Confirmed Exhibitors
Headline Sponsor - Smart Apprentices
Smart Apprentices, award winning ‘out of the box’ technology for outstanding apprenticeships.Smart Apprentices, winners of 2017 Global Excellence Award: Most Outstanding E-Portfolio Tracking Software, have created a suite of innovative technologies for apprenticeship training providers, like you, to give you everything you need ‘out of the box’ to deliver outstanding apprenticeships. Our suite of technology platforms can be used individually or blended together, we have ‘out of the box’ investment models to suit all sizes of providers, e-mail Danny.Taylor@smartapprentices.com to find out more.
FAS: Employer levy calculator developed with Nick Linford, editor of FE Week
Not a CV: Apprentice Recruitment Hub
SVLE: Functional skills, Mathematics and English diagnostics and resources
Smart Assessor: Electronic portfolio tracks apprentices progression from initial assessment to end point gateway
Smart EPA: Exclusively designed for End Point Assessment
visit: www.smartapprentices.com email: Danny.Taylor@smartapprentices.com phone: 0845 460 4440 twitter: @smartassessor
Stand 1 - QDP Services
QDP have been assisting the Education and Skills Sector to run student (including apprentices), employer, staff and parent/carer surveys for over 20 years. QDP’s survey package helps demonstrate stakeholder engagement, highlights strengths and areas for development to support self-assessment.
- Destination Surveys – gain the required data for the ILR and funding. We will also merge data collected by you to provide a full set of reports including course reports.
- Survey Manager – web based toolkit which allows you to create, run and analyse surveys. Easy to use, incorporates all QDP’s knowledge, unique external benchmarking and a full set of questionnaire models.
- Gold Service – QDP will act as your survey team and do everything for
you!
visit:
www.qdpservices.co.uk email: enquiries@qdpservices.co.uk call: 01625 501917 follow:
@qdpservices
Stand 2 - Skillwise
With the arrival of the New Apprenticeship Standards, End-Point
Assessment and changes in off the job training requirements, managing your
apprenticeship delivery has never been more challenging.
Fortunately, SkillWise’s leading e-portfolio VQManager is
here to help you.
Providing views for all parties including employers,
VQManager provides a wealth of functions and reports so that you can be certain
that your apprentices will be well prepared for End Point Assessment.
Come and speak to us about other organisations in your
sector that rely on VQManager.
visit: www.skillwise.net email: uksales@skillwise.net call: 07939279318
Stand 3 - InPlace Software
Work based learning, co-operative learning and work integrated learning is a cumbersome administrative exercise.
A single operational placement management solution integrating assessments, logbooks, surveys and financials results in compelling executive level analytics and management reporting that can assist with strategic planning.
visit:
www.inplacesoftware.com email: info@inplacesoftware.com call: 0207 096 2152
Stand 4 - MWS Technology
The employer CRM enables you to track and focus your sales processes (placements or apprenticeships) with employers and capture opportunities. You can create employer paperwork, including digital signatures, and ensure completion and compliance.
Aptem has talent pool and recruitment functionality so you can enable a smooth journey from being a student to securing an apprenticeship. Successful applicants pass seamlessly into Aptem’s remote paperless onboarding with electronic signatures.
Aptem’s integrated eLearning, eAssessment and ePortfolio facilitate learning delivery with the automated capture of evidence of learning. An ILR funding file is created that can either be submitted directly to the hub or imported into your college funding platform.
With Aptem you get seamless data flows, the elimination of paperwork, no double-keying of information, real-time insight into performance of your various programmes and efficient delivery – and you get all of this either standalone or integrated with other college systems.
Meanwhile, Aptem is easy for learners to use and your employers get a login from where they can see the progress of all student placements and apprenticeships.
End-to-end technology means efficiency. To find out more, please contact us or visit our stand.
visit: www.mwstechnology.com/apprenticeships email: info@mwstechnology.com phone: 020 7870 1000 linkedin: MWS Technology Ltd twitter: @MWSTechnology
Stand 5 - Learning Curve Group
For over a decade we have either directly delivered or provided services which support vocational programmes and short courses which meet the needs of employers and individuals alike.
We are the largest publisher of specialist FE materials at levels two and three and creator of truly ground-breaking online and paper distance learning resources that support people to learn new skills to advance their careers. This allows us to help over 100,000 learners a year achieve a nationally recognised qualification.
And, as an education innovator, we constantly adapt our products and services and invest heavily in the development of our online capabilities, which create a better learning experience and bring significant efficiency savings to partners.
visit:
www.learningcurvegroup.co.uk email: Tom.aust@learningcurvegroup.co.uk call: 07773 065097
Stand 6 - ForSkills
70% of all learners in the Apprenticeship and Training Provider sectors will use ForSkills products. But did you know that these days, ForSkills is so much more than English and maths.
- SkillsPortfolio and ForSkills Go is a fully integrated e-portfolio system and mobile app
- SkillsBuilder is the de facto standard for maths and English initial assessment and diagnostic
- BESTest is a brand new employability assessment developed originally by Reed and NCFE
- Plus specialist assessments for Mechanical Reasoning and ESOL have been developed by us in conjunction with major customers such as Jaguar Land Rover and Capita
ForSkills is part of the NCFE group of companies.
visit: www.forskills.co.uk email: info@forskills.co.uk call: 01623 709818
AELP
The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) is the leading trade association for vocational learning and employment providers in Britain. The majority of its 840+ members are independent, private, not-for-profit and voluntary sector training and employment services organisations.
Membership is open to any provider committed to quality provision and it includes over 40 FE colleges involved in work-based learning. AELP members deliver the majority of Apprenticeships, Traineeships, English and maths in the workplace and programmes for the unemployed including the Work Programme. For more information, please visit the homepage.
