This blog is written by SDN Senior Associate, Phil Golding. As the new academic year begins with fresh-faced T Level students, it can be easy to focus all your attention in these first few months on helping your new cohort settle in, ...
This blog was written by International Leadership Specialist, Simon Shaw – director of Leadership at Mojave Training and Senior Associate at the Strategic Development Network (SDN). I’ve recently reflected on what we really know about ...
This blog was written by Claire Gill, SDN Associate. Risks are part of everyday life. To a greater or lesser extent, we all take them; and we all take steps to make them be, well, less risky. But when we start to think about risk in ...
Whilst the business benefits of apprenticeships are recounted in report after report, it is also true that small businesses offer 49% less apprenticeships now then they did before the apprenticeship reforms. If apprenticeships are so ...
Are you ready to implement the ITP Financial Handbook? And how do you stop the framework from becoming a costly tick-box exercise? As senior leaders in independent training providers (ITPs), you’re no stranger to the evolving ...
This video is a short snippet from our May session How to practically implement the new 2024-25 Apprenticeship Funding Rules – Laying the ground, where SDN’s Strategic Associate David Lockhart-Hawkins worked through the key ...
The 2024/25 apprenticeship funding rules are an oddity. Every year there is an expectation of something significant, something that could lead to real improvements in provision or something that could lead to real risk in a model or ...
Professional discussions or interviews feature in the majority of apprenticeship assessment plans and play a pivotal role in assessing the apprentice’s competence. Yet there are persistent misunderstandings of the key differences ...
Navigating the complex world of apprenticeship performance can be a daunting task. The Department for Education’s (DfE) Apprenticeship Accountability Framework sets out clear guidelines for performance, but understanding the ...
SDN Strategic Associate, David Lockhart Hawkins, has released a series of LinkedIn posts on the recently published Qualification Achievement Rates (QAR), Retention rates and pass rates for the years 2018-19 to 2022-23. In this blog, we ...
