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Hello and Welcome,  In this newsletter, we will be updating you on the following: General Update Qualification of the Month Upcoming Award Sponsorships Delivering Improved Driving Skills Qualification Development Qualification Survey IfATE Flexibility framework  Covid-19 Standard Adaptations CSCS Skilled Worker Cards Our Christmas Shutdown General Update Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, when will it stop! It […]

As you are now probably aware LEAD are no longer operating as an apprenticeship training provider and if you are registered with LEAD, you are no doubt worried about what will happen to your apprentices. Whether your apprentices have just started their journey, or they are at gateway and ready for End Point Assessment (EPA)

As you are now probably aware LEAD are no longer operating as an apprenticeship training provider and if you are registered with LEAD, you are no doubt worried about what will happen to your apprenticeship. Whether you have just started your journey, or you are at gateway and ready for End Point Assessment (EPA) or

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