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Great achievements at Macduff Shellfish with the Modern Apprenticeship programme. Candidates received their Modern Apprenticeship certificates in Food and Drink Operations at SCQF 5 and SCQF 6, [...]

To support the trainees at KR Cladding working on their SVQ Level 2 in Cladding Occupations (Construction), the team at Polaris Learning worked closely with Nicola Fraser at KR Cladding to put [...]

This is a question that we are often asked, and it is an important question.  Everyone recognises that assessors need to be technically competent before they can carry out assessment, [...]

KR Cladding (part of the KR Group) are specialists in cladding and roofing services.  The very nature of their work means that they rely on a having a highly trained and experienced team of [...]

Our approach to competency management systems has always been driven by helping our clients keep costs down while managing risk.   We are now providing considerable cost savings [...]

Delivering emotional intelligence training virtually has been another new challenge for us recently at Polaris Learning but it has been a great success. The Story so Far:We had just started [...]

As we get more experienced in a particular topic, we try to breakdown our experience into some rules of thumb.  Having been involved in setting up assessment systems and assessing since the [...]

We have written about critical thinking at Polaris Learning before, as it is something so relevant to everyone that we work with, regardless of their role. Yet just now as we all adjust to the [...]

This was the challenge facing one of our consultants. We were part way through delivering this team development programme when social distancing and then the lockdown was introduced, and it was [...]

We have just been reflecting on a very large competency management system project that we have recently concluded. It has been two years of working very closely with the drilling client across [...]