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Education and Training at 9UK - UK Stuff By The Nine - Top 9 Education & Training Resources These sites will give you the tools needed to land your dream job. We've scoured the net to bring you the best training and education resources in the UK. Use them to get ahead of the competition. UK Education News This is a really useful site for people who work in education or just want to follow the latest developments. UK Education News offers a quick at-a-glance look at the latest education headlines. Stories are taken from reliable sources, including BBC, The Guardian, Yahoo and The Telegraph. Press Releases and many other sources are also used to generate relevant results. UK Education News is very up-to-date with fresh news stories appearing hourly on the site. Click Here To Visit UK Education News Firebrand Training Firebrand Training are described as being the world leader in accelerated information technology training and certification testing services for information technology professionals, corporations and government organisations. Firebrand Training state that they provide the fastest route to professional certification. Wherever you are in the world, we have a purpose-built training centre available. Here you will experience accelerated learning delivered by industry-experienced professionals. Firebrand Training deliver courses in half the time of anyone else but what really makes Firebrand unique is that you will take your exams and achieve certification as part of the course. This is the ideal measurement of success and will save you time, money and effort. Firebrand Training offers best-of-breed courses accredited by all of the big names in the industry. The working day will generally last 12 hours and courses run seven days a week - delivering the maximum amount of knowledge in the minimum amount of time. Accommodation and meals are free. You will stay at Firebrand's training centre for the duration of the course, where you will be fully immersed in the subject. Winner of Training Company of the Year a record three times, Firebrand has delivered accelerated certification to thousands of students. Click Here To Visit Firebrand Training GL Assessment GL Assessment are the UK's leading independent provider of educational assessments and they've been doing it for more than 30 years. They have a very wide range of customers, including health visitors, psychologists, therapists, paediatricians and doctors. It's worth mentioning that their assessments/tests are used by more than 85% of the UK's primary and secondary schools - every year! Click Here To Visit GL Assessment Elearn UK One of the main obstacles to overcome when training for a new career is finding the time to do it. This is where Elearn UK come in and make things far more manageable. Elearn UK's slogan is "distance education made easy" and we really like what they're doing. You may be a student, looking to broaden your skills or bring current skills up-to-date or you might be looking for completely new training in a field that's new to you. Either way, this site is definitely worth a look. They've got hundreds of courses to choose from and they're all online so you can do things to fit in with your own schedule. These courses are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. From talking to people who are considering distance learning, one of main concerns is that they'll be 'isolated' and not have the right level of support when needed so it's hugely reassuring that Elearn UK address this issue as a priority. They promise you'll receive "all the help and support" you need as your studies develop. Their online tutors are all highly experienced professionals. Click Here To Visit Elearn UK Teach Primary Magazine If you teach primary school children then you're in luck. If you don't then move along - nothing to see here! Teach Primary Magazine is stuffed full of ideas to help you with your teaching career. Each issue is fizzing with features and activities that will take the monotony out of lesson planning. The magazine includes regular articles from educational experts to aid your professional development and keep you up-to-date with the latest curriculum changes. Click Here To Visit Teach Primary UK Open Learning This is another distance learning site and we weren't really sure whether to include yet another of these services but the sheer number and variety of the training courses on offer swung it for us. UK Open Learning have a staggeringly impressive list of qualifications you can go for. Want to train to be a beauty therapist? You can start here. How about a course in digital photography? Or event management? Graphic design? UK Open Learning do these too. There are quite a few distance learning and education services out there - UK Open Learning are definitely one of the best. They've got an extensive online catalogue to browse through and they'll help you every step of the way. They can help you start a new career in child care, heath and fitness, plumbing, website design and hundreds of other choices. Click Here To Visit UK Open Learning The Carlton Institute Aimed at students who are entering the beauty industry (or thinking of doing so), The Carlton Institute are leaders in accredited fast-track beauty and spa therapy training. Their award-winning beauty NVQ courses are fully accredited by VTCT, a Government-approved awarding organisation so you know that your training will be exactly what you need to enter the beauty industry. The Carlton Institute have been training beauty therapists for nearly 20 years. They've helped to educate and train more than 20,000 therapists and they're likely to have a training centre near you as they're based in several locations around the UK. Click Here To Visit The Carlton Institute Directgov Education and Learning This is a Government-published website so you can (hopefully) rely on all the information here. There's a massive amount of education and training information and you're likely to find yourself browsing here for quite some time. It's really useful if you're looking for advice on choosing a school or course and there's loads of help for parents of students. Click Here To Visit Directgov Education and Learning The Training Room More people are taking an active interest in their own health and fitness then ever before. Loads of people go to the gym regularly and many of them have their own personal trainer. If you're looking to for an exciting career change than you could become one of these qualified personal trainers. The demand for newly qualified trainers is very high so it's an excellent career choice. It's possible to become qualified as a personal trainer in just six weeks with The Training Room, one of the UK's leading Personal Training recruitment companies. The Training Room have have 17 training centres throughout the UK and links with many of the UK's best-known health clubs and leisure companies, including David Lloyd Leisure, Esporta and Virgin Active. These connections mean that you could be starting your new personal training career in no time at all. Click Here To Visit The Training Room