Zachary Wilde

What’s Bakkavor’s current position on apprenticeships and how did you come to be here? We’re wholly invested in them; they make up a big part of what we’re doing. An example is this year we’re going to recruit somewhere between 70 and 90 apprentices. If you compare that to last year, it was 40. If […]

Who are we and what do we do? OAL are an Awarding and End Point Assessment Organisation (EPAO) who are one of the top 10 EPAOs for the number of Apprenticeship Standards we are approved to assess. As well as covering a broad range of standards we do specialise in food & drink manufacturing and

The OAL team with our guests for the evening, joining us with a frontrow seat. The Insider Media Made in Yorkshire Awards was celebrating it’s 10th year of running this year, and we couldn’t be prouder to have taken part. We thought it best as a Yorkshire based business that our first awards ceremony and

The OAL team with our guests for the evening, joining us with a frontrow seat. The Insider Media Made in Yorkshire Awards was celebrating it’s 10th year of running this year, and we couldn’t be prouder to have taken part. We thought it best as a Yorkshire based business that our first awards ceremony and

The OAL team with Travis Perkins winners of the outstanding contribution to the development of apprenticeships. The FEWEEK Annual Apprenticeship Conference and accompanying Gala Dinner and Awards evening are widely regarded as the flagship events of the year within the apprenticeship sector. Taking place at the ICC in Birmingham in March each year over two

The table below shows the end date for Covid-19 flexibilities for the End Point Assessment (EPA) available from Occupational Awards Limited (OAL). The table also shows which Apprenticeships will retain a fully remote EPA option after the adaptations are ended. Face to Face bookings can now be booked directly on our online system without requesting

  We just wanted to remind all of our centres that are approved to deliver qualifications, we have now moved to a new monitoring strategy based on the new Ofqual regulations known as CASS (Centre Assessment Scrutiny Standards).  As part of that new process we have produced a strategy for centre monitoring under CASS which

Online Sessions Please name the sessions so it is clear on the system . For example Apprentice name, Remote/ Face to , Full / Part EPA. And ensure if the session is a resit that the components are added within the session title. Examples below: Apprentice Name, Remote, Full EPAApprentice Name, Face to Face, Full

In our sixth installment of our interview tasters for National Apprenticeship week, we speak to Sally Garner-Gibbons, Creative and Cultural Apprenticeships Manager (Chichester College). OAL works in partnership with Chichester College to deliver EPA for the Creative Venue Technician (CVT) apprenticeship. OAL was the first EPAO approved to deliver this standard in 2018, designed to

In our fifth installment of our interview tasters for National Apprenticeship week, we speak to Cian Short, Early Careers Manager (Bakkavor). Bakkavor are one of the UKs largest food manufacturers, employing over 16,000 people across 23 locations in the UK with further sites in China and the USA. They produce ready meals, salads, pizza, bread