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Skills for Work and Life Updates

Skills for Work and Life Updates

Welcome to the Skills for Work and Life updates page.

This page is the home for all the updates and announcements about City & Guilds’ Skills for Work and Life programmes, including Functional Skills, Maths, English, ESOL and employability.

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April 2024

(22 April) New Instructions for Conducting FS Exams guidance

(16 April) Changes to Employability Skills (5546)

(11 April) Improving our ESOL Skills for Life Offer

March 2024

(19 March) Essential Skills Wales – Removal of L1 ECommS task – Exercising Outdoors

(21 March) Functional Skills results release and indicative pass marks

February 2024

(14 February) Update for Essential Application of Number Skills (Cymraeg)

(9 February) Updates to Essential Application of Number Skills

January 2024

(22 January) Updates to Essential Application of Number Skills

December 2023

(19 December) ESOL assessment update

(19 December) Functional Skills processing times

November 2023

(20 November) Essential Digital Literacy Skills update

(16 November) ESOL assessment update

(14 November) New documents for Functional Skills

October 2023

(9 October) Update on Essential Skills ICT Northern Ireland (4800-60)

(5 October) Functional Skills England - Guidance for Delivery

September 2023

(15 September) ESOL assessment update

(11 September) Functional Skills - Flash to html update

(7 September) Essential Skills Wales - Digital literacy skills

(7 September) Functional Skills results release update

August 2023

(22 August) Important Alert for Functional Skills ICT

(10 August) Important Alert for Workplace Core Skills

(3 August) Functional Skills Assessment Amendment

July 2023

(24 July) Important Alert for Essential Digital Literacy Skills

(21 July) Important Alert for Extended Project Qualification

June 2023

(13 June) Migration of Functional Skills from Flash to HTML

(13 June) Functional Skills ICT

(9 June) Document update for Essential Skills Application of Number

(7 June) Functional Skills results processing

May 2023

(4 May) Speaking and Listening assessments

April 2023

(25 April) 4748 Digital Functional Skills

(18 April) Remote supervision - Essential Skills Wales

March 2023

(13 March) Document update - Level 2 English Reading Sample Paper 1

(6 March) Results Release for Functional Skills English, Mathematics and ICT at Levels 1 and 2

(2 March) Registration and booking window closed for English and Maths Skills 3850

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