1. Project report

The apprentice will compose a 10,000 (+/- 10%) written essay in which they will demonstrate all the assessed skills and knowledge.

The Project Report should cover the project terms of reference, the apprentice’s responsibilities, the action taken by the apprentice (in planning and executing the project) and results and conclusions. The report should be properly laid out as a business style report with an executive summary.

The report must include an annex containing a maximum of 4 pieces of evidence relating to the project. Example evidence may include software developed, spreadsheets, databases, models and analyses etc. This list is not definitive and other evidence sources are permitted. The annex must include a mapping of the evidence to the knowledge and skills assessed by this assessment method.

A typical Project Report is organised in the following way:

  • Executive summary. (This is no more than one side - which summarizes the content of the report. It must be comprehensible to someone who has not read the rest of the report.)
  • Introduction. (The scope or hypothesis of the project and terms of reference, setting the scene for the remainder of the report.)
  • Background. (A review chapter, describing the background work or research undertaken at the beginning of the project period.)
  • Work undertaken: Several chapters describing the work that has been undertaken.
  • Outputs. A chapter describing the outputs, deliverables or artefacts that have been produced as a result of the project.
  • Further work. (A chapter describing possible ways in which the work could be continued or developed.)
  • Conclusions. (A statement of conclusions relating to the work done, and outputs produced to the initial hypothesis and terms of reference.)
  • References, annex and appendices.