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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7yI0oy10Mw The SFA has employed apprentices for the past 3-5 years. Apprentices have been especially important in digital, and the team now building the apprenticeship service includes a number of former apprentices. To mark National Apprenticeship Week, we’ve published this …
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.
Employers have already given us positive feedback about the apprenticeship service – they’ve told us it's simple, easy to use and intuitive. This short video tells you more about the service. Our design and development experts tell you how it gives …