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It's all about the apprentices
Rarely in your daily working life do you stand back and think about the impact of what you are doing on lives, the economy, employers. I remind my team every day that what they do is changing lives. Making it …
Gary Tucker
Gary is service manager on the digital apprenticeship service.
How public beta is working on the apprenticeship service
The apprenticeship service launch into public beta has so far been a success. We deliberately kept the launch small to start with, giving the teams time to test functionality, operational processes and policy impact.
From private to public: getting ready for GDS assessment
Today we take the end-to-end digital apprenticeship service to GDS for its private beta assessment. As service manager, it’s my job to make sure that everything is in place.
Ready for Live: Find an Apprenticeship
The Find an apprenticeship digital service has been helping people search and apply for apprenticeships online since December 2014. We have now passed our live assessment, giving us the green light to go fully live with the Service.
Lessons from the sharp end: approaching live with Find an apprenticeship
Our Find an apprenticeship service has been helping people search and apply for apprenticeships easily online since December 2014. I'm the Digitals Service Manager for Find an apprenticeship. As it's National Apprenticeship Week 2015, I've written a blog post for GDS looking at our team's achievements …
Testing with assisted digital users
Meeting the needs of Assisted Digital users is something that the ‘find an apprenticeship’ exemplar team have worked really hard to address. Although we have only seen Assisted Digital needs in 5% of our users, we have addressed these needs by …
Passing the public beta assessment
Well, the Apprenticeship Applications exemplar has now been given official approval to go into public Beta after passing the GDS service assessment last week. It’s been a challenging couple of months; as well as preparing for the assessment, we’ve also been …
Preparing for public beta and ramping up access
The Apprenticeships exemplar team are now heading for public beta assessment on 12th November 2014.