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 …
How we do user research in public beta
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 …
Don't bring policy and delivery closer together - make them the same thing
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 …
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.
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 …