ILX Grants Success With PRINCE2 to National Union Of Students

…Blended training gives students union all the right answers…

Monday 2nd March 2009, ILX Group plc has worked with the NUS Services Ltd a voluntary membership organisation that works in colleges and universities across the United Kingdom, to provide PRINCE2 training to its senior management and executives. ILX supplied a hosted web-link for PRINCE2 Foundation level, along with corporate training copies on CD ROM. Candidates attended ILX’s Nantwich offices to sit their Foundation exam and personnel who needed to can upgrade to Practitioner level also attended a two day course.

There are sixty people within the organisation and the NUS plans to embed PRINCE2 project management across the whole organisation. This will ensure that even those on the fringes of project management will also understand procedures and best practices.

Nick Emms, Sales and Marketing Manager at NUS Services Ltd, describes the NUS as: “a relatively small organisation with a wide scope of activities. For example we negotiate large scale purchase deals and marketing campaigns for third parties such as discounted travel for students and music based event activity. We are increasingly working on complex projects, involving cross-functional teams across the organisation – and we needed to manage the risk by formalising how projects were managed. It therefore made sense to get everyone to go through PRINCE2 Foundation level even if their current role wasn’t necessarily managing the whole project as the skills learnt had a beneficial impact in all aspects on their thinking and approach.”

ILX Group plc was selected as training provider for its blended approach of offering web-based training and classroom support. In the last year the NUS Services Ltd purchased licences for the Foundation e-learning course. This was for 12 people and saved the NUS just over £2,500 pound sterling compared to an entirely classroom based Foundation course.

The feedback from the learners has been extremely positive. “Our team really enjoyed sharing the process and exchanging ideas. It was a substantial undertaking for us – so people felt it was a real achievement to get the qualification. The web-based system gave us the right information to get through the exam in a very flexible manner, and the classroom based trainer provided additional support where it was needed,” added Emms

Eddie Kilkelly, Managing Director, Best Practice Division, ILX Group plc, says: “Embedding PRINCE2 project management within an organisation is an excellent way to ensure consistent levels of project management performance across all levels. It was the cost-effective nature of our blended learning that was a direct factor in the NUS Services Ltd using our services. The 100% pass levels speak for themselves.”

Kilkelly adds: “ILX is already working very closely with a number of Universities and Colleges in providing e-Learning to staff and to both undergraduate and post graduate students on a wide basis – and we are delighted to be supporting the NUS too.”

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NOTES TO EDITOR

NUS Services Ltd

NUS Services Ltd is owned by the National Union of Students and over 200 Students’ Unions from around the UK. The Company is the commercial focus on Students’ Union activity, providing purchasing and marketing services for member Unions and its brand partners.

About ILX Group plc
ILX Group plc (ILX), founded in 1988, provides flexible training services through a blend of traditional classroom, workshops, innovative multimedia e-learning and implementation consultancy involving real life case studies and scenarios. Courses are provided in programme and project management, IT service management and business finance and are aligned to the best practice of the Office of Government Commerce and the Association for Project Management, primarily in PRINCE2™, MSP™, ITIL®

All of our training materials and quality systems are accredited by The APM Group, ISEB, CMI, APM and EXIN as appropriate.

Clients, which number over 4,000 across 16 countries, include BP, Ernst & Young, HM Prison Service, Home Office, NatWest, Norwich Union, Royal Bank of Scotland, Staffordshire County Council, T Mobile and Vodafone. The company, which has offices in London, Cheshire, Berkshire and the US, was quoted on AIM in 2000.

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