Tuesday 31 July 2012

Functional Skills Level Checker now available from Guroo


July 31st - the Functional Skills newsletter
Big news from Guroo this week.  The paper based 10 minute Functional Skills Level Checker is now available to our customers for both English and maths. 
The FS Level Checker is based on 12 "open" questions, and is supplied complete with marking guidelines.  It is designed for use "pre-enrolment" for courses or perhaps as part of the interview process for Apprentices.
An on-line version based on site code that does not require a pre-assigned login ID will be available, complete with automatic marking, in the next few weeks.  
Guroo customers, please email info@guroo.co.uk and we'll send you a copy of the English and Maths Functional Skills Level Checker for immediate use.

A reminder that the Annual Functional Skills Survey and Report is underway.  It is designed to be completed in about 10-15 minutes and has about 20 questions covering areas such as Confidence, Awarding Bodies, Resources and Training. It's a vital piece of work we do every year and we'll be publishing results of the survey in September.
We've already had around 150 completed surveys - thank you if you've already done it and to encourage more completions we're using the sponsorship funds kindly donated by OCR and Pearson to support 1 of 4 charities.
At the end of the survey simply choose from Children in Need, CLIC Sargent, Dogs Trust or Prostate Cancer UK and we'll make a donation to thank you for your effort and time.

Functional Skills Annual Survey Report for 2012
It will take you around 10-15 minutes.  The results we get are used widely in the sector plus this year, we are being supported by OCR, Pearson and EMSkills who have all kindly sponsored key survey questions. 
Even better, we've using the sponsorship funds to support some of our favourite charities, simply make your choice at the end of the survey!
The summary report is scheduled for publication in September, please email jwells@guroo.co.uk if you have any questions at all.  

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