2 November 2021 Self Assessing Brilliantly for Employability Providers Quality Assurance plays a key role in your overall system effectiveness and the quality of the provision and services you deliver to your customers. Brilliant self assessment in employability can lead directly to your customers achieving and exceeding their employment goals. Self Assessing Brilliantly for Employability…

16 November 2021 Developing your self assessment report and quality improvement plan Effective self assessment and quality improvement planning is the cornerstone of high impact quality improvement. Yet too often, it falls short because it is perceived as a paper exercise, lacks evaluative content and results in a very long to-do list. This Mesma and…

22 October 2021 Preparing for Your Next Ofsted Inspection Now that Ofsted activity has fully resumed, we know from speaking to many of you that your attention is turning to your next full inspection. You understandably want to ensure you and your team are fully prepared. Building on the success of our consultancy and events,…

8 October 2021 Preparing for Ofsted Early Monitoring Visit Now that Ofsted activity has fully resumed, working with our friends at SDN, we wanted to see how we can best respond to many requests from apprenticeship providers to help you to be confident and fully prepared when you receive the call for your early monitoring…

29 September 2021 Self Assessing Brilliantly It’s that time of year when further education and skills providers turn their attention to self assessment reporting. Over the last 12 months 500 education professionals have attended this online event and we’d like to give you the opportunity to join them. Self Assessing Brilliantly (Wednesday 29 September (12-1315…

2nd December 2021 Digital Safeguarding Our partners at SDN and Psych-Logical are runnings two workshops aimed at Designated Safeguarding Officers. This session will upskill practitioners on identifying and responding to risk whilst delivering sessions online.  Going beyond the technological practicalities delegates will look at how to promote safe practices and respond to concerns in a digital environment.…

7 December 2021 Preparing for Ofsted inspections as an HEI From the 1 April 2021, Ofsted took responsibility for inspecting all Level 6 and Level 7 apprenticeship provision. This is a big shift for many HEIs and other organisations delivering apprenticeships at this level. What does this mean in practice, how do you prepare and…

Recorded from live session in June 2020 Learning from Ofsted Early Monitoring Visits of Apprenticeship Providers In response to feedback, mesma and SDN are hosting an online session to share their analysis of Ofsted Early Monitoring reports. The session will be hosted by Carole Loader, mesma and Tim Chewter, SDN with Kevin Dowson as a…