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Ashbury Training - the learning solutions provider - has been officially recognised as an Accredited Training Provider with the Institute of IT Training.

The Institute of IT Training's Accreditation Programme for training providers aims to raise standards in IT training. As an Accredited Training Provider Ashbury Training is bound by the IITT's Code of Practice - a quality-assurance document governing areas such as trainer qualifications, training room suitability, publicity and promotion and complaints procedures.

Justin Davies, Ashbury Training's Director said: "We are now in our second year as an Accredited Training Provider with the Institute of IT Training. Our clients tell us that this type of recognition is extremely important; it provides peace of mind and helps customers make an informed decision in a crowded market place."

Institute of IT Training website: http://www.iitt.org.uk/

IITT Codes of Practice: http://iitt.vbnlive.com/SITE/UPLOAD/DOCUMENT/CODE_OF_PRACTICE_FOR_TRAINING_PROVIDERS.pdf

Ashbury Training and Marks & Spencer Win Bronze at the IT Training Awards

Date posted: 02 Feb 2007

Ashbury Training with Marks & Spencer was awarded Bronze in the 'External Training Project of the Year' category at the IT Training Award ceremony, held in London on 1st February 2007. This award is presented to an IT training provider that has undertaken a major training project that is innovative in concept and has produced demonstrable performance improvement for the client.

The training project introduced the FIND (Food INnovation Database) platform to manage their New Product Development (NPD) activities. As M&S are the only major food retailer to sell 100% own brand products, this project is of significant strategic importance as it is the first time they have used a software solution that both manages the full product development life-cycle and also forms a centralised database of product information.

Ashbury delivered an under-budget, on-time large-scale training solution encompassing the training of complex and diverse job functions across broad geographical locations. Internally at M&S the project is considered a great success with users now fully up and running on the FIND system.

Susie Giles, Head of Project FIND at Marks & Spencer “Ashbury Training delivered a truly innovative training solution for Project FIND. They quickly learnt the detailed business processes within the Food Division and applied this knowledge to their training solution. Each Category team was trained and supported to a level that far surpassed our original expectations. Ashbury’s dedication and attention to detail ensured the project was a great success!”

"On behalf of everyone who has worked on this project I am delighted to receive this training award," said James Post, Director of Ashbury, one of the UK's fastest-growing training companies. "This award represents recognition of how effective bespoke training programmes can be to organisations that need to train large or widespread audiences, no matter how complicated the subject is."

For more information visit their website at http://www.iitt.org.uk/awards