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Harry Potter and the Dark Art of SEO

Posted on 07/09/11, filed under General, LWS Training | 1 Comment

Search engine optimisation, to my knowledge, is not something Harry Potter ever indulged in. But his name became closely linked with this thorny subject at LWS Training’s latest Get Trained & Be Entertained event. It all started with a reference to SEO as a ‘dark art’. In Harry Potter, the Dark Arts are magic spells and practices used [...]

New training grant for fast growing businesses

Posted on 01/09/11, filed under General, LWS Training | No Comments

Are you a small business owner with ambitions to grow and grow fast? If so, you could eligible for up to £1,000 worth of funding towards training. Skills South East, the region’s training and skills advisory service, is offering to match-fund training for companies employing between 2 and 250 people (full-time equivalant) and displaying the [...]

Employer training – regulatory v. voluntary?

Posted on 17/08/11, filed under LWS Training | No Comments

In the news this week is the warning by the UK’s leading employers’ body, the CBI, that the Government’s planned regulatory approach to training would not only be costly by counter-productive. Plans for the wholesale extension of training levies would see employers in certain sectors being charged a specified proportion of their wage bill, which [...]

In the analyst’s chair

Posted on 15/08/11, filed under LWS Training | No Comments

When LWS recently coined the phrase ‘Tuesday is Training Day’ it was due to the fact that from now on our team of experts will be delivering training in some way, shape or form every Tuesday. For one of our directors though it recently meant training for literally an entire Tuesday. It is generally recognised, both within the [...]