City and Guilds Functional Skills Courses

The value of Functional Skills

Functional Skills are the fundamental academic building blocks that people need for their working and personal lives.

Functional Skills are spread over three disciplines, and provide learners with a solid grounding in each, that can either be applied towards further study, or used in the workplace; English, Maths and ICT.

The UK Government developed the Functional Skills programme as part of an initiative to improve the country’s literacy and mathematics standards. Functional skills are an alternative way for those learners who did not gain certain GSCEs to obtain UK educational standards for English, Maths and ICT that are recognised by bother employers and adult/further education institutions.

English, Maths and ICT are essential subjects that are included in most training and education programmes. They are a required component of Diplomas, Foundation Learning Programmes and Apprenticeships, and provide a springboard for a career in almost any UK industry.

Functional Skills can also be undertaken in preparation for sitting a GCSE exam in the associated subject. Many learners who study Functional Skills use them as a refresher course before an exam resit.

Qualifications

Each academic discipline has its own Functional Skills qualification, awarded by the City & Guilds foundation:

• Functional Skills – Maths
• Functional Skills – English
• Functional Skills – ICT

Each of our Functional Skills training courses can either be taken up as a learning programme with an exam, or as a standalone exam in the relevant discipline.

All of our Functional Skills course offerings are Ofqual accredited and verified by City & Guilds.

Methods of study

Our Functional Skills training courses can either be conducted in person, or at one of our London training venues.

 

You can study towards Functional Skills qualifications from the comfort of your own home, or even alongside your current career. Exams are either conducted remotely, or onsite at a training venue in London.

 

All of our courses are delivered by accredited tutors that tailor the delivery of the material to each learner’s need.

 

Take a look at what we offer below. If you don’t find what you need, get in touch so we can point you in the right direction.

 

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