My name is Deepee and I work on the apprenticeship service. In this post I’ll talk about how I became a delivery manager. I’ve been at the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) for six years. I’ve always worked in …
My name’s Andy and I’ve worked for the Education and Skills Funding Agency for nearly eight years. For the past year, I have been helping to lead the delivery of the new apprenticeship service in my role as product manager. …
This is a two-parter: it follows Don’t bring policy and delivery closer together- make them the same thing, a great post by DfE policy advisor James Reeve. James is right to argue that policy (the plans and rules made by …
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 …
For the last 18 months, we have been working on the apprenticeship service, developing it through various stages and talking to employers and providers the entire time to shape the service. In December 2016 the apprenticeship service passed its beta …
Today sees the introduction of the apprenticeship levy - a new levy to underpin a reformed system in which apprenticeships are more rigorous, better structured and independently assessed. The new system will also ensure apprenticeships are more clearly aligned with …
In my previous post, I blogged about bringing policy and delivery together. We’ve been doing this on the apprenticeship service since day one. Tomorrow, we’ll see a key part of apprenticeships reform policy come into force when the apprenticeship levy …
My name’s James Reeve and I’m a senior policy advisor at the Department for Education. For the past 18 months I’ve spent a lot of time travelling to Coventry to work with the team building the apprenticeship service. When the …
UPDATE: This functionality is now live We will soon be adding a new piece of functionality into the apprenticeship service. This will enable levy-paying employers to add apprentices and set up payments to training providers. We've recorded this video to take …
As the lead user researcher on the apprenticeship service, I spend most of my time with employers and training providers, testing the service and trying to understand how to make it as easy to use as possible. Most of the …