Since September 2019, all new apprentices that need to study functional skills have been enrolled onto new, reformed, functional skills qualifications. A change of this kind is never easy to implement, especially with lockdown thrown ...
On Thursday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, announced several incentives to encourage employers to create more work opportunities for young people over the next six months, rather than batten down the hatches to weather ...
Universities across the UK are expected to have a significant drop in income from international students in 2020-21 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. To mitigate this loss of income, many HEIs are looking at how an improved ...
Universities across the UK are expected to have a significant drop in income from international students in 2020-21 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. To mitigate this loss of income, many HEIs are looking at how an improved ...
In advance of our 5-part webinar series: Preparing your apprentices for end-point assessment, SDN’s Strategic Associate, Chris Cherry, provides his thoughts on where end-point assessment might be heading in light of the Covid-19 ...
Delivering FE and skills provision to learners remotely is not easy. And it’s not necessarily because you haven’t got the latest video software or superfast broadband, but more likely because that rapport you have with your learners ...
With an uncertainty as to how the apprenticeship landscape will settle in the coming months and years, it can be difficult to know how best to plan for the future. However, one thing is clear, we will all need to adapt to a ‘new ...
Navigating through our current national emergency presents us all with extraordinary and unprecedented challenges. It will take time to adjust and understand what it means for us personally, for our roles, our learners and our ...
Apprenticeship trainers up and down the country do an amazing job, supporting apprentices to learn, grow and succeed in their chosen career. But we also know, with the introduction of standards, that the role of the apprenticeship ...
Apprenticeship standards are becoming well-embedded in the apprenticeship landscape now, with tens of thousands of apprentices having been through end-point assessment. That said, it is different and high-stakes – and not all ...
