Major changes in apprenticeship assessment are on the way – with a greater role for apprenticeship training providers and employers. Over the coming months, as details become clearer, we’re going to be hosting a series of free ...
We’re incredibly excited to let you know that from 1st August 2025, Strategic Development Network (SDN) and Mesma will formally merge to become the SDN Mesma Group, bringing together our complementary strengths across the further ...
With the education landscape shifting and Ofsted’s framework under consultation, it’s important to ensure your focus is on what matters. As part of our free-to-access series on the proposed Ofsted framework changes, this session is ...
In today’s Further Education (FE) landscape, experienced apprenticeship trainers, assessors, coaches and mentors are being challenged to rethink their approach to progress reviews. Many once viewed progress reviews as primarily a ...
Ofsted has launched the much-anticipated consultation on proposed changes for FE and Skills inspections. It follows “The Big Listen”, its largest-ever public consultation, which set out a series of key changes in how it inspects ...
Whether you’re leading on quality improvement or supporting continuous professional development, observations can be a powerful tool for individual and organisational improvement. Done well, they build trust, encourage growth, ...
This blog was written by SDN Apprenticeship Development Specialist, Bradley Goldsworthy If you work in the apprenticeship sector, you’ll have noticed the world is shifting faster than ever. What was once a relatively stable environment ...
This blog is written by SDN’s Managing Director – Colin Bentwood. “In case you missed my talk at the Apprenticeship Conference in February– Taming the Apprenticeship Beast: strategies for resistance and complexity – I wanted to share ...
When it comes to safeguarding, many organisations still rely on online multiple-choice courses or short webinars to keep staff training up to date. But safeguarding isn’t a tick-box exercise—it’s about placing the learner at the heart ...
SDN Strategic Associate, David Lockhart Hawkins, has released a series of posts on the recently-published Qualification Achievement Rates (QAR), retention rates and pass rates for 2018-19 to 2023-24. In this blog, we have collated the ...
