At SDN Mesma Group, one of our big aims is to improve technical education and workforce development across England. We’re now looking for three talented individuals to join our growing team, to help us do just that: We are recruiting ...
We’re incredibly excited to let you know that from 1st August 2025, Strategic Development Network (SDN) and Mesma will formally merge to become the SDN Mesma Group, bringing together our complementary strengths across the further ...
In today’s Further Education (FE) landscape, experienced apprenticeship trainers, assessors, coaches and mentors are being challenged to rethink their approach to progress reviews. Many once viewed progress reviews as primarily a ...
Whether you’re leading on quality improvement or supporting continuous professional development, observations can be a powerful tool for individual and organisational improvement. Done well, they build trust, encourage growth, ...
This blog was written by SDN Apprenticeship Development Specialist, Bradley Goldsworthy If you work in the apprenticeship sector, you’ll have noticed the world is shifting faster than ever. What was once a relatively stable environment ...
This blog is written by SDN’s Managing Director – Colin Bentwood. “In case you missed my talk at the Apprenticeship Conference in February– Taming the Apprenticeship Beast: strategies for resistance and complexity – I wanted to share ...
When it comes to safeguarding, many organisations still rely on online multiple-choice courses or short webinars to keep staff training up to date. But safeguarding isn’t a tick-box exercise—it’s about placing the learner at the heart ...
SDN Strategic Associate, David Lockhart Hawkins, has released a series of posts on the recently-published Qualification Achievement Rates (QAR), retention rates and pass rates for 2018-19 to 2023-24. In this blog, we have collated the ...
This blog was written by International Leadership Specialist, Simon Shaw – director of Leadership at Mojave Training and Senior Associate at the Strategic Development Network (SDN). I’ve recently reflected on what we really know about ...
The Provider Data Self-Assessment Tool (PDSAT) is a software tool provided by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) to help you analyse Individualised Learner Record (ILR) data and it’s an essential part of any provider’s ...
