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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 ...

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  • 23 Nov
  • Tim Chewter
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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 ...

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  • 17 Oct
  • Tim Chewter
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Launch of new practitioner-led investigation into the teaching, learning and assessment of apprenticeship standards

A major practitioner-led programme is being launched today, investigating the fundamental shift in teaching, learning and assessment in the context of new apprenticeship standards. Funded by the Education and Training Foundation (ETF), ...

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  • 01 Mar
  • Tim Chewter
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Confidence among senior managers drops in the last six months, whilst optimism increases for front-line staff

The learning and skills sector continues to face new reforms, reviews and restructuring. For learning and skills organisations, this brings challenges as well as opportunities. Six months on from our first confidence index, SDN ...

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  • 06 Dec
  • Tim Chewter
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Degree Apprenticeships set to be significant opportunity for HEIs over next five years, but establishing the right systems and ‘buy in’ from staff is crucial

Higher and Degree Apprenticeships has provided the HE sector with an opportunity to grow and expand their offer. For some HEIs however, apprenticeships aren’t always an easy fit with their organisation’s approaches, systems and ...

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  • 30 Nov
  • Tim Chewter
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Analysis: Apprenticeship standards and End-Point Assessment Organisations

SDN conducts a regular analysis of apprenticeship standards currently in development, which are published and which have End-Point Assessment Organisations (EPAO) in place (broken down by EPAO type, which standards they are approved ...

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  • 31 Oct
  • Tim Chewter
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Front-line staff not as confident as their managers about future of the sector

The learning and skills sector has been facing change on an unprecedented scale. Almost every area of our industry is experiencing new reforms, reviews and restructuring. In the wake of the general election, we conducted a short ...

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  • 20 Jul
  • Tim Chewter
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Apprenticeship end-point assessment – preparing your organisation’s involvement

Are you planning to get involved in delivering apprenticeship end-point assessment? Do you want to be in a much better position to become a government-approved Apprentice Assessment Organisation (AAO), or develop a consortium. Future ...

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  • 01 May
  • Tim Chewter
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New equality, diversity and inclusion course launched for front-line staff delivering new apprenticeship standards

A new online course is today being launched to help apprenticeship staff engage and support a diverse range of apprentices (and their employers) right the way through the new apprenticeship standards journey. The two-hour Education and ...

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  • 28 Feb
  • Tim Chewter
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National programme launched to improve the delivery of independent end-point assessment in apprenticeships

A large-scale programme, funded by the Department for Education and commissioned by the Education and Training Foundation, is today being launched to improve capacity to deliver independent end-point assessment in apprenticeships. The ...

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  • 21 Oct
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