Functional Skills – Guided Learning Hours
The Minister of State for Apprenticeships and Skills has outlined the government’s expectation that guided learning hours for reformed Functional Skills qualifications should be set at 55.
Main Tag: Functional Skills
Essential digital skills framework
Five categories of essential digital skills for life and work: see the newly published Essential Digital Skills framework, which will form the basis for revised digital skills qualifications, including Functional Skills ICT.
Understanding the Role of Advanced Practitioners in FE
This research outlines the use and perceived impact of advanced practitioners to date, highlights effective practice, and provides practical illustrations and learning points.
OTLA Digital Projects North East & Cumbria
Find out how practitioners used action research to discover the most effective ways to spread and embed effective practice in the use of technology to support Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment.
Maths and English functional skills: revised subject content
The Government response to the consultation on the revised subject content has been published, along with the revised subject content for Functional skills English and Functional Skills maths.
Blended and face-to-face adult learning: research report
This report, from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, describes a randomised control trial (RCT) into the relative effectiveness of face-to-face compared to blended learning for adult English and maths learning.
Bitesize Functional Skills
New interactive resources to support functional skills maths and English are now available on the BBC Bitesize website
OTLA North East and Cumbria
The Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment OTLA North East and Cumbria programme enabled groups of providers to research and develop new teaching, learning and assessment approaches.
Barnsley MBC Adult & Family Learning
Here at Barnsley, we live and work by four important values: honesty, teamwork, excellent service, and taking pride in what we do. As part of our team, you can be sure we’ll do all we can to support you in being truly excellent.
Newcastle College
Newcastle College aspires to be a great place to work. We attract individuals who are adaptable and keen to create and meet new challenges for the organisation. We are flexible, hardworking and passionate about what we do. We are fully committed to supporting and investing in staff and offer a good benefit package.
Redbridge Institute
We are a successful local adult education service in the London Borough of Redbridge recruiting almost 5000 adult part-time learners annually to a wide variety of programmes including Skills for Life, business, ICT, childcare, education, languages, art and crafts, and health and wellbeing.
London Borough of Lewisham
Adult Learning Lewisham run a number of English and Maths courses at different levels and all of our English and maths courses are free. We also offer ESOL, ICT and an extensive family learning programme.