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Essential Digital Skills

Functional Skills qualifications are designed to support you as you seek to improve your literacy, mathematic and digital skills and provide you with the fundamental knowledge required for everyday life. Achieving a qualification will increase your confidence and motivation, and the skills gained will aid you in the workplace or any further learning.

Functional Skills English

Functional Skills English qualifications are designed to help you improve your literacy skills and develop the confidence to use English effectively in everyday life, work and further study.

The course will support you to build practical English skills in reading, writing, speaking, listening and communication. You will explore relevant, real-life scenarios and develop the skills needed to communicate clearly, understand information, and respond confidently to unfamiliar situations.

This course is suitable for adults who already have a good foundation of English skills and would like to develop them further.

Functional Skills Maths

Functional Skills Maths qualifications are designed to help you improve your numeracy skills and develop the confidence to use maths in everyday life, work and further study.

Achieving a maths qualification can increase your confidence and motivation, while supporting progression in employment, further learning or career development.