Former management apprentice Emma Clee, from Gordon Franks Training in Birmingham, describes her experience of an end-point assessment under lockdown.
Moving to agile development methodologies has created a whirlwind of change for people. Out with the old and in the new. But the focus on iterative customer-led developments has meant that we are less comfortable nailing down requirements in advance. …
In my previous post I talked about the way that the UK is open to people switching careers. This will only happen, of course, if we set out to learn continually. There are so many ways to learn; from the people around us, …
A major part of the Skills Funding Agency activity is promoting and funding apprenticeships. I spent time recently at The Skills Show where I saw some of the country’s most talented apprentices competing in the World Skills competitions.
The Skills Funding Agency has been a hugely exciting place to work over the last year or so. We have torn up the old rule book, putting our users at the heart of everything we do, adopting agile techniques and bringing …
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 …
Along with over 150 other Agencies and public bodies, for the past 12 months we’ve been transitioning our 5 main websites and many microsites to GOV.UK. We transitioned the majority of our websites back in February and we just have the Apprenticeships …
This is my first blog post as Chief Digital Officer (CDO) for the Skills Funding Agency and so I will briefly cover a number of topics to bring everyone up to speed on where we are in our journey towards …
The Apprenticeships exemplar team are now heading for public beta assessment on 12th November 2014.