The risk and reward of growing your degree-apprenticeship offer this autumn
@SDN_HQ – Universities across the UK are expected to have a significant drop in income from international students in 2020-21 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.…
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Effectively Engaging Young People Using Online Technology – Top 5 Tips
Delivering great training online is more about engagement than IT skills Delivering FE and skills provision to learners remotely is not easy. And it’s not…
Avoid these 3 common funding errors and safeguard your apprenticeship funding during lockdown
Earlier this month the @ESFAgov announced it was to pause the start of any new routine funding audits for all post-16 providers for the short-term, as result…
Curriculum planning for apprenticeship standards – a free checklist
@SDN_HQ launch a free Curriculum planning for apprenticeship standards checklist We get it. Moving from a two-page apprenticeship standard and individual employer requirements, to a…
Attracting industry experts to become End-Point Assessors
Becoming a successful End-Point Assessment Organisation (EPAO) is no simple task. There are a plethora of things you need to think about, but perhaps most…
What’s it really like being an end-point assessor?
Emily Hughes, a freelance assessor and apprenticeship lead at Bishop Grosseteste University, gives her view on end-point assessing to SDN to help other apprenticeship practitioners…
Initial assessment for #apprenticeships needs to change: 3 things to consider
Getting initial assessment right for apprenticeship standards is vital – not just for compliance, but also in underpinning a high-quality individual learning programme. That’s why…
Planning a curriculum for #apprenticeship standards checklist
Moving from a two-page apprenticeship standard and individual employer requirements, to a fully-functioning curriculum with schemes of works and individual training plans, isn’t easy. So…
5 Steps to Introducing the Concept of Grading With Your Apprentices
Grading is a new concept for apprenticeships. It’s a key feature of the new (end-point) assessment approach. But are you, as a trainer, looking at…
#Apprenticeships as currency: Part of England’s knowledge capital
Challenges for the next stage of Apprenticeship reform? Over the next 10 years there’s going to be a need to update standards at an ever-increasing…