A new online course recognises the need for education in adult as well as child sexual exploitation and has been developed in association with subject matter experts from 9 organisations within the North East Safeguarding Training Group.
The Patient Safety Awards, which recognise outstanding practice across healthcare, took place in Manchester this week. Virtual College sponsored the Education and Training in Patient Safety Award and was invited to be on the judging panel to represent the important role technology and online training plays in the healthcare sector.
Virtual College has worked in association with Dr. Suzanne Zeedyk, an internationally acclaimed specialist in infants’ abilities to communicate, to create a series of online learning resources that will help all professionals caring for babies and young children in understanding how the attachment process works.
Virtual College, has worked in association with JDRF, the type 1 diabetes charity, and members of the National Children and Young Peoples Diabetes Network to create online learning resources to help teachers, support staff and any other professionals who work with young people with this condition.
In 2015, there were already an estimated 850,000 people living in the UK with dementia. These numbers are set to rise dramatically to over one million by 2025. This year around 225,000 people will develop dementia – that’s one every 3 minutes.
Every year, over two million people in England & Wales suffer some form of domestic violence or abuse and every 30 seconds, someone contacts the police in relation to these issues.
Virtual College has been identified as one of London Stock Exchange’s 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain. The report is a celebration of the UK’s fastest-growing and most dynamic small and medium sized businesses
To provide thorough guidance, Virtual College has created an online course – ‘Understanding pathways to extremism and the Prevent programme. This course is now highlighted in the Home Office’s Prevent Training catalogue.
Virtual College is sponsoring the ‘Education and Training' category at the Patient Safety Awards, part of the Patient Safety Congress being held in Manchester from 5-6 July 2016.
In its recent independent review of Virtual College’s Learning Management System, Enable, independent reviewer, Learning Light, said:” Virtual College has really set a new standard in learning management systems with this latest version of Enable.”
The performance of online training provider, Virtual College, has been recognised by Plimsoll Analysis as it achieves its latest milestone of two million online learners.
A doctor from University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has become the 300,000th National Patient Safety Suite learner.
E-learning development company of the year, Virtual College, will launch its third generation learning management system, Enable, at ‘Learning Technologies’.
Online training specialist, Virtual College, has created a new course ‘Self-harm and suicidal thoughts in children and young people’ for professionals who come into contact with children or young people.
The POD Awards (Positively Different Staff Awards) are held annually by South Staffordshire & Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The Trust’s Learning and Leadership Development team, working with Virtual College, won the coveted ‘Chris Holley’ award for innovation .
Ilkley-based Virtual College has joined forces with global publisher, William Reed Business Media, to help plug the skills gap in the food sector.
Virtual College’s Gold Award for E-learning development company of the year was in recognition of its position at the forefront of developing collaborative, customer-focused e-learning for organisations across the UK for the last 20 years.
Over 200 staff, partners and friends celebrated Virtual College’s 20 year anniversary at the Craiglands Hotel in Ilkley.
The East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust are the first to be presented with a Gold Certificate of Achievement by Virtual College in recognition of the high level of engagement achieved by their staff in National Patient Safety Suite learning.
A new online course, ‘Trafficking, Exploitation and Modern Slavery,’ has been developed to help support professionals’ and individuals’ understanding of human trafficking.
Now in its 20th year of operation, Virtual College is celebrating after being shortlisted in four eLearning award categories, including an ‘outstanding contribution’ nomination for founder and CEO, Rod Knox.
To support professionals dealing with forced marriage in the course of their work and quickly improve general awareness, the government has commissioned online learning specialist, Virtual College, to produce a new e-learning package.
The Patient Safety Awards, which recognise outstanding practice across healthcare, took place in Birmingham this month. Virtual College sponsored the Education and Training in Patient Safety Award and was invited to be on the judging panel to represent the important role technology and online training plays in the healthcare sector.
Virtual College will be demonstrating online careers guidance resources for schools at the Digital Education Show, London Olympia from 30th June to 1st July.
Delegates from Workers’ Educational Association together with several colleges involved in the national Learning Futures Programme visited Virtual College for a full day programme of activities to understand more about building and deploying e-learning within blended training programmes.
Ilkley-based online learning provider, Virtual College, has donated £5,000 to help Hive fund a pioneering woodwork and technology project.
Virtual College’s Health and Social Care director, Judith Clarkson, will be on the judging panel for the ‘Education and Training in Patient Safety’ award at the prestigious Patient Safety Congress and Awards 2015.
Virtual College donates five percent of its turnover from Safeguarding children online courses. A recent example of this is a donation of £1,500 to Streetlife, a youth work charity.
Virtual College is a registered Digital Marketplace provider via the latest release of the G-Cloud, making it easier for the public sector to purchase its online learning solutions.
West and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce is offering members e-learning courses after announcing a partnership with Virtual College, one of the UK’s leading providers of online training.
Businesses looking to train staff on the importance and means of preventing underage sales will be delighted with a brand new online course launched by the Trading Standards Institute (TSI) with Virtual College.
At Learning Technologies 2015, Virtual College will be showing delegates how easy it is to adopt and exploit technology to enhance the learning experience.
Having diabetes during pregnancy can impact the health of both the mother and her unborn baby, the Safe Management of Diabetes in Pregnancy online training course aims to minimise these risks.
Virtual College has reached a major milestone of one and a half million online learners. Currently, around 1,000 new learners register to undertake one of its courses each day.
In just four years, there have been over a quarter of a million registrations for the National Patient Safety Suite of online courses.
A new report from pioneering online learning provider, Virtual College, has highlighted students’ desire for careers advice to include engaging, interactive information and resources.
Virtual College’s learning management system (LMS), Enable, has been ranked in the top eight by Learning Light, the UK-based independent e-learning industry market analyst. The top eight performers were selected from over 600 systems reviewed and analysed by Learning Light.
People with type two diabetes have twice the risk of developing dementia. Depression is twice as common in people with diabetes and up to 20% of those with a severe mental illness also have diabetes. To help tackle these issues, Virtual College has released its most recent patient safety training course, ‘The Safe Management of Diabetes, Dementia, Depression and Severe Mental Illness’.
Medicine doses are often omitted or delayed in hospital, in some circumstances this can cause serious harm or death for critical medicines or conditions. To help mitigate these risks, online training provider, Virtual College has worked closely with NHS England’s Safe Medication Practice Team to develop their latest patient safety online course.
The Home Office has launched a free online training package dealing with female genital mutilation (FGM), developed with Virtual College. It will give teachers, police, doctors, social workers and Border Force staff the training they need to help them identify and assist girls who are at risk of FGM.
Insulin, the drug used by millions of people with diabetes, has become the world-wide standard for essential and effective life-saving treatment. But, when administered incorrectly, insulin can cause significant harm and, in some cases, unnecessary fatalities. Virtual College have updated this important course to reflect new guidelines.
CACHE (the Council for Awards in Care, Health and Education), is sponsoring the ‘Working in the Childcare Sector’ Career VOOC®. This is one of a suite of 10 Career VOOCs (Vocational Open Online Courses) being developed by Virtual College.
75,000 people with diabetes die each year in England, accounting for approximately one in seven of all deaths. In recognition of this, Virtual College and NHS England have created a new online training course for healthcare professionals who provide ‘end of life care’ for people with diabetes.
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and Western Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, as part of a ‘Better Training Better Care’ pilot sponsored by Health Education England have joined forces with Virtual College to develop an online training course; An Introduction to Telemedicine.
E-learning provider, Virtual College, has released a new compliance course which aims to educate and protect businesses from the devastation of payment security breaches.
Leading online learning provider, Virtual College, has been working closely with hospitality training experts to develop online hospitality learning resources which are compatible with a range of different mobile devices.
Working closely with NHS England’s Patient Safety Domain, Virtual College is positioned to release seven additional online patient safety training courses, before the end of the year.
Virtual College is proud to announce it has been judged to be in the European EdTech 20, a listing of the top 20 e-learning companies in Europe. This is a strong endorsement of the company’s innovation and strategy to build more meaningful e-learning for companies and learners.
Lifetime Awarding is sponsoring ‘Working in the Active Leisure sector’, one of a suite of 10 Career VOOC®s (Vocational Open Online Courses) being developed by Virtual College to help keep careers guidance up to date and relevant for a new generation of digital natives.
Virtual College’s Lean Healthcare Academy and Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust (LCH) are jointly hosting their first Lean Sharing Forum which will be themed around 'Developing Improvement Capability'.
May sees the addition of the latest online course to the National Patient Safety Training Suite; the National Curriculum for the Training of Healthcare Professionals Who Care for Children and Young People with Diabetes Mellitus.
City & Guilds is sponsoring ‘Working in the Health and Social Care sector’, one of a suite of 10 Career VOOC®s (Vocational Open Online Courses) being developed by Virtual College to help bring careers guidance into the 21st century.
A new white paper aims to provide a considered answer to the question of whether online learning poses a threat or salvation for further education.
March 2014 saw Virtual College deliver online training to the 220,000th learner around the hugely important subject of the safe use of insulin.
Following the success of the Lean Healthcare Conference and Awards, Virtual College’s Lean Healthcare Academy launches The Spring Programme of Lean Events.
Virtual College has developed a range of resources to help colleges and training providers deliver ‘work ready’ training programmes including traineeships, apprenticeships, study programmes and employability initiatives.
Representatives from NHS hospital trusts and private healthcare organisations gathered at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds on Thursday 6th February for the Annual Lean Healthcare Conference and Awards.
Organisations interested in developing a mobile e-learning strategy are being invited to visit the Virtual College stand at the Learning Technologies exhibition in London on the 29th – 30th January 2014.
National online training provider and specialist in Lean Healthcare, Virtual College, have announced the list of finalists for the Lean Healthcare Conference and Awards to be held next month.
The Lean Healthcare Conference and Awards provides a platform for healthcare organisations to gain national recognition for improvement projects. The event provides a unique opportunity to share best practice and celebrate achievements with successful and pioneering health professionals across the country.
A new report commissioned by IIkley based Virtual College’s Safeguarding Children e-Academy and Parents Against Child Sexual Exploitation (Pace) has revealed that parents’ lack of knowledge is severely hampering efforts to combat this pernicious form of abuse.
The partnership with the Charity Learning Consortium (CLC) provides CLC members with easy access to a comprehensive list of online learning courses.
The Housing Ombudsman Service has announced a new training initiative, launched in conjunction with Virtual College - one of the UK’s leading e-learning providers - to offer free dispute resolution training to landlords across England.
Virtual College is urging as many people as possible to do a free online course from its Diabetes Safety Suite as part of its campaign 'Do a course save a life'.
The Lean Healthcare Academy is sponsoring the Quality Improvement Collaborative Healthcare Conference 2013 on Saturday 16 November at the Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds.
Virtual College’s Safeguarding Children e-Academy has re-launched their website (www.safeguardingchildrenea.co.uk) dedicated to the protection and welfare of children. It is hoped that the access to vital information will help the prevention of child abuse seen in the cases of Hamzah Khan and Baby Peter.
Celebrating individual and organisational achievements in e-learning, the Virtual Awards have been created by online learning provider, Virtual College, to recognise the staggering growth in e-learning.
Paragon Skills, one of the UK’s fastest growing private training providers, estimates that it will make a quarter of a million pounds in savings and increase its efficiencies by using online tools and resources as part of its apprenticeship delivery.
Delegates at an upcoming workshop will discover how ‘serious games’ can inspire and improve resource management in community development. The games allow learners to apply real life decisions to a simulated game environment so they can see how the decisions they make impact on the whole community.
The Lean Healthcare Sharing Forum will focus on the increasing demand for service improvement in healthcare settings and the delivery of quality and safety against a background of economic constraints.
Virtual College is pleased to announce The North East Transformation System (NETS), hosted by Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust will be one of the main sponsors of the annual Lean Healthcare Conference and Awards for the third year running.
Organisations have until Monday 7th October to submit their entries to the 6th annual Lean Healthcare Conference and Awards 2014, to be held at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds on Thursday 6th February.
Virtual College, welcomes the UK Government’s publications of its International Education Strategy. According to the report, the government will be offering extra support to the UK edtech industry to internationalise its world leading, innovative products and services.
Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the first in the UK to be awarded a Silver Certificate of Achievement from NHS Improving Quality, for having trained at least 50% of its staff in the Safe Use of Insulin.
Online training provider, Virtual College, has passed the milestone of delivering online learning to over one million learners; Company forecasts further growth for 2013.
Virtual College has been included in the European EdTech 20, a listing of the top 20 elearning companies in Europe, a strong endorsement of its innovation and academy-led strategy to build more meaningful elearning for companies and learners.
There are 800,000 people with dementia in the UK, and this number is set to rise to one million by 2021. Dementia Awareness Week, running from 19th-25th May, aims to promote awareness and understanding of this challenging condition.
Leading online training provider, Virtual College, is making its online First Aid courses available at no charge to coincide with Adult Learners’ Week.
North West housing provider Adactus has stepped up its abuse awareness training following the case review into the death of ‘child U’ in September 2011. Recommendations published earlier this year, revealed that child U’s mother had extensive contact with front line housing staff from Adactus, as well as other agencies.
Virtual College’s Lean Healthcare Academy has released a three-day Lean Office training course to improve efficiency and productivity in the NHS.
To help improve the quality and efficiency of foundation level learning, Jarvis Training Management now uses online learning material from Virtual College’s Apprenticeship e-Academy.
Virtual College is fast approaching its one millionth online learner milestone and is running a competition to celebrate this amazing achievement.
Getting the right apprentices into the most appropriate apprenticeships is a major issue for many colleges and training providers.
The City & Guilds Accredited Productive Leader e-learning programmes will be launched at the Healthcare Innovation Expo, Excel London on 13th & 14th March. Virtual College is optimistic the addition of the on-line Productive Leader e-learning programme will continue to make a meaningful contribution towards the Government’s £20billion efficiency savings needing to be found by 2014.
Virtual College, based in Ilkley, have revealed the winners of ‘Best Lean Healthcare Practice’ at the company’s largest Lean Healthcare Academy Conference and Awards Event to date and a high profile event in the healthcare calendar, hosted at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds on Thursday 7th February.
Online Apprenticeship foundation level resources for colleges and training providers are being made available through an initiative announced today by awarding body OCR and the Apprenticeship e-Academy, a division of the Virtual College.
2013 will bring numerous changes and challenges to the sector which is why a leading training specialist is carrying out research to establish what is causing the sector most concern and how housing providers intend to deal with the issues they face.
National online training provider and specialist in Lean Healthcare, Virtual College, has announced the list of finalists for their awards event to be held in early February. A total of eight categories are included in the awards and three finalists have been selected per category from across the UK and Europe.
YP Training, the Ilkley-based division of Virtual College, is the only training provider in the North of England to be able to offer fully-funded, bite-sized efficiency training programmes to small and medium sized manufacturers.
Virtual College, one of the UK’s leading providers of online training will be taking to the floor at the Learning & Skills Exhibition 2013 next week to deliver a presentation entitled ‘Job roles, competencies and appraisals don't have to be just once a year’.
Virtual College has today announced the eagerly awaited shortlist for its Lean Healthcare Academy Awards event being held at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds on 7th February.
Virtual College’s Safeguarding Children e-Academy Account Manager John Bradbury attended the opening of the Together Trusts Woodlands School new sensory garden for children with autism. The garden was officially opened by Sue Nichols of Coronation Street fame and was made possible by a £2000 donation from Safeguarding Children e-Academy’s charitable fund.
Virtual College has made a donation of £2,000 to the Lord Mayor of Bradford’s appeal, aptly named ‘Sprinkle Sunshine’.
Virtual College, a leading provider of e-learning in the UK worked with Lincoln Integrated Domestic Abuse Services (LIDAS) to produce and release the 'Choose to Stop' app.
The provision of excellent customer service has never been more important within the social housing sector and Virtual College's Housing e-Academy, is holding a series of free networking events across the country to highlight the value of good customer service and how to comply with various regulatory guidelines. An accompanying online Customer Service course will be available shortly.
Virtual College is very proud to announce having been shortlisted for a number of e-learning awards including Best e-Learning Project - non-profit category - for the 2012 e-learning awards organised by e-Learning Age.
Prominent UK charity the Youth Hostel Association (YHA) has chosen Enable by Virtual College as a Learning Management System to help extend its training provision across its workforce.
National online training provider and specialist in Lean Healthcare, Virtual College, is to hold its 5th Lean Healthcare Academy Annual Conference and Awards event at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds on Thursday 7th February 2013.
Virtual College is celebrating reaching a staggering 750,000 unique online learners, an increase of quarter of a million on this time last year. One of the UK’s leading online training providers, Virtual College continues to buck the economic trend and now boasts a team of over 80 at its offices in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.
Virtual College’s Trades e-Academy is offering firms the opportunity to trial online training for free as part of a new initiative to tackle the skills shortage in the construction industry.
Virtual College’s Housing e-Academy recently announced the winners of its first ever award scheme which recognises excellence in e-learning throughout the housing sector.
Virtual College’s Safeguarding Children e-Academy marked their attendance at the recent 8th British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Congress in Belfast, by supporting The Lighthouse Trust Summer School for sufferers of cerebral palsy with a donation of £2000.
Over 150 guests from manufacturing companies across the north of England attended the recent ninth annual YP Training Awards at the Leeds Marriott hotel, hosted by Ilkley-based Virtual College.
Hospital in-patients with diabetes are 10% more likely to die than those without the condition and nearly a third of patients with diabetes experienced at least one medication error in seven days in hospital. However, 75,000 registrations of Virtual College’s Safe Use of Insulin course are contributing to reducing medication errors, according to Anna Morton, Director of NHS Diabetes.
Leeds based charity, Foundation, has become one of the latest organisations to choose the Virtual College's Housing e-Academy, for its e-learning requirements.
Virtual College has partnered the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement to develop a suite of 55 courses enabling healthcare staff to introduce the Productive Ward programme.
This month, the Scottish Social Housing Charter and the new regulatory framework from the Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) both come into effect. In response to this new legislation, Virtual College, a leading provider of e-learning in the UK, is gearing up to help Scottish landlords comply.
The Chartered Institute of Housing is the main sponsor of the Housing e-Academy's new awards, recognising best practice within the social housing sector .
YP Training, a division of Virtual College, uses online learning to deliver apprenticeships to companies and is encouraging them to take advantage of a £1,500 Government funded apprenticeship grant.
As part of its expansion, Virtual College is delighted to announce the appointment of seven new members of staff to meet the ever increasing demand for its e-learning products.
Virtual College, a leading provider of e-learning in the UK with over 700,000 learners has worked with Lincoln Integrated Domestic Abuse Services (LIDAS) to develop a cross platform smartphone app aimed at providing useful information for victims of Domestic Abuse.
The Safeguarding Children e-Academy recently organised a successful awareness raising event in Newcastle, aimed at highlighting the dangers to children arising from families that are hostile to or uncooperative with the various government agencies, tasked with supporting them.
In response to its customers’ requests, the Trades e-Academy, a division of Virtual College, has introduced an online training solution that provides competency for Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) This enables companies to comply with the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989.
The Care Quality Commission, the body responsible for checking that Hospitals, Care Homes and Care Services meet stringent Government standards, has recently started to regulate private and NHS dental services and Virtual College has responded to this move by developing an online training course to assist dentists in meeting these legislative standards.
Scott Jones became one of only 90 people out of more than one million to be awarded the City and Guilds medal for excellence after earning distinctions in all of his course modules.
Virtual College is proud to unveil its new navigational bar designed to aid the usability of its online courses and enhance the learning experience for its many registered online learners.
A donation from the Safeguarding Children e-Academy of over £2,000 has paid for seven disadvantaged children to attend a residential centre in the Sussex countryside. The e-Academy, a division of online training provider Virtual College, donates 5% of its turnover to children’s charities and has donated over £150,000 to date.
Virtual College has introduced a brand new online course aimed at helping tackle the obesity epidemic among young children. ‘Right from the Start with HENRY’ has been developed to provide parents and carers with detailed information on how they can help provide their family with a healthy lifestyle right from the start.
National training provider, Virtual College, held its annual Lean Healthcare Academy Conference and Awards event this week in Leeds. 180 healthcare professionals from across the UK attended the event where 27 finalists presented their lean process improvements during the day, followed by a 'BAFTA' style awards event in the evening.
Several housing associations recently attended the launch event of a partnership between e-learning experts Housing e-Academy and the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH). The partnership will see CIH members given access to Housing e-Academy training in order to work towards their Continuing Professional Development record.
Virtual College create inspiring digital training solutions from ready-to-go courses to large scale training transformation programmes, underpinned by great learning technology and real-world learning and development expertise. We have experience of delivering training to more than 4.8 million learners and a wide range of organisations. In December 2021 Virtual College was acquired by Netex, a technology-based company that offers a complete ecosystem of cloud-based learning solutions applied in enterprise, publishing and educational institutions.