Functional Skills Newsletter July 20th

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

Our last newsletter of the year brings you important news of changes to Functional Skills in Apprenticeships, another link to a very useful document about accredited qualifications, money off the Diploma Conference and Guroo 2.0 offers.

Functional Skills in Apprenticeships - "Get it right rather than do it quick". John Hayes, Minister for FE and Skills, spoke at the ALP conference where he announced that the introduction of Functional Skills into Apprenticeships will be delayed 6 months until March 2011. The full text of his speech is here and there's also a link to the video of the speech here, both provided by fenews.co.uk. It is important to note this is a temporary measure and only applies to Apprenticeships and I quote from his speech

"I should stress that this is a temporary measure to allow more flexibility for providers and more time for us to work together to get the implementation right. I know that many providers will be finalising their preparations for delivery of Functional Skills from April 2011. They should still identify and access the support they need to develop their capacity to deliver Functional Skills, with which the Learning and Skills Improvement Service can help."

Link to accredited qualifications. In the last newsletter we provided a link to a document we'd put together that pulled all accredited qualifications into a single file. We were astonished by how many people clicked through. It certainly appears to be useful so here is the link again to all 87 accredited qualifications in a hyperlinked summary here.

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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