Lifelong learning – the act of voluntarily learning new skills and knowledge throughout your life – can have boundless benefits, both personally and professionally. Here’s the main ways you could benefit from taking an adult learning course: Career Lifelong learning can put you in an excellent position to fill skills gap in the marketplace. A [Read more…]
You may have to start paying a new tax called the Apprenticeship Levy from May if your firm has a wage bill over £3m. Firms will have to pay 0.5 per cent of your wage bill to the Government and you will be able to claim an equivalent amount back in digital credits to spend [Read more…]
Lincoln College Group (LCG) CEO Gary Headland was today announced as one of the first Export Champions for the Midlands by the Department for International Trade. The announcement made by Mark Garnier MP, Minister in the Department of International Trade, took place at the Midlands Engine Trade Summit in Birmingham. Mr Headland is one of 28 [Read more…]
Transferable skills are abilities, knowledge and training that can be applied to many different aspects of your life and in this case, your career. This is great news for anyone looking for a career change or your first step onto the career ladder – recognising what your transferable skills are, how you can apply them [Read more…]
The rise of the startup phenomenon has also seen the rise of buzzwords, abbreviations and lingo that it can sometimes be hard to keep up with. Forbes.com argues that “[Buzzwords] wind up in TED Talks, pitch meetings and every tech journalist’s inbox” and this endless stream of jargon may be being abused. “Jargon started out [Read more…]
The rewards of working in an advertising agency can be huge. The ‘work hard/play hard’ mentality of the advertising world can be attractive enough on its own, but there’s also great pay and the opportunity to advance quickly (if you work hard and prove yourself), and the ability to learn from the best minds in [Read more…]
Whether it be a healthier diet, a new type of exercise, improving your mental health, or examining your quality of life, it’s hard to escape the growing trend for self-betterment. Chances are, you will have tried some of the wellbeing trends that have popped up over the last few years – Paleo delivery services, standing [Read more…]
You’d have to be a superhero to feel positive at work all of the time. Even if you love every aspect of your job, sometimes the pressure can get to you. It’s normal to sometimes feel disheartened by the daily grind or stressed out by the pressure of deadlines and long hours, but when does [Read more…]
The phrase ‘snowflake generation’ has been thrown around a lot of late. It’s a derogatory term to describe the millennial generation (technically anyone born between 1980 and 1994) as entitled, self-centred and lazy. The term has been used recently in the media in the wake of Brexit and the Trump Campaign, as a way to [Read more…]
Mature student Nigel talks about his experience of studying an IT qualification to get him back into work. “When I enrolled in September 2016 I had no IT skills or knowledge, my previous employment had been in manufacturing but due to health issues I was no longer able to work in this sector and was [Read more…]