This "Collaborative Organisational Learning" case study explores the use of professional dialogue to improve apprenticeship recruitment and retention in the Electrical department at Stourbridge College.

This resource comprises the outputs from one of a series of projects to test a range of approaches to improving and extending training and related business services for employers. The college realised that their systems, being geared for individual learners, needed updating. Their project also set out to improve the quality of their business service to employers through the development of a web-based portal.

A needs analysis of the 21 Higher Apprenticeship organisations, participating in the Higher Apprenticeship Fund in June 2012 identified engagement of both employers and employees as key challenges in order to generate starts on Higher Apprenticeship programmes, along with the financing of Higher Apprenticeships. In autumn 2012 a project was initiated to share and develop emerging practice on making the business case for Higher Apprenticeships. This resource comprises a number of outputs from the project, including a project overview, five case studies and two presentations.

A needs analysis of the 21 Higher Apprenticeship organisations, participating in the Higher Apprenticeship Fund in June 2012 identified engagement of both employers and employees as key challenges in order to generate starts on Higher Apprenticeship programmes, along with the financing of Higher Apprenticeships. In autumn 2012 LSIS facilitated a project with a number of Higher Apprenticeship Fund organisations to share and develop emerging practice in delivery and development of higher level skills.