Yet again apologies for a lonnnnnnng delay since last blog - May and the start of June are really busy times when you are a tutor at Kaplan as many of the various exams that students do are held around this time so we are teaching lots of revision courses.

Hopefully you are all looking forward to a good rest after your exams, whether you have been doing A levels, AS levels, GCSEs or end of year exams, I hope you have exicting plans for the summer - inlcuding attending a Kaplan

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Take a look at the 12 new Kaplan scholars appointed this year!

http://www.kaplanapprenticeships.co.uk/page/new-scholars-2010

Find out a bit about their experiences during the interview process and their career aspirations. In July all of the scholars are invited to visit the AAT Head Quarters for their official award ceremony.

Well done to them al

Hello bloggers!

It’s been a while since I’ve been updated my blog and I’m sure you’ve all been

Hi everyone,

This week we presented the shields to the winning schools and colleges for our 2 scholarships this year.

Joshua Precious from South Holderness Technology School was presented with the shield and certificate by centre manager for Hull, Sally Jones and the Headmaster Martin Cooper recieved the shield for the 2nd time in 2 years. The South Holderness Gazette came along from the local media. In Hull all 5 of the scholarship finalists have now been placed

Well it has been ages since I introduced myself on this blog and started to give you some insight into what might await you if you choose life as an accountant - I hope it whetted your appetite but if life as an auditor didn't sound like you then don't worry -that is just one option for accountnats to follow and there are many more - that is what makes it such a great profession to enter.

As you can see from the blogs of some of my colleagues, life at Kaplan is really busy at t

I would like to say a BIG well done and Good Luck to Nicole Ward who is starting a full time Accountancy position at Hall Liddy in Manchester today. Nicole will be starting the Foundation AAT qualification in September with Kaplan.

I would also like to say Congratulations to Danika Bradley who has been offered a position at Hitachi Europe in Bolton and has accepted. Danika will be starting AAT Technician Level with Kaplan in September. Well done Danika, and good luck.

Welcome back to my blog!

Kaplan Scholarship

I attended my school careers open evening having some idea of what it would be that I would like to do after completing my A Levels. I had previously been on work experience and choose to do accountancy on the work experience week. I really

Hello everyone,

Congradulations to our 2 scholarship winners from the 23rd March in Hull and 25th March in Grimsby. Both employer panels were very impressed with the standard of all the applicants.

Joshua Precious from South Holderness Technology College won the Hull scholarship.

James Fussey from John Leggott College Scunthorpe won the Grimsby scholarship.

They will both be invited down to London to collect their awards at the AAT o

The Manchester and Preston scholarship panel took place on Tuesday 23rd March 2010. There were six finalists that were selected to take part in the final interviews, four from Manchester and two from Preston. It was a very hard decision this year as all the applicants that attended were very strong candidates and were very ambitious.

I am happy to announce that the Kaplan scholarships 2010 have been awarded and will be announced shortly.

I would like to t

If you came to see Kaplan at the recent Skills Event at the Richo Arena in Coventry then we hope you enjoyed taking part in the Kaplan Challenge. Congratulations to Bailey who won the prize draw. Bailey is now the proud owner of a new Acer Laptop and Windows office student pack. The Kaplan stand even featured on BBC Coventry News, so without knowing some of you were even on the TV, look out for a clip on our website soon. If you would like any more advice about our Apprenticeships, please giv

Are you interested in studying AAT, Business Administration or Customer Service as an apprentice but haven't got a suitable job? Let me help you! As part of my job I try and help young people into employment so that they can study their preferred qualfication as well as working, gaining the hands on experience and getting paid for it!!! In London our CV service has been very successful, since January I have placed 9 people in employment and their now studying with us...so it does work!! If yo

Yesterday we had the final interviews to decide the Reading Scholarship winner.

It has been a closely fought competition - 9 candidates were invited in to give a presentation on "why I should win the Kaplan Scholarship". The judging panel were not given any information about the candidates, other than their name. So it was up to each individual to make the most of their 10 minute slot.

5 were chosen to come back and yesterday faced a panel of interviewers from Re

Welcome back! Since my last blog entry I have managed to shortlist five applicants for the Kaplan Accountancy Scholarship. The five shortlisted applicants have been invited to our Leeds training centre for an interview on Thursday 25 March 2010. Alongside an interview, the students have been asked to give a short 10-minute presentat

My name is Andy Bradley and I am the head of AAT at Kaplan. You might be wondering what AAT means, well let me start by saying that in Accountancy we seem to use a lot of acronyms so get used to them! AAT means the Association of Accounting Technicians 9 wihc you would know already if you have been reading this website with interest!) but for you guys it means the awarding body for our Accountancy Apprenticeship.

You may well be considering if an Accountancy Apprenticeship is f

HI everyone this is my first ever blog, I have been the Apprenticeship Coordinator for the Humber region which includes East Yorkshire, Hull , North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire for the last 3 years. Previously to that I worked for another Training Provider and developed their NVQ's from scratch in 1993 for engineering disciplines.

This is the 3rd year that we have run the scholarship programme with last years Grimsby scholarship winner about to complete his AAT Intermediat

Welcome to the latest instalment of Brian’s Accountancy Blog (BABble).

I work in the Kaplan Bristol office and it’s been a pleasure to coordinate the scholarship applications which we have received over the last few weeks. After short listing 4 suitable candidates, on Wednesday we carried out the interviews and appointed our new Bristol 2010 scholar, Abi Babbage. Abi won this scholarship by demonstrating a real passio

Here's an article which gives you all of the benefits of taking on an apprentice particularly in small businesses:

http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/33676

Kaplan can help you find talented young apprentices to help grow your business. Email your vacancies to steponup@kaplan.co.uk to start the process!

Gill