Our bi-weekly look at the world of Functional Skills.
L2 maths student needs your help, an excellent video featuring functional skills, DCSF policy statements, news comments from The Times and a thank you to all our readers for making my April 1st!
Can you help? This newsletter starts with a plea for help. A young reader of the forum is getting very frustrated. He's passed everything except L2 Functional Skills Maths (even GCSE) and doesn't know what's going wrong. Follow this link to the full question and lets see if we can collectively help out.
Functional Skills in Apprenticeships videos. Many of the QCDA sponsored videos miss the mark, but this one doesn't. Concise, clear and with plenty of student comment. Also check out the National Apprentice Service videos featuring Marco Pierre White.
DCSF Policy statement - it came, it went, it's come back. Lots of people asked me for the link to the DCSF policy statement which mysteriously disappeared a month ago. Well, it's back and it's here!
The Times on Functional Skills. It isn't very often a specific report makes the nationals. But it did on April 9th. A little bit of doom-mongering from the national agencies mixed with good support from employers. Read it in full here.
And finally - thanks to everyone who acknowledged our "special edition" newsletter on April 1st. It's always gratifying to know we have so many readers with a great sense of humour and if any exam boards are reading this, I can assure them there is a market for a GCSE in Social Networking. Click here for the escalator video again.
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