Insight blog

  • Pearson Functional Skills: Retired past paper usage

    Hello, Happy New Year and welcome to the Pearson Functional Skills blog for January 2024. This month we will be looking at the outcomes of Pearson’s research into the usage of our retired past papers for Functional Skills.

  • New Digital Functional Skills offer

    Hello and welcome to the Pearson Functional Skills blog for November 2023. This month we will be looking at our NEW Digital Functional Skills offer.

    If you are not aware, Pearson’s Digital Functional Skills are now live for registrations.

  • Supporting Learners with SpLD and ASD

    Hello and welcome to the Functional Skills blog for October 2023. This month we will be continuing on from some of the sessions from the Festival of Functionality and will be looking at Supporting Learners with SpLD (specifically Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Dyspraxia) and ASD.

  • Festival of Functionality

    Hello and welcome to this month’s Functional Skills blog. In September and October 2022, Pearson will be hosting Festival of Functionality, a series of online events to support tutors of Functional Skills, ESOL and EDSQ provisions and help prepare them for the new academic year of delivery. This will be our largest CPD event with over 20 hours of CPD and updates available for tutors and managers, free of charge.

  • Checks and Estimation

    Hello and welcome to an update on reformed Functional Skills English and maths.

    It has been a busy time in the world of Functional Skills in recent weeks, September has been a month of listening to providers, supporting providers and working together.  

  • Research, Results and Digital learning

    Hello and welcome to an update on Reformed Functional Skills.

    This month we have been doing some future gazing about what might be happening in the world of post 16 English and maths from September 2020 onwards.

  • Lessons Learnt

    Hello and welcome to an update on reformed Functional Skills English and maths.

  • 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.