Functional Skills conference

London on Tuesday 16th November.
click here to get to deatils of the Functional Skills event with guroo as main sponsors.

Functional Skills weightings

Delivery information in 2010/11
Functional Skills in English, Mathematics and ICT delivered through 16-18 and
ALR will be unlisted. Where Functional Skills are delivered as part of an
Apprenticeship Framework as a direct replacement for key skills, they will continue
to be listed at 0.08 SLN. This applies to all age Apprenticeships.
Functional Skills in English, Mathematics and ICT delivered [...]

Major Functional Skills conference announced

November 16th, London.
A conference dedicated to functional skills featuring key note speakers from industry, practitioners and ofqual as well as a marketplace featuring all the exam bodies and resource providers.
Book here.

Issues with the costs or complexity?

Picked up by Jonathan Wells of Guroo Functional Skills.
The exam board with the biggest share of the Diploma has called for it to be simplified after figures showed that a disappointingly small number of pupils completed the qualification this year.
Only 3,069 pupils were awarded a full Higher Diploma - judged equivalent to GCSEs - this [...]