The online Hub forms part of our ongoing commitment to support young people caught up in the Covid crisis. By boosting innovation and excellence in training, we are helping to support more students and apprentices develop the high-quality standard of skills that employers need.

The Hub is free to access and contains tools and resources that utilise our unique insight into global best practice in skills development. It will support FE colleges and independent training providers to train more and more young people to world-class standards.

Our ‘How to’ guides for educators and learners will help guide you through the hub.

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Features of the Skills Development Hub

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Track and monitor progress and performance

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Integrate learning into remote or physical learning environments

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Educators can assign and allocate modules to learners

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Certification to recognise achievement

Benefits of the Hub

  • Interactive modules of learning across a range of vocational areas to support skills development especially whilst learning from remotely
  • Advance knowledge, skills, behaviours in a way the teachers and trainers can measure development and progression
  • Stretch and challenge technical skills development and gain new skills, techniques and / or practices
  • Build confidence, independence and resilience and develop transferable skills to support work and life
  • Support continuous professional development with up to 5 hours of CPD
  • Apply insights from global best practice to inform new techniques in teaching, training and learning
  • Apply insight from global best practice to inform new techniques in teaching, training and learning
  • Develop coaching techniques to develop confidence, independence and resilience in learners
  • Integrate learning into remote or physical learning environments
  • Raise aspirations and performance by embedding skills competitions practices to teaching & learning
  • Celebrate and reward achievement through certification on completion of learning
  • Assign and allocate modules of learning to individuals or groups of learners and track and monitor progress and performance

Educator resources

The following resources have been designed to support educators:

Embedding competition excellence

These resources give practical advice on embedding our skills competition methodology into the curriculum and training programmes, helping develop young people’s skillset and mindset to the highest possible levels so they can build their confidence and potential.

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Transferring global best practice

Our resources are designed for educators to assist in raising capacity in developing technical excellence in students and apprentices by drawing on our world-class expertise of international standards of best practice and will feature insights from experts globally.

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Coaching for high performance

Using lessons from elite sport, these modules introduce principles from performance psychology to help young people develop a high-performance mindset, boosting potential.

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Professional development resources

A suite of learning resources for educators to support their commitment to 30 hours CPD which range from digital literacy to health and safety. 

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Educator resources to use with students and apprentices

The following resources are designed for educators to use with students and apprentices:

Developing skills excellence

These resources will enhance and add value to a learner’s apprenticeship or technical education study programme. They’re for educators to support and excel the learner’s development within level 2 (England) or level 5 (Scotland) qualifications. 

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Technical Masterclasses

Using insight from our international training programmes, these resources will support young people in developing their skillset and mindset to the highest possible levels so they can build their confidence and potential.

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Productivity Skills

These modules introduce of the principles of lean to help young people understand workplace efficiency and how it can be achieved.

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Mindset Masterclasses

Our Mindset Masterclasses are a suite of ten bite sized learning modules and introduces the principles of the psychological characteristics of developing excellence (PCDE) to develop transferable skills to help students and apprentices become more confident, resilient and agile.

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How to guides

The hub is fantastic! As an educator it has helped enhance my teaching and made me feel that I am delivering to the best standards. It has also made me feel confident and feel very motivated to learn more about excellence practices.
Nadia Arab, Digital T level Lead at Havant and South Downs College

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