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22nd July 2010

The Safety Train benefits from Learning Light

One of the UK's newest and brightest stars in the e-learning sector, The Safety Train, has re-located its operations to Sheffield, thanks to Learning Light's advice and guidance. Already, the move seems to be paying off.


Jonathan Blythe, The Safety Train's business development director, explained: "The Safety Train grew from a need to provide distance learning in health and safety-related subjects - principally because it was proving difficult to arrange classroom-based courses to suit the diaries of a large number of delegates who were based throughout the UK.

"Our answer was to form The Safety Train and provide the training via e-learning materials dealing with social care, office health and safety and personal development," he continued. "These e-learning materials are delivered via streaming video over the web and/or via mobile phone apps."

Jonathan and his colleagues at The Safety Train first encountered Learning Light in 2009, when David Patterson, Learning Light's project director, outlined to them the business advantages for companies in the e-learning sector locating in Sheffield.

"David convinced us of the benefits of moving to Sheffield - the UK's e-learning capital," said Blythe.

"Indeed, David's advice and guidance on all aspects of the e-learning market as well as on our head office location has proved to be most valuable. The early signs are that this move to Sheffield is producing all that we had hoped it would in business terms," he added.

Learning Light, a company limited by guarantee, focuses on promoting the use of e-learning and learning technologies, as well as running the www.e-learningcentre.co.uk website which currently receives some 72,000 unique ‘hits' each month.

Learning Light's David Patterson commented: "We're always delighted to be able to make our experience and expertise in the corporate e-learning sector available to any organisation - especially when it leads to enhancing and strengthening that sector in these challenging economic times.

"In recent years, Sheffield has established itself as the UK's e-learning capital - taking over from the Brighton area where the first e-learning companies were concentrated in the 1980s. Key e-learning related knowledge and skills are now well-represented among the working population in the Sheffield area - and this is helping to attract e-learning content and systems developers to set up in and around the city," he continued.

"So we're beginning to see a virtuous circle develop - which should continue to benefit both the industry and the area by continuing to provide more and more e-learning related jobs - and the people to do them!"

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Notes for Editors

About The Safety Train

The Safety Train, http://www.thesafetytrain.co.uk/ operates an e-learning training portal aimed at covering all aspects of health & safety training. It offers a range of social care training, personal development training and office safety training covering: fire, first aid, food, general care and the various provisions of the mental capacity act. Single user prices begin at £20.


About Learning Light Ltd

Learning Light is a non-profit organisation that builds relationships between learning technology researchers, suppliers, buyers and learners providing learner-centric information to encourage the growth of learning technologies. By sharing comprehensive research, highlighting successes and failures, Learning Light helps to promote the learning technologies community.

Learning Light provides bespoke and individual services to help both buyers and suppliers of learning technologies (e-Learning). Its current services include:

Research Services

Providing access to expert insights, advice and guidance built on indepth research. Helping organisations to effectively implement learning technologies (e-Learning) and integrate them within their workflow processes.

Membership Services

Partnering with leading thinkers in the industry and providing a network for all interested in the field to share information, knowledge, insight, experience and expertise, through utilising online community tools, networking events, conferences and guru seminars.

Professional Services

Our highly experienced team offers organisations access to range of competitively priced consultancy services supporting buyers with the effective implementation of their learning technology (e-Learning) requirements. And, for suppliers, helping to provide a range of services to assist market awareness and generate growth.

In addition, Learning Light provides a comprehensive Professional Development programme to help Learning & Development professionals understand the significance of learning technologies in the workplace today and how to effectively implement them within the workflow processes of their organisation.

Sheffield-based Learning Light is supported by Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency for Yorkshire, and the Humber and Objective 1 South Yorkshire.


Further information from:

Mark Pittaway/ Kay Simpson, Learning Light, 0114 201 5703
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 01727 860405

www.learninglight.com

 

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