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Phil Golding

Apprenticeship providers – does your marketing send the right message to employers?

Over the last few years, training providers up and down the country have done an exceptional job of adapting their apprenticeship provision so it’s more employer focused and tailored to individual businesses’ needs. But do employers in ...

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  • 16 Sep
  • Tim Chewter
  • Blog
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  • apps
What's it like end point assessing

What’s it really like being an end-point assessor? A case study.

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 ...

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  • 11 Sep
  • Tim Chewter
  • Blog
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Getting on the RoATP – a case study

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 ...

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  • 19 Jul
  • Tim Chewter
  • Blog
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Employer Workforce Apprenticeship Programme

Employers – taking a long-term view of apprenticeship training will pay dividends

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 ...

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  • 09 Jul
  • Tim Chewter
  • Blog
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  • employ
T Level self-assessment tools

Launch of T Level Self-Assessment Tools

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 ...

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  • 01 Jul
  • Tim Chewter
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  • skills , tlevel
Apprenticeship Employer Engagement Question

Your questions on employer engagement – answered

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 ...

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  • 27 Jun
  • Tim Chewter
  • Blog
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  • employers

How to introduce the concept of grading with your apprentices

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 ...

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  • 12 Jun
  • Tim Chewter
  • Blog
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David Lockhart-Hawkins

Your questions on apprenticeship rules and governance – answered

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 ...

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  • 24 May
  • Tim Chewter
  • Blog
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How can the trainer, employer and assessor all contribute to the success of the apprentice at EPA? Here’s a video case study…

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 ...

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  • 22 May
  • Tim Chewter
  • Blog
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Colin Bentwood Conference

SDN Managing Director, Colin Bentwood, gives his five key takeaways from the inaugural Apprenticeship Breakthrough Conference…

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 ...

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  • 10 May
  • Tim Chewter
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