Everything you need to know about six sigma certification
When it comes to leadership and management courses, pro-active companies are always looking for viable ways to improve their revenue while increasing customer and client satisfaction. Six Sigma is a methodology and approach to help reduce defects and glitches in...
Different types of apprenticeship training
The structure through which technical education has now changed. There are 696 apprenticeship standards that are delivered through 15 technical routes to skilled employment. These different standards are grouped according to occupationally related skills and...
Delivering Improvement Standards
UK National Apprenticeship Week offers opportunities in uncertain times
A string of open days and other events hosted by employers and learning providers to promote National Apprenticeship Week (March 4-8) comes at one of the most uncertain times for Britain’s food and drink manufacturers. Brexit is threatening to drastically stem the...
Apprenticeships: Positive change for many businesses
Almost two years after the launch of the apprenticeship levy, the government’s drive to promote apprenticeships as the key means of upskilling UK workers comes under scrutiny this month during the 12th annual National Apprenticeship Week (March 4-8) and in the run-up...
Prime Minister – I’m Sorry!
I feel incredibly guilty. I fear that the mess we are in on with Brexit is almost entirely my fault. If I'd called the new Prime Minister in June 2016 and offered her and a few of her ministerial colleagues a place on one of our Lean Six Sigma courses, I think we...
End Point Assessment – What’s the Point?
Our first cohorts of Apprentices are going through End Point Assessment and as an organisation, with our partners, we are all learning a lot in a short space of time. All those thoughts, worries, fears and fantasies are here now and they may be approaching for others...
Inspecting the RoATP Inspections
During 2018, OFSTED (@ofstednews) have been making judgements of 'Insufficient', 'Reasonable' or 'Significant' on new providers on the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers against three key areas; Leadership, Quality and Safeguarding, to ensure new providers...
Apprenticeships Work
When the Apprenticeship Levy was introduced in April 2017, many employers were sceptical about whether it could work, and it was seen in some cases as just another tax. As a result, some businesses put a hold on their commissioning of apprenticeship programmes while...
Subcontracting – Rewriting the Narrative
Subcontracting of apprenticeship provision is a hot topic at the moment. @AELP, @OFSTEDnews, @feweek and others have weighed into the debate and @ESFAgov have just published guidance on practical examples of policy application. The guidance tells us that...