Insight blog

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.