If you are an HEI paying the apprenticeship levy (and many are), you will be making significant financial contributions to HMRC. It’s clear however, from our work with HEIs, that many are facing unique challenges in developing an ...
Making the move to apprenticeship standards impacts on nearly all areas of delivery and operations. One area that can keep apprenticeship providers awake at night is getting the finances right. For example, how do you assess whether a ...
Our colleague Louise Doyle (Director of Mesma and Senior Associate with SDN) wrote this blog which you many have found helpful – so we thought we’d share it with you too. Effective self-assessment and the improvement plan ...
For many HEIs considering the delivery of Higher and Degree Apprenticeships, the apprenticeship sector can be difficult to navigate. Perhaps most challenging is the need to set up new systems, processes and funding mechanisms, that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
