Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Exploring delivery in apprenticeship standards

Project Application

April 2018

contents

General intructions	2

1.	Eligibility	3

2.	Project lead details	4

3.	Project participant details	4

4.	Fit	7

5.	Approach	9

6.	Collaboration	10

7.	Outputs	11

8.	Outcomes and impact	12

9.	Value for money	13

10.	Declaration	16

General intructions

Please use this template for your response

Applications must be submitted to otla@strategicdevelopmentnetwork.co.uk and must be received by 12noon, 25th April 2018.

Any applications received after this time/date will not be assessed.

Please keep within the word limit – any words over the limit will not be taken into consideration. No additional attachments or annexes are permitted.

To count the number of words in part of your document, select the text you want to count, and then on the Review tab, click Word Count.

Eligibility

We confirm that:

The project lead organisation delivers apprenticeship training and/or end-point assessments, and is approved on either the Register of Apprenticeship Training (RoATP) and/or the Register of End-Point Assessment Organisations (RoEPAO)	☐
The project group includes at least ten practitioners from at least three organisations that are involved with apprenticeship standards training or assessment (in progress or scheduled for 2018)	☐
Each participant in the group is directly involved in (or support) the front-line delivery of apprenticeship training or assessment	☐

Project lead details

Name
Job title
Organisation name (trading as):
If different from above, organisation name (legal)
Company registration number
UKRLP number
Do you deliver apprenticeship standards?	Choose an item.
If Yes/Soon, please tell us which standards:
If Yes, please tell us how many apprentices you have on standards
Do you deliver end-point assessment?	Choose an item.
If Yes/Soon, please tell us which standards:

Project participant details

In which region(s) are your project participants based:

North East	☐
Yorkshire and Humberside	☐
North West	☐
East Midlands	☐
West Midlands	☐
South East	☐
London	☐
South	☐
South West	☐

For each project participants, please provide

Name	Job title	Organisation name	Organisation type	Do they deliver apprenticeship standards	Do they deliver end-point assessment	If Yes / Soon please tell us which standards:

Fit

Please indicate which of the programme’s target areas this project will explore

(select one or more areas)

the importance of a collaborative approach to teaching, training, learning and assessment between providers and employers	☐
curriculum development so that apprentices develop the right knowledge, skills and behaviours needed for success	☐
how the apprentice progress is monitored and assessed	☐
what constitutes outstanding technical pedagogy in apprenticeship delivery	☐

Please clearly state your research question(s) (150 words)

(If your project is focused on a particular role, organisation type, geographical area, industry / sector, employer type or apprentice age or level, please describe this here)

Please explain why you have chosen the research question(s) (150 words)

Approach

Please set-out how you propose to tackle your research question(s)?

What is your research methodology? (500 words)

(underpinned by the Research Framework)

Collaboration

How will you work collaboratively as a group, and how will the project lead manage the project group? (250 words)

(When and how will you meet and interact? How will you communicate? How will you maintain momentum and meet deadlines?)

Outputs

What new knowledge and understanding of the standards-based apprenticeship process is the project aiming to create?

What tangible outputs do you expect from your project?

How will you make sure these are effective, accessible and transferable to other practitioners? (500 words)

Outcomes and impact

How will the project contribute to the outcome and impact indicators set out in the prospectus?

How will you provide evidence or measure them?

How will you define and capture outstanding teaching, learning and assessment? (400 words)

Value for money

Please set-out your project plan and budget below

Project Plan Outline	2018	2019
Activity	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan
Commissioning / Set Up
Project commissioning / initiation
Project Leads briefing	09-May
Project set-up
Deliver collaborative project
Outputs / Dissemination
Project outputs
Case studies / emerging impact reports

Indicative Budget allocation (If there are any activities that you think may be subject to VAT, please highlight these)
Grant expenditure (total without VAT)	Expenditure with VAT (total inc. VAT)	Total
Project lead
Project participants
Output production
Other expenses
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Project management / administration
Total

Declaration

By signing below, you confirm:

your organisation, and those within your project, meet all the eligibility criteria

all participants named within your application are in agreement about their budget split and their role / commitment

you are happy to provide all necessary documentation to evidence the information within this application form and your organisation’s financial health

you understand your role as the project lead

Signature:
Date:
Name:
Job title:
Organisation: