Outdated attitudes to training among the UK's top management are resulting in companies missing out on potential cost savings, according to e-learning experts.

The government has set up a leadership and management training fund that it says will benefit around 13,000 SMEs and help boost the economy and develop a "bigger and more cohesive society".

Alder Hey Children's and Liverpool Women's Hospitals aim to save up to 80 per cent of their IT training budget by launching a new e-learning portal next month.

Bombardier welcomed Frances O’Grady, the Deputy General Secretary of the national Trade Union Congress (TUC) to its site in Derby today to officially open Bombardier’s new Learning Centre.

A WING of Belfast-based Bombardier has been named as the preferred bidder for the single biggest piece of work to upgrade the London Underground.

TUBE trains built in Derby, which have been described by Mayor of London Boris Johnson as "the coolest ride in town", have won a national award for comfort.

Bombardier Transportation will unveil two of its most recent and major innovations in the field of urban mobility this week at the UITP conference in Dubai; the PrimoveCity e-mobility solution and INNOVIA monorail 300 system.

Drug multinational Merck and Co. Inc. is close to signing a strategic marketing partnership with Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd in the domestic market worth Rs.60,000 crore, said two people aware of the development.

NEW YORK — Merck & Co., the second-biggest U.S. pharmaceutical company, said Tuesday it agreed to buy specialty drugmaker Inspire Pharmaceuticals Inc. for about $430 million to expand its U.S. sales force to sell eye-disease products.

(Reuters) - The U.S. health regulator on Wednesday approved AstraZeneca Plc's medullary thyroid cancer drug, vandetanib, the first treatment to be approved for the rare form of cancer.

Shanghai Pharmaceuticals Holding [SHA: 601607], one of China's two biggest drug distribution companies, is planning to increase the size of its massive Hong Kong IPO by as much as 50%: from $1.2 billion originally to $1.5 billion or $1.8 billion.

Merck Serono has set up an international social network for multiple sclerosis patients, saying today’s pharma companies should go beyond “offering therapies to treat or cure diseases”.

According to a recent report from Ernst & Young, pharmaceutical companies led by Merck and Novartis have increased their investments in mobile phone apps and educational websites by 78 percent.

Seemingly fed up with waiting for the FDA’s delayed social media guidance, AstraZeneca has published details of its own feedback exercise on the area.

E-Learning application includes the environment in which the learner interacts with content, knowledge, skill. E-Learning application enables the management and facilitation of a range of learning and teaching activities and services.

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AstraZeneca posted better-than-expected profits as key brands such as the cholesterol product Crestor helped it to weather testing conditions.

Merck Serono has launched a new corporate initiative that will provide a number of international students with pharmaceutical industry training.

Re-skilling, training and staff development are the most pressing concerns for health workforce managers, according to research from the sector skills council for health.