Alex Morris, Head of Apprenticeship Quality Assurance at the Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education (the Institute), talks about a new framework for assuring the quality of apprenticeship assessments. We at the Institute know that end-point assessment is of huge …
It’s been a couple of months since I wrote my last blog setting new standards for apprenticeships. 31 July 2019 marks one year to go until all remaining apprenticeship frameworks are withdrawn. From 1 August 2020 all new apprenticeship starts will …
Knife crime is a huge worry for the UK’s young people and their parents. In the 12 months ending March 2019, there were 43,516 knife crime offences across the UK with young black and minority ethnic teenage boys and men …
Almost half of people under 30 now go into higher education and, for many, they do this by taking GCSEs, A Levels and then on to university. However, for some people, this route isn’t practical – perhaps they didn’t get …
What is Artificial Intelligence? Artificial Intelligence (AI) makes it conceivable for the machines to get the knowledge from several experiences. The machines are adjusted in a way that they can perform human-like tasks. The common example of artificial intelligence is …
The introduction of the Apprenticeship levy in May 2017 saw one of the biggest changes in the apprenticeship landscape, putting employers directly in control of how and with whom they chose to invest their apprenticeship levy to deliver training solutions …