The Senior Leadership Apprenticeship has been a real development opportunity for me, stretching my learning and helping me contextualise what I have been taught into my business environment. The course has allowed me to step outside of my day to day activities and test my understanding of the subjects taught in both an academic and practical way. I have been able to embed skills I already have, build on these with lots of new ideas, and apply them practically.

As I progress in my career and move into more senior roles I felt a need to gain a greater understanding of business outside of my background and experiences in software development. Doing the Senior Leader Apprenticeship is giving me the opportunity to explore new areas, and relate them back to my previous experiences and my business. The apprenticeship side also ensures I can look for additional opportunities within my business to stretch myself in ways that support my development in a more focused way.

At SMEs, access to additional education can be limited by budgets, the Senior Leader Apprenticeship is incredible value in terms of breadth of topics, depth of content and quality of academic staff.