Vocational Qualifications, Online Courses, Coaching, Personal and Professional Development
Work-Based Housing Qualifications: A Smarter Route to Your Level 4 or Level 5 Achieve your Level 4 or Level 5 housing qualification through work-based learning: bite-sized, online, coached one to one, and built around the job you do. You already manage tenancies, lead teams, handle complaints and make decisions that affect residents every day. So […]
You are already doing the job. Now it’s time to get recognition for it. If you manage housing services, you already know the pressure the sector is under. Under the Competence and Conduct Standard which comes into effect from 1st October 2026 all managers will now need to achieve an accredited qualification either at Level […]
If you are responsible for getting your housing managers qualified based on the requirements of the new Competence and Conduct Standard, you need more than a provider who can process paperwork. You need one who can actually get your people across the line, on time, without your team dropping out along the way. That is […]
The UK Skills Gap – A Growing Challenge You Can’t Afford to Ignore The UK is facing a skills crisis. The skills gap costs the UK economy an estimated £39 billion annually, with digital deficits alone accounting for £63 billion in lost potential GDP. Meanwhile, Skills England has reported clear evidence of a gap between […]
Mental health is just as important as physical health, and yet there are so many people who don’t want to admit to this. Instead, they are perfectly happy only caring for their physical health, and they are putting their mental health right at the back of the queue. This is not okay, and it’s not […]
Over the last few weeks, we’ve written a lot about assessment: about the growing shortage of assessors across the UK, about what recent regulatory failures tell FE providers, and about what it actually looks like when someone moves from experienced practitioner to qualified assessor. Pull those threads together and one theme runs through all of […]
At Aim Higher Training, we’ve always believed that the right qualification, at the right time, can change the trajectory of someone’s career. The hard part is often simply finding it. So we’re pleased to share that we’ve partnered with findcourses.co.uk, one of the UK’s best-known training marketplaces. This will make our courses easier to discover […]
How one health and social care professional gained the confidence, skills and qualifications to transform her organisation’s approach to workplace learning. Sarah had spent twelve years working in health and social care. She knew the sector inside out, the pressures, the people, the pace. What she didn’t have was a formal qualification in assessment. When […]
If you work in the FE sector and you have been considering whether to become a qualified assessor, here is something worth knowing: the timing has rarely been better. Across the UK, demand for skilled, credentialled assessors is outpacing supply, and that gap is widening. Whether you work in housing, health and social care, business […]
Recent assessment failures carry a powerful message for every FE provider following the latest fine issued by Ofqual to Cambridge English. The sector is once again reminded that assessment quality is not simply a compliance exercise. But that it sits at the very heart of learner confidence, organisational reputation and public trust. Over the past […]
