14 July 2011

England

The National Audit Office (NAO) says that much of the UK government's heavy investment in L&D is wasted - only 48 per cent of the respondents to last year's Civil Service People Survey said the L&D they had undertaken in the previous year had helped them do their job better.

29 June 2011

Zimbabwe

When organisations invest in training, there is need to know to what extent it was a success. Most of the time, the feeling might be that skills and practices have improved.

However the question that remains is: In what ways and by how much has it improved, and did the organisation get value for the money invested in the training? The answer to these questions lies in carrying out an evaluation of the training.

The evaluation of training forms the remaining part of the training cycle which starts with the identification of training needs, establishing objectives and continues through to the design and delivery of the training course itself.

8 June 2011

New Zealand

Education Minister Anne Tolley is rejecting claims the government isn't putting enough resources into a scheme to improve the way mainstream teachers deal with Maori students. Principals Federation president Peter Simpson has accused Mrs Tolley of ramming through her national standards assessment system at the expense of Ka Hikitia.

But Mrs Tolley says it's not about resources.

“It's a matter of teachers from the school leaders down changing their attitudes to the way that they work and support Maori students in schools, so that’s why Peter Simpson should look in his organisation and talk about what they could be doing, not what the government should be doing. It’s about an attitudinal change that’s needed,” she says. Mrs Tolley says national standards will tell the Ministry of Education where extra support is needed for Maori students.

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