This week’s blog comes from our colleague Louise Doyle – Director of Mesma and Senior Associates with SDN One of the questions we often pose to employers and training providers is ‘what questions should you be asking of ...
A new online course is today being launched to help apprenticeship staff engage and support a diverse range of apprentices (and their employers) right the way through the new apprenticeship standards journey. The two-hour Education and ...
Last week, we hosted a Coffee Break webinar to give providers a chance to hear from JTL Training. Over 60% of JTL’s apprentices are on new apprenticeship standards, so they have lots of insights to share. Here’s a summary of their ...
Last week, we hosted a Coffee Break webinar to give providers a chance to hear from JTL Training. Over 60% of JTL’s apprentices are on new apprenticeship standards, so they have lots of insights to share. Here’s a summary of their ...
Over the last few months, with our partners AELP, we’ve worked with almost 500 organisations interested in delivering end-point assessment. We’ve taken them through the options, opportunities, risks and decision making process. But the ...
If you’re reading this post, chances are you know that all apprentices in future will go through end-point assessment, independently carried out by an Apprentice Assessment Organisation (AAO). Sector organisations of all shapes and ...
A large-scale programme, funded by the Department for Education and commissioned by the Education and Training Foundation, is today being launched to improve capacity to deliver independent end-point assessment in apprenticeships. The ...
The Skills Funding Agency’s statement on the delay to Loans growth requests has left us all puzzled. The SFA and sector support organisations (like SDN), have worked hard over the last few years to help providers understand the ...
SDN is to take part in an exclusive round-table discussion at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham this week. The round-table, which includes senior politicians and sector leaders, will debate the current apprenticeship ...
SDN is set to play a leading role in delivering the next phase of the Future Apprenticeships programme, with the aim of preparing thousands of apprenticeship staff for the reforms and start delivering the new standards. The Education ...
