Navigating the Changing EPA Landscape: A Need for Clarity on Recent Announcements
Well its certainly been a tumultuous week or so in relation to apprenticeship policy and rules! As a result, I thought it would be good…
Jacqui Molkenthin
EpAO Business Planning in 2025: Part 3: 10 Other Areas that may Shape your Business
In my third and final article in this series, I explore other areas that may impact or influence EpAO business planning in 2025. My previous…
EpAO Business Planning in 2025: Part 2: Ten Policy Areas that will Shape your Business
In this second of series of articles on EpAO business planning I will explore the policy environment and how EpAOs can use it to shape…
EpAO business planning in 2025: Part 1: Ten quality assurance tips
Adaptability and resilience are two words I would use to describe the apprenticeship sector. Words that will continue to resonate in 2025 as we see…
EPA and Ofqual, Learning lessons from 2023 – Part 2
Continuing my theme of learning lessons from 2023, here are my next set of hints and tips that may help the EpAO sector. Whilst some…
Hints and Tips on Ofqual Compliance – Lessons Learnt from 2023 – Part 1
During 2023 I supported many EpAOs with their ongoing compliance and commitment to continuous improvement, so I thought I’d share some of the themes that…
End-point Assessment in the new world of Generative AI
I have been a mixture of excited, fascinated, and terrified by the sudden explosion of generative AI tools. We are all currently finding our feet…
Measuring the Quality of EpAOs
In this article Jacqui discusses ideas and options around developing public facing metrics to measure the quality of EpAOs, and to support employer / provider…
Safeguarding and welfare in end-point assessment
In my previous article on end-point assessment, I touched on the lack of direct reference to safeguarding in the ESFA conditions for EpAOs, the DQB…
Are there “too many cooks” in apprenticeships?
I don’t think I have ever known an educational scenario where at least 5 agencies are involved in the funding, policy and quality of one…