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The risk and reward of growing your degree-apprenticeship offer this autumn

Universities across the UK are expected to have a significant drop in income from international students in 2020-21 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. To mitigate this loss of income, many HEIs are looking at how an improved ...

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  • 16 Jun
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The risk and reward of growing your degree-apprenticeship offer this autumn

Universities across the UK are expected to have a significant drop in income from international students in 2020-21 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. To mitigate this loss of income, many HEIs are looking at how an improved ...

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  • 16 Jun
  • Tim Chewter
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Chris Cherry gives his thoughts on end-point assessment in the lead up to our Preparing for EPA webinar series…

In advance of our 5-part webinar series: Preparing your apprentices for end-point assessment, SDN’s Strategic Associate, Chris Cherry, provides his thoughts on where end-point assessment might be heading in light of the Covid-19 ...

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  • 22 May
  • Tim Chewter
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Delivering great training online is more about engagement than IT skills

Delivering FE and skills provision to learners remotely is not easy. And it’s not necessarily because you haven’t got the latest video software or superfast broadband, but more likely because that rapport you have with your learners ...

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  • 18 May
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How to avoid common apprenticeship funding errors and safeguard your funding

With an uncertainty as to how the apprenticeship landscape will settle in the coming months and years, it can be difficult to know how best to plan for the future. However, one thing is clear, we will all need to adapt to a ‘new ...

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  • 27 Apr
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Supporting you in the coming months – a COVID-19 update from SDN

Navigating through our current national emergency presents us all with extraordinary and unprecedented challenges. It will take time to adjust and understand what it means for us personally, for our roles, our learners and our ...

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  • 22 Apr
  • Tim Chewter
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Insights for apprenticeship trainers all in one place, this #NAW2020!

Apprenticeship trainers up and down the country do an amazing job, supporting apprentices to learn, grow and succeed in their chosen career. But we also know, with the introduction of standards, that the role of the apprenticeship ...

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  • 04 Feb
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Preparing apprentices for EPA during the gateway phase – the view from an EPAO and provider

Apprenticeship standards are becoming well-embedded in the apprenticeship landscape now, with tens of thousands of apprentices having been through end-point assessment. That said, it is different and high-stakes – and not all ...

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  • 07 Jan
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Initial assessment is as much about quality as it is about compliance – Chris Jones explains…

Initial assessment for apprenticeships is vital to get right. Although providers are having to look carefully at how they account for Recognition of Prior Learning, initial assessment is no longer just about compliance. In the world of ...

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  • 03 Jan
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Our end of year roundup for apprenticeship staff (and two free webinars)

We’re on the home straight. The Christmas break is nearly upon us and we’ll soon be ringing in the new year (and a new decade!) We’ve had the pleasure of supporting thousands of apprenticeship practitioners again this year in their ...

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  • 20 Dec
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