The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), the professional body for recruiters in the UK, is launching a new quality standard for recruitment within the education sector today. REC Audited Education is a new audit scheme run by the REC to provide quality assurance of recruitment agencies that supply teaching...

Graduate Prospects is launching a new awards initiative to recognise and reward businesses and universities that demonstrate excellence and innovation in the postgraduate arena. The Prospects Postgraduate Awards will be the only annual event solely dedicated to celebrating the most exciting developments in postgraduate education. There are eight categories,...

According to the CIPD’s Employee Engagement Index1, more than half (55%) of employees in the voluntary sector feel engaged at work, compared with 41% last quarter, despite a backdrop of increasing redundancies (25% reporting planned redundancies ahead, a jump of 15 percentage points since last quarter). That’s compared with...

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) is launching a new Legal Partners scheme to enhance the legal services on offer to REC members. In addition to the existing free legal services, new paid for services including employment tribunal support, document review and tender support, as well as other commercial,...

Set to boost electrification jobs but do we have the skilled labour to meet demand for the ‘biggest modernisation of our railways since the Victorian era’? We’re seeing increasing skills shortages in many disciplines across this sector. This can be attributed to the nature of the rail industry – large-scale,...