The number of on-programme apprenticeship practitioners adding end-point assessment to their CVs is on the rise. Thousands of people jump the fence (or gateway!) back and forth each week – helping one cohort of learners progress ...
Whether you’re completely new to the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers or expecting to reapply in the coming months, you’ll be keen to make sure your application gets the green light first time around… To help you on your ...
With apprenticeship levy credits expiring each month, it can be tempting to either bury your head in the sand and write the levy off as a tax or spend hours and hours championing apprenticeships in a scatter-gun approach – persuading ...
As an organisation that provides up-to-date CPD to the apprenticeship sector, we get asked many questions from front-line staff eager to better navigate apprenticeship standards. Below is a series of popular questions on employer ...
Grading is a new concept for apprenticeships. It’s a key feature of the new (end-point) assessment approach. But are you, as a trainer, looking at ways in which you might introduce your apprentices to the concept of grading as part of ...
As an organisation that provides up-to-date CPD to the apprenticeship sector, we get asked many questions from front-line staff eager to better navigate apprenticeship standards. Below is a series of popular questions on apprenticeship ...
One of the sessions at the recent SDN Apprenticeship Breakthrough Conference focused on the role of the trainer, employer and assessor, what it means in the world of apprenticeship standards and how they contribute to the success of ...
SDN delivered its first Apprenticeship Breakthrough Conference to a sold-out audience in Birmingham on 29th April. The conference purposely steered away from analysing the pros and cons of apprenticeship policy – instead focusing on ...
Getting to grips with assessment plans can provide clarity for on-programme trainers. They aren’t just there to support EPAOs to plan their assessment strategy, they are also to be used by practitioners to develop their on-programme ...
In the apprenticeship sector many blogs are understandably focused on delivery staff and how best to make the switch from frameworks to standards. But… there have been equally radical changes for business development practice, managing ...
