What will your employees achieve?

Skills for Life qualifications are designed to recognise the basic skills your employees use in the workplace, such as reading, writing or maths.

There are two Skills for Life Certificates:

• Level 1 (equivalent to GCSE grades D-G)
• Level 2 (equivalent to GCSE grades A*-C)

Having a recognised qualification will help them in their work and open doors to future career development.

• Employee benefits
  • Gain a Nationally recognised qualification
  • Improved job prospects
  • Increased self confidence
  • Widen scope and variety of the job
  • A sense of real achievement
• Employer benefits
  • Improved performance
  • Reduced waste and costs
  • Improved quality assurance
  • Effective communications
  • A highly skills workforce to promote to existing and potential customers

Who is it aimed at?

Skills for Life qualifications in literacy and numeracy are designed for employees working in any business.

For employees to be eligible to access our programme they must:

• Be 19 years of age or over
• Normally and lawfully resident in the UK and Islands for 3 years preceding the programme
• Not currently be on an apprenticeship programme or New Deal programme
• Have a contract of employment

How are the qualifications assessed?

At Levels 1 and 2, employees take the National Basic Skills Test (live and on-line but can be done on paper if required) which consist of 40 multiple choice questions. The Literacy test lasts maximum one hour and Numeracy maximum one and a quarter hours.

Further Information

Train To Gain's initiative makes us able to offer the programme at no cost to the employer and that only release time would be required - suitable to the employer needs.

• More information about Skills for Life
• Test your skills

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