FS newsletter July 6th

Our bi-weekly look at the world of Functional Skills.

Funding guidance from YPLA is released, more accredited qualifications announced plus a useful hyperlinked file so you don't have to spend hours searching, the truth about recent Diploma announcements, experts in Functional Skills still required, save money at the 6th Annual Diploma Conference and Guroo 2.0.

YPLA Funding guidance produced. Paragraph 78 states "Providers are now expected to deliver these Functional Skills qualifications for young people unless there is a robust rationale for not doing so. Qualifications that demonstrate personal progress may be more appropriate for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities who are not ready to access functional skills qualifications and are working towards independent living and their achievements are at the lower end of entry level 1." The full document is here.

Another 20 Functional Skills qualifications accredited. To help you get access to all 87, we've put together a hyperlinked summary here. We hope you find it useful!

Diplomas - the truth. It's amazing how certain sections of the press latch onto selected snippets of news. Diplomas are not being dropped, to put the record straight.

• All of the first 14 diplomas are alive and kicking, it's just the last 3 academic diplomas that have been abandoned.
• The extended diploma (positioned above the Advanced Diploma and worth 3.5 'A' levels) has been dropped.
• Schools and Colleges no longer have to have to offer comprehensive entitlement with access to every diploma, this change is expected to reduce administration, student travel and costs!

Are you a Functional Skills expert? Thanks for all the replies so far, it looks like we're going to build a fantastic team and it's not too late to get involved. Guroo Associates will be contracted to help Guroo subscribers with any aspect of Functional Skills as part of the Guroo Active Engagement Programme. If you're interested in what we're doing, in the first instance just drop Jonathan Wells a line at jwells@guroo.co.uk Over the summer we'll be in touch with you about our plans.

6th National Diploma Conference. Click here to link to the Guroo site for details of this conference taking place on Monday 11th October plus a special money saving offer!

Guroo 2.0! The development to deliver Guroo 2.0 is well underway with a planned launch date of September. The Guroo guys have advised that it's still possible to buy now at the current price, take a free subscription period until September and thereby get Guroo 2.0 without paying any more. If this sounds like a deal for you, simply call Guroo on 0191 305 5045 or download the July order forms from here.

Functional Skills resources from Guroo

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