Monthly Insights: August
Welcome to this month’s SDN Mesma Group insights and resources! Self Assessing Brilliantly 2026: Our annual deep dive Compliance and funding professional development: Confidence for the 2026/27 academic year and beyond ...
Insights
Ofsted Insights: Curriculum, Teaching and Training Quality Analysis – Aug 2026
Welcome to Ofsted Insights; a deep dive into inspection data across further education, skills and apprenticeship provision under the Education Inspection Framework. These reports help providers to make effective use of the findings in ...
Ofsted Insights: Inclusion – July 2026
Welcome to Ofsted Insights; a deep dive into inspection data across further education, skills and apprenticeship provision under the Education Inspection Framework. These reports help providers to make effective use of the findings in ...
Ofsted Insights Professional Development and Teaching Quality – July 2026
Welcome to Ofsted Insights, a data-led analysis of inspection findings across further education, skills and apprenticeship provision under the Education Inspection Framework (EIF). These reports help providers make practical use of ...
Monthly Insights: June
Welcome to this month’s SDN Mesma Group insights and resources! Quality Professional Awards winners announced Funding rules 26/27: New subcontracting challenges Assessment reform: flexibility is not freedom from risk Upcoming ...
Andy Burnham – parity of esteem starts with pay, not pathways
By Lou Doyle New 14 plus pathways announced by Andy Burnham do matter but parity of esteem is about work as much as education “From today, Britain will value the hard hat every bit as much as the graduation cap.” This is what Andy ...
Constant rule changes are undermining apprenticeship improvement
By Lou Doyle The Department for Education’s annual funding rule changes for apprenticeships have become a defining feature of the skills landscape. Intended to refine the system and raise standards, they now risk creating an unintended ...
My first IEP Summit: what stayed with me
This blog was written by Zoe Bolger, SDN Mesma Group’s Director of Commercial and Operations. “I’ve been to plenty of conferences, summits and sector events over the years, bringing together people who care deeply about the work ...
Assessment reform: flexibility is not freedom from risk
This blog was written by Stephen King – SDN Mesma Group’s Technical Education Specialist One of the points I keep returning to in the apprenticeship assessment reform debate is that the aim should be the right level of provider ...
Monthly Insights: May
Welcome to this month’s SDN Mesma Group insights and resources! Practical tools for implementing the new 2026-27 apprenticeship funding rules Apprenticeship Units Support Package: Design and Deliver a Compliant Offer Insights: ...