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https://www.sgscol.ac.uk/study/english-and-maths/adult-functional-skills-maths
Summary
Functional Skills are the fundamental skills that you need for your working and personal lives. You can study for the qualifications in practical ways and apply core skills to real-life situations.
On this course, you will brush up your skills and cover topics including working with numbers, understanding fractions, decimals and percentages, working with metric measures and understanding graphs, charts and data.
These courses give you the opportunity to gain a nationally recognised qualification in maths in a welcoming and safe environment. The course requires a commitment of 2 hours per week and you will be expected to attend these weekly lessons where your tutor will set work on an individual or group basis. The course is taught in an environment where learning and self development is key, they tutor is supportive and provides feedback to better your outcome.
How will I learn?
This course can be carried out a number of ways including:
- At Stroud Campus - located in the Centre of Gloucestershire, surrounded by the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The campus is moments away from Stroud train station and easily accessible by bus. (where online students take the assessments and exams)
- At Filton Campus - located in South Gloucestershire which is easily accessible from the city of Bristol by train (Bristol Parkway / Bristol Abbey Wood) and bus.
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These courses are classroom based, with our core delivery lecturers who are
happy to help. Alongside this we have an English and Maths Skills Development department who can provide specific one to one support, advice and guidance pertaining to English and Maths.
Previous work
Entry Requirements
In order to enrol onto any Adult English & maths course, you will need to come into college and complete an informal assessment. The assessments are not exams - they are used to make sure we offer you the correct level of course, so that you progress successfully and achieve your qualifications. No course offers are made for Adult English & maths before an applicant completes an informal assessment.
We have assessment dates throughout the academic year. To book your place please use the department contact information below for the relevant campus.
Adult learners must be age 19 or over at the start of the course.
Progression routes
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Adult Functional Skills English
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Additional Information
DEPARTMENT CONTACT
For more information about this course
please email [email protected] for Filton
courses or [email protected] for Stroud
courses.
COURSE FEES
Please be aware that some courses have
fees that are payable on enrolment. More information on if this
course has a fee can be found in the Availability section below.
If you require financial support including payment plans, bursaries and advanced learner loans please visit the Money Management Service section of the website.
For more information on fees please view our Fees, Charges and Refunds Policy and our Applications, Admissions and Enrolment Policy and Procedures.
ONLINE ENROLMENT
This course offers simpler and safer
online enrolment requests, which means in a matter of minutes you can
submit an enrolment request to us. However please be aware that upon submitting
your enrolment form you are not guaranteed to be accepted. A number of our
courses require assessments, qualification checks or simply a conversation with
you before we can confirm your enrolment.
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