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This site has been designed using style sheets and minimal graphics for maximum speed and accessibility. Our members area has facilities for recording your organisation's details and details of your assessors and candidates. You can record the progress of your candidates, answers to assignments, tasks, portfolio evidence, etc.
The interactive/self-assessment sections contain interactive excercises which you can complete and then see the answers to the excercises along with details of how well you did. In this way you can improve your abilities without having to go to a college or similar establishment. There are also online logbooks in which you can record your progress.
If you are a teacher or assessor of Basic/Key Skills you can use the database facilities of the members area to store details of your centre, college or company, your candidates, assessors and witnesses. Your candidates can also save their answers to the various excercises in the database for you to monitor and produce reports upon. (See right.)
All the files outside the members areas of this site are free to download, copy and use in your own work. The self assessment areas and online logbooks are for members only. (We have to pay for the development and maintenance of the site somehow!)
One in five adults in Britain is described as being unable to read, write and speak, and use numerical skills at a level necessary to function and progress at work and in society in general. That means that they cannot cope with essential everyday tasks like checking their change in shops or pubs, filling in forms or recognising the destination on the front of a bus.
Basic Skills are the ability to read, write and speak in English and use mathematics at a level necessary to function and progress at work and in society in general. Over 7 million adults in the UK have severe problems with basic literacy and numeracy, and the Government aims to halve this number within the next ten years.
A Fresh Start - Improving literacy and numeracy, a report commissioned by the government and completed by the Moser Group, proposes a national strategy to transform basic skills provision. Recommendations include:
New standards have been devised primarily for use by training providers and those responsible for supporting adult literacy and numeracy.
The standards of literacy and numeracy have been designed to provide progression into the Key Skills specifications of Communication and Application of Number at Level 1 and Level 2.
