Lessons Learnt
Hello and welcome to an update on reformed Functional Skills English and maths.
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Education in the Time of Covid-19
(with apologies to Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Hello and welcome to an update on the reform of Functional Skills English and maths.
Like many of you I’m sure, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time over the last nine weeks discussing the current situation with colleagues in education predicting the impact and ramifications of Covid on our sector. With all the normal caveats of a fast-moving and uncertain situation firmly in place, this is a summary of these conversations and looks at the bigger topics of discussion.
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Top Tips from English, maths and ICT practitioners around the country
Hello and welcome to an update on the reform of Functional Skills English and maths.
During this current global situation we find ourselves in, with the transition from classroom to online digital learning from home, we want to support you by providing some top tips from our experts.
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Reformed Functional Skills | Standard Setting
Hello and welcome to an update on the reform of Functional Skills English and Maths.
This September saw the introduction of the Pearson reformed Functional Skills qualifications in English and Maths. There have been changes to both content and assessment structure from the legacy qualifications to the reformed qualifications, however there was no intention from the regulator Ofqual, for there to be a change in the standard of the qualifications.
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Reformed Functional Skills | Entry Level
Hello and welcome to an update on the reform of Functional Skills English and maths.
As with the rest of the suite, reformed Entry Level Functional Skills were introduced in September 2019 and with the reform came numerous changes to the assessments.
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Reformed Functional Skills | Speaking, Listening and Communicating
Hello and welcome to an update on the reform of Functional Skills English and maths.
The Autumn term’s network events are now at an end, therefore this last blog of the year will be a reflection on the talking points from those events.
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Reformed Functional Skills | Trialling - insights into the development
Welcome to an update on the reform of Functional Skills English and maths.
In this months Functional Skills blog, we take the opportunity to reflect on the development of the Reformed Functional Skills assessments for English and Maths.
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Reformed Functional Skills | Standardisation explained
Welcome to an update on the reform of Functional Skills English and maths.
Our paper based assessments at Level 1 and 2 for Maths and English are now live for booking and the first tests have taken place. In addition, our Entry Level tests are now live for Mathematics on our secure site for download.
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Reformed Functional Skills qualifications are ready for first teach on 1st September
Welcome to an update on the reform of Functional Skills English and maths.
Our new qualifications are live from the 1st September, Pearson’s offer has been shaped by the needs of teachers and learners. We have our FREE interactive schemes of work available to help with your planning, these include the embedding of our free and paid for resources to help deliver the new qualifications as smoothly and effectively as possible.