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Annex B

Degree Apprenticeships

Responsibilities

As well as the Department Assessment Board responsibilities, there are additional responsibilities relating to students on Degree Apprenticeships. These are the responsibility of Apprenticeship Progression Boards (APB).

The additional responsibilities are:-

To monitor progress against the relevant apprenticeship framework or standard in accordance with Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) funding and monitoring rules. This includes:-

Off the job learning
attendance
Employer engagement
Knowledge, skills and behaviour
Gateway requirements
End Point Assessment Outcomes
To identify students who require intervention in order to close the attainment gap for referral to the relevant department/committee.

To ratify individual students who meet the required prescribed criteria to progress to Gateway leading to the End Point Assessment (EPA).
To monitor the EPA status of non-integrated and integrated apprenticeships.
To identify issues in the attainment of apprenticeship students compared to non-apprenticeship students (where the course is delivered to both apprenticeship and non-apprenticeship students) and compared to other cohorts of apprenticeship students.

Constitution and operation

The constitution of Apprenticeship Progression Boards is as follows:

Members	Role
Chair – Head of Department, or exceptionally nominee (as agreed by the Dean of College)	Managing conduct and business of the Board in line with agreed procedures. Oversight of Degree Apprenticeships. Oversight of adherence to apprenticeship frameworks and/or standards. Oversight of External Examiner contribution.
Departmental apprenticeship lead	Oversight of Department Degree Apprenticeships. Oversight of adherence to Department apprenticeship frameworks and/or standards.
Apprenticeship Course Leader for every course, or nominee	Oversight at course level.
Work-based learning coaches	Oversight of the individual apprenticeship progression.

Department Assessment Boards (DABs) will continue to ratify the module/course marks for apprenticeship provision. However, where departments require additional Apprenticeship Progression Boards to run outside the March, July and November board periods to confirm completion of Gateway and progression to End Point Assessment, the Apprenticeship Progression Board by exception are permitted to ratify module/course marks alongside the additional apprenticeship monitoring to permit progression. The constitution for Apprenticeship Progression Boards where module/course marks are being ratified is as follows (additional members in italics):-

Members	Role
Chair – Head of Department, or exceptionally nominee (as agreed by the Dean of College)	Managing conduct and business of the Board in line with agreed procedures. Oversight of Degree Apprenticeships. Oversight of adherence to apprenticeship frameworks and/or standards. Oversight of External Examiner contribution.
Departmental apprenticeship lead	Oversight of Department Degree Apprenticeships. Oversight of adherence to Department apprenticeship frameworks and/or standards.
Apprenticeship Course Leader for every course, or nominee	Oversight at course level.
Work-based learning coaches	Oversight of the individual apprenticeship progression.
Module Leaders for all modules being considered at the APB	Reporting of any issues with assessment of modules (including scaling), by exception. Otherwise assume module assessed in accordance with regulations, module descriptor and academic framework including moderation.
Head of Academic Administration or nominee	Oversight of compliance with regulations and processing of assessment.
Course External Examiners	Oversight of adherence to regulations.
Departmental Apprenticeship External Examiner	Oversight of adherence to apprenticeship frameworks and standards.
Secretary (from Registry Services)	Organisation and recording of decisions.

In order for the APB to be quorate, the meeting must include:

Chair
Work-based learning coach
A Course Leader
An External Examiner (via prior communication if unable to attend)
Secretary

Assessment Policies and Regulations