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London, UK: 27th September 2006

Age Regulations explained free at newly redesigned online learning resource

A free checklist to help employers meet the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 is a feature of the redesign of the web's premier online resource of business and management learning material, www.learningmatters.com

'What every employer should know about the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006' has been specially authored by site developer Echelon Publishing to celebrate the six year-old site's makeover. It also helps UK businesses understand better their liabilities in respect of what is being regarded as the most significant piece of employment legislation of the past 30 years.

This comprehensive business and management skills resource of some 2,000+ modules offers job-based solutions designed to meet a wide range of different learning styles: 300 quickfire solutions to everyday business problems; 650 self-development solutions to help build a skill; 200 best practice essays/interviews with top business thinkers; 100 diagnostic and audit solutions to check out current performance; 250 digest articles on business giants and management books; and 600 training solutions to help build skills in others. There are free examples on the site of modules matching each of these learning styles.

It also provides toolkits covering board development, career development and service development.

Latest (September 2006) revisions to the site bring greater ease and speed of use, with learning content available from any PC for just-in-time download, delivered on-screen or over the printer in bite-size format.

Individuals can purchase solutions via secure credit card transaction while teams can set up a corporate account, enabling members to download solutions via a password.

Alternatively, organisations can purchase an annual licence for a custom-built site housing their own learning material, knowledge and information republished in html with selected content from www.learningmatters.com . It provides the perfect means of ensuring every employee has global 24/7 access to tools which enable them to be more effective in their jobs.

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Released September 2006 on behalf of Echelon Publishing by BLP&PR

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Email: echelon@pmpr.co.uk

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Email: david@echelonl.com

About Echelon Publishing
Echelon technologies help organisations place solutions at people's fingertips, whether solving everyday business and work-related problems or helping gain qualifications and continued professional development.

Echelon:

• Has a content management system enabling informational or learning material to be developed or converted into XML so that it can be published and distributed in text and/or via the web.

• Has a learning management system to provide ready access via the web to highly structured information, which is easily searched and retrieved, and whose usage can be tracked and learning logged.

• Publishes and/or reformats content for professional bodies and commercial organisations to help students and employees maintain or develop requisite skills throughout their careers.

• Supports people from the outset of their careers in working with professional bodies to develop and deliver the learning content required by students in preparing for examination.

• Frees up the knowledge and learning contained within a business so that people have ready access to these resources in helping them to solve problems or develop their careers.

• Works with a number of blue chip organisations and professional bodies, including:

COMMERCIAL

BUPA
Coventry Building Society
Lincoln Financial
Moat House Hotels
Modernisation Agency (NHS)
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
NHS Logistics
Vodafone

INSTITUTIONAL

Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountants
Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply
Construction Industry Training Board
Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators
Institute of Chartered Accountants in E & W
Institute of Civil Engineers
Royal Town Planning Institute