IITT appoints first TPMA authorised centres

The first organisations to be approved IITT Authorised Qualification & Assessment Centres have been announced by the Institute of IT Training today.

Train and Certify Limited is one of the first companies to gain approval to become an IITT Approved Centre.

The Trainer Performance Monitoring and Assessment Service, which is authorised, governed and monitored by the IITT, is a record of the training professional’s quality of performance in a live environment aligned to national standards – a real quality benchmark of your trainers.

Adrian Ince, Managing Director of Train and Certify Limited commented “We are pleased to be able to demonstrate our 100% commitment to the Trainer Performance Monitoring and Assessment programme by being one of the first centres appointed.”

Train and Certify will identify four assessors to be certified by the IITT, and have specifically written a Train the Trainer course to map onto the TPMA standards. Training will include assessment of all delegates, and assessment only sessions will also be scheduled.

You can read the full IITT press release here.

UKCES chairman warns “Slash training at your peril”

In an open letter published in the national press today a coalition of the UK’s most senior businessmen and union leaders called on UK employers not to slash staff training in a bid to cut costs as the effects of the recession are felt.
The UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) chairman Sir Mike Rake together with Sir Stuart Rose, Chairman of Marks & Spencer and Business in the Community, Mervyn Davies, Chairman of Standard Chartered plc, Richard Lambert, Director General of the CBI, and Brendan Barber, General Secretary of the TUC, urge employers to sustain or even increase their investment in training, saying: “Now is precisely the time to keep investing in the skills and talents of our people. It is the people we employ who will get us through. When markets are shrinking and order books falling, it is their commitment, productivity and ability to add value that will keep us competitive. Investing now in building new skills will put us in the strongest position as the economy recovers.”
You can read the UKCES press release here.