It’s been wonderful to hear directly from apprentices this week about the impact their apprenticeship has had on their careers and lives (including our own apprentice, here). It’s also been great to hear what has made their ...
Happy T Levels Thursday! SDN are proud to be working directly with the Department for Education to help employers host high-quality industry placements, and support providers with employer engagement. It’s been wonderful to see T ...
SDN supports hundreds of apprenticeship providers each year to launch, develop and improve their apprenticeship training. We work directly with employers too, to help them support apprentices in the workplace. But did you know we also ...
Happy #NAW2024 Employer Tuesday! Strong provider-employer partnerships are the bedrock of effective apprenticeships. But we also know the pace of change in the workplace has never been greater. For providers, that means regularly ...
It’s National Apprenticeship Week, and we want to celebrate all those who help to make apprenticeships a success! Today, we’re sharing our most popular webinar of the year with you – Bringing Quality and Compliance ...
We rightly spend a lot of time thinking about the structure, process and impact of progress reviews. They’re the ‘golden thread’ of delivery and are often fundamental in driving apprenticeship success. With most apprentices, you will ...
Quality assurance and improvement (QA/I) is a vital part of any apprenticeship provider’s work. It makes sure that the training and assessment delivered to apprentices meets the required standards and outcomes. But quality is not ...
If you’re an end-point assessor, a coach, trainer, mentor or on-programme assessor, you know how important it is to plan and facilitate professional discussions with your apprentices. Professional discussions are a great way to ...
David Lockhart-Hawkins is SDN’s compliance specialist, having worked with hundreds of apprenticeship providers to develop robust approaches to funding, compliance and quality. Here, David shares his top compliance insights from ...
End-point assessment (EPA) is high stakes. Although EPA has become an embedded part of our apprenticeship system, understanding the impact of EPA on the apprentice’s learning journey and what contributes to their success is an ...
