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UVAC Conference 2023
We’ll be at the UVAC National Conference 2023! Thursday 30th November The UVAC Conference is the perfect place to learn, connect, and grow. Take a look at the full conference programme here, it features a range of informative ...
Employer Support Conference – Midlands/South
T Levels are the government’s flagship technical education programme, combining in-classroom learning and a substantial industry placement. Hosting industry placements will help you fill skills gaps, bring young talent to your ...
Apprenticeship Workforce Development live-online and face-to-face courses now open for bookings
Booking is now open for live-online, face-to-face and in-house Apprenticeship Workforce Development (AWD) courses, complementing the existing on-demand course offer from phase one of the programme. These nine fully-funded courses ...
Employer Support Programme Conference
T Levels are the government’s flagship technical education programme, combining in-classroom learning and a substantial industry placement. Hosting industry placements will help you fill skills gaps, bring young talent to your ...
The Education Landscape – SDN network to help employers navigate the Education Landscape
We’re pleased to announce our involvement in a new national programme – The Education Landscape! We’d love to tell you more about it… Colin Bentwood, Managing Director, SDN “Our mission with Education Landscape ...
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 ...
Breakthrough the noise and understand what end-point assessment means for your role as a trainer
End-point assessment is a fundamental pillar of the apprenticeship reforms. It is different and high-stakes – but what does it mean for on-programme trainers preparing their apprentices for it? This is the topic of our first ...
Is streamlining recruitment and training the answer to the end-point assessment dilemma?
Protocol and the Strategic Development Network (SDN) have teamed up to offer a new recruitment, training and deployment service – designed specifically to help address the shortage and growing need for quality, qualified end-point ...
New grants launched to explore how students could support staff in their use of learning technologies
A new grants programme has today been launched for FE and training providers, to explore how students and staff can work together in their understanding and use of technologies for learning. The pilot programme, funded by the Education ...