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Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement
2026-10-06 10:00 - 2026-10-13 13:00 (Europe/London) | Online
This Level 3 accredited qualification is designed to develop delegates practical assessing skills helping them to become effective assessors in a range of Post-16 contexts both in the workplace and in the classroom.

We anticipate that delegates will already be working in post-16 education as a teacher/ trainer/assessor or coach. Delegates may have a strong vocational background and will have moved into teaching/ assessing as a secondary career.

Through participation in this important strand of the Solvendis Teaching Excellence programme you will complete three modules to help you develop and craft your assessment skills.

Delivery will be led by an experienced member of the Solvendis Teacher Training Team with all workshops being conducted online via Teams or Zoom.

Workshop Dates and Times: 2 & 9 June 2026 (10.00 – 4.00 online).

Delegate fee £455 (plus vat) plus £78 awarding body registration fee – maximum 12 delegates.

Apprenticeship compliance for leaders
2026-10-06 14:00 - 2026-10-15 16:00 | Online
“An apprenticeship deliverer is only going to be compliant if they understand the real risks within their organisation”

This in-depth webinar series digs deeply into the realities of apprenticeship compliance.
Designed for managers and leaders who want strategies for apprenticeship compliance, these sessions bring to life the knowledge and understanding of the core rules and funding methodologies. Beyond the basic rules, you’ll look at the foundations of compliance across your organisation, and how curriculum, evidence system design and monitoring of implementation are integral to getting compliance right while also strengthening quality.

At the end of the series, you will:

Be able to critically evaluate compliance in your own area of operation
Have developed your understanding of best practice for reducing risk
Increased your knowledge of common errors and how to avoid them

We’ll take you through:

Key compliance principles – How it all should work
Risk in areas of operation
Managing the risk of rogue elements within your organisation
Safeguarding funding through the apprentice journey – the data needed
The three R’s, Right programme, Right learner, and Right employer
Compliance strategies
Common strategic errors

About your session

David Lockhart-Hawkins, SDN’s funding and compliance specialist will facilitate this series. After working in the sector for over 25 years, David has supported hundreds of providers to establish effective compliance systems. His in-depth understanding of funding and wider apprenticeship delivery gives him a unique insight into compliance across the organisation.

We’ve built this series so that providers can send middle and senior managers from all departments and areas on an intensive high-level compliance journey so that they can bring new ideas and best practice examples back into their organisations.

We highly recommend that you attend our Apprenticeship compliance fundamentals and what this means for your role series prior to attending these webinars. This will introduce all apprenticeship staff to the core apprenticeship rules and where their role fits in the compliance journey.

“Gave me a better understanding of how to improve quality through compliance audits and reviews within the company.”

“Very insightful, lots of great knowledge and handouts to help.”

– Previous event attendees

Booking and payment:

You can either attend live sessions or be sent the recordings and materials if you prefer to review them in your own time. You can also mix and match for whatever works best for your schedule.

If you have several staff who would benefit, let us know and we’ll send you details of the most cost-effective way of accessing the session.

If you’re a public sector body (e.g. Local Authority), and unable to book via card, please email us. When you make a booking, you agree to these Terms and Conditions (including those who request a booking via email and invoice)

SDN Mesma Group PD is designed for Government funded Training Providers. If you’re not a Government funded Training Provider but are still interested in attending please email events@strategicdevelopmentnetwork.co.uk to discuss your attendance in more detail before booking.

ALT Annual Conference 2026 - ALTC26: Learning without Edges
2026-10-20 08:00 - 17:00 | Holland House Hotel, Cardiff
In a world characterised by rapid technological innovation, shifting labour markets, social transformation, and ongoing uncertainty, learning can no longer be confined to a particular stage of life, institutional setting, or mode of delivery. Increasingly, learners will be required to move across educational, professional, and community contexts, engaging with opportunities that are flexible, personalised, and responsive to their evolving needs. Digital pedagogies and technologies are key to enabling this flexibility.

Learning Without Edges invites a collective exploration of how our community can help shape a future where learning is continuous, connected, and accessible to all. The conference theme recognises the role that digital can play in reimagining learning as a dynamic ecosystem that transcends traditional boundaries between formal and informal learning, education and employment, physical and digital environments, and local and global communities.

At the heart of this theme is a commitment to human-centred design, equity, and empowerment. We encourage debate about how digital tools and technologies can support learners throughout their lives while fostering agency, belonging, wellbeing, and resilience. We challenge you to consider how learning can be designed for uncertainty, ensuring that individuals, organisations, and societies can adapt and thrive in an ever changing world.

Streams

1. Designing for Flexibility Amid Uncertainty Exploring how digitally facilitated learning, curricula and assessment can be designed from the outset to respond to change, support multiple modes of engagement, diverse learner needs, and lifelong learning pathways.

2. Learner Agency and Empowerment Investigating how learners can play meaningful roles in shaping their own digital learning journeys, influencing provision, and developing the confidence, capabilities, and autonomy needed for lifelong engagement with learning.

3. Collaborative Partnerships for Digital Learning Exploring how institutions, employers, policymakers, regional development agencies, and community organisations can work together to create coherent, accessible, and responsive learning opportunities enabled by digital pedagogies and technologies.

4. Digital Ecosystems for Lifelong Learning Examining the policies, technologies, processes, cultures, and leadership approaches that support flexible lifelong participation through digitally enabled learning within organisations and institutions

5. Wildcard: Innovation without Edges This is a space for submissions that do not neatly fit into the other four categories. If your work represents a new domain of inquiry, an unconventional methodology or an unorthodox approach to digital learning and learning technology, we encourage you to submit under this strand. We particularly welcome contributions from colleagues working in under-represented areas of digital learning, including grassroots initiatives, informal learning spaces, or roles that are often overlooked in traditional contexts.

Please note: there is no dedicated AI strand, as AI‑related submissions should align with one of the strands above.

Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement
2026-12-08 10:00 - 2026-12-15 16:00 | Online
This Level 3 accredited qualification is designed to develop delegates practical assessing skills helping them to become effective assessors in a range of Post-16 contexts both in the workplace and in the classroom.
We anticipate that delegates will already be working in post-16 education as a teacher/ trainer/assessor or coach. Delegates may have a strong vocational background and will have moved into teaching/ assessing as a secondary career.
Through participation in this important strand of the Solvendis Teaching Excellence programme you will complete three modules to help you develop and craft your assessment skills.
Delivery will be led by an experienced member of the Solvendis Teacher Training Team with all workshops being conducted online via Teams or Zoom.
Workshop Dates and Times: 26 Feb & 3 March 2026 (10.00 – 4.00 online).
Delegate fee £455 (plus vat) plus £78 awarding body registration fee – maximum 12 delegates.
