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AI skills & apprenticeship guidance

Make sense of AI skills. Find the right development route.

Clear, independent guidance to help employers and individuals understand the skills they need, explore relevant apprenticeships and choose their next step.

What do you need help with?

Choose the route that matches your question.

Capability, personal direction and programme choice are connected, but they answer different questions. Start where you are; none of these tools is a compulsory first step.

  1. 01I need to understand our organisationUse the AI Capability CheckSee an indicative picture of AI use, practical enablement and leadership across your organisation.
  2. 02I am exploring development for myselfFind your individual pathwayReflect on your role and discover whether an AI User, Enabler or Leader direction is the closest starting point.
  3. 03I already know the development needFind relevant programmesExplore apprenticeship directions by the work someone needs to do, without taking an assessment first.

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The organisational check looks at AI use, enablement and leadership. Programme discovery also includes specialist technical routes for people who build and maintain AI and data solutions.

Illustrative example — not your assessment result

See the kind of picture the Capability Check provides.

Current position

Developing AI capability

The responses describe meaningful progress in AI adoption, alongside variation across people, systems and leadership conditions.

Observations

Users

Responses describe useful workplace adoption, although experience may not yet be consistent across every team or role.

Enablers

Responses describe data, systems, workflow or ownership conditions that are still at an early stage across the organisation.

Leaders

Responses describe visible leadership conditions, with some aspects of direction, governance or change ownership still varying.

Areas worth investigating

  • — Everyday AI use is limited or concentrated in small pockets of the workforce.
  • — AI experiments are not yet translating into consistent workflow improvement.

Useful next step

Check your organisation

Synthetic responses processed by the live assessment logic. Indicative guidance based on one person's answers, not an employee skills audit or external benchmark.

Understand what you are comparing

The standard and the provider programme are not the same thing.

National standard

Defines the formal occupation, required knowledge, skills and behaviours, assessment plan and maximum funding band.

Provider delivery

Can differ in curriculum emphasis, projects, technology exposure, support and delivery approach. These practical details should be investigated in context.

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Independent, evidence-led guidance

Understand how the guidance works.

About us

Our role and approach to employer and individual guidance.

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Methodology & disclosure

How information is checked and where commercial relationships may exist.

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Human advice

Ask for contextual help without public provider rankings or pressure.

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Conversational guidance

Ask Marls — AI guide

Marls helps you identify the most relevant AI capability direction before exploring apprenticeships or other development routes.

AI guidance with an independent adviser option when human judgement is needed.

Industry intelligence

What is changing now

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Weekly briefing

A concise weekly update on AI skills, workforce development and apprenticeship routes.

A clearer next step

Need help choosing the next step?

See an indicative organisational snapshot, or speak to a human adviser about the workforce capability beneath it.

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