A really interesting article appeared in FE News yesterday about the 20% off the job training requirement and OfSTED’s take on it. Essentially, Paul Joyce, OfSTEDs Deputy Director of Further Education and Skills, stated that the 20% is an ESFA requirement and not OfSTEDs. When will OfSTED look at the 20% Off the Job Training? This […]
Apprenticeship standards are now firmly on their way to replacing apprenticeship frameworks. However, too many organisations are simply running programmes without fully understanding what they need to do to ensure apprentices are receiving the skills and knowledge needed to be a success at End Point Assessment. Stedfast Outcomes Assessment Using Stedfast’s Outcomes Assessment module organisations […]
We will be launching a major update of the Stedfast system this summer. As well as making changes to the functionality we have also redesigned the system to be responsive so that it can be easily used on tablets and smartphones. We will not be accepting any new clients in July 2018 as we want […]
Getting your self-assessment report and quality improvement plan right is vital. It is vital because it should be used as working document to ensure your provisions is of a high quality but it is also vital because you need to submit it to OfSTED and it needs to be immediately available if you are notified […]
Anyone undertaking an OfSTED self-assessment report and quality improvement plan will know how difficult it is to grade judgements. That’s why we created a feature in Stedfast to allow users to add a scoring matrix to ensure that grading is more realistic to performance. For anyone who has had to create a self-assessment report and […]
We were speaking with an Apprenticeship Levy paying organisation last week who were considering becoming an employer provider. It was an interesting conversation – well we found it interesting – you may not share the same enthusiasm! It was interesting because they wanted to start a large-scale apprenticeship programme to maximise their apprenticeship levy payments. […]
Strategic and operational business plan is really important for any provider that is subject to an OfSTED inspection. They will be asked for before the inspection and also be used to determine judgment findings by the inspectors during an inspection. The effectiveness of leadership and management Inspectors will want to see that there is strategic […]
Ensuring robust self-assessment is vital to any apprenticeship training organisation. It gives the organisation the ability to identify what is being done well and what needs to be improved. It also gives OfSTED the confidence that the organisation is working to their inspection standards. However, for many organisations that development and management of the self-assessment […]
All too often working with clients we see that their websites are low down on Google search and this is a largely caused by a total lack of activity. What we often find in that there has been a bit of activity in the first couple of months after a site was launched, then there […]
We have been busy adding new features to Stedfast. The key task has been to improve the outcomes based assessment features which are a key driver in the developing quality assurance practices. The outcomes based quality assurance features on Stedfast now make it easier for providers to set their outcomes sets, allocate staff to each […]