Jaskiran Kang, lead interaction designer in ESFA’s Apprenticeship Service, talks about how the service has changed the way design crits are run and why they’re so important.
Karen Garland an apprenticeship service content designer blogs about how she found her perfect job.
Does being digital mean being different? When you build a digital service does that make it a different thing to the rest of the service? The National Careers Service has spent a good deal of time trying to establish how …
This year I will be racing my Ducati 959 Panigale bike in the British Superbikes Ducati Trioptions Cup, so I am used to risk. Whether I am racing or running the replica environment for the apprenticeship service, I have a …
Each of us was born with a box of matches inside, but we can’t strike them by ourselves, so the saying goes. Our new Fire it Up campaign proves how employers and apprentices are being given help to find their …
Delivery Manager Andrew Howe on how replica environments support rollout confidence and protect user experience Talk of “top-secret replicas” and people would be forgiven for thinking of sinister sci-fi clones … but exactly the opposite is true within the apprenticeship …
My name is Ben and I’m a user researcher working on the apprenticeship service. The apprenticeship service research team were recently given the opportunity to attend this year’s large employer roadshows (LERs). The roadshows are a chance for employers to …
We want to find out how well apprenticeships are working for apprentices. Industry moves fast and we want to make sure apprenticeships move with the times, and remain relevant and effective. But how? We’re starting by getting real-time feedback from apprentices …
Product owner Paul Kelman tells us about a new apprenticeship feedback service designed to help employers share views on training providers. We’re developing an exciting new feature so that users can give feedback on aspects of their apprenticeship programmes. Initially …
Building digital capability in the public sector is not that easy. Gary Tucker, Head of digital for the apprenticeship service, shares 5 strategies for meeting this challenge