Insights, resources, and updates for CPD professionals
The government is building a national Skills Passport. The single biggest question it has to answer isn’t technical. It’s whether anyone can trust what’s written inside.
Awarding organisations are selling endorsed courses alongside regulated qualifications, under the same brand and with similar-looking certificates. For most learners, the difference is almost impossible to spot. That is not an accident.
The picture just got a lot clearer. Skills England has set out, in its most detailed public statement yet, how it’s thinking about the national Skills Passport — and the headline is this:...
The Advertising Standards Authority has now upheld complaints against multiple CPD accreditation organisations in the UK and the rulings make uncomfortable reading for an entire sector. The question is: what happens next?
ASA Upholds Complaint Against Course Accreditation Ltd: Multiple Breaches Found in Misleading Advertising Claims Executive Summary The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a comprehens...
ASA Upholds Complaint Against CPD Standards Office: Why "UK's Leading Body" Claims Require Evidence, Not AssertionAs a UK based, independent certification body for CPD Accreditation Organisations, The...
There has never been more CPD content available. There has also never been a harder time to tell the good from the worthless. Artificial intelligence is responsible for both of those facts simultaneou...
For years, L&D professionals were told that their function needed to become more strategic, more data-driven, and more aligned to business outcomes. AI has just handed them the tools to actually d...
Every professional now has access to something previous generations could only dream of: a knowledgeable, patient, always-available learning companion that never gets tired of your questions. The ques...
Building a high-quality CPD course used to take weeks. Instructional designers, subject matter experts, editors, assessment writers — each one a bottleneck. AI hasn't replaced that process. It's...
There’s a quiet but significant consultation underway about how this country recognises what people can actually do. At the heart of it is a deceptively simple idea: a single, portable record of...
Skills shortages are projected to cost the UK economy £120 billion by 2030. Yet fewer than one in three companies has a formal learning and development strategy in place. If your business is in...
