PAL Announced as Finalist for EPAO of the Year

Following our successful bid to be named Multi-Standard EPAO of the Year (SME) in the inaugural FAB EPA Award ealier this year, we are delighted to announce that PAL has been confirmed as a finalist for the FAB 2022 awards in the EPAO of the Year category. PAL is honoured to be short-listed alongside fantastic and esteemed end-point assessment organisations.  [...]

By |2022-09-21T10:28:13+01:00September 21st, 2022|News|

PAL Expands EPA Offer to New Sectors

We are very excited to announce that PAL is now approved to deliver end-point assessment for additional standards in other sectors. PAL is now able to offer EPA for the following apprenticeship standards: Early Years Practitioner Early Years Educator Early Years Lead Practitioner   Customer Service Practitioner Customer Service Speicialist Since 2017, PAL has been refining its EPA offer and [...]

By |2022-09-07T11:53:23+01:00September 7th, 2022|News|

PAL Takes Best-in-Class Award at Inaugural FAB EPA Awards

Further to our recent post about being shortlisted as a finalist at the inaugural Federation of Awarding Bodies EPA Awards, we are absolutely thrilled to share that PAL was judged to be the winner of the Multi-standard EPAO of the Year (SME) category. All category winners and those organisations judged as highly commended will be entered into the FAB [...]

By |2022-05-27T12:01:06+01:00May 20th, 2022|News|

PAL Shortlisted as Finalist for Inaugural FAB EPA Awards

We're absolutely delighted to announce that PAL has been shortlisted for the Federation of Awarding Bodies EPA Awards 2022! The awards ceremony celebrates the achievements of end-point assessment organisations over the past year and will take place at FAB's EPA 2022 Conference on the 19th of May. PAL is a finalist in the Multi-Standard EPAO of the Year (SME) [...]

By |2022-04-22T13:38:17+01:00April 22nd, 2022|Compliance, End Point Assessment, News|

Maximising the Benefits of Professional Discussion and Minimising Threats to Validity

This White Paper will review the use of Professional Discussion (PD) as an assessment method and will include an insight into the findings of published academic research, in particular a study by Ahmed, Pollitt & Rose (2009). What is Professional Discussion? This use of PDs has become increasingly significant in End-Point Assessment (EPA) either as a discrete component with [...]

By |2022-03-07T14:00:43+00:00February 14th, 2022|News|

ESFA Best Practice Guides for End-point Assessment

The ESFA has published three guides to support high-quality end-point assessment for apprenticeships.  Each guide is specific to either the apprentice, employer or training provider.  Contents include how best to prepare for end-point assessment and important information about resits and retakes.  The links to the documents can be found below: Apprentice Guidance Employer Guidance Training Provider Guidance [...]

By |2022-02-26T21:06:57+00:00September 28th, 2021|News|

The Importance of Funding Compliance

Successful providers must have effective funding compliance and data validation arrangements. My team are proud to be part of a service that is securing learning provision and funding to thousands of learners and their employers. An effective funding compliance regime is not only a source of financial safeguarding and assurance to training provider management, but it is also a [...]

By |2022-02-26T22:21:36+00:00October 22nd, 2018|Compliance, News|
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