      Harry Chapman-Walker introduces Kallidus’ wide-reaching learner survey of over 1,000 learners’ views of L&D.

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