5 December 2023
Peep Practitioner Accreditation
Peeple use the AIM Qualifications and Assessment Group customised accreditation to support parents/carers and children to improve children's outcomes.
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12 October 2023
Why do we need public relations and communications personnel?
Discover the endless benefits an organisation experiences when recruiting public relations and communications personnel.
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1 September 2023
A Day in the Life of an End-Point Assessor: Sarah Colombini
EPA Assessor for the PR and Communications apprencticeship standard, Sarah Colombini, takes us through her day of an EPA assessor.
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4 July 2023
How to spot if a learner would make a good counsellor
Marketing and Communications Officer, Jas Jandu, shares her thoughts on the skills and qualities that make a good counsellor amongst students.
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19 June 2023
Keep your learners engaged before they start their course
Short bite-size courses in the first 42 days prior to starting a formal programme of study can boost learner confidence and help reduce attrition rates.
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6 June 2023
Welcome to the AIM Group's Commercial Directorate!
If you are a Recognised AIM Centre , it is very likely that the work of our dedicated Commercial Directorate has contributed to you joining us.
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2 June 2023
5 Top Tips for creating a portfolio.
We give you the top tips for creating a portfolio ready for your end-point assessment.
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1 June 2023
Seven simple steps to raise awareness of sustainability with learners
Jill Minter considers different options to raise awareness of sustainability with learners without causing eco-anxiety amongst young people.
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4 May 2023
Coaching in the Workplace
Coaching has never been more necessary than now and into the future.
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5 April 2023
Live Event Technicians: Top 5 skills
Apprenticeships are becoming an increasingly popular route into the events’ industry, with more than 500 Event Assistant apprentices entering the workplace between 2017 and 2021
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3 April 2023
How Functional Skills help centres support learners
Fabienne Bailey, Interim Director for Business Growth and Transformation talks about a new suite of qualifications that will help centres to support learners with the fundamental skills in English, Maths and ICT.
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1 March 2023
Retrofit Training and Professional Development: 5 Reasons to get AIM Qualified
AIM, in partnership with the Retrofit Academy developed a suite of retrofit qualifications to impact on the training, retrofit professionals require.
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1 March 2023
Assistant Recording Technician: Top tips for Gateway
Dave Tracey, AIM EPA Assessor for the Assistant Recording Technician apprenticeship standard, gives us his 5 top tips to prepare for Gateway.
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1 March 2023
Assistant Recording Technician: Preparing for your Assessments
Dave Tracey, AIM Assistant Recording Technician EPA Assessor, gives us his tips to prepare for apprenticeship assessments.
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1 February 2023
Top Six Tips to Good Content Writing
Every organisation, in every sector, requires somebody to produce content. But what makes good content?
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1 February 2023
Forest School – the boom in outdoor learning
The Forest Schools qualifications provide an alternative approach which not only supports educational achievement but provides a wealth of “value added” benefits to support individuals navigate the road back to the new norm.
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5 December 2022
The Past, the Present and the Future of the events industry
We look at how changes in technology, venues and the pandemic have effected the Past, the Present and the Future of the events industry.
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29 November 2022
What’s involved in the development and delivery of end-point assessments?
Our End-point Assessment Director, Debbie Tuisawau, explains a bit more about our approach and the teams involved in End-point assessment.
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28 October 2022
First Media Production Co-ordinator apprentice passes EPA with AIM
The first Media Production Co-ordinator apprentice, assessed by AIM Qualifications and Assessment Group, has successfully completed and passed her end-point assessment (EPA).
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13 October 2022
Three ways for AIM centres to stay safe online
It’s Cyber Security Awareness Month and we’re reminding our centres to take some proactive steps to protect themselves and their learners against cyber-crime this season.
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27 July 2022
How AIM customises qualifications for learners with physical disabilities
With a new Government green paper highlighting a focus on learners with physical disabilities, we look at how our qualifications give centres more flexibility.
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6 July 2022
How AIM Qualifications and Overworld Academy are helping to professionalise the world of esport
AIM's Esport Qualifications and Overworld Academy are innovatively offering the qualification to inspire the next generation of esports professionals.
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21 June 2022
A Week of Musical Celebration
This week is filled with events celebrating music, the music industry and musical events as World Music Day (21 June) lands loud and strong.
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17 June 2022
Learning Disability Week 2022
Learning Disability Week is a time for people living with a learning disability to share their story.
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26 April 2022
Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy
AIM Center Lead, Amanda Ibrahim, looks at the government’s sustainability and climate change strategy, and explains why one particular AIM qualification could be a key starting place to introducing environmental education to her centre’s curricula.
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13 April 2022
What is an EPAO?
In this blog we look at what an EPAO is and how an employer can choose to use AIM Assessment as their EPAO.
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6 April 2022
World Health Day 2022
This World Health Day we’re helping education and training centres provide their learners and future learners with the chance to create a #healthiertomorrow.
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5 April 2022
Has the COVID-19 pandemic changed online teaching?
We speak to Kate Hathernell, Head of Learning and Founder at the Interior Designers Hub, about if and how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed online teaching and how educational centres can benefit from online teaching.
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30 March 2022
The 5 W’s of Occupational Standards
We take a look at the 5 W's of ooccupational standards to help you understand how they can help you as an apprentice employer.
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9 February 2022
How flexi-job apprenticeships will change the creative industry forever
To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week we look at the introduction of flexi-job apprenticeships and their effect on the creative industry.
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7 October 2021
Cyber Security In Education
In this article we talk you through ways that cyber secuirty in education can be ensured and increased.
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10 August 2021
A Day in the Life of an End-Point Assessor: Tracey Cousins
Tracey Cousins, a specialist assessor takes us through a typical day in the life of an end-point assessor.
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18 July 2021
Esports - the future
In our latest blog, Katharine Pearce talks about the world of esports and how AIM Qualifications has worked with centres like Overworld to create an esports qualification to provide the sport with new professionals.
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21 June 2021
Armed Forces Week 2021
To celebrate Armed Forces Week 2021 we spoke with Petty Officer Ratu Tuisawau, partner of our very own Director of Compliance and Quality Assurance; Debbie Jump.
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14 May 2021
Mental Health Awareness Week 2021
Over the last week our team have been celebrating Mental Health Awareness Week by connecting with the outdoors and taking some amazing photos.
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15 April 2021
Q&A with QAA’s Julie Mizon
Recently our Moderation Manager, Sally Howard, sat down virtually with QAA’s Access to HE Manager, Julie Mizon for a Q&A session about her experience with Access to HE and the benefits of the qualification.
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29 March 2021
AIM Easter Egg Hunt
The Easter Bunny has left eggs around our website and asked us to find them but we need your help.
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19 March 2021
International Day of Happiness
To celebrate this year's International Day of Happiness, we asked the team to tell us one thing that made them happy outside of work and one thing that made them happy inside of work.
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8 March 2021
International Women’s Day 2021 #ChooseToChallenge - Liza-Jo
Liza-Jo talks about how a conversation on the bus in 1996 changed her life forever.
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8 March 2021
International Women’s Day 2021 #ChooseToChallenge - Linda Wyatt
Linda Wyatt talks openly about how her experiences of working in a male dominated sector have shaped her thoughts as CEO of AIM Group.
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3 February 2021
A day in the Life of an End-Point Assessment Delivery Officer: Gabi Brown
Gabi Brown, End-Point Assessment Delivery Officer, our very own Disney princess, talks about her day at AIM.
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27 November 2020
The “magic” of Access to Higher Education
Sally Howard, our Moderations Manager, believes in giving people a second chance at education. Here she talks about her experiences of Access to Higher Education diplomas.
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16 October 2020
AIMVOC Inclusivity at its best!
Sue Benton says "AIMVOC allows a ‘non-threatening’ approach to learning that builds confidence and skills for every learner"
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6 October 2020
AIMVOCs - For all learners
How do you ensure that learners who fall outside the national curriculum get good support for their educational and vocational development?
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17 June 2020
Protect our Creative Industries
The Creative Industries Federation are calling on government for a Cultural Renewal Fund for those who’ve been hit hardest.
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20 January 2020
Why AIMINVESTING IN YOUR FUTURE is good for business
In this month's blog Katharine Pearce explains why many AIM centres are also adopting the IF kitemerk
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21 October 2019
Attracting and retaining industry experts to deliver end-point assessment (a case study)
Phil Golding, Employer Partnership Manager at Strategic Development Network (SDN) talks to Delia Antoine Burdett, a PR and Comms professional (and now end-point assessor with AIM Assessment) to find out about her journey…
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27 August 2019
Are EPA costs too high?
Karen Hedger investigates why the price of EPA seem quite high in relation to the funding band
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9 August 2019
Removal of qualification funding by the Government
The Telegraph stated 'the Department for Education announces funding is to be removed for some vocational qualifications', but is this fake news?
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