Skills for Life, key skills and related qualifications

Skills for Life

City & Guilds uniquely offers a complete range of learner and practitioner qualifications contributing to the Government's Skills for Life strategy. Our adult numeracy, literacy, ESOL Skills for Life and ICT Skills for Life qualifications will help learners to improve the skills needed to get on in life and at work, whereas our Subject Specialist, Subject Support and Learner Support qualifications are designed for give those teaching and supporting learners the skills they need.

In Northern Ireland, we offer a separate suite of qualifications designed specifically for the Essential Skills for Living strategy.

Visit our Skills for Life pages for more information

Key skills and related qualifications

The key skills represent the transferable skills most commonly needed for success in almost every aspect of work, learning and life. In England, Wales and (in some cases) Northern Ireland, the six key skills qualifications recognise and accredit learners' ability to apply these skills in real situations.

The key skills qualifications in Communication and Application of Number at levels 1 and 2 are gradually being replaced in Northern Ireland by Essential Skills qualifications (see above). In Scotland, core skills profiling and our Workplace Core Skills units fulfil a similar function to the key skills qualifications.

Visit our dedicated Key Skills website for more information