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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Are you one of the 20,000 businesses who are in scope to pay the new Apprenticeship Levy from April 2017? If so, we’re running two free webinars and a detailed workshop to help you understand the levy and make a real return on your ...
This month, the government published their vision for Apprenticeships over the next five years. The document confirms much of what we already knew about the Apprenticeship reforms, but provides much needed detail and timescales. Here’s ...
Skills Minister Nick Bowles has announced that current restrictions on who can deliver Traineeships will be relaxed. As it currently stands, only training providers with an Ofsted grade of ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ can directly receive ...
Further details of the much anticipated Apprenticeship Levy have now been published by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The document provided a summary of the responses received to the Levy consultation ...
