Unlocking Potential: the Coates review
This report from Dame Sally Coates, published in 2016, sets out recommendations for putting education at the heart of the prison regime, unlocking the potential in prisoners and reducing reoffending.
Main Tag: Functional Skills
Functional skills reform – employer consultation key findings
An update on the consultations, including the employer consultation key findings. The consultations have been designed to achieve an up-dated set of standards, functional skills subject content and, ultimately, functional skills maths and English qualifications, recognised and valued by employers.
Functional Skills Qualifications
Information and resources available from awarding organisations to help you deliver functional skills qualifications in English and maths.
Gateway Qualifications
Our staff enjoy a lively, professional, hard-working team environment. The whole organisation is customer-focused, working with schools, colleges, charities and other learning providers across the country.
Ruskin Mill Trust – Freeman College
Ruskin Mill Trust is a diverse charitable organisation which operates a network of quality services. We have opportunities for teachers of functional skills and GCSE maths and English in our three residential colleges for young adults with special educational needs.
Calderdale College
At Calderdale College we recognise that our success is dependent on recruiting the best and most talented staff. Join us and you will become part of a very successful and dynamic team committed to ensuring that our learners are inspired to excel.
Functional Skills Qualifications requirements
This resource from Ofqual will help you understand the current functional skills qualifications requirements.
Functional Skills Initial Assessment
This information on the Excellence Gateway website provides pointers to enable you to develop your own functional skills initial assessment tool.
Courses starting in January/February at the University of Sunderland
The University of Sunderland have places available on the following courses starting in January/February 2013: Level 5 Diploma in Teaching Mathematics (Numeracy); Professional Graduate/Certificate in Post Compulsory Education and Training (blended learning).
New accelerated, blended DTLLS and Additional Diploma programmes
These programmes offer literacy, numeracy and Functional Skills teachers the opportunity to become fully qualified more quickly. Courses are delivered by the Essential Skills Resource Centre, University of Warwick, who have successfully taught programmes for the last 8 years.
Moving from Key Skills to Functional Skills: A step by step guide
This practical guide ‘Moving from Key Skills to Functional Skills’ is aimed at all skills providers making the transition to Functional Skills qualification delivery within Apprenticeships from September 2012.
First class blended learning for Functional Skills from MindLeaders
This month MindLeaders releases U-skills for Functional Skills, a new blended learning model to deliver the tougher basic skills qualifications in Maths and English. Already proven in pilots with workplace learners, the blended solution uses ePortfolios to introduce collaborative online learning to Functional Skills delivery for the first time.