Spelling it out, making it count
January 2024
DR CHIHIRO KOBAYASHI, PAUL WARNER & PETER DICKINSON
Functional Skills qualifications and their place in vocational training
This report finds that Functional Skills qualifications are not currently doing the job they set out to do, and are severely under-funded.
As a result, the country is funding qualifications that bear increasingly little relevance to the workplace scenarios they were designed to map to, in a way that blurs the line between academic and vocational learning styles. We simply cannot sustain the rate of losses incurred in delivering these qualifications which result in learners disadvantaged.
Change is needed, and it is needed now.
Spelling it out, making it count
January 2024
Last published: 19/06/2024
