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Employees rate learning and work-related online training
Sixty-eight per cent of
development over salary is paid for by employers,
the report finds, while 22
per cent of employees pay
for their own development.
Workers would rather learn something very important for their Respondents were asked
new than earn more money employer to invest in their the question: What do you
development. This increases value in life? Family (70 per
to 86 per cent among cent), a quiet life (51 per
workers who have a degree, cent), free time/hobbies (49
reports Personnel Today. per cent) and experiences/
IT training is the most travelling (48 per cent)
desired learning opportunity, were the most valued areas.
with 27 per cent indicating Development was in fifth
that they need to develop place (35 per cent); ahead
in this area the most. This is of other work-related areas
followed by management like salary (29 per cent) and
skills (24 per cent), positive career (22 per cent).
psychology skills such as “Life is a learning
mindfulness (16 per cent), adventure and talented
WORKERS PLACE only want opportunities personal effectiveness (11 per people love learning. Given
MORE value on learning for ongoing development, cent) and communication that the UK’s workforce
and development than but they also want their skills (10 per cent). is one of the most highly
on salary, with 80 per employer to pay for their Almost a quarter think educated in Europe, it’s not
cent wanting to keep learning and give them time their employer should give surprising that people place
learning and challenging off during working hours to staff time off work for such a premium on being
themselves at work. complete training. learning and development. given the chance to develop
According to e-learning A survey of 826 people Fifty-five per cent were given themselves over money,”
provider GoodHabitz’s 2018 who work or are available time off in 2018 to complete said Stephen Humphreys,
Learning & Development for work found 81 per cent training, while 45 per cent Country Director – UK &
Trend Report, workers not think it is important or learnt in their own time. Ireland at GoodHabitz. ■

Oxbridge should admit students their classmates who go on

to university, he explained.
without A-levels, says Hinds announced that it would
In 2017, the government
be launching the biggest
overhaul of post-16
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE The new technical make a “blanket rejection” education in 70 years, as part
should admit students who qualifications, which will of students with T-levels are of a multi-billion pound drive
have not done A-levels, be introduced in 2020, making an “error” and will be to improve technical training.
according to Education include disciplines such as “missing out” on talent. Philip Hammond unveiled
Secretary Damian Hinds. education and engineering He said that not all T-level his “radical” plans to put
The country’s two leading which can be studied at subjects will naturally lead technical education on
universities should consider Oxford and Cambridge, to university courses, but an equal footing with
school leavers who have reports The Telegraph. where they do, universities academic studies in his
taken T-levels in the Mr Hinds said Russell should treat them in the Budget last March.
relevant subjects, he added. Group universities that same way as A-levels. The current system,
Addressing business where students have to
Hinds said Britain has leaders at Battersea Power pick from 13,000 different
become a nation of snobs Station, Mr Hinds said qualifications, will be
that Britain has become a replaced with just 15
nation of “snobs” who think standalone courses.
university is the only way to Teenagers who undertake
get a good job. the technical training, such
Parents must understand as courses to become an
that a degree is “not the engineer or builder, will
only path to a great job” spend 50 per cent longer
and school leavers who learning than they do now,
embark on apprenticeships equalling 900 hours of
deserve “as much praise” as teaching a year. ■

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