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Melorio confident of meeting expectations - EducationInvestor

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In a trading update the training and assessment services group said that three-quarters of its current activities relate to the training of 16-18 year-old apprentices. It has recently opened four new IT academies, taking the total to 27, and added more capacity at existing sites. Recruitment for the February intake resulted in 1,600 new entrants, compared with just 600 in February 2009.

Melorio added that it had made good progress with its commercially funded training offering. Its offering to the healthcare sector has begun to gain traction, it said, and it will shortly be opening a third gas and electrical training centre.

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Safety Instrumented Systems Training Course Launched by Abhisam Software - I-Newswire.com (press release)

A New Training Course on Safety Instrumented Systems has been launched by Abhisam Software. This training course can be downloaded to a computer and completed at your own pace.

(I-Newswire) February 28, 2010 - Learning Safety Instrumented Systems is now super easy, with the help of a new e-learning course launched by Abhisam Software. This new e-learning course helps the learner understand Safety Instrumented Systems in depth, with the aid of interactive animations and simulations, graphics, text and real-life examples. This course is easily affordable, even to individuals and can be downloaded instantly to a PC.

Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS for short), are essential protection systems, which are used to ensure machinery, personnel and environment safety in processing plants all over the world. Globally, there are thousands of such Safety Instrumented Systems, but unfortunately, hardly any good training resources are available, for those who wish to understand them in detail. To meet this worldwide demand for a good, comprehensive, complete, easy to understand training course, that can be completed in the comfort of one's home or office, at an individual's own pace, without time constraints and further, which would be affordable, Abhisam Software has launched this first of a kind e-learning course on Safety Instrumented Systems.

This course provides crystal clear understanding of all aspects of Safety Instrumented Systems to engineers and technicians, working in the process industries such as chemicals, petrochemicals, oil & gas, pulp and paper, fertilizers, power plants, pharmaceuticals and others. It will also be very useful to engineering staff working with design consultants, EPC companies, automation system vendors, government authorities and other regulatory bodies. It is a vendor-neutral course and users can expect to get a balanced understanding of the various technologies used in SIS.

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Nigeria:400 Teachers Benefit From Professional Development Programme - AllAfrica.com

About 400 public primary school teachers from different parts of the country have received training in literacy skills, numeracy skills and early childhood development.

This special training activity emanats from the Professional Development Programme being organised for teachers by Longman Nigeria Plc and Pearson Foundation. The teachers attended a series of workshops in Lagos, Ibadan and Abuja where they were trained by facilitators drawn from a pool of experts in English Language Teaching (ELT), Numeracy and ECD.

While 176 teachers from Lagos and Oyo States participated in this year's edition of the training programme, 118 teachers were trained in Lagos last year while 100 teachers attended the training programme in Abuja, also last year.

The Professional Development Programme for teachers is a corporate social responsibility initiative of the two firms to enhance the performance of Nigerian students by upgrading the skills of their teachers. To participate in the programme, teachers are usually nominated by the State Ministry of Education through the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB).

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Increasing demand for hydraulics training - Creamer Media's Engineering News

Automation and control solutions com- pany Festo’s didactic training divi- sion indicates that there has been an increase in demand for hydraulics training this year, which has not been the case previously, says Festo manager for didactic training and consulting Horst Weinert .

Festo MD Richard Teagle explains that the training offered by the company is generic and not specific to Festo. It is approved by the Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Sector Education and Training Authority (Merseta) and is designed for applications across industries.

The company has about 1 000 participants each year in the different training courses, with a significant increase in hydraulics training, particularly in hydraulics maintenance.

Weinert says that, during the recession, the company has noted a decrease in advanced courses and more focus on general training.

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Control equipment supplier introduces EZ intelligent relay - Creamer Media's Mining Weekly

Specialist supplier of control equipment CHI Control has introduced the latest Eaton EZD intelligent relay, equipped with a multifunction display that offers powerful visualisation functions and improved networking capability to its existing EZ range of offerings.

CHI Control technical manager Gert Jonker says that the extensive EZ product range offers customers simple solutions, such as a compact standalone intelligent relay with timing relays and a year switch, or complex solutions, or proportional inte- gral-derivative control, such as a large-scale network of EZ intelligent relays that processes 320 input/output (I/O) points with local and remote expansion modules and visualisation.

He says that the EZ range of intelligent relays is best suited for standalone standard applica- tions, rather than large opera- tions or plants. The devices are used in pumpstations and air-conditioning systems, as well as on coal-mining company Anglo American Coal New Vaal colliery’s fire protection systems.

The EZ range offers user-friendly operation and programming. It also offers simple and inexpensive networking. By integrating the EZ-NET network, up to eight stations of EZD devices can communicate up to a distance of 1 000 m. All stations can be expanded locally using the EZ-Link interface, which enables EZ and EZD devices to be used with applications involving 12 to 320 I/O points.

Full Story: Control equipment supplier introduces EZ intelligent relay - Creamer Media's Mining Weekly