New Report by CIC Task & Finish Group on Apprenticeship Assessment Reform

Prepared by a Task & Finish Group of the Construction Industry Council’s (CIC) Education & Future Skills Committee, it examines the implications of apprenticeship assessment reform for technical and professional apprenticeships in the construction and built environment.

 Supported by the Built Environment Futures Assembly (BEFA) and the Technical Apprenticeship Consortium, the Group examined how planned changes to apprenticeship assessment could affect routes into professions such as surveying, civil engineering, building services engineering, planning and architecture.

 Across 30 technical and professional occupations at Levels 3 to 7, the report identifies more than 40,000 apprenticeship starts, and nearly 8,000 achievements, since August 2017, with a 93% pass rate for those who reach final end point assessment.

 Against that backdrop, the report argues that assessment reform should be judged against one clear test: whether it maintains or improves the quality of competence outcomes in a sector where public safety, regulatory compliance and professional judgement are critical.

Read the report here.