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 ...
SDN has developed self-assessment tools to help organisations and individuals who will deliver T Levels assess their readiness. The tools are now available on the Education and Training Foundation’s (ETF’s) Foundation Online ...
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 ...
Levy paying employers can transfer up to 25% of their apprenticeship allocation to other businesses. But how can this help training providers without a ‘non-levy allocation’ train apprentices at small businesses? And what are the ...
