Here at IfATE, we work with employers to develop, approve, review and revise apprenticeships and technical qualifications. Our work aims to make sure apprenticeships and technical education are of the highest quality. This helps to give every employer and individual …
Solicitor apprentices are outperforming those taking the more traditional academic route into law. Apprentice pass rates for the Solicitor Qualifying Examinations (SQE) are, on average, 26% higher than the overall pass rate. Hamza Islam, at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, shared …
There are currently six different apprenticeships available in the legal pathway, which is an ever-growing part of IfATE's legal, finance and accounting route. From paralegal to licensed conveyancer, there are options for whatever stage you are at of a legal …
This week is National Apprenticeship Week 2023. To celebrate, we want to introduce some of IfATE's own apprentices, who are part of a newly formed apprentice network within the organisation. Following the latest apprentice panel survey, six recommendations were made, …
December 3rd is the United Nations' International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Former double Paralympic swimmer Amy Marren is a solicitor apprentice and member of IfATE's panel of apprentices. Here, she gives her thoughts as a disabled person in the …
October is Black History Month and this year’s theme is ‘Time for Change: Action not Words’. As an arms’-length body developing apprenticeships and technical qualification for talented people around England, we want to make sure that we are supporting and …
Our Digital Trailblazer Groups (TBG) have been hard at work moving their respective standards through the initial drafting phase as part of our Digital Route Review,and are continuing to seek employer members from relevant sectors. Please don’t be shy. If …
In the 30 months or so that the Institute has been in existence, we have made significant progress in delivering the Government’s technical education reforms. Focusing on apprenticeships first, more than 500 ‘standards’ (new apprenticeships replacing the old frameworks) are …
Jonathan Mitchell is Head of Standards Development at the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (the Institute). He previously spent 17 years as a teacher and ultimately a senior leader in schools across the country. He takes the opportunity below, …
I have worked in financial services for a very long time and have been privileged to witness first-hand many innovations and changes in the industry, everything from the creation of the credit card industry, the deregulation in the 1980s, the …
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