Functional Skills Annual Survey

The Functional Skills Annual Survey is out now.
It takes about 5 minutes to complete and your answers are most helpful in being to pull together a national picture of Functional Skills.
If you received a request directly, please click on the link, if you haven’t received a personalised request, please click on the link above.

Apprenticeships programmes survive funding cuts

The TES is reporting this week that funding cuts from apprentice programmes will not be cut. The report isn’t clear which programmes were likely to be affected but that’s now immaterial, as the SFA has backed off, it seems.

Army backs Functional Skills

Functional Skills will become the qualification of choice for all soldiers in the British Army. We understand that from next year, every soldier will be expected to complete a level 2 Functional Skills course in both maths and English as part of their training.
Taken with the last possible date of September 2012 for the [...]

School “report card” back under a different name?

It looks like the Government wants to broaden the performance measures of schools to include lots of new things such as basic standards of literacy and numeracy (Functional Skills) and actual pass marks of GCSE.
They call it the score card - whatever it’s called, it sounds like a good idea to me as it will [...]

On line testing debate

This is a video of the debate chaired by Education Journalist Warwick Mansell and hosted by Pearson. Makes for an interesting view of on-line testing, especially as Functional Skills is very definitely at the forefront of this technology.

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