Meta-skills
As a learning provider, you must consider how you'll support all apprentices to develop their meta-skills. No matter what frameworks your apprentices do, it's vital that you help them strengthen their meta-skills.
On this page, you'll find information and resources to help you embed meta-skills in your apprenticeship training.
Guidance and tools for meta-skills delivery
Guidance for meta-skills delivery in the Modern Apprenticeship programme, August 2025 (Word) – use this document as a guide to help you deliver and record the development of meta-skills within a Modern Apprenticeship framework
Meta-skills profiling tool (PDF) – this tool will support you to develop an awareness of meta-skills and how they relate to your role or project
Meta-skills self-assessment tool (PDF) – in this exercise, you'll carry out a self-assessment of the 12 meta-skills to understand where you are currently, what strengths you think you have and where you'd like to develop
Blank templates for recording meta-skills development (Word) – use this document to log apprentices' meta-skills development
Meta-skills e-learning module (register or sign in to eNetLearn to access this) — educate yourself, or your staff, about meta-skills and how you can embed them in apprenticeship delivery
Video resources to support meta-skills delivery
Meta-skills video resources, 2025 (videos) – this collection of videos provides practical examples of meta-skills in workplace contexts
Meta-skills Community of Practice
Meta-skills Community of Practice PowerPoint slides, December 2024 (PowerPoint)
Meta-skills Community of Practice Summary Feedback, December 2024 (Word) – learn about the range of approaches taken to delivering and evidencing meta-skills throughout apprenticeships
Meta-skills Community of Practice, March 2024 (YouTube video)
Meta-skills Community of Practice Learning Points, March 2024 (Word) – explore a summary of the key learning points from the Community of Practice event
