FE Career Tips

Hundreds and hundreds of people Google 'how to become an assessor' on a monthly basis. It's a question that is asked by many, but answered effectively by very few. Hopefully, after reading this article you will feel like it's not as complicated as what everyone makes out after all.

How do I qualify as a Manual Handling Trainer?  The qualifications required to teach accredited manual handling awards and become a manual handling instructor have changed over the last couple of years.  You can no longer teach accredited m...

Without beating about the hypothetical bush, the future of the labour market in the UK is looking rather bleak.   Reports suggest that we are on course for the worst recession in more than 300 years. The Institute for Policy Research meanwh...

Social media has been a world-changing phenomenon. Before Facebook’s founding in 2004 there was the likes of Bebo, Faceparty, and MySpace. However, the last 10 years have seen a huge spike in both users of social media and reasons for using it. In 20...

Are job-hopping employees bad for business? With a buoyant job market and the ability to travel and move around more industries, job-hopping has never been easier in some sectors. So what is job-hopping and is it something employers should be worried...

Teaching English can open up a world of opportunities – quite literally. Our Level 5 Trinity Cert TESOL course can give you the internationally-recognised qualification you need to teach English to speakers of other languages. The course is perfect i...

Kevin the Teenager might just have had a fair point... Remember him? One of Harry Enfield’s funnier, best-observed, most recognisable characters – even on film, trying so hard and failing so comically to ‘go large’ in Ibiza with his mate Perry. Kevi...

Assessment is about making judgments about learners’ competence through evidence that links to relevant outcomes relating to specific subjects or roles. This may be standards or qualification driven. Assessment should give learners’ the opportunity t...

The Assessors Guild is the Professional Membership Body for the assessor and quality assurance practitioner community. Assessors, both formative and End Point are at times under-represented and need professional recognition, particularly as this sect...

Demand for End Point Assessors Much has been written about the new arrangements for assessing apprentices and how different this is, with “new skills” needed. With large numbers of apprenticeship schemes already running, about to start, or in the pro...

We catch up with Mark Dawe, Chief Executive of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) for a series of podcasts around the developing World of Apprenticeships. This is the first in a series of podcasts and focusses on End Point As...