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Are you an expert in your industry?
31 May 2018
We’re inviting applications for Membership of our 15 occupational Route Panels
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2021 - 2022 IfATE Stakeholder Survey results
An annual survey of our stakeholders, to help us improve our services.
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Zoos reopening focuses minds on training for animal care sector
16 June 2020
T levels are being rolled out from 2020 to 2023 across 11 different sectors, which in addition to agriculture include sectors such as digital, construction, engineering & manufacturing and business & administration.
The first three T Levels (in Education and Childcare, Construction and Digital) will be available for delivery to students from September 2020.
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Introduction to post-16 technical qualifications
Put simply, is there likely to be demand from employers for a student who has achieved the submitted technical qualification? To meet this requirement, awarding bodies will need to prove they have properly engaged with large and small businesses. They will have to provide convincing evidence of direct employer engagement activities and targeted research.
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Occupational standards in scope (level 3, cycle 2)
Agriculture, environmental and animal care
Business and administration
Care services
Construction and the built environment
Creative and design
Digital
Education and early years
Engineering and manufacturing
Health and science
Legal, finance and accounting
Protective services
Sales, marketing, and procurement
Transport and logistics
Our occupational standards contain the KSBs identified by employers as required to competently perform an occupation. To ensure occupational standa...
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Sales, marketing and procurement route review
These are roles that shape our lives, and they are key to the businesses we rely on. The SMP route speaks to this richness.
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Route Panel Membership – open recruitment competition 2019
8 May 2019
Our main responsibilities are:
developing and maintaining quality criteria for the approval of apprenticeship standards and assessment plans
supporting the development of standards and assessment plans by employer groups, known as trailblazers
facilitating the work of our 15 our occupational Route Panels who review and make recommendations on the approval of standards and assessment plans developed by trailblazers (described in more detail below)
publishing approved standards and assessment pl...
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Approvals process manual - level 3, cycle 1
Our current ambition is to accept qualification submissions within the following occupational routes:
Agriculture, environmental and animal care
Business and administration
Catering and hospitality
Care services
Creative and design
Legal, finance and accounting
Protective services
Sales, marketing and procurement
Transport and logistics
Awarding bodies will be able to submit level 3 technical qualifications that fall under the above routes and are within one of the following categories:
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Approvals process manual - level 2, cycle 1
Level 2 cycle 2 will include all the cycle 1 routes; in addition, it will include all the remaining routes as follows:
Agriculture, environmental and animal care
Business and administration
Catering and hospitality
Care services
Creative and design
Hair and beauty
Legal, finance and accounting
Protective services
Sales, marketing and procurement
Transport and logistics
Awarding bodies will be able to submit level 2 technical qualifications that fall under the above routes and are within one...
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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion case studies
I completed an NVQ Level 3 Business Administration Apprenticeship in 2020. As part of the apprenticeship experience, apprentices are given an additional 75 hours of off-job study (this is time spent working on assignments, shadowing others, hands-on training in other departments etc).