Paragon Skills, one of the UK’s fastest growing private training providers, estimates that it will make a quarter of a million pounds in savings and increase its efficiencies by using online tools and resources as part of its apprenticeship delivery.
Delegates at an upcoming workshop will discover how ‘serious games’ can inspire and improve resource management in community development. The games allow learners to apply real life decisions to a simulated game environment so they can see how the decisions they make impact on the whole community.
The Lean Healthcare Sharing Forum will focus on the increasing demand for service improvement in healthcare settings and the delivery of quality and safety against a background of economic constraints.
Virtual College is pleased to announce The North East Transformation System (NETS), hosted by Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust will be one of the main sponsors of the annual Lean Healthcare Conference and Awards for the third year running.
Organisations have until Monday 7th October to submit their entries to the 6th annual Lean Healthcare Conference and Awards 2014, to be held at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds on Thursday 6th February.
Virtual College, welcomes the UK Government’s publications of its International Education Strategy. According to the report, the government will be offering extra support to the UK edtech industry to internationalise its world leading, innovative products and services.
Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the first in the UK to be awarded a Silver Certificate of Achievement from NHS Improving Quality, for having trained at least 50% of its staff in the Safe Use of Insulin.
Online training provider, Virtual College, has passed the milestone of delivering online learning to over one million learners; Company forecasts further growth for 2013.
Virtual College has been included in the European EdTech 20, a listing of the top 20 elearning companies in Europe, a strong endorsement of its innovation and academy-led strategy to build more meaningful elearning for companies and learners.
There are 800,000 people with dementia in the UK, and this number is set to rise to one million by 2021. Dementia Awareness Week, running from 19th-25th May, aims to promote awareness and understanding of this challenging condition.
Leading online training provider, Virtual College, is making its online First Aid courses available at no charge to coincide with Adult Learners’ Week.
North West housing provider Adactus has stepped up its abuse awareness training following the case review into the death of ‘child U’ in September 2011. Recommendations published earlier this year, revealed that child U’s mother had extensive contact with front line housing staff from Adactus, as well as other agencies.
Virtual College’s Lean Healthcare Academy has released a three-day Lean Office training course to improve efficiency and productivity in the NHS.
To help improve the quality and efficiency of foundation level learning, Jarvis Training Management now uses online learning material from Virtual College’s Apprenticeship e-Academy.
Virtual College is fast approaching its one millionth online learner milestone and is running a competition to celebrate this amazing achievement.
Getting the right apprentices into the most appropriate apprenticeships is a major issue for many colleges and training providers.
The City & Guilds Accredited Productive Leader e-learning programmes will be launched at the Healthcare Innovation Expo, Excel London on 13th & 14th March. Virtual College is optimistic the addition of the on-line Productive Leader e-learning programme will continue to make a meaningful contribution towards the Government’s £20billion efficiency savings needing to be found by 2014.
Virtual College, based in Ilkley, have revealed the winners of ‘Best Lean Healthcare Practice’ at the company’s largest Lean Healthcare Academy Conference and Awards Event to date and a high profile event in the healthcare calendar, hosted at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds on Thursday 7th February.
Online Apprenticeship foundation level resources for colleges and training providers are being made available through an initiative announced today by awarding body OCR and the Apprenticeship e-Academy, a division of the Virtual College.
2013 will bring numerous changes and challenges to the sector which is why a leading training specialist is carrying out research to establish what is causing the sector most concern and how housing providers intend to deal with the issues they face.
National online training provider and specialist in Lean Healthcare, Virtual College, has announced the list of finalists for their awards event to be held in early February. A total of eight categories are included in the awards and three finalists have been selected per category from across the UK and Europe.
YP Training, the Ilkley-based division of Virtual College, is the only training provider in the North of England to be able to offer fully-funded, bite-sized efficiency training programmes to small and medium sized manufacturers.
Virtual College, one of the UK’s leading providers of online training will be taking to the floor at the Learning & Skills Exhibition 2013 next week to deliver a presentation entitled ‘Job roles, competencies and appraisals don't have to be just once a year’.
Virtual College has today announced the eagerly awaited shortlist for its Lean Healthcare Academy Awards event being held at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds on 7th February.
Virtual College’s Safeguarding Children e-Academy Account Manager John Bradbury attended the opening of the Together Trusts Woodlands School new sensory garden for children with autism. The garden was officially opened by Sue Nichols of Coronation Street fame and was made possible by a £2000 donation from Safeguarding Children e-Academy’s charitable fund.
Virtual College has made a donation of £2,000 to the Lord Mayor of Bradford’s appeal, aptly named ‘Sprinkle Sunshine’.
Virtual College, a leading provider of e-learning in the UK worked with Lincoln Integrated Domestic Abuse Services (LIDAS) to produce and release the 'Choose to Stop' app.
The provision of excellent customer service has never been more important within the social housing sector and Virtual College's Housing e-Academy, is holding a series of free networking events across the country to highlight the value of good customer service and how to comply with various regulatory guidelines. An accompanying online Customer Service course will be available shortly.
Virtual College is very proud to announce having been shortlisted for a number of e-learning awards including Best e-Learning Project - non-profit category - for the 2012 e-learning awards organised by e-Learning Age.
Prominent UK charity the Youth Hostel Association (YHA) has chosen Enable by Virtual College as a Learning Management System to help extend its training provision across its workforce.
National online training provider and specialist in Lean Healthcare, Virtual College, is to hold its 5th Lean Healthcare Academy Annual Conference and Awards event at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds on Thursday 7th February 2013.
Virtual College is celebrating reaching a staggering 750,000 unique online learners, an increase of quarter of a million on this time last year. One of the UK’s leading online training providers, Virtual College continues to buck the economic trend and now boasts a team of over 80 at its offices in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.
Virtual College’s Trades e-Academy is offering firms the opportunity to trial online training for free as part of a new initiative to tackle the skills shortage in the construction industry.
Virtual College’s Housing e-Academy recently announced the winners of its first ever award scheme which recognises excellence in e-learning throughout the housing sector.
Virtual College’s Safeguarding Children e-Academy marked their attendance at the recent 8th British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Congress in Belfast, by supporting The Lighthouse Trust Summer School for sufferers of cerebral palsy with a donation of £2000.
Over 150 guests from manufacturing companies across the north of England attended the recent ninth annual YP Training Awards at the Leeds Marriott hotel, hosted by Ilkley-based Virtual College.
Hospital in-patients with diabetes are 10% more likely to die than those without the condition and nearly a third of patients with diabetes experienced at least one medication error in seven days in hospital. However, 75,000 registrations of Virtual College’s Safe Use of Insulin course are contributing to reducing medication errors, according to Anna Morton, Director of NHS Diabetes.
Leeds based charity, Foundation, has become one of the latest organisations to choose the Virtual College's Housing e-Academy, for its e-learning requirements.
Virtual College has partnered the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement to develop a suite of 55 courses enabling healthcare staff to introduce the Productive Ward programme.
This month, the Scottish Social Housing Charter and the new regulatory framework from the Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) both come into effect. In response to this new legislation, Virtual College, a leading provider of e-learning in the UK, is gearing up to help Scottish landlords comply.
The Chartered Institute of Housing is the main sponsor of the Housing e-Academy's new awards, recognising best practice within the social housing sector .
YP Training, a division of Virtual College, uses online learning to deliver apprenticeships to companies and is encouraging them to take advantage of a £1,500 Government funded apprenticeship grant.
As part of its expansion, Virtual College is delighted to announce the appointment of seven new members of staff to meet the ever increasing demand for its e-learning products.
Virtual College, a leading provider of e-learning in the UK with over 700,000 learners has worked with Lincoln Integrated Domestic Abuse Services (LIDAS) to develop a cross platform smartphone app aimed at providing useful information for victims of Domestic Abuse.
The Safeguarding Children e-Academy recently organised a successful awareness raising event in Newcastle, aimed at highlighting the dangers to children arising from families that are hostile to or uncooperative with the various government agencies, tasked with supporting them.
In response to its customers’ requests, the Trades e-Academy, a division of Virtual College, has introduced an online training solution that provides competency for Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) This enables companies to comply with the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989.
The Care Quality Commission, the body responsible for checking that Hospitals, Care Homes and Care Services meet stringent Government standards, has recently started to regulate private and NHS dental services and Virtual College has responded to this move by developing an online training course to assist dentists in meeting these legislative standards.
Scott Jones became one of only 90 people out of more than one million to be awarded the City and Guilds medal for excellence after earning distinctions in all of his course modules.
Virtual College is proud to unveil its new navigational bar designed to aid the usability of its online courses and enhance the learning experience for its many registered online learners.
A donation from the Safeguarding Children e-Academy of over £2,000 has paid for seven disadvantaged children to attend a residential centre in the Sussex countryside. The e-Academy, a division of online training provider Virtual College, donates 5% of its turnover to children’s charities and has donated over £150,000 to date.
Virtual College has introduced a brand new online course aimed at helping tackle the obesity epidemic among young children. ‘Right from the Start with HENRY’ has been developed to provide parents and carers with detailed information on how they can help provide their family with a healthy lifestyle right from the start.
National training provider, Virtual College, held its annual Lean Healthcare Academy Conference and Awards event this week in Leeds. 180 healthcare professionals from across the UK attended the event where 27 finalists presented their lean process improvements during the day, followed by a 'BAFTA' style awards event in the evening.
Several housing associations recently attended the launch event of a partnership between e-learning experts Housing e-Academy and the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH). The partnership will see CIH members given access to Housing e-Academy training in order to work towards their Continuing Professional Development record.
HENRY, an award-winning national charity that helps parents provide a healthy environment for their young children, has received a £2,000 windfall from online training pioneer Virtual College in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.
A safer future is in prospect for children and young people in the Turks & Caicos islands following an offer by the UK-based Safeguarding Children e-Academy to provide online child protection training worth up to £3,000.
Two professionals in the north-east regional children’s workforce have jointly become the milestone 7,000th people to successfully pass online child protection courses.
Online training pioneer Virtual College, in Ilkley, is experiencing major growth during its 15th anniversary year.
The national Healthcare e-Academy, in collaboration with NHS Diabetes, has implemented a new online training course on the safer use of insulin.
In his first budget statement yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, said that he will control spending in government departments to 'get more for less'. The Lean Healthcare Academy can show you how.
The Lean Healthcare Academy's Product Partner service has picked up another member in the shape of PROJECT it, one of the most experienced Events Production companies in the UK.
The Lean Healthcare Academy, leaders in the field of training, implementation and sustaining improvement activities across the whole health economy, have distilled all of their Lean knowledge on running Rapid Improvement Events for the NHS, and created a new product simply named the Rapid Improvement Event - In a Bag.
An oversubscribed Healthcare event held in Sheffield last Tuesday (Tues, May 25) introduced professionals from across the NHS to valuable cost and time saving techniques that don’t come at the expense of service delivery and quality.
Cash windfalls from the national Safeguarding Children e-Academy continue to provide a financial boost to charities working with children and young people across Britain and overseas.
Kath Wilkinson, nurse consultant and continence service manager with NHS Bradford and Airedale, was a keynote speaker at a ground breaking conference in Barcelona targeting urinary incontinence healthcare professionals from both Spain and the UK.
Lean Healthcare Academy's ground-breaking work with Yorkshire Cancer Network pays dividends
The new courses are ‘Short Breaks’ and ‘Working with Autistic Children.
The Safeguarding Children e-Academy has added to its existing stable of ‘Integrated Working’ e-learning courses.
The Safeguarding Children e-Academy has extended its remit to incorporate adult social care training for the first time.
Lean Seminar well received by NHS delegates - Healthcare professionals in the NHS learned valuable lessons about how to generate savings, without it coming at the expense of service delivery and quality, at a 'sell-out' seminar in Sheffield.
'The module equips healthcare workers across the country with a better understanding and ability to respond to what is a growing problem nationwide': Judith Clarkson, Virtual College.
'All partners will be carefully selected and vetted to ensure they offer only the most relevant and value for money products required throughout the NHS': Judith Clarkson.
Offering a variety of courses, the Food, Drink & Hospitality e-Academy is the latest ‘dish of the day’ from online training pioneer Virtual College.
Our 'Getting More for Less' national seminar will introduce you to new ways of training, new ways of working and new ways of thinking that have been developed to help you use your budget effectively and efficiently while continuing to improve your service offering and improve the patient experience. Network with high level NHS professionals and see how they are getting more for less.
Rod Knox, Chief Executive of Virtual College will be hosting a seminar on the 28th of January 11.15 – 11.45 entitled ‘Over 150,000 new vocational e-learners in 12 months – how did we do it?’ Alternatively if you would like to find out how the Virtual College can help you benefit from e-learning come visit us at stand 196 where Virtual College staff will be on hand to answer your questions.
You've heard the old saying ‘how do you eat an elephant? - a BIT at a time!' Well the saying is equally true of implementing Lean into big organisations with complex pathways and issues.
The national Safeguarding Children e-Academy, a leading UK provider of online child protection training, has achieved a major milestone after signing up the 100,000th learner for one of its signature online courses.
Healthcare professionals across the UK are being offered a slimming course. The early Christmas present comes courtesy of the West Yorkshire-based Lean Healthcare Academy, leaders in the field of training, implementation and sustaining improvement activities across the whole health economy.
Kirklees CHS is a pioneer in the field of Lean - and well ahead of the game in beginning to meet its PCSP obligations.
Winners have been announced in the 2009 Lean Healthcare Academy Awards for Excellence.
Over 100 projects of the highest calibre have been submitted for the Lean in Healthcare Awards 2009. The judging process over what was a very closely matched set of applications in each category has now finished and the shortlist has been drawn up. Has your organisation made the cut?
The Healthcare e-Academy has staged its second best practice conference. Feedback from delegates concerning the benefits of e-learning were extremely positive.
The Lean Healthcare Academy, leaders in the field of training, implementation and sustaining improvement activities across the health economy - is holding its annual Exhibition and Awards 2009 on November 12th.
There is little argument these days that the application of Lean is proving a successful method of bringing about sustainable improvements within the NHS. However, we are all still very much aware of the numerous high profile reports clamouring for the NHS to make more improvements, more quickly and at the same time cutting more costs. How can Lean help?
Airedale NHS Trust's Head of Lean Improvement Sue Speak is one of the UK's foremost champions of Lean.
The Lean Healthcare Academy, leaders in the field of training, implementation and sustaining improvement activities across the whole Health Economy are championing 'Lean' as an effective solution to ward off potential job cuts in the NHS.
An award-winning training scheme designed to improve the health of the nation's youngsters is making a major impact.
Virtual College's Lean Healthcare Academy is working closely with NHS Leeds to transform the way it works across Children and Family Services.
Virtual College's Housing e-Academy has announced a new e-learning partnership with TAROE, the national tenants and residents’ representative body for England.
Online trainer pioneer Virtual College has achieved its milestone 250,000th e-learner
The Virtual College's Safeguarding Children e-Academy has helped Bradford Safeguarding Children Board deliver child protection training to more than 3,000 people.
The Housing e-Academy has launched its new Tenant Plus training package, delivering tenant training via the Internet. It can be adapted to meet the needs of all organisations within the housing sector.
Entries are now being invited for the 2nd annual Lean Healthcare Academy's Awards for Excellence in November. Sponsorship opportunies for the prestigious healthcare event are also available.
The Healthcare e-Academy, part of online training pioneer Virtual College, based in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, now offers an important and original new e-learning module for healthcare professionals engaged in supporting patients' self care and self management strategies.
Established 25 years ago by Shirley Metherell and her husband David, the Elizabeth Foundation works tirelessly in the field of early diagnosis and education of deaf children.
Charity which supports at least 800 local children every year does not have the funds to complete the building and are desperately seeking £45,000 to complete the sensory play room.
Bradford Council's Occupational Therapy service has adopted Lean working practices to great effect through a partnership with the Lean Healthcare Academy.
'Learners improve their employer's business and their own working environment'.
The Lean Healthcare Academy, a standalone division of online training pioneer Virtual College, continues to make an impact across the healthcare sector, notably with its founding partner Airedale NHS Trust.
The Housing e-Academy, part of online training pioneer Virtual College, is celebrating both the success of a flagship tenant training initiative and an influx of new members.
New organisation joins the expanding stable of e-academies run by Virtual College.
Virtual College, established in 1995, is a pioneering provider of online training solutions. With over 5 million registered learners, we offer a comprehensive range of certified e-learning courses designed to enhance workplace skills and ensure compliance. Our diverse course catalogue covers areas such as Food Hygiene, Health & Safety, Safeguarding, Business Compliance, Leadership & Management, and Personal & Professional Development. Committed to quality and accessibility, we collaborate with subject matter experts to deliver engaging and effective training experiences. In December 2021 Virtual College was acquired by Netex, a technology-based company that offers a complete ecosystem of cloud-based learning solutions applied in enterprise, publishing and educational institutions.